Hypnotherapy for pain in Washington State

Registered here, working everywhere in the state

Washington is one of the states that formally registers hypnotherapists, which means there is a credential to check rather than a certificate anyone can print. Mine is #HYPN.HP.70073119, held with the Department of Health, and you can verify it through the Department's provider credential search.

I hold a Master's degree in psychology and spent more than a decade in Washington mental health settings — as a psychotherapist, youth counsellor, case manager and social work professional — before focusing on clinical hypnotherapy.

Why online is better for pain, not a compromise

People sometimes assume a video session is the lesser option. For pain work specifically, the opposite is usually true.

• You are not commuting on a flare day. Sitting in I-5 traffic for forty minutes with an angry lower back is a genuinely poor start to a session about your lower back.
• You practise where you live. The state we build is one you need at 3am in your own bed, not in an unfamiliar consulting room.
• Your eyes are closed for most of it. Of all the things that lose something over video, hypnosis loses the least.
• Bellingham and Walla Walla get the same access as Capitol Hill. Specialist pain support outside the I-5 corridor is thin, and this removes the geography problem entirely.

Serving clients across Washington

Seattle · Bellevue · Redmond · Kirkland · Renton · Everett · Tacoma · Olympia · Federal Way · Kent · Vancouver · Bellingham · Spokane · Yakima · Kennewick · Richland · Wenatchee · Port Angeles · Bremerton · Mount Vernon — and everywhere else in the state.

The Pacific Northwest pain picture

A few patterns come up often enough here to be worth naming. Long dark winters that do low-grade harm to sleep, mood and pain thresholds all at once. A tech workforce with a great deal of neck, shoulder and upper back pain from years at a desk. An outdoors culture that produces excellent knee, back and shoulder injuries — and a strong reluctance to stop doing the thing that caused them. And a real regional preference for approaches that are not simply another prescription.

If you have already been through physical therapy, tried the pain clinic, and come away with the impression that the system has run out of ideas for you, that is the point where most of my Washington clients get in touch.