Cindy Fenton Clinical Hypnotherapy

01/10/2025

As I wrap up my volunteer sessions and prepare for my final exam I wanted to take a moment to thank all of my amazing volunteers!

Your trust, openness, and willingness to participate have been invaluable as I’ve honed my skills. Whether you joined me out of curiosity, a desire for self-growth, or to simply support me on this path, you’ve made a huge impact on my learning experience. Each session has been a unique opportunity for growth—for both of us—and I am so grateful for the insights, patience, and feedback you’ve shared along the way.

Thank you for giving me your time, your energy, and most importantly, your trust. You’ve been instrumental in this journey! 💕

11/19/2024

Hypnotherapy is a highly effective treatment for phobias, offering a gentle yet powerful way to overcome irrational fears. Phobias often stem from deep-seated subconscious triggers, memories, or experiences that cause intense emotional reactions to certain objects, situations, or scenarios. Through hypnosis, a trained therapist helps clients access their subconscious mind to uncover and reframe these triggers, transforming the emotional response from fear to calm and control.

In a relaxed state, clients are able to release the underlying causes of their phobias, reprogramming their mind to view the feared object or situation as neutral or safe. By using techniques like relaxation, visualization, and belief repatterning, hypnotherapy helps reduce the emotional intensity of the phobia, allowing the individual to face their fear with confidence and ease. Whether it’s a fear of flying, social situations, spiders, or other common phobias, hypnotherapy provides lasting relief by addressing the root cause, rather than just masking the symptoms.

11/11/2024

10/27/2024

It's okay if you thought you were over it but it hits you all over again. It's okay to fall apart even after you thought you had it under control. You are not weak. Healing is messy. There is no timeline for healing.

Someone once told me that healing is a lifelong journey, and she was right. Awareness is the first step!

10/16/2024

What's holding you back? Becoming aware of our limiting beliefs is the first step. Hypnotherapy can help with the next step, providing individual with the tools to unlock their potential and achieve greater success in both personal and professional realms. Check out how it works below.

Unlocking Potential: How Hypnotherapy Can Repattern Limiting Beliefs

In the pursuit of personal and professional success, many individuals find themselves held back by invisible barriers—limiting beliefs that are deeply ingrained in their subconscious minds. These beliefs, often formed early in life, can shape our perceptions, decisions, and actions in ways that impede growth and fulfillment. Hypnotherapy is a powerful, study based method for repatterning these limiting beliefs, unlocking potential, and paving the way for success.

Limiting beliefs are convictions that we hold about ourselves, others, or the world, which constrain our ability to achieve our goals and live fulfilling lives. These beliefs are not innate but are formed through experiences, observations, and teachings, often during childhood. Here’s how they develop:

1. **Early Experiences**: Children are highly impressionable and tend to accept information from their environment without question. Negative experiences, critical comments from authority figures, or failures can lead to the formation of limiting beliefs. For instance, a child repeatedly told they are "not good at math" might internalize this belief, affecting their confidence and performance in related areas throughout life.

2. **Modeling**: Children often adopt beliefs and behaviors modeled by parents, teachers, and peers. If a parent consistently expresses doubt about financial success, a child might grow up believing that financial stability is unattainable.

3. **Trauma**: Significant emotional events, such as bullying, loss, or rejection, can create strong negative beliefs about oneself and the world. These traumatic experiences embed themselves in the subconscious, influencing future behaviors and attitudes.

4. **Cultural and Societal Influences**: Societal norms and cultural messages can also shape limiting beliefs. Stereotypes, media portrayals, and societal expectations can lead individuals to adopt limiting views about their capabilities and worth.

The subconscious mind is a powerful part of our mental processing system, operating below the level of conscious awareness. It stores habits and beliefs, including those that limit us. Unlike the conscious mind, which can analyze and reason, the subconscious mind accepts information without critique, making it a repository of unquestioned truths and assumptions.

These subconscious beliefs act as filters, influencing how we interpret experiences and make decisions. For example, someone with a deep-seated belief of "not being good enough" might sabotage opportunities for advancement or avoid taking risks that could lead to success.

Hypnotherapy can lead to profound changes in personal and professional life by:

- **Boosting Confidence**: Repatterning limiting beliefs enhances self-esteem and confidence, enabling individuals to pursue opportunities with greater assurance.
- **Improving Performance**: By eliminating fears and self-doubt, hypnotherapy can improve performance in various areas, from public speaking to leadership.
- **Enhancing Relationships**: Reframing beliefs about oneself and others can lead to healthier, more fulfilling relationships.
- **Fostering Resilience**: Individuals become more resilient, better equipped to handle setbacks and challenges.

Hypnotherapy with an extensively trained, registered professional offers a transformative approach to overcoming limiting beliefs, providing individuals with the tools to unlock their potential and achieve greater success in both personal and professional realms. By accessing and repatterning the subconscious mind, hypnotherapy helps to dismantle the barriers that hold us back, paving the way for a more empowered and fulfilling life.

10/11/2024

Still curious about hypnotherapy? Book a free session to learn more!

09/25/2024

The #1 thing I get asked about is anxiety. This is a very common struggle in today's society. Take a look at how hypnotherapy can help!

Understanding Your Body's Physiological Responses to Anxiety

Anxiety is a multifaceted experience that extends beyond just feeling nervous or worried. It manifests physically in ways that can sometimes surprise even those who experience it regularly. Recognizing these physiological responses is essential to understanding anxiety and learning how to manage it effectively.

🏃‍♀️The Fight-or-Flight Response: Your Body's Alarm System

When faced with a perceived threat, your body activates its "fight-or-flight" response. This ancient survival mechanism triggers a cascade of physical changes designed to prepare you for action. However, in modern life, where threats are often more psychological than physical, this response can become chronic and lead to various symptoms.

🫀Increased Heart Rate and Blood Pressure: Your heart pumps faster, sending more blood to your muscles.
🫁Rapid Breathing: Your breathing quickens to supply more oxygen to your bloodstream.
💪Muscle Tension: Your muscles tighten, ready for action.
🍲Digestive Disruption: Energy is diverted away from digestion, often leading to nausea or a "knot" in your stomach.
🥵Sweating: Your body begins to sweat to cool down in case of exertion.

These are the most well-known symptoms, but anxiety can manifest in lesser-known, yet common, physical ways that might surprise you.

Lesser-Known Symptoms of Anxiety

🧤1. Tingling or Numbness**

During heightened anxiety, some people experience tingling or numbness in their hands, feet, or face. This sensation, known as paresthesia, occurs because the rapid breathing associated with anxiety (hyperventilation) can lead to a temporary drop in carbon dioxide levels in your blood, causing these symptoms.

👻2. Derealization and Depersonalization

Anxiety can sometimes cause feelings of derealization (a sense that the world around you isn't real) or depersonalization (feeling detached from your own body or thoughts). These symptoms occur because the brain is overwhelmed and temporarily disconnects as a coping mechanism.

🧤🧦3. Cold Hands and Feet**

Anxiety triggers the body to direct blood flow away from extremities and toward larger muscle groups and vital organs. This can result in cold or clammy hands and feet, even when the environment isn't cold.

4. Jaw Pain and Teeth Grinding😬

Chronic anxiety often leads to unconscious muscle tension, especially in the jaw. This can result in jaw pain, headaches, or bruxism (teeth grinding), particularly at night. Many people are unaware of this habit until they experience dental issues or muscle soreness.

💦5. Frequent Urination

Anxiety can stimulate the bladder, leading to an increased need to urinate. This is often referred to as "nervous bladder" and is thought to be the body's way of trying to eliminate excess weight and prepare for flight.

🧖‍♂️6. Skin Conditions

Anxiety can exacerbate or trigger various skin conditions, such as eczema, psoriasis, or acne. The stress hormones released during anxiety can increase inflammation and worsen existing skin issues.

🫢7. Difficulty Swallowing (Globus Sensation)

Some people with anxiety experience a sensation of a lump in their throat or difficulty swallowing, known as globus sensation. This can occur even when there's nothing physically blocking the throat, and it’s linked to the muscle tension and stress that anxiety can cause.

Chronic Anxiety: When the Alarm System Gets Stuck

For some individuals, these physical responses to anxiety become chronic. When your body is constantly in this heightened state of alert, it can lead to long-term health consequences such as high blood pressure, digestive disorders, and a weakened immune system. Understanding these symptoms is the first step in addressing and managing them.

Clinical Hypnotherapy: A Science-Backed Approach to Managing Anxiety

Hypnotherapy offers a powerful tool for managing both the well-known and lesser-known symptoms of anxiety. It works by accessing the subconscious mind to address the root causes of anxiety, helping to alleviate the physical symptoms by retraining the body's responses.

Research increasingly supports the effectiveness of hypnotherapy in treating anxiety. A 2016 meta-analysis in the *American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis* found that hypnotherapy significantly reduced anxiety symptoms across multiple studies. Another study in the *International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis* showed that hypnotherapy could decrease the frequency and intensity of panic attacks, a common manifestation of anxiety disorders.

During a hypnotherapy session, a trained therapist safely guides you into a deeply relaxed state. In this state, your subconscious mind becomes more receptive to positive suggestions that can help you manage anxiety's physical symptoms. Over time, hypnotherapy can help "reset" your body's alarm system, reducing the frequency and intensity of your anxiety responses, including those lesser-known symptoms that can be so troubling.

By understanding the full range of physical symptoms associated with anxiety, including those lesser-known ones, you can better recognize when your body is responding to stress. Combining this awareness with effective treatments like hypnotherapy can empower you to take significant steps toward reducing the impact of anxiety on your life.

09/19/2024

I will be looking for volunteers over the next few months to complete my practicum hours. If you are curious about Clinical Hypnotherapy, now is a great opportunity to give it a try! These are practice sessions that will require about 30-60 minutes of your time per session. DM me for availability and share with your friends!

09/14/2024

Did you know that hypnotherapy can help you overcome unwanted habits, increase self confidence and help enhance your athletic ability? These are just a few of the many benefits of hypnosis and one of the first questions I get asked -how can it help me? You might be surprised at some of the ways listed below.

Pain management
Insomnia
Fears and phobias
Depression
Anxiety
Eating disorders
PTSD
Enhance athletic ability
OCD
Weight control
Self confidence
Stress management
Childhood and adult traumas
Enhance healing of injuries
Reduce side effects of chemo therapy
Nail biting
Improve memory and concentration

And much more!

08/16/2024

So, what exactly is clinical hypnotherapy?
Hypnotherapy is root cause therapy. A gentle but direct therapy that is designed to generate a state of deep relaxation where we attempt to quiet your conscious mind to make the subconscious mind more accessible. The subconscious is where your memory, feelings, emotions, beliefs and instincts are stored. Traumatic events or repetitive negative thought patterns can keep us feeling stuck or triggered. Hypnotherapy can help encourage emotional, mental and physical healing responses by actually rewiring the neural pathways in your brain.

Stay tuned for the science behind hypnotherapy and what it's good for!