Let me start with saying I was a heavily addicted three or more pack a day smoker. I started smoking later in life but when I started I jumped right in with both feet and had been smoking for over 10 years. I tried the patch and zyban to help kick the smoking addiction but with no success. I also had tried hypnosis with another therapist with no success. So needless to say I was somewhat skeptical when going to Marc.
My previous hypnosis experience consisted of the other therapist asking a few questions, playing me a tape, few suggestions given to me, in total lasting no more than 15-20 minutes. I was given a cassette and that was about it. I was given a follow up session that consisted of the same identical steps, suggestions, etc., but no additional cassette since the session was the same as the first.
Wow. Marc was so different from my previous experience! Marc is a true professional hypnotherapist. One of the things that I believe that sets him apart from others is the fact that he takes the time to perform a comprehensive evaluation, an in depth interview, and he listens! With my addiction it did take 5 sessions before I cut down all the way to zero and remained a non-smoker but with each session there was major progress and I was finally able to kick the habit. I was amazed how Marc seemed to be able to customize each session depending on our discussions at the start of each session.
During the process of ending this addiction I had numerous other issues, stresses and triggers to my addiction: work/professional problems, personal/home-life issues, and even a death in the family. Marc not only helped me uncover the triggers but also totally understood my issues with stress. Again on-the-fly Marc would somehow pull out of his magic hat a customized session to address my issues. I always left each session not only better able to control my smoking but better able to handle stress and an overall increasing feeling of general well being.
In addition Marc gave me numerous tools, recommendations, and observations addressing my environment, physical life and personality traits. Marc makes this all easy as he has a way of making you feel comfortable, relaxed, and at ease. It is also very refreshing to see he is technologically up to date providing the option of supplying each custom session on a CD. It was great to load it to my MP3 player and take it with me anywhere!
I believe if you are open and honest with Marc there isn’t anything he couldn’t or wouldn’t be able to help a person with. Again a true Professional! Thanks, very much Marc!