LuAnn Hamon, M.P.S.

LuAnn Hamon, M.P.S. has a master's degree in Professional Studies of Human Relations from New York Institute of Technology. This is a master's degree in mental health counseling. LuAnn completed her internship in domestic violence and was employed from the internship to provide counseling services and co-facilitate the court-mandated groups to batterers and victims and their children in Palm Beach County, Florida.

LuAnn has a Bachelor of Science degree in human services with a concentration in therapeutic recreation from Empire College, S.U.N.Y. She has been employed in the helping field for over fifteen years in a combination of social work, recreation, adult day care director, Alzheimer's research coordinator, and mental health counseling for individuals and families.

LuAnn opened and administrated an adult day care in North Palm Beach, Florida, providing services for adults and their families following graduation of her master's degree. LuAnn later provided mental health counseling services for a couple of community based mental health clinics in south Florida to a diverse population. Also, LuAnn taught classes part time at Palm Beach Community College, Florida, as an adjunct teacher in subjects such as; Self-Esteem, Relationship with Other, Relationship with Self, and Co-Dependent No More. LuAnn has also taught parenting classes, anger management classes, and stress management classes for many clients in Florida and in Kentucky.

LuAnn Hamon, M.P.S. is a certified Clinical Hypnotherapist. She is a member of the American Alliance of Hypnotists and the National Guild of Hypnotists. LuAnn has counseled individuals and families for a number of years in South Florida but is now concentrating on hypnosis. LuAnn states that hypnosis is a tool to help individuals reach their goals and be the person that they choose to be. Hypnosis is a safe, natural, and effective way to achieve goals that places the focus on the present moment. LuAnn has always believed in a wellness philosophy and believes that hypnosis will compliment medical procedures, dental procedure and mental health counseling.

Today LuAnn continues to motivate others to face their perceived limits, make positive changes, and use the power of their own minds to help them face issues that hold them back, keep them stuck, or blocked. LuAnn provides the supportive and caring environment needed to make change with the fast, effective tool of hypnosis to help clients become relaxed, confident, and successful in their endeavors.

Hypnosis Is A State Of Mind

Hypnosis is a state of consciousness or a state of mind. It is associated with a relaxed state that allows you to center your mind and focus your attention on the stated problem or goal.

Hypnotherapy is the technique of using hypnosis for therapy by aiding the unconscious mind in solving problems or opening to one's potential. The therapy part of the session occurs after using hypnosis to induce the state of relaxation or trance state then, stories or suggestions are offered for understanding or self-discovery and that are personally relevant to each client's particular need and desired outcome.  

 "A trance state is simply a state of highly focused attention" according to the Milton Erickson, M.D. Foundation.  Milton Erickson is a man who is widely known and recognized as the foremost hypnotherapist of the century.  Erickson described hypnosis and trance as a valuable tool used to reach the unconscious self-healing, self-correcting, comforting, and pleasure seeking resource of each client.

Erickson's theory describes a "conscious mind" and an "unconscious mind." Conscious and unconscious aspects are ideas that are highly over simplified as it is more like a variety of levels of perception, cognition, and response all working collectively together. We are using the conscious mind when learning how to use a computer or how to drive a car for instance. Yet, the unconscious mind is working too. You can suddenly catch a ball thrown at you without much thought even while solving a complex math problem. In reality, there is not a rigid boundary between the conscious and the unconscious mind but it is more like a spectrum moving from a deep sleep to a hyper-alert wakeful state with a normal wakeful state in the middle. Many activities learned in life have been stored in the unconscious part of our mind once they have been learned. We can do them while thinking of something else such as riding a bike, driving a car, sewing, cooking, and playing video games.

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