Medical Hypnosis

Fertility, Pregnancy, Birth and Postpartum

Medical Hypnotherapy with Luree Nicholson

Luree Nicholson, M.Ht., C.C.Ht., specializes in medical and childbirth hypnosis, bringing over 1000 hours of training and more than 20 years of professional teaching working with The Birth Hypnosis Method.

As a specialist in Healing Birth Trauma, Luree primarily works with first-time parents, parents experiencing perinatal mood & anxiety disorders (PMADs) e.g. postpartum depression, and postpartum parents who recently had a traumatic birth.

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Luree used hypnosis to birth all five of her children, all born in a hospital, naturally and without drugs. One was breech, one posterior, and two were premature. Enduring her own birth challenges motivated Luree to learn and promote methods that could help other women/birthing people to experience pregnancy and birth as empowering life events.

While there can be unavoidable complications in pregnancy, labor, birth, and postpartum; hypnosis is a proven method that can provide meaningful assistance and relief.

Benefits during Pregnancy

  • Restore your physical energy and emotional equilibrium

  • Reduce or resolve stress, fear, and anxiety

  • Reduce or eliminate morning sickness, migraines, and other common pregnancy discomforts

  • Reduce symptoms that worsen placenta previa and preeclampsia

  • Enhance your connection to your baby

  • Turn breech babies

  • Stop early labor

Benefits during Labor and Birth

  • Overcome fear of the unknown

  • Overwrite deep-seated, subconscious narratives around labor and birth

  • Deepen confidence and trust in your body’s natural ability to birth

  • Deepen your ability to relax

  • Easier, more stable progression of labor

  • Access your body’s natural endorphins

  • Create your own natural anesthesia, reducing the perception of pain

  • Conserve energy

  • Enhanced birth satisfaction

Benefits during Postpartum

  • Promote postpartum recovery and wellbeing

  • Deepen your ability to relax and rest

  • Create your own natural anesthesia, reducing the perception of pain

  • Ease Perinatal Mood & Anxiety Disorders

  • Reduce or resolve stress, fear, and anxiety

  • Process a change in birth plan

  • Process birth trauma

  • Process a challenging pregnancy or birth

  • Promote lactation

  • “In our practice we’ve came to think of Luree as some kind of miracle-worker. Using hypnosis, we have seen Luree stop and reduce extreme morning sickness, stall premature labor, turn breech babies, start stalled labor, and help mothers to produce more milk! She has also helped new mothers/birthers overcome post partum depression without medication. In the case of unavoidable cesareans, Luree has helped mothers to use less medication and heal faster with hypnosis.”

    The Sanctuary Birth and Family Wellness Center

  • “I have you to thank for my ability to relax through the contractions! It was almost as if I was sleeping, and I had over an hour of straight contractions without ANY break, but still was able to stay relaxed and calm. The nurses thought I was crazy.”

    Chrystal, Austin TX

  • “Luree made all the difference in the world in my ability to have as peaceful a labor as possible. The hypnosis sessions had planted seeds in my mind that grew into powerful mental tools I was able to use to calm myself, and find a measure of control I didn't think possible. She is so committed to helping people, that she worked with us to find a cost we were able to pay in order to benefit from her services. I am deeply grateful, as her gifts truly made a difference in our birth experience.”

    Lindsey, David, & Amelie

  • "I have seen a marked difference in the births whose families Luree has worked with. The births are serene and magical and the women look as though they are breathing their babies out. Each of the mothers labored with a powerful, yet calm, confidence. These were the most beautiful births I have ever seen. You've so profoundly influenced my thinking about relaxation and birth. I truly believe everyone could benefit from your presence and expertise."

    Jacqueline, Midwife

  • “Thank You Thank You. You’re a Miracle worker. I feel better and better with every meal I eat. I breath and I am miraculously healed. I can’t thank you enough. I feel like a new person."

    Kat, Nausea, at 10 weeks

  • “We just couldn't have asked for a better birth. It was so amazing. You too. Your spiritual and your emotional support were just extraordinary. We were so glad you were there. It was just an amazing birth WE couldn't have enough positive to say about it and having you there was incredible. So thank you so much Luree.”

    Amber & Billy... Left on Voice Mail

  • “After our session I walked away with a new inner peace. During the toughest part of my labor, I called for my husband to shut off the music and to put Luree back on. I found that in between contractions I was able to find that inner peace that I had felt after my appointment with her. These short moments of peace allowed me to check out and recharge. Not only was I able to access peace during a time when my body was out of "my" control, I now had an overwhelming sense that my experience with sexual abuse as a child had been healed. She suggested to me, in the deepest moments of hypnosis, for my birth to act as a healing for my abuse. Hypnosis is an incredible tool for child birth and life!”

    Lauren

 FAQs

  • Deep profound relaxation... that tiny place just before falling asleep or waking up. You are not asleep. Most people remember everything the first time they are hypnotized because they want to. Depth is dependent on what you are trying to achieve. With birth, I want both your conscious mind and your subconscious mind to hear what I say. For those who go deep and may not remember what I said, I will suggest you listen to your recording sitting up... one time...this gives your conscious mind the information that is already in the subconscious.

  • The first 1.5-2 hours we will talk about anything that may affect the birth. We will gather information and get to know you and your language. The last 30-45 minutes is the hypnosis, which is recorded on your phone, by you. You will listen to the recording at least once in early labor and throughout the remainder of your pregnancy, whenever you wish to experience deep relaxation and confidence. We will also review self-hypnosis.

  • We will talk about concerns & fears about pregnancy, birth, and parenting, including the fear of the unknown for first births. We will discuss negative past experiences, stories, images, (tv etc.) that MAY affect your birth, including, if relevant, witnessing a difficult birth, a previous difficult birth of yours, and miscarriages, abortions, sexual abuse.

    In hypnosis we re-frame past negative experiences, an unplanned c-section, or another person you respect sharing their very negative birth experience. After your hypnosis session it becomes more difficult to access your negative experiences/memories as they move into the background and will be replaced with a more positive experience. And lastly (if you are pregnant) we will create your ideal future birth.

  • Immediately after the hypnosis you will feel calm, relaxed and at peace. This feeling continues through the rest of pregnancy, while giving birth and into the future.

    You will: have let go of your fears or concerns about labor and birth; feel stronger and more confident in your ability to birth your baby; trust your body, your baby and your birth team; and experience a shorter more comfortable labor.

  • You will receive three recordings: hypnosis session just completed, a recording to help you relax during labor (if you are currently pregnant), and a recording to help you heal and sleep after your baby is born (if relevant).