Health / Recover Wellness

At Colorado Institute of Behavioral Medicine, we support your health and wellness through working with your body, mind, emotions and spirit. Through Whole Health Hypnotherapy, you learn to harness the power of your own mind to

• Activate Inner Healing
• Experience Personal Power, Self Esteem and Wisdom
• Overcome Blocks to Well Being, Happiness, and Excellence
• Enhance Relationships

Whole Health Hypnotherapy

combines medical hypnotherapy and counseling hypnotherapy to help you live the life you want by supporting your health, well being and success in life. The whole health hypnotherapy perspective assumes that physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well being interact and influence each other. As a result, it address health & healing in a way that includes the broader context of life, such as meaning, self concept, goals and dreams, hopes and fears, work, hobbies, stresses, relationships, and family.

Medical Hypnotherapy

focuses on facilitating relief from chronic illnesses, increasing relaxation and comfort during medical procedures and tests, and supporting health behavior change. These results come from the use of hypnosis (e.g. relaxation, imagery, & suggestion) to activate and direct the innate healing capacity of the body, mind and spirit. Hypnosis supports healing for in-patient and out-patient medicine, dentistry, and various types of complementary and alternative medicine.

Examples of areas where medical hypnotherapy complements medicine include

General/Family Practice: facilitates blood pressure regulation, weight control, smoking cessation, and medication compliance
Pain management: reduction or elimination of acute pain (e.g. burns) and chronic pain (e.g. whiplash syndrome, and phantom limb)
Oncology: reduce and manage side effects of cancer treatment and enhance immune response
Emergency Room: control pain, anxiety, fear, bleeding and stress in emergency room
ICU: Reduce time patient requires ICU care through a variety of methods, including imagery and suggestion to stabilize vital signs
Obstetrics: pain management and reduction of anxiety and nausea during pregnancy, labor and delivery, and suggestion work to manage post-partum blues
Surgery: increase relaxation and comfort for surgery, reduce complications, and facilitate more rapid and more complete recovery
Medical Procedures: increase relaxation and comfort of patients undergoing MRI, injections, respiratory therapy, physical therapy, and other procedures
Dentistry: facilitates experiences of comfort and relaxation and alleviates pain during dental visits and procedures.

Medical Conditions

Hypnotherapy has been used successfully for many medical conditions, including:

• Fibromyalgia resolution
• High blood pressure normalization
• Autoimmune disease remission
• Cancer remission
• Fracture accelerated healing
• Stroke recovery
• Cessation of bleeding from wounds
• Blood sugar normalization in diabetes
• Urge incontinence resolution
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome resolution
• Wart removal
• Migraine cessation and prevention
• Weight loss
• Smoking Cessation
• Fertility improvement
• Surgical outcome and recovery improvement