Dr. Kay Bloom, PhD, LCSW, ACHT, CST, is an advanced-certified heart-centered hypnotherapist with over 20 years of experience guiding individuals through lasting change. Hypnotherapy works at a deeper level than conversation alone — helping you shift the patterns that feel stuck, automatic, or frustrating to change through willpower.
What Hypnotherapy Can Help With
People seek out hypnotherapy for a wide range of reasons — usually when they want a more targeted way to change how the mind responds to certain thoughts, feelings, or behaviors, especially after other approaches haven't gotten them all the way there.
1. Reduces Stress & Anxiety
Calms racing thoughts, worry, and physical tension.
2. Helps With Fears & Phobias
Reduces fear responses and builds new, safer associations.
3. Supports Lasting Habit Change
For habits like smoking, overeating, nail-biting, drinking, or procrastination — especially when willpower alone hasn't been enough.
4. Improves Sleep
Helps the mind relax and shift out of unhelpful cycles behind insomnia or poor sleep routines.
5. Manages Chronic Pain
Can reduce pain intensity, stress about pain, and the brain's sensitivity to discomfort.
6. Addresses Trauma-Related Symptoms
May ease intrusive thoughts and emotional reactions while rebuilding a sense of safety, often alongside other therapy as appropriate.
7. Reduces Compulsive Patterns
Helpful when behaviors feel automatic or hard to interrupt, aiming to weaken those loops.
8. Supports Confidence & Self-Esteem
Helps change negative self-talk, improve motivation, and strengthen a sense of personal agency.
9. Helps With Performance Issues
Used for stage fright, public speaking anxiety, or competitive athletes' performance "blocks."
10. Improves Relationships
Releases unhelpful patterns and replaces them with healthier ways of being with yourself and in friendships, partnerships, and romantic relationships — while building resilience, emotional regulation, and healthier responses to triggers.
In short: people turn to hypnotherapy when they want relief from stress, anxiety, sleep problems, or persistent habit loops, when conventional approaches haven't fully worked, or when they simply feel "stuck."
Why Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy?
A Deeper Healing Approach
Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy approaches therapy from a deeply caring and healing perspective. Dr. Bloom will guide you in a gentle way to help you release what may be holding you back from happiness. Did you know you have within your own subconscious mind, the key to your own individual health and healing? Learn to quiet the chaos!
Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy is a form of deep relaxation that teaches you to speak the language of your subconscious mind. I follow your lead and go at your pace so you can feel better and more at ease.
Receive some new resources to get unstuck from old patterns and feelings of unworthiness! Dr. Bloom can help you to be a victor instead of a victim, and to change unwanted behaviors such as overeating, smoking, overspending, or unhealthy relationships.
Over 40 Years of Healing
This method has been used for over 40 years. People love it and are seeking it because of the breakthrough experiences of relief and release that no talk therapy approach could seem to touch.
Here is more info from the founders:
According to the Wellness Institute
Founded by Diane Zimberoff and David Hartman
How Does Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy differ from other hypnotherapy methods?
Heart-Centered-Hypnotherapy approaches therapy from a deeply caring and dynamically healing perspective. Our highly trained therapists and practitioners embrace the concepts of self-determination and the belief that every client contains, deeply within their own subconscious mind, the key to their own individual health and healing.
Our first task as a Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy clinician is learning how to speak the language of the subconscious mind. In talk therapy or counseling sessions we have spent years communicating with the conscious mind of our abused, addicted, depressed and anxious clients. In speaking with the conscious mind of our clients, we can offer them behavioral solutions, insight, empathy and positive affirmations. We can try to help them understand their difficulties, but this method contains limitations and often does not produce long lasting changes in their emotions or behavior. It does not relieve their anxiety or depression and talking certainly is extremely limited in treating and eliminating addictive behavior.
It is mainly through learning how to access this deeply personal guidance held within each human being that Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy excels. The subconscious mind contains 90 percent of the mind and within that 90 percent is the deeply held key that unlocks the client's individual inner guidance.
What Issues Is Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy Specified For?
Heart-Centered-Hypnotherapy has documented and successfully treated a wide variety of presenting problems. In fact, the list of what can be treated with HCH is exhaustive.
The most common presenting problems for therapists, mental health and marriage counselors, psychologists, school counselors and marriage and family therapists are anxiety and depression.
The next extensive category consists of both substance and behavioral addictions.
The third highest category of people searching for therapy are those people seeking help with marriage, family and relationship dysfunction. Interestingly enough, most of these problems actually stem from some form of addiction, the previous category.
Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy has been extensively and successfully used to treat any and all of these issues for the past thirty-five years by therapists all over the country and in many other countries including South Africa, Taiwan, Kuwait, Turkey, Denmark, Canada, Mexico, and more.
We have found that HCH is extremely universal and the healing is just as profound in many other languages and cultures as it is English.
The reason that this method has become so universal is that all Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy sessions begin with unconditional love within the heart-center of the administering therapist and then it reaches into the heart, mind and soul of the suffering or addicted client.
Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy, through the professional who implements it, touches the deepest humanity, the heart and soul of each client to bring profound healing in each and every session. Thus, the overall length of treatment is shortened and the healing is profound and noticeable.