Genviev Hypnosis
- Portland, OR 97224 (map)
- (503) 887-8034
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Genviev Hypnosis • Portland, OR • $105 per hour
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Professional, clinical hypnotherapy and forensic hypnosis sessions in Portland, Oregon and worldwide.
Our mind is the control center of the nervous system, and our body's decision and communication center. It controls every part of our daily life, from vital functions like breathing to our capacity to comprehend the world around us to processing and memorizing events, and reacting accordingly.
Hypnosis techniques address currently held behaviors specifically. When old negative behaviors are correctly addressed, room is created for new positive behaviors to be formed. Healthy and beneficial associations are brought forward, initiating new routines for the mind to focus on. Once former negative behaviors are released, active techniques are used to find, create and maintain new emotional balance. Hypnotherapy allows us to communicate directly with the subconscious mind, thereby enabling us to correct, rectify and treat a wide variety of physiological and psychological symptoms.
When law enforcement officials need witnesses or victims to relay information from a crime scene, their memories are not always as helpful as they would like them to be. According to Senior Special Agent John Kilnapp of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, hypnosis may be the only way to recover the details of a traumatic event crime victims blocked out off their mind. By helping witnesses and victims tap into more of the potential of their minds, we have the possibility to enhance their recall, thereby providing law enforcement officials with vital information and leads.
Hypnosis is the most powerful tool available to help us access more of the potential of our minds.
A summa cum laude graduate of the University of La Sorbonne, Paris, Genvièv is a professional member of the National Guild of Hypnotists and the Oregon Hypnotherapy Association.
A certified hypnotherapist and forensic hypnotist, she holds national qualifications as a master hypnotist and instructor in emergency hypnosis and pain control hypnosis. A published author, Genvièv writes and lectures extensively on the science of harnessing the power of our subconscious mind. She has over 20 years of experience researching, practicing and teaching the concepts and applications of hypnotherapy and personal development in the US and overseas.
Throughout her career with leading international corporations, universities and schools, she taught CEOs, corporate executives, athletes, students and private clients to use the power of their minds to transform their existences. Genvièv and her team consult worldwide and offer you private, confidential and ethical professional services.
Question and answer
Q. Why does your work stand out from others who do what you do?
A. The ultimate Adversity Athlete ® Genvièv has been called to overcome extraordinary adversity time and again through her life. The survivor of multiple life-threatening circumstances, accidents and traumas, she had no other choice but to learn, at an early age, to transform every terrifying challenge she faced into fuel for survival and success. The author of Zen in the Art of Survival © published in the popular literary series Chicken Soup for the Soul, Make a Friend of Fear ©, Meditation in Motion ©, Emotions © and numerous books, magazine columns and articles published in the national and international press, Genvièv teaches you to become an alchemist of life and transform adversity into advantage.
Q. What do you like most about your job?
A. The ability to bring healing, freedom and resolution from debilitating limitations and symptoms that had been resistant to all other forms of treatments and therapies.
Q. What questions do customers most commonly ask you? What's your answer?
A. • Can I be hypnotized?
Everyone is capable of being hypnotized as long as they have the desire to be, and the mental ability to focus and follow simple instructions.
• Can I ever stay stuck in hypnosis?
No one can stay stuck in hypnosis. Hypnosis is a natural state of being which we go in and out of often during the course of our days, for instance when we are engrossed in a movie, a lecture or a book. If you were to be placed in a state of hypnosis and the hypnotherapist would suddenly leave the room, you might simply fall asleep for a moment, as naturally as you do at night, and wake up on your own.
• Can I be made to do, or share, anything I do not want to do or share?
No. You are never out of control. In fact, you are even more in control of yourself and your decisions when in a state of hypnosis than you are in the conscious state.
