Hypnotherapy and Yoga Nidra with Tammy Mccollam

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I have worked in the mental health field for over 30 years.  My interest in non-ordinary states of consciousness began in 2015, when I took a 6-day course in Heart Centered Hypnotherapy at The Wellness Institute.  I was so impressed with the effectiveness of this modality that I went on to study hypnotherapy and breathwork for the next 6 years. I have found hypnotherapy to be effective in decreasing stress, reducing symptoms of depression and anxiety, and improving pain tolerance.  I believe in the mind’s inner healing intelligence.  Sometimes we need assistance from the subconscious mind to get clarity about beliefs that limit us and to access our ability to heal.   

I am also a Yoga Nidra facilitator.  Yoga Nidra is a meditation practice that allows individuals to be guided to a place between wakefulness and sleep.  Yoga Nidra is much like a power nap and provides deep rest and relaxation.  

I am a native of the Pacific Northwest and have made my home in Vancouver for the last 11 years. In my time away from work I enjoy travel, gardening, knitting, and live music.  

From Psychology Today:

“Hypnotherapy (sometimes called hypnotic suggestion) is a therapeutic

practice that uses guided hypnosis to help a client reach a trance-like state of

focus, concentration, diminished peripheral awareness, and heightened

suggestibility. This state is similar to being completely absorbed in a book,

movie, music, or even one’s own thoughts or meditations. In it, a person

is unusually responsive to an idea or image, but they are not under anyone’s

“control.” Instead, a trained clinical hypnotherapist can help clients in this state

relax and turn their attention inward to discover and utilize resources within

themselves that can help them achieve desired behavioral changes or better

manage pain or other physical concerns. Eventually, a client learns how to

address their states of awareness on their own and in doing so, gain greater

control of their physical and psychological responses.

The American Psychological Association and American Medical Association

have recognized hypnotherapy as a valid procedure since 1958, and the

National Institutes of Health (NIH) has recommended it as a treatment

for chronic pain since 1995.”