Specialties

Dr. Sera Lavelle, Dr. Noah Kass, Dr. Samantha Gaies, Dr. Sara Glazer, Dr. Rebecca Hoffenberg, and Dr. Kimberly Fishbach are experts in using hypnosis, mindfulness and integrative therapy techniques to help a person move forward. Their specialties focus not only on delving into the past, but also helping our clients to incorporate changes to prevent them from falling back into the same patterns.

Weight Loss, Binge Eating & Bulimia
Dr. Sera Lavelle and Dr. Rebecca Hoffenberg are Clinical Psychologists who specialize in using hypnosis and therapy based on clinical research to help people overcome their battles with food — specializing in weight loss, binge eating and bulimia. Their goal is not just to end the addiction, but to help clients stop viewing food in terms of good and bad in order to break the cycle of overindulgence and self-blame. Our therapists have been featured in Elle Magazine and Allure, and they have helped hundreds of people end their struggle with food. Read more...

Habits & Addictions
Dr. Noah Kass, Dr. Rebecca Hoffenberg, and Dr. Kimberly Fishbach are New York’s experts in using hypnosis and integrative methods to help clients moderate or refrain from unwanted habits and addictions. Dr. Kass and Dr. Hoffenberg specialize in addictions, with Dr. Kass’s background as the Clinical Director at both the Dunes East Hampton and Realization Center Addiction Centers, and Dr. Hoffenberg’s work at her prestigious position at Long Beach Reach, Inc., an OASAS approved facility providing individual therapy for those struggling with chemical dependency and co-occurring mental health difficulties. Dr. Fishbach is the expert in habits, with her extensive education and experience enabling her to successfully eradicate habits such as nail biting, skin picking (dermatillomania) and hair pulling (trichotillomania). Read more...

Sleep & Insomnia
Dr. Samantha Gaies, Dr. Sara Glazer, and Dr. Kimberly Fishbach are Clinical Psychologists who combine hypnosis, mindfulness, interpersonal techniques and CBT to help people suffering from insomnia. Their approach focuses on helping clients understand their relationship with sleep and uses a variety of techniques to alter sleep habits in order to help clients sleep more soundly and for longer periods of time. These approaches offer an understanding about the relationship between sleeplessness and negative emotions, which in turn helps to alleviate feelings of depression, anxiety, and irritability, and greatly enhances day-to-day functioning. Read more...

Confidence & Motivation
Dr. Noah Kass, Dr. Sara Glazer, and Dr. Kimberly Fishbach specialize in using hypnosis to boost self-confidence and motivation. Through the power of positive suggestion, they promote an innate curiosity of the mind to build a stronger sense of self. Dr. Kass, Dr. Glazer, and Dr. Fishbach have extensive experience helping artists, performers, athletes and business executives move past emotional blocks and change their self-image by accessing and amplifying inner strengths that have lain dormant. Read more...

ADHD & Concentration
Dr. Sara Glazer and Dr. Kimberly Fishbach are New York’s experts in using hypnosis for attentional issues such as ADHD and difficulty concentrating. Based on their vast experience in clinical and educational settings, their method helps clients achieve a focused state through hypnosis and also teaches evidence-based clinical tools to navigate difficulties such as impulsivity, distractibility, procrastination and lack of motivation. Read more...

Anxiety, Stress, Fear & Phobia
The therapists at NY Health Hypnosis have developed a specialized method to treat panic attacks, anxiety, stress, obsessive thinking, and phobia. In reaching a relaxed and reflective state, their patients are able to decrease the intensity of their anxious feelings while gaining insight into the root causes of their behavior. By tapping into their inner resources and creative problem-solving skills, patients are able to challenge the irrational beliefs and catastrophic thinking patterns so often associated with anxiety while also using hypnosis to learn how to calm the somatic symptoms associated with anxiety. Read more...

Clinical Depression & Postpartum Depression
Depression is a bidirectional struggle, requiring a bidirectional approach. When people are depressed, they find it difficult to incorporate changes in their lives. Feeling stuck, on the other hand, also perpetuates feelings of hopelessness and depression. The therapists at NY Health Hypnosis & Integrative Therapy have created an approach to treating Clinical Depression and Postpartum Depression that breaks this pattern by focusing on tangible goals through hypnosis, while also working to resolve underlying feelings of depression through integrative therapy. Read more...

Smoking Cessation
Quitting smoking is one of the hardest and most rewarding things you will ever do. Trying to quit and not succeeding makes us feel like a failure, and the fear that we can’t quit is often what holds us back. Instead of using methods that promote fear of the consequences of smoking, Dr. Noah Kass and Dr. Rebecca Hoffenberg use hypnosis to tap into the client’s own desire and motivation to quit while removing any blocks to achieving this goal. Read more...

Infertility, Pregnancy & Parenting
Our therapists use a variety of techniques and expertise to provide an integrative and healing approach to infertility and issues that arise in response to pregnancy and becoming a new parent. Dr. Lavelle and Dr. Glazer are experienced with fertility and the IVF process, using hypnosis for positive visualization, promoting relaxation, and addressing stress and fears, while also incorporating their knowledge of infertility and pregnancy to educate, connect patients to NYC’s top resources and navigate difficult medical decisions. Read more...

Trauma & PTSD
Dr. Samantha Gaies, Dr. Sara Glazer, Dr. Rebecca Hoffenberg, and Dr. Kimberly Fishbach are Clinical Psychologists who use a combination of hypnosis, mindfulness, and exposure therapy techniques to help people who are suffering from psychological trauma caused by an emotionally distressing or life-threatening event. Their practice incorporates techniques that help clients gently confront and work through difficult memories and experiences, while also learning to live more fully in the present moment and to regain control over their lives. Clients learn to understand the relationship between their past trauma and current psychological distress, which ultimately allows them to free themselves from these painful memories and once again feel like the person they were prior to the trauma. Read more...

Grief & Loss
Clinical Psychologist Dr. Sara Glazer is the expert in using hypnosis to help clients address grief and loss so they can move forward in their lives. Her style of therapy blends mindfulness-based approaches, attachment theory, relational psychoanalysis and self psychology, while integrating hypnosis to help clients establish a time and space to rest from grief, allow grief to feel comfortable, connect to positive memories after experiencing loss, and re-engage in life again. Read more...

Chronic Pain
Dr. Kimberly Fishbach integrates hypnosis into her multifaceted treatment approach for treating chronic pain. Based on her years of experience in both hospital and outpatient settings, she understands how conditions such as headaches, back and neck pain, arthritis, neurogenic pain (pain resulting from damage to nerves), and psychogenic pain (pain existing without medical explanation), can be unrelenting and debilitating, robbing people from the lives they once knew. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Chronic Pain (CBT-CP) as a foundation of her treatment, coupled with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), interpersonal therapy, mindfulness techniques, and hypnosis to help people redefine their relationship with pain, increase acceptance, accomplish a deeper state of relaxation, and minimize the severity of their pain symptoms. Read more...

Relationship & Couples Therapy
Relationships and partnerships can bring us joy, allow us to become better versions of ourselves, and help us through difficult times. Many of us, however, have difficulty maintaining relationships due to the fear of rejection or worry about becoming dependent. Dr. Noah Kass, Dr. Samantha Gaies, and Dr. Sara Glazer work with individuals and couples struggling with relationships to help them face their fears and understand the reasons why they push people away or attract the wrong people. Read more...