As of April 1 2026, I am no longer registered as a psychologist in British Columbia and I do not provide psychological services. I am a spiritual, personal, and executive coach. Coaching does not include psychological diagnosis, assessment, or treatment, and is not a substitute for regulated mental health care. Individuals seeking psychological services can consult the BCPA directory, as that is the professional directory for licensed psychologists. Currently, I am taking a few month hiatus as I transition into my new role as a coach and hypnotist. I will update this website once that hiatus is complete.

Hypnosis

Hypnosis is an altered state. Using a combination of guided relaxation and focused concentration, you learn to relax your physical body and reach a deeper state of awareness, through which the potential of the subconscious is available. 

Whether it’s used to program your mind for success or achievement, to improve memory (for example, to memorize the lines of a script or prepare for an exam), to improve your sports performance, to believe in achieving your career goals, or to reduce stress, hypnosis can reprogram the mind for change.

In addition to programming, there is also deprogramming, which in many ways is even more powerful. If you program your mind consistently but hold equal and opposite thoughts, such as negative beliefs about yourself, life and its possibilities, those negative thoughts act as a kind of “anchor” to your ship and the ship can’t move.  Deprogramming, i.e. visiting early memories to heal and bring peace to them, is a key aspect of what makes hypnotic regression work so effectively.

One of the key benefits of hypnosis lies in its stress-reducing capacity. It is always relaxing, no matter what your specific goal might be—whether it is weight loss, smoking cessation or sports enhancement, there is always the gift of relaxation as part of the experience. Many people find that patterns of insomnia reduce or even disappear after they become skilled at self hypnosis.

People frequently hypnotize themselves negatively without being aware that they’re doing it through repeated negative self talk. The process of learning to speak gently to the self is a life’s work, and hypnosis is a useful tool to start along that path. 

A person working on weight loss, for instance, might say “I was really good until yesterday when I ate those three cookies.” The truth is, that person was good before eating the cookies and is just as good after they ate them. Goodness has nothing to do with cookies. It does, however, have something to do with treating yourself kindly. That is the core tenet of my work.

HYPNOSIS can help you to: