Goal for Treatment

I work with my clients to help them reframe their goal from “getting pregnant” to building a healthy mind and body during preconception which can last throughout pregnancy and parenthood. Research has found that being in a mindful, calm state can help with fertility and can also have positive effects during pregnancy.

Treatment Phases

In an initial assessment, I work with clients to determine a treatment plan to best help them. The following phases of treatment are typical to my practice; however, each plan is individualized to best meet the needs of each client.

Developing a Positive Outcome

The goal in this phase is to generate a clear goal to describe how you would LIKE to be feeling, thinking, acting during your fertility journey. Often when I see clients, they may have depression or anxiety symptoms, or they may just be feeling out of control with the process. I work with my client to help them feel better overall, as this can contribute to creating a healthy mind and body.

Creating Balance

This phase uses many tools to help restore balance by addressing the internal and external factors that may be affecting your overall wellbeing. Through the use of hypnosis and cognitive techniques we work together to address negative self talk, emotional states, physical issues, stress level, lifestyle issues and environmental factors with the purpose of building ego strengths, developing inner resources and increasing a sense of well-being.

Resolution of Barriers

Hypnosis is a powerful tool for helping to remove any blocks to becoming pregnant. It is helpful in reducing fears, resolving past traumas, dealing with relationship and/or sexual issues and resolving grief issues with past losses and treatment failures.

Enhancement of Resources

This phase uses specific mind body tools to create the vision of having a healthy pregnancy. “The body can only achieve what the mind believes.” Use of visualization, guided imagery and mental rehearsal are all important components of going through the fertility journey.

For IVF and ART cycles, hypnosis protocols are used to address each phase of the process. This helps with lowering anxiety and giving your mind something positive to focus on during the stressful process of assisted cycles.

Support

Throughout the process, support and validation are key to helping to build a sense of mastery and balance. At various phases of your fertility journey, you may need support to make decisions, to cope with treatments, and to maintain changes that you have made.

Once you are pregnant, then additional support can help you to cope with the first stages of pregnancy when clients who have had fertility issues typically have anxiety and fears.

For all treatment sessions with hypnosis, you will receive a recording that you can take with you and use as much as possible. The more you utilize these tools, the more effective they will be. This protocol is based on the work by Sjanie Hugo (2009) The Fertile Body Method: A Practitioner's Manual: The Applications of Hypnosis in Mind-body Approaches to Fertility.