February 13, 2024
Last updated on October 8th, 2026 at 12:13 pm
Hypnotherapy at Carrara Treatment
Hypnotherapy at Carrara uses guided relaxation and focused attention to help you work with thoughts, feelings, and habits that can drive substance use. In this calm, cooperative state you stay aware and in control while practicing new responses to stress, cravings, and triggers. The goal is simple: clearer insight and steadier choices in recovery.
Sessions are private and tailored. Certified hypnotherapists coordinate with your medical and clinical team to set goals such as reducing anxiety, easing pain, improving sleep, and strengthening motivation. You can pause, adjust, or stop at any time. Each visit ends with simple take home cues so gains continue between sessions.
Hypnotherapy fits alongside counseling, skills training, fitness, and rest. Scripts and suggestions align with treatment plans like CBT and EMDR so the work supports, not replaces, core therapy. Over time clients often report fewer spikes in stress, more confidence in coping tools, and a clearer path forward.
Benefits of Hypnotherapy for Recovery
Hypnotherapy can complement clinical treatment by helping you work with patterns that sit just below everyday awareness. In a calm, focused state you practice new responses to stress and urges while staying fully in control. The gains are practical and repeatable, which makes therapy, skills practice, and rest feel more manageable across the week.
1. Accessing Underlying Issues
Guided imagery and focused attention help you notice beliefs and memories that may drive substance use without reliving trauma. With a therapist’s support you can reframe meanings, identify triggers, and rehearse healthier responses. This gentle access to the roots of behavior makes later choices feel less automatic and more aligned with your goals.
2. Behavioral Repatterning
In session you practice small, specific shifts such as delaying, distracting, or choosing a coping skill when an urge appears. Suggestions are written to match your plan so they support CBT and other therapies. Repeated mental rehearsal builds confidence and makes the new behavior easier to use when daily stress shows up.
3. Stress and Anxiety Relief
Slow breath, body relaxation, and calm suggestions help the nervous system downshift. As tension drops, thoughts feel less crowded and decisions feel simpler. Many clients describe a lighter mood after sessions and find they can return to groups and therapy with more patience, clearer attention, and fewer spikes in worry.
4. Craving and Trigger Response
Hypnotherapy teaches you to label urges as temporary signals rather than commands. You practice noticing the first rise, pairing it with a cue like counted breathing, then choosing a plan that fits your goals. This shortens the gap between trigger and action and makes it easier to ride out difficult moments without returning to use.
5. Sleep and Pain Support
Calming scripts, breath counts, and simple imagery can make it easier to wind down at night. When sleep improves, morning energy and follow through usually do as well. Gentle hypnotic strategies can also support pain coping by reducing muscle tension and helping you shift attention, which protects progress in early recovery.
6. Motivation and Self Worth
Well crafted suggestions reinforce reasons for change and strengthen belief in your ability to follow the plan. You rehearse small wins that fit real life so motivation grows in a steady, practical way. As confidence rises, engagement in therapy, family work, and wellness routines becomes more consistent and sustainable.
What Is the Direct Impact on Patients?
Hypnotherapy at Carrara gives you a calm, structured way to work with thoughts, feelings, and urges while staying in control. Short, goal focused sessions reduce background stress, improve sleep readiness, and strengthen follow through on coping skills so you can get more out of therapy, groups, and daily routines.
- Clearer Insight: Focused attention helps you notice patterns and triggers sooner, making it easier to choose responses that fit your goals.
- Lower Baseline Stress: Relaxation techniques quiet muscle tension and busy thinking, so you arrive to sessions calmer and more present.
- Stronger Urge Control: You rehearse simple steps to ride out cravings, shortening the gap between trigger and healthy action.
- Better Sleep and Comfort: Wind down scripts and gentle imagery support deeper rest and reduce discomfort that can distract from care.
- Private, Coordinated Care: Sessions are tailored with your therapist and medical team so suggestions align with CBT, EMDR, medications, and rest.
How Does Hypnotherapy Support Holistic Recovery?
Hypnotherapy adds a calm, focused space to practice new responses to stress and cravings while staying fully in control. At Carrara, sessions are coordinated with counseling, medications, fitness, sleep, and nutrition as part of our integrated Wellness Programs.
What You Can Expect
- Private Intake and Consent: A brief review of goals, triggers, medical considerations, and comfort preferences. You control pace and participation at all times.
- Clear Goals and Benchmarks: Targets such as stress relief, sleep support, urge control, or pain coping are defined with simple ways to track progress.
- Session Format: Seated or reclined comfort, eyes open or gently closed, with step by step relaxation to a calm, focused state—always cooperative and aware.
- Core Techniques: Breath regulation, progressive relaxation, guided imagery, focused attention, and post-session cues (anchors) that you can use in real life moments.
- Trigger Rehearsal: Gentle practice of coping steps for specific situations—pairing urges with planned responses that match your treatment goals.
- Integration With Therapy: Suggestions and scripts are aligned with CBT, EMDR, and skills training; your therapist and hypnotherapist coordinate care.
- Take-Home Support: Short audio prompts and written cues to reinforce gains between sessions without adding complexity to your schedule.
- Safety and Comfort: You can pause or stop at any time; session length and frequency are adjusted to energy levels, medications, and phase of care.
Ready to Begin Your Renewal Journey?
At Carrara Treatment, hypnotherapy is built into your rehab plan to calm stress, steady focus, and strengthen coping skills while you do deeper clinical work. Sessions are private, goal focused, and timed around therapy and medications, so they support and do not complicate your day.
- Who it is for: Clients in detox, residential rehab, or step down care who want practical tools for triggers, cravings, sleep, and anxiety.
- Why it helps rehab: A calm, focused state makes it easier to practice new responses and carry them into CBT, EMDR, groups, and family sessions.
- What to expect: Seated or reclined comfort, clear goals, gentle relaxation, guided imagery, and simple take home cues—always cooperative and in control.
- Pair hypnotherapy with: Private Breath Work, Trauma Informed Yoga, Sound Bath Therapy, Reiki, and Nutrition Consultation & Coaching for whole person support.
- Amenities and privacy: Private ensuite rooms, chef prepared meals, modern fitness, spa services, pools, Jacuzzis, saunas, and quiet outdoor spaces in a confidential setting.
Explore our residences: The LA Carrara House, The Hollywood Hills Carrara House, and The Malibu Beach House.
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Britney Elyse, LMFT, is an experienced mental health professional and clinical leader with more than 15 years of experience in behavioral health, addiction treatment, and recovery services. She currently serves as Director of Compliance & Clinical Services at Carrara Treatment, Wellness & Spa, where she oversees the clinical team, treatment programming, staff development, documentation standards, and coordination of care with physicians and psychiatric providers.
Throughout her career, Britney has held leadership and clinical roles at respected treatment programs including Cliffside Malibu, Cast Recovery, The Hills Treatment Center, and Tarzana Treatment Centers. Her experience encompasses individual and family therapy, clinical assessment, treatment planning, case management, utilization review, and the development of trauma-focused programming.
Britney’s therapeutic background includes trauma-informed care, Somatic Experiencing, DBT, relapse prevention, family therapy, and stages-of-change interventions. She is passionate about creating thoughtful, individualized treatment plans while supporting clients and their families throughout the recovery process.
Britney earned her Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy from Antioch University and has pursued advanced training in Somatic Experiencing Therapy. Her approach combines compassionate client care with strong clinical leadership and a commitment to maintaining the highest standards of treatment.
Credentials: MA, LMFT. California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist 90937 (Board of Behavioral Sciences). MA, Antioch University. Member, CAMFT.
