First Visit

Kay Heatherly is a San Francisco hypnosis expert, so your first 90-minute visit to her office will begin with her asking you to complete an intake sheet and a confidentiality agreement. Together, you will target your issues and establish your goals for your work-such as weight loss hypnosis, quitting smoking, overcoming a fear of flying, releasing toxic relationships, or breaking other negative habits.

Most every session will include both EFT (letting go) and a Guided Visualization (positive imaging), which is the hypnotherapy segment of the session. As a San Francisco hypnosis professional, Kay’s sessions with you assist you in closing off negative neural (brain) pathways and creating new neural (brain) pathways, helping the brain to reorganize for healthier thinking and behavior.

To begin, you will discuss what you think is blocking you from achieving your goals – what you would like to Let Go Of. She lists these issues and you will let them go in the RELEASE! Method of the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), one of the Energy Psychologies… of tapping, releasing, and letting go based on ancient Chinese methodologies. Read more (Links to documents or websites: to come)

A comparative study courtesy of the American Hypnosis Clinic:

  • Psychoanalysis: 38% recovery after 600 sessions
  • Behavior Therapy: 72% recovery after 22 sessions
  • Hypnotherapy: 93% recovery after 6 sessions

Next, you will discuss what you do want to have in your life in a positive way, such as weight loss hypnosis. Kay will ask you to choose a safe and beautiful positive place to go to in your Guided Visualization – such as a warm tropical beach, a mountain top, a scuba diving descent, a canoe on a meandering river. Finally, Kay will guide you in your visualization through a Progressive Relaxation into a calm, relaxed hypnosis session, making the positive personalized suggestions you have already discussed.

“No one could have ever prepared me for the emotional roller coaster that is my twenties, but Kay has given me amazing tools to deal with them.”

 Gina K.