Recent News and Upcoming Events

• Time to Start Scheduling School Readiness Evaluations for 2010!

  2010-02-22 - Preschool transition to kindergarten: social, emotional, and cognitive issues.

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• 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?

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• 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?

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• Summary of Fees for Services - Dr. Lombard

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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!

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• 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.

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