Recent News and Upcoming Events

  • MINDFULNESS AWARENESS: EXERCISES for CHILDREN - GROUP NOW FORMING

    2011-02-07 - I'm so excited to offer an 8 week group for children to experience mindfulness exercises, enjoy being more aware of the here and now, and practice skills to calm themselves. Additionally, tips about performance, attention, and anxiety will be offered. Research shows benefits for attention, self regulation of mood, and adjustment to problems.

  • Mindful Eating - Helping you reach your resolution!

    2011-01-10 - Enjoy this well-made video that demonstrates increased focus and mindfulness eating suggestions. My colleague has a new book out too. I'm excited about these resources and am offering a group for women interested in adding mindfulness and hypnosis to their regimen for weight loss. This group will meet on Mondays, to start the week off right.

  • Mind-Body Blog from APA

    2010-11-12 - Please spend some time reading the Mind-Body Blog from APA! Great range of topics and resources.

  • What is hypnosis? Why use hypnosis in therapy?

    2010-01-30 - Clinical hypnosis within psychotherapy is an evidence-based, effective treatment for a number of problems. What is hypnosis and when can it be useful?

  • Children and Stress

    2010-01-30 - Children, tweens, and teens experience more stress than we may realize. What do they worry about and how does it affect them?

  • Summary of Fees for Services - Dr. Lombard

    2010-01-25 - Please refer to this table for current 2010 fees for a variety of services.

  • More Benefits to Reducing Stress: Improving Fertility

    2009-10-23 - A variety of types of stress management may help to lower infertility by impacting hormone and immunological functioning.

  • Breast Cancer: How your mind can help your body.

    2009-10-20 - This article addresses a variety of responses to dealing with breast cancer and explains how the mind-body connection may play out during this difficult time for women and their families. Stress, response to medical procedures and handling pain, psycho-immunology, and other factors are intertwined.

  • Coping with Stress of Infertility

    2009-10-12 - Coping with infertility is stressful for your mind and your body. It can generate or intensify feelings of anxiety, depression, low self-worth, a sense of a lack of control, and anger. For many women it is excruciatingly painful to experience this sense of unfairness and helplessness. Their usually strong problem-solving and coping skills are not effective in the face of unexplained infertility. Hypnotherapy and expressive forms of therapy can help you re-gain a sense of control, calm, and creativity. These are healthy tools to deal with a multi-faceted mind-body dilemma.

  • Help for Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Fears, Childbirth Pain, etc.

    2009-10-12 - This short article in Newsweek touches on several common problems for which hypnosis, in combination with psychotherapy, can really help!

  • National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) reports on effective use of hypnosis for pain.

    2009-02-26 - This is a very interesting report about how clinical hypnosis and self-hypnosis can be used to manage pain.