Your Problem is My Challenge

I have been in practice since 2002.

Here are some inspirational success stories from my practice to give you an idea of some of the issues that can be resolved. Enjoy the read! But first consider the following:

Do you feel like you are holding the weight of the world on your shoulders? Is it causing you to have thoughts, behaviors or habits that make you feel badly about yourself? Are you ready to resolve to once and for all take care of the cause of whatever is making you feel down, frustrated and unhappy?

Many times these problems are stored deeply within our unconscious mind and it is there that we need to go in order to release them once and for all. It is with great pleasure that I am able to assist anyone who is ready and willing to let go of the past, enjoy their present while creating a happy and fulfilling future. What would it mean to you to be able to live life without all the angst, the frustration and pain that is currently a part of your daily routine?

Sexual compulsions

At Dawning Visions, I have had considerable success in treating people with sexual compulsions. Using a combination of hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), we can understand and address the root causes of sexual compulsions.  With this approach most clients will no longer engage in these unwanted behaviors within a six week period. In fact they do not even think about it!

Substance Abuse

I have also had great success with people who are totally ready to deal with their problem with alcohol and substance abuse. Over the years, many clients have sought assistance through 12-Step programs  found they could not relate to them. Studies show that Alcoholics Anonymous has about a 5 percent success rate after two years as the 109 page report by A. Orange called “The Effectiveness of the 12 Step Treatment” proves with multiple studies that have been done on these programs. Narcotics Anonymous has had even less success.

Richard M. Gray, PH.D. used a simple neuro-linguistic anchoring technique to allow his court appointed participants in his Brooklyn Program to achieve an average 30% success over a seven year period. The program was disbanded when the funding was retracted. In his program he never used any words that had to do with addiction or substance abuse. He focused on creating positive emotional states while helping his clients to create fulfilling futures giving them a reason to become and stay sober. His book documenting his program is About Addictions: Notes from Pyschology, Neuroscience and NLP written in 2008 including bibliographical references.

As early as January, 1972 it was reported in the article “The Use of Hypnosis in the Treatment of Drug Addiction”, by B. J. Hartman, J.D., TH.D., PH.D., Director of Advisement at Whittier College, Whittier, California in the “Journal of the National Medical Association” success rates in long term  programs utilizing hypnosis were consistently between 60% and 70% compared to similarly long programs without the use of hypnosis having a success rate of around 2%.

There are many other studies that confirm the positive effect of hypnosis on clearing substance abuse. These are just two of them.

Associate Press, reported on December 1, 2010

Fatal Car Crashes Claims 1 in 5

1 In 5 who died in car accidents were on drugs according to researchers at the National Highway Traffic Safety Commission. Drug traces were found in nearly 4,000 drivers who were killed in 2009 or 18% of the drivers killed in auto accidents last year. The number could be higher with only 3 out of 5 of the fatalities being tested for drugs. It is not known if drugs were the reason for the crashes. Of all drivers killed about one-third had drugs in their system. Are you putting you life and OTHER INNOCENT PEOPLE at risk with this behavior? Why not get some help to stop this behavior?

How about a different approach where one can actually find the cause for the alcohol or substance abuse and then have the support to let it go while figuring out how to fill the void that the substances were numbing? You have all your own answers inside your unconscious mind, easily accessed with the use of hypnosis. You will have long term support as you learn to live without alcohol or substance abuse. If this sounds familiar perhaps this could be something of life changing value to you or someone you love who is fighting this battle.

Eating disorders

Over the past few years I have worked very successfully with many individuals with eating disorders: anorexia which is the repulsion of food, bulimia which is the compulsion to eat past feeling full, and in some cases it will be purged and in others it will not, individuals who are addicted to sugar and those addicted to food in general.

It has been my experience that no matter the sort of eating disorder that becomes the presenting problem, the cause of the problem carries a few themes. Most of my eating disorder clients are individuals, women and men alike, who have had childhoods filled with abuse and/or neglect. Anger permeates as the emotion that drives the behavior from the feelings of never receiving the sort of love a child requires to develop the love of self necessary to grow up feeling whole and in control.

Case studies – Real life problems with real life results

Here on this page I invite you to see what some of my past clients have been able to release through our work together. Each of these clients finally said that they had had enough beating themselves up. They had enough feeling sorry for the way they felt and most of all were “sick of feeling sick” or “sick of feeling stuck”. (Click on the links at the end of selected  stories to find out more details.)

- For some people, years, or even decades, of therapy yields very little progress or results. Donna N. spent the better part of three decades enlisting the help of several therapists to help her cope with alcohol and drug addiction, and the effects of depression. After a disastrous visit to a psychiatric nurse, Donna turned to the Internet, found the Dawning Visions website, and gave Suzanne a call. She is now depression free, with no yearning for drugs or alcohol. Read her inspiring story here.

- An experienced technology company executive faced yet another job change with anxiety and fear. Regardless of the fact that he had been in this situation several times, a new job meant doubt and a lack of confidence. After working with Suzanne, Kurt E. blossomed with enough confidence to receive two high profile job offers. Read more about his story here.

- One night I found a message on my machine left by a gentleman who was very concerned for his partner. It seemed that she was not being very well taken care of medically even though she was affiliated with Mass General Hospital. She was being given all sorts of medicines for different illnesses, and could barely function. At the point of the call she was on disability income because she was bedridden in pain for the past five years. Since we’ve worked together, her overwhelming pain has subsided and she just completed  her Doctorate in Education and managed to drop 40 pounds. Read her inspiring story here.

- One day I received a call from a gentleman whose cousin had come for smoking cessation. This particular person was addicted to Diet Coke, and was in need of increasing his income to cover the bills of the household. Together we worked to give him the confidence to accomplish all of his needs. Read about it here.

- I have a friend who loves donuts and ice cream like most people. Unfortunately he has high cholesterol and easily gains weight. During our sessions together, he learned to control those urges, and not put himself at risk from the dangers of elevated cholesterol levels. Read his own words here.

- I was working in elder care when I met Lois. G. Her health was declining badly having once been able to cook for herself and bathe herself to needing help with everything as a result of multiple dystrophey. The work we did together was geared around enjoying all she had to live for now and letting go of the pain and frustration that comes with a decline in the activities that one can do as a disease of this nature progresses. Read her story here.

- A 16 year old boy is brought in to see me because he has been acting out sexually inappropriately from the time he was 3 or 4 years old. It so happened he lost his mother at 6 months old of AIDS and never knew his father. He passed through six foster homes before he found the parents that were to adopt him. When he came in to see me he had no idea why he was alive for he was given the label of a pedophile. He suffered a lot of abuse in some of these placements including sexual abuse when he was under three years old. See what his adoptive mother had to say about the changes that he underwent from three long sessions inside of four days. It is unbelievable, unless you know her: “Tony” who decided simply that he was “done with it!” and wanted to lead a “typical teenagers life”. Read more here.

- Many people experience of uneasiness felt as anxiety. In this case my client called to say that she had tried everything in order to release some horrible feelings. She had a “tire around my stomach that I can not get rid of and no longer want there” based on “years of anger that is so bad that I could blow at any second”. Not only did we release all of the anxiety and anger, but she was also able to let go of some obsessive behaviors as well as a result of the work. When she came to me for the first two sessions she had to move a couple of the chairs and put her shoes in a certain place. By the third session she just took off her shoes, sat in the chair and off we went to do the work. The transition that she made was amazing. Read about it here.

- A mother of a 18 year old girl who was a lead player on her ice hockey team at school called because her daughter didn’t want to play anymore. The team had some very important games to play and her mother was worried that she wouldn’t take part any longer. Apparently there was an issue with the coach. Her mother sat in on the session and passed a note to me stating that her daughter had lost four of her young friends in the last three years to drunk driving, suicide, and drug overdose. Her daughter took the losses hard. Was there anything that I could do to relieve her? It took about 15 minutes per loss and by the end of the session she felt much better about the whole affair. Read more here.

- About three years ago I took my Master Practitioner Training in hypnosis and NLP out in California. It so happened that on the second day of the training a woman came up to me and asked if I would pair up with her to do our required exercise in “break throughs”  I agreed to do so, however it wasn’t until the next February when I invited her to come to the convention that I had a chance to pull out all the stops with her and get her unblocked. You see she had this feeling that she was stupid because she dropped out of school when she was 16 years old. It didn’t matter that she had just sold a manufacturing company that she had owned and made quite a bit of money from that sale. She had no self-esteem, and that got in the way of her starting on her newly chosen career path. Her testimonial speaks to the over 60 year old set who are needing to move onto other things and doing what is necessary to make it happen. She is a most gifted of hypnotists and I am very happy that I was given the chance to assist her to understand how very special she is as a colleague and a friend.

- One day I was doing my books with my bookkeeper and the phone rang. And it rang again. I knew my bookkeeper had a limited time to finish so I ignored the phone. Next my bookkeepers cell phone rang and she ignored it knowing the person it was and feeling she could call back when she had more time later. Next the office phone rang again and it was a previous client calling in to tell me that I needed to get over to her friends house quickly. She was in excruciating pain and needed immediate relief. So over to her house I went to help her immediate situation. We soon recognized from her health history that she needed to have some sort of scan done to see what was causing the pain in her stomach. She scheduled an emergency visit to or gynecologist and I took her there. We did indeed find out that surgery was necessary.

- One day I was attending a meeting and there was a woman who was concerned about her husband. He had started a business but was unable to really focus on it. Could I help him out? Apparently she nagged him till he called and made an appointment. We did the first session and he left telling me that he had nothing positive to say about it, however a few weeks later he was singing a different tune.

- I got a referral from one of my previous clients regarding a woman who was having a lot of difficulty in marketing her business. She is very good at what she does but feelings of isolation and sadness permeated her life. As a way to sooth herself she would find all sorts of treats to eat. Our work together help her break this all-to-common habit. Read about it here.

- One day I received a call from a gentleman who helped me months previously at a local grocery. He was calling in because he couldn’t concentrate any longer, had no memory and was feeling confused. I pushed a little harder and found out that he had a history of having suicidal thoughts and that he would never see any psychiatrist for this problem. I was in a dilemma because one can not force someone to get help, and because he said he was not experiencing those feelings at that moment. I had him write a contract for safety and bring it in with him at his first session. Together, we were able to fight through and conquer his suicidal thoughts and tendencies.

- I have a friend who loves donuts and ice cream like most people. Unfortunately he has high cholesterol and easily gains weight. During our sessions together, he learned to control those urges, and not put himself at risk from the dangers of elevated cholesterol levels. Read his own words here.