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Oct 2024
1h 37m

#716 Hypnotherapy - George Kappas LMFT

PAUL GILMARTIN
About this episode

George Kappas is a hypnotherapist and a Director at the Hypnosis Motivation Institute. He unpacks the misconceptions about hypnotherapy, discusses how susceptible we are to language, and shares his experience with physical pain being solved through hypnotherapeutic techniques. 

For more about George and the Hypnosis Motivational Institute

https://hypnosis.edu/

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