Diane Drago Hypnosis
1708 East Custer Street
Laramie, WY 82070

Phone: 307 760 3152

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Diane serves the Front Range, southeast Wyoming, Cheyenne and Fort Collins; in addition to Laramie.

Hypnosis is a state of deep physical and mental relaxation that allows for direct communication with your subconscious mind. The subconscious is the seat of core beliefs and emotions.
The deep relaxation experienced while in a hypnotic state is a byproduct which can itself improve stress management and self-awareness.

As a certified clinical hypnotherapist and life coach, Diane Drago adheres to the stringent ethical guidelines of hypontherapy including confidentiality and professionalism.

Are you interested in a personal consultation?

Just give us a call at 307 760-3152 or send us an email.

Hypnosis can help adult patients control other forms of pain, relieve gastrointestinal problems, stimulate weight loss, clear up skin problems, and accelerate the healing of bone fractures and surgical wounds.
-- Consumer Reports, January 2005

Hypnosis can help. A growing body of research supports the ancient practice as an effective tool in the treatment of a variety of problems, from anxiety to chronic pain.
-- Newsweek, September 2004

Hypnosis is the most effective way of giving up smoking, according to the largest ever scientific comparison of ways of breaking the habit.
-- New Scientist, October 1992

Hypnosis can actually help you lose weight.
-- Harvard Medical School psychotherapist Jean Fain in Oprah Magazine, August 2004

Hypnosis has gained credibility in the past five years because of research using the latest brain imaging technology. Studies show hypnosis can help treat a multitude of disorders.
-- Business Week, February 2004

Though often denigrated as fakery or wishful thinking, hypnosis has been shown to be a real phenomenon with a variety of therapeutic uses.
-- Scientific American, June 2001

With weight loss the evidence is conclusive, hypnosis does help people reduce.
-- Smithsonian Magazine, March 1999

Hypnosis is not mind control. It's a naturally-occurring state of concentration; it's actually a means of enhancing your control over your mind and your body.
--Dr. David Spiegel, Associate Chair of Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Jane Pauley show, September 2004

In hypnosis, you can attain significant psycho-physiologic changes.
-- Dr. Daniel Handel, National Institutes of Health, New York Times, June 2004

Hypnosis has been used in Western medicine for 150 years to treat everything from anxiety to pain, from easing the nausea of chemotherapy to enhancing sports performance. Applications include treatment of phobias, panic, low self-esteem, insomnia, sexual dysfunction, stress, smoking, colitis, warts, headaches and high blood pressure.
-- Dr. Carol Ginandes, Clinical Instructor, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University Gazette

Approved as a valid treatment by the American Medical Association in 1958, hypnosis has been increasingly accepted by the medical community. Its use for chronic pain was approved in 1996 by the National Institutes of Health.
-- The Capital (Annapolis MD) April 2004

The purpose of hypnosis as a therapeutic technique is to help you understand and gain more control over your behavior, emotions or physical well-being.
-- The Mayo Clinic, December 2003

Hypnosis often is used to modify behavior and overcome phobias and bad habits—it can help you make changes that you've been unable to make otherwise.
-- National Women's Health Resource Center, November 2003

Hypnosis can have numerous other applications besides weight loss. For instance, athletes turn to hypnosis at times to improve their performance. Clinicians have been known to use it as therapy for victims of incest, rape and physical abuse. Hypnosis can also treat sleep disorders, migraines, anxieties, ulcers, nausea and depression. Choose a hypnotist who is a credentialed health-care provider, like a clinical psychologist or someone with psychology counseling.
-- Good Morning America, September 17, 2005

Hypnosis seems helpful in treating addictions, and the depression and anxiety associated with them.
-- Psychology Today, September 1996

"I should have done it years ago. It's amazing, I didn't even want cigarettes anymore."
-- Matt Damon describing his hypnosis to stop smoking experience to Jay Leno on the Tonight Show, December 2004

In the news

The New York Times
"The Possibilities in Hypnosis, Where the Patient has the Power"
dispels many myths about hypnosis and explains how it works

Mayo Clinic 
"Hypnosis, Another Way to Manage Pain, Kick Bad Habits" 
discusses how hypnotherapy can be used for weight loss, to quit smoking, control pain, diminish irritable bowel syndrome, and chemotherapy symptoms, and to reduce the intensity or frequency of migraine headaches

Natural News  
This article outlines the damaging effects of stress on your body and gives real-world advice on how to decrease stress in your life. Hypnotherapy is recommended as one way to increase relaxation, decrease stress and anxiety levels.

MSNBC
"Break Your Bad Habit—Overnight"
discusses nail biting and other obsessions, and the use of hypnotherapy to effectively and rapidly end bad habits. Clinical research studies on hypnotherapy are cited.