Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist

I tried everything to quit smoking.

And I mean everything…grit, nicotine patches, nicotine gum, yoga, colonics, meditation, fasting camping trips where I left cigarettes at home only to binge on martinis and Camels as soon as I got back. Then, at 35, I got hypnotized.

I honestly didn’t believe hypnotherapy would work, but, perhaps like you, someone told me about it, so I tried it. It was not exactly what I expected. I was hoping it be a magic wand, and it kind of was…but it was more like something deep inside cracked open, and a light began to grow — and gave me back the power of choice. It was just enough that I chose differently each time I thought of a cigarette. And kept choosing, until my life began to take a shape and form I had not imagined.

At 36, after a divorce, a career loss, and a death, drawn by something inexplicably alive in me, I paddled into the freezing, wild ocean of Humboldt County and learned to surf. Everything in my life changed after that. I found my courage, my voice, myself, my passions, my home.

That's when I understood what real transformation feels like. It’s not waving a magic wand, it’s finding the light, opening a door, and stepping through it.

That is exactly what this work can do.