Patten Consultants specializes in individual and group hypnotherapy with an emphasis on stress reduction, stop smoking and weight release. We also perform career counseling and testing, sport/professional, performance enhancement consulting, reiki healing and training and vocational expert services.

Hypnosis is a technique we use to assist individuals interested in improving their health and performance.

Hypnosis
Altered state of consciousness and heightened responsiveness to suggestion; it is induced in individuals by a variety of methods and has been used in medical and psychiatric treatment.

Hypnosis is a state of inner absorption, concentration and focused attention. It is like using a magnifying glass to focus the rays of the sun and make them more powerful. Similarly, when our minds are concentrated and focused, we are able to use our minds more powerfully.

Everyone has experienced a trance many times, but we don’t usually call it hypnosis. All of us have been so absorbed in thought –while reading a book, or driving to work– that we fail to notice what is happening around us. While we were zoned out, another level of consciousness, which we refer to as our subconscious mind, took over. These are very focused states of attention similar to hypnosis.

In hypnosis, the patient is not under the control of the hypnotist. Hypnosis is not something imposed on people, but something they do for themselves. A hypnotist simply serves as a facilitator to guide them.