No. Washington prohibits diagnosis and psychotherapy by hypnotherapists. As a hypnotherapist, I am NOT credentialed to diagnose mental disorders or to conduct psychotherapy as defined in [WAC 246-810-010](http://apps.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=246-810-010). "Psychotherapy" means the practice of counseling using diagnosis of mental disorders according to the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), and the development of treatment plans for counseling based on diagnosis of mental disorders in accordance with established practice standards." I can refer you out if needed, but these things are not particularly useful in the practice of Subconscious Behaviorism or Hypnotherapy anyway.

No. Washington prohibits diagnosis and psychotherapy by hypnotherapists. As a hypnotherapist, I am NOT credentialed to diagnose mental disorders or to conduct psychotherapy as defined in [WAC 246-810-010](http://apps.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=246-810-010). "Psychotherapy" means the practice of counseling using diagnosis of mental disorders according to the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), and the development of treatment plans for counseling based on diagnosis of mental disorders in accordance with established practice standards." I can refer you out if needed, but these things are not particularly useful in the practice of Subconscious Behaviorism or Hypnotherapy anyway.

Too smart, focused, intelligent, imaginative, in control, skeptical, and so on... We ALL think that. Trust me, it wasn't true for me, it hasn't been true in any of the hundreds of times I've heard it and it's not true for you either.

Too smart, focused, intelligent, imaginative, in control, skeptical, and so on... We ALL think that. Trust me, it wasn't true for me, it hasn't been true in any of the hundreds of times I've heard it and it's not true for you either.

**Somnambulism** > A deep state of hypnosis, where the client may respond with amnesia, anesthesia, negative and positive hallucinations, and complete control of the senses. It is characterized by the eyes rolling up underneath the eyelids. **Somnambulist** > A person capable of reaching a profound state of hypnotic trance or somnambulism. > **Natural Somnambulist** > A somnambulist who is capable of reaching that level of hypnotic trance known and somnambulism without training or practice, generally during their first experience with hypnosis. In Kappasinian terms, this is most likely with a person who responds equally well to all suggestions, both direct and indirect, affecting both the body and emotions. This person would have a near 50/50 Suggestibility (50% Physical Suggestible and 50% Emotional Suggestible). Want to know if you are a somnambulist? Take the test here: [Kappasinian E&P Suggestibility Assessment](https://hypnotechs.com/resources/kappasinian-suggestibility/)

**Somnambulism** > A deep state of hypnosis, where the client may respond with amnesia, anesthesia, negative and positive hallucinations, and complete control of the senses. It is characterized by the eyes rolling up underneath the eyelids. **Somnambulist** > A person capable of reaching a profound state of hypnotic trance or somnambulism. > **Natural Somnambulist** > A somnambulist who is capable of reaching that level of hypnotic trance known and somnambulism without training or practice, generally during their first experience with hypnosis. In Kappasinian terms, this is most likely with a person who responds equally well to all suggestions, both direct and indirect, affecting both the body and emotions. This person would have a near 50/50 Suggestibility (50% Physical Suggestible and 50% Emotional Suggestible). Want to know if you are a somnambulist? Take the test here: [Kappasinian E&P Suggestibility Assessment](https://hypnotechs.com/resources/kappasinian-suggestibility/)

As a rule, I schedule first sessions to be 90 minutes and subsequent sessions 60 minutes, but those times can be adjusted as needed. For the first 30 minutes or so of the first session, we go over the paperwork that is required by Washington State, answering any questions you may have along the way and getting your signature on my copy, stating that we have gone over the paperwork together. Washington requires that we do this so that you know who I am, what I can do and what the rules area about hypnosis, hypnotherapy, and therapy are in this state. If you want, you can get a head start on learning that by reading the "disclosure" form in my forms library. The next 30 minutes, we will talk about the Kappasinian "Theory of Mind" and how it relates to you. We will talk a bit about the history of hypnosis and hypnotherapy and we will discuss what you can expect to experience. I will also likely ask you to answer some questions that will help me determine how your mind reacts to different types of suggestions so that I fine tune my approach to work the best for you. Finally, I may ask you to visualize a few different scenes to further adjust my approach. In the final half-hour, I will perform an induction that is designed to work with the way your imagination works. Inductions are how the hypnotic state is entered and there are hundreds of ways they can be tailored to better match an individual. Once you are "in state", I will show you around a bit, have you experience and visualize a few things I think you might enjoy, then get down to the business at hand. You may remember nothing, some stuff or everything from the session. That varies from person to person, but I am more than happy to summarize the session as we close. Afterward, you will likely feel really relaxed, more so than you may have in a very long time. Some people state that colors are a little brighter and most people notice that the "chatter" in their heads is greatly reduced, leaving a more focused feeling. One thing to note: After a first session, *most* people are uncertain if they were really hypnotized or not. This is normal too and is because the hypnotic experience is not what most people were expecting. They weren't unconscious, didn't lose control and weren't unaware of their surroundings. Don't worry, in subsequent sessions, you will know what to expect and will get better at maximizing the effect.

As a rule, I schedule first sessions to be 90 minutes and subsequent sessions 60 minutes, but those times can be adjusted as needed. For the first 30 minutes or so of the first session, we go over the paperwork that is required by Washington State, answering any questions you may have along the way and getting your signature on my copy, stating that we have gone over the paperwork together. Washington requires that we do this so that you know who I am, what I can do and what the rules area about hypnosis, hypnotherapy, and therapy are in this state. If you want, you can get a head start on learning that by reading the "disclosure" form in my forms library. The next 30 minutes, we will talk about the Kappasinian "Theory of Mind" and how it relates to you. We will talk a bit about the history of hypnosis and hypnotherapy and we will discuss what you can expect to experience. I will also likely ask you to answer some questions that will help me determine how your mind reacts to different types of suggestions so that I fine tune my approach to work the best for you. Finally, I may ask you to visualize a few different scenes to further adjust my approach. In the final half-hour, I will perform an induction that is designed to work with the way your imagination works. Inductions are how the hypnotic state is entered and there are hundreds of ways they can be tailored to better match an individual. Once you are "in state", I will show you around a bit, have you experience and visualize a few things I think you might enjoy, then get down to the business at hand. You may remember nothing, some stuff or everything from the session. That varies from person to person, but I am more than happy to summarize the session as we close. Afterward, you will likely feel really relaxed, more so than you may have in a very long time. Some people state that colors are a little brighter and most people notice that the "chatter" in their heads is greatly reduced, leaving a more focused feeling. One thing to note: After a first session, *most* people are uncertain if they were really hypnotized or not. This is normal too and is because the hypnotic experience is not what most people were expecting. They weren't unconscious, didn't lose control and weren't unaware of their surroundings. Don't worry, in subsequent sessions, you will know what to expect and will get better at maximizing the effect.

Medical doctors and mental health professionals *may* indicate that hypnosis is contraindicated for a number of conditions, including: Schizophrenia and other mental health disorders. Developmental disabilities. Use of certain drugs. Ongoing psychiatric treatment. Although hypnosis has seen some amazing results over a wide spectrum of conditions, hypnotherapy is generally an adjunct therapy and is not a substitute for medical or psychiatric care.

Medical doctors and mental health professionals *may* indicate that hypnosis is contraindicated for a number of conditions, including: Schizophrenia and other mental health disorders. Developmental disabilities. Use of certain drugs. Ongoing psychiatric treatment. Although hypnosis has seen some amazing results over a wide spectrum of conditions, hypnotherapy is generally an adjunct therapy and is not a substitute for medical or psychiatric care.

If new client introductory appointments are available for you to book, then we are glad to have you!

Absolutely! Please do! You can take the Kappasinian E&P (Emotional/Physical) test on the Hypnotechs site at: [https://hypnotechs.com/resources/kappasinian-suggestibility/](https://hypnotechs.com/resources/kappasinian-suggestibility/)

Absolutely! Please do! You can take the Kappasinian E&P (Emotional/Physical) test on the Hypnotechs site at: [https://hypnotechs.com/resources/kappasinian-suggestibility/](https://hypnotechs.com/resources/kappasinian-suggestibility/)

Some situations require that we decline to work with certain people from time to time. Those reasons may include, but are not limited to: A required but missing physician or mental health provider referral. A declined referral request from a physician or mental health provider. The opinion of your hypnotherapist is that you are not a good candidate for hypnosis. The opinion of your hypnotherapist is that you are not a good match for Hypnotechs. If you have any doubt, please contact us to discuss your situation before booking. If during your first appointment it is determined that we will not be able to accept you as a new client, your payment will be refunded in full and subsequent sessions canceled. Unfortunately, we must reserve the right to refuse or discontinue service at any time, at our sole discretion.

Some situations require that we decline to work with certain people from time to time. Those reasons may include, but are not limited to: A required but missing physician or mental health provider referral. A declined referral request from a physician or mental health provider. The opinion of your hypnotherapist is that you are not a good candidate for hypnosis. The opinion of your hypnotherapist is that you are not a good match for Hypnotechs. If you have any doubt, please contact us to discuss your situation before booking. If during your first appointment it is determined that we will not be able to accept you as a new client, your payment will be refunded in full and subsequent sessions canceled. Unfortunately, we must reserve the right to refuse or discontinue service at any time, at our sole discretion.

I do. Grief and loss are intertwined with trauma and anxiety, both of which can be addressed with hypnosis. The loss of a close friend, a child, spouse or another family member can one of the toughest things we will ever face. We may be well aware of the inevitability of death and to speak in terms of it ""being part of life"", but when it happens to someone close to us, there is just no way to be prepared. Hypnosis can help to stop the spinning, falling, out of control feeling and to begin to restore some semblance of order to a mind on overload. From there, healing can begin.

I do. Grief and loss are intertwined with trauma and anxiety, both of which can be addressed with hypnosis. The loss of a close friend, a child, spouse or another family member can one of the toughest things we will ever face. We may be well aware of the inevitability of death and to speak in terms of it ""being part of life"", but when it happens to someone close to us, there is just no way to be prepared. Hypnosis can help to stop the spinning, falling, out of control feeling and to begin to restore some semblance of order to a mind on overload. From there, healing can begin.

Before I opened the office in Duvall, I saw clients by subletting space from a massage therapist and by making house calls. Most clients now come to see me at the office, but I am open to other options. If you are interested in meeting me somewhere or in me coming to you, I am open to discussion about that. Of course, I will need to charge for travel time and the like, so the session will ultimately be more expensive than a visit to the Hypnotechs office. Please contact me and let's see if we can find an arrangement that works for both of us. You can contact me via my [Contact Page](https://hypnotechs.com/contact/). And just for fun, [this page](https://hypnotechs.com/in-the-beginning/) has a picture of one of the places I regularly met a client when I was first getting started.

Before I opened the office in Duvall, I saw clients by subletting space from a massage therapist and by making house calls. Most clients now come to see me at the office, but I am open to other options. If you are interested in meeting me somewhere or in me coming to you, I am open to discussion about that. Of course, I will need to charge for travel time and the like, so the session will ultimately be more expensive than a visit to the Hypnotechs office. Please contact me and let's see if we can find an arrangement that works for both of us. You can contact me via my [Contact Page](https://hypnotechs.com/contact/). And just for fun, [this page](https://hypnotechs.com/in-the-beginning/) has a picture of one of the places I regularly met a client when I was first getting started.

No. Neither do most other healthcare providers. Your trainer won't, your weight loss advisor won't and so on. In hypnosis, I play a navigator role. I call out directions and if you want to get where we are going, you follow them. I'm good at giving directions that follow a route that you will approve of. But if you choose not to follow my directions, I simply can't guarantee where you are going to end up. This doesn't apply so much to session work, done while we are together, but virtually every type of hypnotherapy comes with homework. For example; If I recommend that you keep a regular bedtime to assist with sleep improvement and stress reduction, then you work on your laptop in bed until the wee hours of the morning, I can't promise results. With that said, I have really good success rates and the odds are that if I accept you as a client, it's because I am confident I can help you meet your goals and I believe you are going to do the work. I generally have a client waiting list and can't take clients I don't expect to succeed. I WANT you to succeed and I will work with you to make it happen. I will even fire you as a client if I sense that you aren't doing your part. But I can't offer a "money back guarantee" like a retail store. The one exception would be if for some reason I could not get you to go into trance during our first session. I would, of course, refund your money, since I had not done my part. THAT HAS NOT HAPPENED YET.

No. Neither do most other healthcare providers. Your trainer won't, your weight loss advisor won't and so on. In hypnosis, I play a navigator role. I call out directions and if you want to get where we are going, you follow them. I'm good at giving directions that follow a route that you will approve of. But if you choose not to follow my directions, I simply can't guarantee where you are going to end up. This doesn't apply so much to session work, done while we are together, but virtually every type of hypnotherapy comes with homework. For example; If I recommend that you keep a regular bedtime to assist with sleep improvement and stress reduction, then you work on your laptop in bed until the wee hours of the morning, I can't promise results. With that said, I have really good success rates and the odds are that if I accept you as a client, it's because I am confident I can help you meet your goals and I believe you are going to do the work. I generally have a client waiting list and can't take clients I don't expect to succeed. I WANT you to succeed and I will work with you to make it happen. I will even fire you as a client if I sense that you aren't doing your part. But I can't offer a "money back guarantee" like a retail store. The one exception would be if for some reason I could not get you to go into trance during our first session. I would, of course, refund your money, since I had not done my part. THAT HAS NOT HAPPENED YET.

I do not. I know that many now offer an online version of hypnotherapy, but I find that I have the greatest success with old-fashioned person-to-person contact. I'm trained in body language, micro-expressions and more and I find that having my client right there in the room with me provides the best experience and results. Online is not the hypnotherapy experience I would want to receive, so I don't offer it to my clients either. On top of that, I worry about poor connection quality and getting disconnected as well. Recently questions about what the rules are in various jurisdictions and whether the jurisdiction I am in or the one the distant client is in is the one that matters have arisen, that make me even more skeptical of online hypnotherapy.

I do not. I know that many now offer an online version of hypnotherapy, but I find that I have the greatest success with old-fashioned person-to-person contact. I'm trained in body language, micro-expressions and more and I find that having my client right there in the room with me provides the best experience and results. Online is not the hypnotherapy experience I would want to receive, so I don't offer it to my clients either. On top of that, I worry about poor connection quality and getting disconnected as well. Recently questions about what the rules are in various jurisdictions and whether the jurisdiction I am in or the one the distant client is in is the one that matters have arisen, that make me even more skeptical of online hypnotherapy.

I do not. I'll be honest with you, I looked into it, briefly and it looked like a mountain of paperwork, especially with the changing insurance landscape these days. Maybe there's an easy way to do it and I will figure that out down the road. But for now, it's cash, check and pretty much every major card you might carry. A number of my clients have reported that they are able to submit reciepts from Hypnotechs to their insurance company for reimbursement under the "alternative medicine category". If you choose to try that, all the information you should need is on my [credentials page](https://hypnotechs.com/about/credentials/), license number, location and so on.

I do not. I'll be honest with you, I looked into it, briefly and it looked like a mountain of paperwork, especially with the changing insurance landscape these days. Maybe there's an easy way to do it and I will figure that out down the road. But for now, it's cash, check and pretty much every major card you might carry. A number of my clients have reported that they are able to submit reciepts from Hypnotechs to their insurance company for reimbursement under the "alternative medicine category". If you choose to try that, all the information you should need is on my [credentials page](https://hypnotechs.com/about/credentials/), license number, location and so on.

Actually, I do. I really like the mechanism provided by the [Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indicator). It's made up of four designators, with two possibilities for each, for a total of 16 different personality types possible. To use MBTI, you only need to answer four questions about someone to estimate their "type". It's easy enough to use and once you have a good idea of how typing works, a lot about tendencies to expect for a person can be known. Of course, that is just to estimate what someone else may be, the actual self-test is A LOT more questions. I am an MBTI ""ENTJ"". I am not as big a fan of the [Enneagram](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enneagram_of_Personality), but many people like it as much or more than MBTI and use it to compliment MBTI. I am an Enneagram "8w7". Finally, in a work environment, it would be so much easier if everyone just walked around with a [FIRO-B](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_interpersonal_relations_orientation) sign indicating their type. I LOVE this instrument and if I have to recommend just one to a business, this is it. Here's my FIRO-B: ![firob.jpg](https://malcolm-en-gb.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/instances/spfA9tNOws/resources/1RfOhqaD54/firob.jpg)

Actually, I do. I really like the mechanism provided by the [Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indicator). It's made up of four designators, with two possibilities for each, for a total of 16 different personality types possible. To use MBTI, you only need to answer four questions about someone to estimate their "type". It's easy enough to use and once you have a good idea of how typing works, a lot about tendencies to expect for a person can be known. Of course, that is just to estimate what someone else may be, the actual self-test is A LOT more questions. I am an MBTI ""ENTJ"". I am not as big a fan of the [Enneagram](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enneagram_of_Personality), but many people like it as much or more than MBTI and use it to compliment MBTI. I am an Enneagram "8w7". Finally, in a work environment, it would be so much easier if everyone just walked around with a [FIRO-B](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_interpersonal_relations_orientation) sign indicating their type. I LOVE this instrument and if I have to recommend just one to a business, this is it. Here's my FIRO-B: ![firob.jpg](https://malcolm-en-gb.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/instances/spfA9tNOws/resources/1RfOhqaD54/firob.jpg)

Subtitled: "I won't have an accident, will I?" Okay, don't laugh. It's a common question and face it, when you gotta go, you gotta go. Most importantly, no, you will NOT have an "accident". Unless you are prone to accidents already either while you are awake or when you are sleeping, in which case PLEASE mention that to your hypnotist in advance, all the normal warning systems remain in effect. You will feel all the normal symptoms and you won't ignore them to the point of an accident. If you feel it coming and it's to the point or even beyond the point where it's distracting or is interfering with your ability to stay focused, simply tell your hypnotist you need a break, using whatever words you are most comfortable using. Your hypnotist will bring you up so that you can take care of the problem. When you return, you will go back under quickly and in all likelihood, even deeper than you were. Relax, it happens and it's not a big deal.

Subtitled: "I won't have an accident, will I?" Okay, don't laugh. It's a common question and face it, when you gotta go, you gotta go. Most importantly, no, you will NOT have an "accident". Unless you are prone to accidents already either while you are awake or when you are sleeping, in which case PLEASE mention that to your hypnotist in advance, all the normal warning systems remain in effect. You will feel all the normal symptoms and you won't ignore them to the point of an accident. If you feel it coming and it's to the point or even beyond the point where it's distracting or is interfering with your ability to stay focused, simply tell your hypnotist you need a break, using whatever words you are most comfortable using. Your hypnotist will bring you up so that you can take care of the problem. When you return, you will go back under quickly and in all likelihood, even deeper than you were. Relax, it happens and it's not a big deal.

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