In an ideal world, professional hypnotists would not exist. Nor would lawyers, psychotherapists, police officers and other people who correct the mistakes or bad behaviours of others. Unfortunately, this is not the world we live in. As part of our “15 Years at 15 Elm Street” celebration, Luke Chao will be livestreaming a talk titled…
Our first livestream series for smoking cessation was a success, and both of the sessions in this series can now be viewed on our YouTube channel. These are unedited, unrehearsed hypnosis sessions that faithfully represent our style of practice in 2021. For our second series starting on Wednesday August 18, we will be hypnotizing a…
To celebrate our “15 Years at 15 Elm Street” event on September 1, our founder Luke Chao will be livestreaming a series of full-length hypnosis sessions with willing volunteers. This will be a behind-the-scenes look at what unscripted, unrehearsed and unedited hypnosis sessions (like the kind that our clients pay for) look like. Watching him…
Just like most Torontonians, we’ve been doing our civic duty and working from home during the lockdown. Although Ontario’s stay-at-home order makes an exception for “mental health support services,” most of our clients are using our private video-calling service, which we’ve set up for better audio quality, reliability and security. But while online sessions seems to satisfy most of…
This year-end episode allows you to hear about the goings-on inside The Morpheus Clinic for Hypnosis during this highly unusual year. We’ve had to make a number of adaptations to serve our clients during a global pandemic, and not all of the changes are temporary or detrimental. Hear how we’re using technology to deliver high-quality…
In this episode, we introduce Nicole Druken as the new co-host of The Hypnosis Nerd, and we have a conversation about how meditation relates to and differs from hypnosis.
Although the word “hypnosis” was only coined in the 1800s, the use of verbal and non-verbal suggestion dates back much further than that. Many hypnotists claim that Egyptian sleep temples, for example, were early examples of hypnosis. In this episode, Luke is joined by Daniel, a moderator on the /r/hypnosis community on Reddit, who has…
In this candid (but tasteful) conversation about erotic hypnosis, Luke Chao interviews Bruce Anderson about his personal and professional experiences using hypnosis to elicit erotic pleasure, especially with female subjects. We discuss erotic hypnosis as a little-recognized “third genre” of hypnosis, consensual power exchange, better orgasms, healthy (as opposed to toxic) masculinity, benefits and methods…
In this episode, Luke Chao interviews Ed Fernandez, a stage hypnotist and certified consulting hypnotist, about his long and storied career. A mainstay of the Canadian hypnosis scene, Fernandez has been performing shows around the world for decades, often with well-known names in entertainment. In this hour-long episode, we discuss the differences between stage hypnosis…
While the world’s quarantined during the pandemic, we’re filming The Hypnosis Nerd episodes through online videoconferencing, featuring dialogues between Luke and a selection of outside guests. The first of these guests is Charlotte Brammer, a registered psychotherapist and certified hypnotherapist based in Toronto. She specializes in trauma and anxiety disorders, using modalities such as hypnotherapy,…