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Steve BAKKER, CPH Certified Professional Hypnotist

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950 Broadway, Suite 402 In the Rhodes Center
Tacoma, WA 98402
253-229-9932

Hypnosis can help profoundly and ease your way going forward

I sought out hypnosis after my life became inexplicably consumed with terror, triggered by the sight–or even the thought–of commonplace textures, such as foliage in trees or surfaces pitted with holes. My first few sessions with a hypnotist taught me some unexpected skills of mind on the way to resolving my all-consuming crisis: In an early session, I was taught how to quiet the pain of my stress-related muscle tension. In another, I was guided into a more relaxed state than I had ever remembered feeling before and taught how to recall that relief throughout my daily life.

My run of hypnosis sessions ended a few weeks later when the hypnotist guided me through an exercise where I fully imagined reconciling with a part of myself responsible for my "phobia." The hypnotist suggested open-ended questions for me to ask it. The answers of the "part" came entirely from me, and in the state of hypnosis they were enough to set me free. When I stepped out of the office, the patterns on walls and textures in trees stayed harmlessly in place.

What I find so amazing about hypnosis is not only how profoundly it can work, but also how immediately it "awakens" simple skills for shifting one's mindset in other areas of life. The skills I learned took root immediately and then, like any other skill, grew stronger with use. I continue to draw on them to take creative and practical strides in life that had seemed just out of reach before, and the occasional sight of an off-putting texture has been manageable ever since.

I decided to train as a hypnotist so I could share the tools that have so improved my life with others–to summon their own state of ease, lighten their own lives, and choose their own direction more freely going forward. I am trained and certified to practice hypnosis using up-to-date, evidence-based techniques by the International Certification Board of Clinical Hypnotists.