Woodard Hypnosis and Psychotherapy

by Dr. Fredrick Woodard

   Hypnosis helps you achieve your personal goals and dreams. Hypnosis is an ancient spiritual technique to attain greater awareness and control influences in the world around you while expanding your world. The ancient meaning of the word hypnosis was "...to put to sleep." Rather than going to sleep or being under another person's influence during hypnosis, the true power of hypnosis is your gaining greater awareness and control over your mind, body, and spirit. Learning hypnosis can be equated with learning to drive a car. Your instructor is simply there to guide you, and what you do with the skill once you master hypnosis, is your choice. The best way to understand hypnosis, is simply to experience it for yourself. Hypnosis may take time and patience to develop as you become fully involved with hypnosis as you develop trust and understanding with your hypnotherapist. Anyone can experience hypnosis if they let themselves become fully engaged in the experience and remove fear.

   Hypnosis is not following suggestions, but rather, a holistic subjective experience that improves with practice. Subjective experiences are a legitimate area of scientific investigation. We are all students of the mind in our everyday lives, examining the outcomes of our experiences that are often difficult to measure in concrete materialistic ways.  How one percieves one's world, forms one's reality in everyday life. The ability of someone to alter his or her perception and thinking through hypnosis has many practical uses and advantages. Relaxation improves your bodily functioning and enhances health. Hypnosis helps to change emotional experiences so that one may improve the way he or she feels each day. Creatively imagining your goals, dreams, and performance helps your unconscious mind create your reality through creatively imagining and visualizing. One also gains greater control over one's thoughts and emotions. As your experiences in everyday life improve, so does your relationships, since how you feel inside effects how others feel about you.

   Hypnosis has been responsible for numerous case studies and reports of amazing accomplishments, such as, improving childbirth and surgery, eliminate or reduce hypertension, healing sexual problems, recalling crime scene details leading to solving crimes, finding lost objects, healing skin disorders, curing migraine headaches, eliminating ashtma, obessional habits, weight loss, smoking habits broken, stop nail biting, intestional problems, and even enhancing spiritual experiences. A traveling hypnotist discovered the talents of Edgar Cayce, the Christian mystic of Virginia Beach. Finally, hypnosis changes your perceptions in order to allow you to see the world more accurately and to focus on what is important to you.

   Interesting enough, those who oppose hypnosis, use many hidden techniques of influence and persuasion to guide you to see the world the way they want you to see it. However, making someone conform to another's reality is neither therapeutic nor healing.

   Those who saw the world differently uncovered the greatest  mysteries of our world. Hypnosis frees you from the manipulative influences of others and helps you gain greater control over your life.

   Dr. Fredrick Woodard attained his Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Psychology (PhD) at California School of Professional Psychology in 2002[APA Accredited], Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Hypnotherapy (PhD) at American Pacific University in 2003, & a Doctor of Clincal Hypnotherapy (DCH)at The American Institute of Hypnotherapy in 1992. He is a registered and certified clinical hypnotherapist, a licensed clinical psychologist, a member of the American Board of Hypnotherapy, The American Society for Psychical Research, New England Psychological Association, and the New Hampshire Psychological Association.  Dr. Woodard published an article in the Journal of Clinical Psychology entitled "Hypnosis and Phenomenological Perceptual Psychology" in March, 1996. Dr. Woodard published several professional articles describing his theoretical and research approach to perceptual awareness and hypnosis in Pscyhological Reports entitled, "Perceptual Oriented Hypnosis" in April, 2003; "Phenomenological Contributions to Understanding Hypnosis:A Review of the Literature" in December, 2003; "Response to Lynn, Et Al's Evaluation of Woodard's Theory of Perceptually Oriented Hypnosis" in April 2004; "An Argument For a Qualitative Research Approach To Hypnotic Experiencing And Perceptually Oriented Hypnosis" in June, 2004; "A Phenomenological and Perceptual Research Methodology For Understanding Hypnotic Experiencing" in December, 2004; "Perceptually Oriented Hypnosis: Cross-cultural Perspectives" in August, 2005; and "A Preliminary Phenomenological Sudy of Hypnotizing and Being Hypnotized" in October, 2005 and other articles. Dr. Woodard also has three masters degrees in different areas of psychology from State University of West Georgia at Carrollton, GA, American International College at Springfield, MA, and California School of Professional Psychology at Fresno, CA. Dr. Woodard trained at the Milton Erickson Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. Dr. Woodard uses a phenomenological approach to researching areas of interest and is a phenomenological and perceptual psychologist. For more information on hypnosis, contact Dr. Woodard at 603-673-2582.