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Hypnosis for Insomnia and Sleep Disorders

Because your nights deserve to feel like a place of rest, not a battleground.

 

Sleep isn’t optional. It’s the foundation for mental clarity, emotional balance, physical healing, and day-to-day sanity. And yet, nearly everyone goes through seasons where sleep becomes unpredictable, fragile, or downright impossible. Stress, life changes, medical conditions, trauma, rumination, and “I can’t turn my brain off” nights are incredibly common—but not inevitable.

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As a Certified Specialist in Hypnosis for Insomnia and Sleep Disorders, I work with you to understand what your unique nervous system needs in order to shift from alertness into deep rest.

 

This isn’t about forcing sleep or “trying harder.” It’s about giving the mind and body new pathways into safety, calm, and restoration.

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How Hypnosis Helps

Hypnosis uses guided relaxation, focused attention, and targeted suggestions to help your system move out of fight-or-flight and into the parasympathetic “rest-and-restore” state.

 

Research shows this alone can:

  • Reduce nighttime anxiety

  • Decrease mental chatter

  • Support deeper, more consistent sleep cycles

  • Lower muscle tension

  • Help rewire unhelpful sleep habits

  • Soften fears around bedtime

  • Improve emotional processing, especially with nightmares or disrupted sleep

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Whether your challenge is falling asleep, staying asleep, waking in a panic, experiencing restless body tension, or feeling keyed-up at night, hypnosis can help retrain the patterns beneath the problem.

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It Doesn't Have to Be This Way

Sleep problems aren’t personal failures. You’re not weak, dramatic, or broken. Your system has learned to stay alert—maybe from stress, maybe from past experiences, maybe because your mind does overtime as soon as the lights go out.

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Hypnosis doesn’t “knock you out.” It teaches your body that it can finally stand down. It gently shows your mind: You don’t have to stay on guard tonight. You’re allowed to rest.

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It’s like giving your whole self a permission slip:
“All is well, let’s put the day down now.”

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Most people describe this work as:

  • “The first time my body remembered how to let go.”

  • “I didn’t realize I’d been bracing for years.”

  • “It finally felt safe to sleep.”

 

That’s the real heart of this work:
Safety → Calm → Sleep → Healing.

Is This Right For You?

This approach is a great fit if you:

  • Are tired of white-knuckling bedtime

  • Want a natural, supportive way to improve sleep

  • Prefer a mind-body approach rather than relying solely on medication

  • Experience anxiety around sleep

  • Want help retraining habits and nervous system patterns

  • Are open to learning tools you’ll use long after sessions end

If medical issues are involved (sleep apnea, pain, hormone imbalance), we collaborate alongside your doctors.

 

You Don’t Have to Battle Your Nights Alone

Sleep should feel like coming home to yourself.

 

If your nights have been long, restless, or overwhelming, I’d be honored to support you in creating a gentler, steadier rhythm—one your mind and body can rely on.

Andrew Mersmann, CHt

Change by Doing, LLC

424-254-4199

based in Los Angeles, working remotely to any location

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Please note, all of my services offered, singly or together, are not medical advice and I do not diagnose or treat medical or psychiatric conditions. If you are under the care of a doctor, do not terminate care with them for our work. Mine is meant to be an adjunct or addition to your healthy care plan and the professionals with whom you work.

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