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Los Angeles Hypnotherapist Frances O'Brien C.Ht.

Find Serenity & Release Stress Thanks To A Certified Hypnotherapist In Los Angeles

Are you ready to transform your life and unlock your full potential? Look no further for expert Los Angeles hypnosis services. My name is Frances O’Brien.

My expertise lies in creating a safe and supportive environment for my clients, allowing them to feel comfortable and at ease throughout the hypnotherapy process. It is important to consult with mental health professionals before seeking alternative therapies like hypnotherapy to ensure comprehensive care.

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About Frances O’Brien C.Ht.

Discover The Journey of a Dedicated Hypnotherapist in Los Angeles

With 11+ years of experience as a Los Angeles hypnotherapist, I offer a unique and personalized approach to help you overcome challenges and achieve lasting change. With a diverse toolkit that includes hypnotherapy, Emotional Freedom Technique, guided meditation, Reiki healing, and more, I have the expertise to address a wide range of issues, from stress relief to overcoming loss. I am not only a practitioner but also a published author, sharing my knowledge and insights in the field of stress relief.

As a leading expert in Los Angeles hypnosis, I offer tailored solutions to meet your specific needs.

My approach to hypnotherapy is centered around empowering my clients to take control of their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. A typical hypnotherapy session is structured to provide noticeable results, often after just one session, with a commitment to regular attendance for optimal outcomes and personal growth.

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With a genuine passion for helping others, I am dedicated to providing a safe and supportive environment for your transformational journey. Take the first step toward a brighter future and reach out to me for a free phone consultation. Together, we can unleash your inner potential and create the life you truly desire.

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Surgery
Self-Confidence
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Stress Relief

Managing anxiety and stress can be challenging, but hypnotherapy offers an effective solution. By accessing the subconscious mind, individuals can learn to reframe negative thoughts and behaviors that contribute to their anxiety and stress. As a certified hypnotherapist I can guide you through a hypnotherapy session, helping you relax and reduce feelings of anxiety and stress.

During these sessions, techniques such as deep breathing, progressive relaxation, and visualization are employed to calm both the mind and body. These methods not only provide immediate relief but also equip you with tools to manage stress in your daily life. Regular hypnotherapy sessions can lead to long-term anxiety and stress relief, significantly improving your overall mental health and well-being.

Pain Management

Hypnotherapy serves as a valuable complement to medical treatments for chronic pain management. By guiding you into a deeply relaxed state, hypnotherapy helps shift your focus away from discomfort and fosters a new, more positive perception of pain. Through tailored suggestions and visualization techniques, you can learn to reframe your experience, reduce stress and anxiety related to pain, and develop coping strategies that enhance overall well-being. When integrated with appropriate medical care, hypnotherapy can empower you to regain a greater sense of control, potentially minimizing the need for certain medications and improving your quality of life.

Lasting Transformation

Hypnotherapy is a powerful method for accessing the subconscious mind (where deep-seated habits, beliefs, and behaviors reside) and introducing new, positive suggestions. By reaching this level of awareness, hypnotherapy can effectively address the root causes of unwanted habits, whether they involve smoking, overeating, or negative self-talk. Through guided relaxation and targeted interventions, you can replace outdated thought patterns with healthier ones, ultimately paving the way for lasting personal growth and change. This process not only helps you overcome problematic behaviors but also fosters self-awareness, resilience, and a renewed sense of empowerment in your everyday life.

Anxiety, Fears and Phobias

Overcoming fears, anxiety and phobias can be life-changing, and hypnotherapy is a powerful tool in this journey. A certified hypnotherapist can help you identify and challenge the negative thought patterns and behaviors that fuel your fears and phobias. By addressing the underlying causes, hypnotherapy enables you to reframe your perceptions and develop more positive and empowering beliefs.

Techniques such as desensitization and counterconditioning are used to gradually make you comfortable with the things you fear. This process is safe and effective, leading to greater confidence and freedom. With the guidance of a certified hypnotherapist, you can overcome your fears and phobias, opening up new possibilities in your life.

Improved Focus and Performance

Hypnotherapy techniques can significantly boost concentration and mental clarity, helping you operate at your highest potential in a variety of pursuits. Whether you’re an athlete seeking a competitive edge, a student aiming for better grades, or a professional working in creative industries, hypnotherapy can help you tap into your subconscious to release mental blocks and develop a state of calm, focused engagement. By visualizing success, reinforcing confidence, and eliminating self-doubt, hypnotherapy empowers you to consistently perform at your best—both mentally and physically.

Improved Sleep

Hypnotherapy can be a valuable tool for those struggling with insomnia, frequent waking, or other sleep disturbances. By guiding you into a deeply relaxed state and addressing subconscious factors that may be contributing to restlessness—such as anxiety, racing thoughts, or negative emotional patterns—hypnotherapy helps create a calm internal environment conducive to restful sleep. Through personalized suggestions and mental imagery, you can establish healthier bedtime routines, reduce nighttime stress, and foster a more balanced sleep-wake cycle. Over time, these techniques not only improve the quality and duration of your sleep but also support an overall sense of well-being in daily life.

Pre and Post Surgery

Hypnotherapy is a valuable adjunct for individuals undergoing surgery, helping them prepare mentally and emotionally both before and after the procedure. By using guided relaxation, positive suggestions, and vivid mental imagery, patients can develop a sense of calm and confidence leading up to surgery, which may reduce anxiety and stress. Post-surgery, these techniques can aid in pain management, accelerate healing, and promote a more positive mindset during recovery. In many cases, patients also experience improved sleep and lower levels of discomfort, as hypnotherapy encourages the release of tension and supports the body’s natural healing processes.

Increased Self-Confidence

Hypnotherapy can be a powerful way to address the subconscious barriers that hold people back from truly believing in themselves. By identifying and reframing limiting beliefs, it helps replace negative self-talk with supportive, empowering thoughts. Through guided visualization and carefully crafted suggestions, hypnotherapy instills a positive self-image and reinforces a genuine sense of capability. As you begin to internalize these new thought patterns, you may notice improvements in how you handle challenges, interact socially, and pursue goals—ultimately leading to a deeper, more enduring level of self-confidence.

Emotional Well-Being

Hypnotherapy offers a safe, supportive environment to explore and resolve underlying emotional issues that can manifest as stress, anxiety, or lingering trauma. By guiding you into a deeply relaxed, focused state, hypnotherapy targets the subconscious mind where negative beliefs and emotional patterns often reside. Through gentle suggestions and visualization, it helps reframe these patterns, fostering healthier responses to life’s challenges. As old traumas and limiting beliefs are released, you can experience relief from anxiety and depression symptoms, gain new coping strategies, and cultivate a more balanced, resilient outlook. Over time, these positive shifts contribute to a deeper sense of emotional well-being and personal growth.

Weight Loss and Management

Supporting weight loss and management through hypnotherapy involves addressing the emotional and psychological factors that contribute to overeating and weight gain. A certified hypnotherapist can guide you through a hypnotherapy session, helping you develop a more positive and empowering relationship with food and your body.

Techniques such as visualization, positive self-talk, and mindfulness are employed to help you develop healthier eating habits and a more balanced lifestyle. Regular hypnotherapy sessions can lead to sustainable weight loss and improved overall health, reducing the risk of weight-related illnesses. Hypnotherapy provides a safe and effective way to support weight loss and management, promoting overall physical and mental well-being.

Stress Relief

Managing anxiety and stress can be challenging, but hypnotherapy offers an effective solution. By accessing the subconscious mind, individuals can learn to reframe negative thoughts and behaviors that contribute to their anxiety and stress. As a certified hypnotherapist I can guide you through a hypnotherapy session, helping you relax and reduce feelings of anxiety and stress.

During these sessions, techniques such as deep breathing, progressive relaxation, and visualization are employed to calm both the mind and body. These methods not only provide immediate relief but also equip you with tools to manage stress in your daily life. Regular hypnotherapy sessions can lead to long-term anxiety and stress relief, significantly improving your overall mental health and well-being.

Lasting Transformation

Hypnotherapy is a powerful method for accessing the subconscious mind (where deep-seated habits, beliefs, and behaviors reside) and introducing new, positive suggestions. By reaching this level of awareness, hypnotherapy can effectively address the root causes of unwanted habits, whether they involve smoking, overeating, or negative self-talk.

Through guided relaxation and targeted interventions, you can replace outdated thought patterns with healthier ones, ultimately paving the way for lasting personal growth and change. This process not only helps you overcome problematic behaviors but also fosters self-awareness, resilience, and a renewed sense of empowerment in your everyday life.

Anxiety, Fears and Phobias

Overcoming fears, anxiety and phobias can be life-changing, and hypnotherapy is a powerful tool in this journey. A certified hypnotherapist can help you identify and challenge the negative thought patterns and behaviors that fuel your fears and phobias. By addressing the underlying causes, hypnotherapy enables you to reframe your perceptions and develop more positive and empowering beliefs.

Techniques such as desensitization and counterconditioning are used to gradually make you comfortable with the things you fear. This process is safe and effective, leading to greater confidence and freedom. With the guidance of a certified hypnotherapist, you can overcome your fears and phobias, opening up new possibilities in your life.

Improved Sleep

Hypnotherapy can be a valuable tool for those struggling with insomnia, frequent waking, or other sleep disturbances. By guiding you into a deeply relaxed state and addressing subconscious factors that may be contributing to restlessness—such as anxiety, racing thoughts, or negative emotional patterns—hypnotherapy helps create a calm internal environment conducive to restful sleep.

Through personalized suggestions and mental imagery, you can establish healthier bedtime routines, reduce nighttime stress, and foster a more balanced sleep-wake cycle. Over time, these techniques not only improve the quality and duration of your sleep but also support an overall sense of well-being in daily life.

Increased Self-Confidence

Hypnotherapy can be a powerful way to address the subconscious barriers that hold people back from truly believing in themselves. By identifying and reframing limiting beliefs, it helps replace negative self-talk with supportive, empowering thoughts. Through guided visualization and carefully crafted suggestions, hypnotherapy instills a positive self-image and reinforces a genuine sense of capability.

As you begin to internalize these new thought patterns, you may notice improvements in how you handle challenges, interact socially, and pursue goals—ultimately leading to a deeper, more enduring level of self-confidence.

Pain Management

Hypnotherapy serves as a valuable complement to medical treatments for chronic pain management. By guiding you into a deeply relaxed state, hypnotherapy helps shift your focus away from discomfort and fosters a new, more positive perception of pain. Through tailored suggestions and visualization techniques, you can learn to reframe your experience, reduce stress and anxiety related to pain, and develop coping strategies that enhance overall well-being.

When integrated with appropriate medical care, hypnotherapy can empower you to regain a greater sense of control, potentially minimizing the need for certain medications and improving your quality of life.

Improved Focus and Performance

Hypnotherapy techniques can significantly boost concentration and mental clarity, helping you operate at your highest potential in a variety of pursuits. Whether you’re an athlete seeking a competitive edge, a student aiming for better grades, or a professional working in creative industries, hypnotherapy can help you tap into your subconscious to release mental blocks and develop a state of calm, focused engagement.

By visualizing success, reinforcing confidence, and eliminating self-doubt, hypnotherapy empowers you to consistently perform at your best—both mentally and physically.

Pre and Post Surgery

Hypnotherapy is a valuable adjunct for individuals undergoing surgery, helping them prepare mentally and emotionally both before and after the procedure. By using guided relaxation, positive suggestions, and vivid mental imagery, patients can develop a sense of calm and confidence leading up to surgery, which may reduce anxiety and stress.

Post-surgery, these techniques can aid in pain management, accelerate healing, and promote a more positive mindset during recovery. In many cases, patients also experience improved sleep and lower levels of discomfort, as hypnotherapy encourages the release of tension and supports the body’s natural healing processes.

Emotional Well-Being

Hypnotherapy offers a safe, supportive environment to explore and resolve underlying emotional issues that can manifest as stress, anxiety, or lingering trauma. By guiding you into a deeply relaxed, focused state, hypnotherapy targets the subconscious mind where negative beliefs and emotional patterns often reside. Through gentle suggestions and visualization, it helps reframe these patterns, fostering healthier responses to life’s challenges.

As old traumas and limiting beliefs are released, you can experience relief from anxiety and depression symptoms, gain new coping strategies, and cultivate a more balanced, resilient outlook. Over time, these positive shifts contribute to a deeper sense of emotional well-being and personal growth.

Weight Loss and Management

Supporting weight loss and management through hypnotherapy involves addressing the emotional and psychological factors that contribute to overeating and weight gain. A certified hypnotherapist can guide you through a hypnotherapy session, helping you develop a more positive and empowering relationship with food and your body.

Techniques such as visualization, positive self-talk, and mindfulness are employed to help you develop healthier eating habits and a more balanced lifestyle. Regular hypnotherapy sessions can lead to sustainable weight loss and improved overall health, reducing the risk of weight-related illnesses. Hypnotherapy provides a safe and effective way to support weight loss and management, promoting overall physical and mental well-being.

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Hypnotherapy is a very calming, soothing technique that can help you make positive changes in your life you may be having difficulty making on your own. You will begin to notice improvements from the first session.  

All sessions via phone or Zoom session only. Sessions are 50 minutes long. First responders and military receive a 25% discount.

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Your Three Clicks

If you’ve felt lost when it comes to alternative health methods, now is the time to do yourself a favor: reclaim your power, see to your self-care, and begin to experience the benefits. This book serves as an informative guide to help you decide which method to use and how to utilize several on your own. 

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If you, your employees or members are experiencing tension, stress or other difficulties, I will connect via Zoom and teach you all-natural, simple techniques to help you reduce, eliminate or avoid these awful feelings altogether. Calmness will be restored, and, often, there will be an increase in productivity. 

Prices vary depending on size of group and length of session.  First responders and military receive a 25% discount.

Achieving Tranquility

Do you experience more stress now than in the past? Have you ever wished you could do something about it? Now there is. Within these pages, you will discover:

  • What stress is
  • Why stress can be so difficult to evade or relieve
  • Specific reasons stress isn’t good for us
  • Several very effective techniques for dealing with stress. 

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Emotional Freedom Technique

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If you're experiencing pain, injury, illness, sleep problems, weight issues, bad relationships or anything else you consider to be negative but you hesitate to try hypnotherapy, Emotional Freedom Technique is for you.


All sessions are Zoom session. First responders and military receive a 25% discount. Sessions are 50 minutes long.

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Hope After Loss

Have you experienced the death of a loved one, the loss of a relationship, a negative medical diagnosis, or anything that triggers grief?

After a few weeks or maybe a month, you may be left alone to deal with your response to what happened.

I’m very comfortable going in there then and helping you to find the hope you need to thrive despite what happened.

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"My compliments on your lively and clever writing in first chapter of your book - very good intro for the initiated an uninitiated alike." 

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Frequently Asked Questions About Hypnotherapy

Hypnotherapy is a therapeutic approach that uses hypnosis to induce a focused state of relaxation and heightened suggestibility to help patients make positive changes in their thoughts, emotions, or behaviors.

Hypnotherapy works by accessing the subconscious mind during the hypnotic state to address and modify limiting beliefs, habits, or patterns, allowing for positive suggestions and therapeutic interventions to take effect.

Yes, when practiced by a qualified and ethical hypnotherapist, hypnotherapy is generally considered safe. It is a natural and non-invasive approach that prioritizes client well-being and consent.

Hypnotherapy can be used to address various issues such as stress, anxiety, phobias, smoking cessation, weight management, improving self-confidence, managing chronic pain, enhancing performance, and more.

The number of sessions needed can vary depending on individual circumstances, goals, and the complexity of the issue. It can range from a few sessions to a more extended treatment plan.

Most patients can experience some level of hypnotic state. However, the depth and effectiveness of hypnosis can vary among individuals. A willingness to participate and follow instructions is generally important for successful hypnotherapy.

Being hypnotized often induces a state of deep relaxation, increased focus, and heightened awareness. Patients may experience a pleasant and peaceful sensation, similar to daydreaming or being absorbed in a book or movie.

It is recommended to seek a hypnotherapist who is certified, experienced, and preferably belongs to recognized professional associations. Researching reviews, asking for referrals, and ensuring a good rapport with the hypnotherapist are also important factors to consider.

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