I had a terrible time with this lady named Evilyn who does hypnotherapy. Her website looked good and so I assued she rant her business from a real clinic or office; as it turns out it was from her house. For that reason I was going to cancel my apointment but kept it as she assured me that noise and other concerns I had would not be a problem.
Before I even got there I was told it was $75 per session for the first 3, but as it turns out she considers the first session 2 so I paid $150 (however she had a really vague and ambigous way of explaining billing that lead me to feel as if I was being taken for a ride), she also tried to convince me to sign up for more sessions. Which I did not.
Here is a list of reasons why I found her business to be a rip off;
1. She kept losing her place reading a script and making mistakes. This was for my insomnia and she kept telling me to get "wound up" and "geard up" in the evenings before bed, when she meant to say "wind down" and "gear down", she tried to correct herself a couple times by saying "geared up for a good nights sleep" but it came off as her not knowing what she was talking about, plus she paused a lot to look at her notes.
2. She had two girls in the kitchen that kept giggling and I could here them while the therapiest was trying to put me under hypnosis.
3. The phone rang several times and distracted me.
4. The main reason I found her to be unprofessional was that she has two pug type dogs that kept "barking" during the session, a loud snappish bark.
5. She seemed unsure of herself and didn't seem to direct me around the office very well, at one point she showed me where the bathroom was but when I came out she was gone, and some girl (I asume was her kid) told me that she must be in the other room, then another time she had left the room to go to her computer but didn't tell me to come with her and started talking to me from the other room.
6. She was telling me how much she helped her husband with his eating and diet and yet she had a noticable weight problem (I am not making fun of people with weight issues, I am only pointing out that if someone doesn't have control in their own life it doesn't exactly strike confidence in abilities).
7. During one exercise she was trying to instruct me to invision a few things but kept leaving out parts; such as which arm that I picture balloons tied to, or holding a book in which as an important part of the process that I couldn't do because she failed to instruct me properly.
8. At one point she told me to give up two words that should help my life if I give them up, which were "try" and "hope" ha ha I can understand what she was trying to do but still it was weird to be told that I should give up hope in my life and to stop trying.
9. She claimes to do natural child birthing for women who don't want to use pain killers during labor; I get chills thinking that this works, because she only took like 5 to 10 minutes putting me in hypnosis but ran through it rather quickly and she made several mistakes while trying to get me to relax. I went through the motions but was not really all that relaxed at all.in fact she made me nervous. Also the barking dogs made me want to leave.
Anyway, between the barking dogs, the kids, the phone ringing, and her backtracking-pausing-and loosing her place with the script, plus the ambigous billing scheme I think I seriously lost my $150. And she runs it from an old house in a part of town that didn't look all that good, there wasn't even a good place to park. Oh, one last thing, her house sits very close to the street and there were trucks going by making noise. I was nice to her and didn't want to argue with her so I paid her and left. I wish now that I hadn't paid her.
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