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Josephine Ferraro, LCSW - NYC Psychotherapist, Hypnotherapist, EMDR Therapist and Coach
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NYC psychotherapist, hypnotherapist, EMDR Therapist and Coach provides information about mental health issues.
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Psychotherapy: Healing Old Emotional Childhood Wounds that are Affecting Current Relationships
As a psychotherapist in NYC, I see many clients in both individual psychotherapy and couples/marriage counseling who are struggling with old, unresolved childhood wounds that are affecting their current relationships. Most people know, at least on a...
Clinical Hypnosis: Bridging Back to Heal Old Emotional Wounds
Old emotional wounds often get triggered in intimate relationships. Most of these unresolved feelings are core issues that originated in childhood and usually involve one or both of your parents or caregivers. These old wounds might involve feelings ...
Clinical Hypnosis and the Mind-Body Connection
During the last 15-20 years mental health and medical experts have become increasingly aware of the strong connection between our emotions and our physical health and well-being. As medical experts become more knowledgeable about the mind-body connec...
Psychotherapy: Developing Internal Resources and Coping Skills
Whether you realize it or not, you have internal resources and coping abilities that you can tap into when you're facing a challenging situation or life event. Very often, the question is how to access these internal resources and coping abilities wh...
The Benefits of Psychotherapy
Have you been thinking about starting therapy? Possibly, you've been on the fence for a while, you have mixed feelings about it or you feel anxious about starting the process. In this post, I discuss some of the benefits of participating in psychothe...
Reconciling with Your Parents
There is a common misconception about psychotherapy that it's all about coming to complain about your problems, blaming everything on your parents, and that's where it ends. However, in reality, when you begin psychotherapy, looking at your relations...
Making Changes: Dealing with the "Inner Voice of Negative Prediction"
When you're trying to make positive changes in your life, whether it's to improve your diet, lose weight, become a successful nonsmoker, return to school to complete your education or whatever changes you might want to make, very often, one of the ma...
Becoming a Successful Nonsmoker
Do you want to stop smoking?Have you tried to stop smoking before, stopped for a while and then relapsed?Clinical hypnosis can be a very effective tool to help you stop smoking without the side effects of the drugs, nicotine patches and other methods...
Overcoming the Internal Critic
At one time or another, most people have experienced the negative effects of the internal critic. The internal critic is that negative voice that says things like, "You're not good enough." "You're unlovable." "You can't write." "You can't do anythin...
How to Stop Worrying: What is Chronic Worrying?
Are you a chronic worrier?With all the economic uncertainty in the world today, many people are worried. However, there's a difference between worrying about a specific problem that spurs you to take action vs. chronic worrying that can paralyze you....
Overcoming Insomnia with Clinical Hypnosis
Sleep is natural and essential to maintaining our physical and emotional health. When we sleep, our bodies and minds restore themselves. We also have at least 5-7 dreams at night where our unconscious minds often come up with creative solutions to pr...
Overcoming Emotional Overeating and Lose Weight with Clinical Hypnosis
Obesity is one of the leading health problems in the US today. Emotional eating as well as lack of exercise and poor eating habits often leads to obesity. More and more, we're hearing in the news and reading in the newspapers that obesity can lead to...
Overcoming Phobias with Clinical Hypnosis
In my last post, I explored what phobias are and how they develop.Now, I would like to discuss hypnotherapy as an effective treatment for people with phobias.When I work with a client who has a phobia, I will usually ask if the client is aware of the...
What Are Phobias and How Do They Develop?
What is a Phobia?A phobia is an excessive, irrational and persistent fear of an object or a situation. Most of the time, people who have phobias know consciously that their fear is irrational, but since the fear is in their unconscious minds, it can ...
Want to Stop Smoking?
Maybe you're concerned about the health risks. Maybe your partner has complained about your smoking. Perhaps your doctor has advised you to stop. Maybe you're concerned about the cost of cigarettes. Perhaps you're concerned about the effect of ...
