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 Jean Fain LICSW

"YOU ARE GETTING SLEEPY AND SLIMMER"

Lose Weight and Keep It off with Concord Hypnosis Group         

          Concord psychotherapist Jean Fain is offering a six-week hypnosis group to promote long-term weight loss. 

          The group will offer members techniques from hypnotherapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy, the two psychotherapies with any track record for losing weight and keeping it off.  

If you watched the news show "Dateline”, you're probably aware of the fact that hypnosis is one the best methods for long-term weight loss. Research has shown that, when hypnosis is combined with cognitive-behavioral therapy (Dr. Phil's school of therapy), dieters not only lose weight during the treatment program, but they continue to lose weight up to two years afterward.  

After an initial 50-minute individual interview and introduction to hypnosis, group members will meet weekly. Each group will begin with a brief check-in and optional weigh-in, followed by  group hypnosis and cognitive-behavioral therapy exercises. There'll be homework assignments, including self-hypnosis, that reinforce each week's lessons. Group members will be encouraged to choose a diet strategy,  whether formal (i.e., Weight Watchers', Atkins…) or informal, (healthy, low-fat foods vs. high-calorie, high-fat junk foods). No matter what the weight-loss plan, hypnosis and cognitive behavioral therapy can only enhance a dieter's results.  

Jean Fain, a Harvard Medical School Teaching Associate in Psychiatry, teaches the hypnosis seminar at Cambridge Hospital.  For more information, contact Jean Fain, Damonmill Square #2H-2 North, Concord, MA 01742. Tel., 978-505-7333. Email:   jfain@hms.harvard.edu. 2H-2 North Damonmill Square, Concord, MA  01742  Phone: 978-505-7333

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