COUNSELING

HYPNOTHERAPY
HOLISTIC COUNSELING
DECISIONS & LIFE CHANGES
HEALTH & HEALING
PREPARATION FOR SURGERY
SPIRITUAL WHOLENESS

ALEXA SIMPSON
M.P.H., M.F.A., C.C.H.T.
Health Educator
Clinical Hypnotherapist
Yoga Instructor

PHONE:(707)745-3621
E-MAIL: Alexa at this website

"When I work with a client I let intuition guide me. I am awed and humbled by what unfolds. I feel like a privileged observer of a process that uses me according to its own wisdom! I feel an inner hint that directs a path of loving inquiry. Often an insight about a client's physical or emotional state pops into my awareness from the stillness in which I hold my mind in order to deeply listen. By trusting these insights and following their direction, I seem to become a catalyst for the client's process of discovery and transformation. This is a great joy for me!"

Alexa

DECISIONS & LIFE CHANGES

When you need to make important decisions, or process changes in your life, relying solely on the conscious mind is similar to rowing a boat with one oar. You may find yourself going around in circles. Hypnotherapy and Body-Centered Transformation are powerful tools that access the subconscious mind so you can hear the voices of your body, feelings, and memories, and do deep emotional clearing. Whether you are focusing on relationship patterns and decisions, a career choice, or a crisis, you will be able to go directly to the source to find and remove obstacles to decision-making and change.

HEALTH & HEALING

Because the body and mind are interwoven, the most successful approach to your physical health will take into account your mental, emotional and spiritual well-being. This approach might include hypnotherapy to access information about anything that is blocking your natural healing process and to reactivate that process. Since stress triggers or contributes to most chronic disease, training in relaxation and breathing techniques, and other stress management strategies will help you prevent illness and accelerate healing. We can design a holistic approach to meet your individual needs.

PREPARATION FOR SURGERY

Studies have shown that hypnotherapy can dramatically improve the surgical experience and speed post-operative recovery and healing. If you are scheduled to have surgery, we will use hypnotherapy and creative visualization to help you process feelings about your illness or surgery, to create a sense of being safe and protected during surgery, and to jump start your healing. You will use an audio tape to allow you to relax and feel safe before, during and after your surgery. You will learn how to use creative visualization and relaxation techniques to accelerate your healing following surgery

SPIRITUAL WHOLENESS

A deep spiritual discontent is at the root of many physical and emotional symptoms. We need both to feel our life tells a story that has meaning, and to discover the place of inner peace that exists even deeper than our story. Your sense of purpose arises from within you, and it is the key to your capacity for joy, enthusiasm and celebration of life. Through dialogue, hypnotherapy, and practices that still and focus the mind you can find the path of your spiritual whole-ness and have a profound experience of inner peace. Spiritual counseling also addresses the difficulties and questions that tend to arise on any spiritual path.

BACKGROUND

Alexa has over 20 years of training and experience in both western and eastern approaches to wholeness, health and creativity. She is an artist, and writer (The Transformation Journal), as well as a Health Educator, Hypnotherapist, Stress Management Consultant and Yoga Instructor. Her formal training includes:

• B.A. (Philosophy), U.C. Berkeley
• M.P.H. (Health Education), U.C. Berkeley
• M.F.A. (Fine Arts), U.C. Santa Barbara
• Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist
  Hypnotherapy Institute, Santa Rosa, CA
  (A.C.H.E. Certificate # 394272
• Certified Stress Management Consultant
  Mind-Body Dynamics, San Luis Obispo, CA
• Yoga Teacher Certification Training
  Integral Yoga Institute, San Francisco, CA
• Training in Transformative Body Therapy,
  Hendricks, Institute, Santa Barbara, CA
• "Conscious Loving" Relationship Training,
  Hendricks, Institute, Santa Barbara, CA