Your First Session 

Your first virtual session is free to see if you can follow instructions and be hypnotized. Additional sessions are $100 per hour.

I should point out that each "in person" session in Los Angeles was $300 per hour because, just like now, it involved a combination of both psychological talks and hypnosis. Not having to leave the comfort of my home has allowed me to reduce my price, but not my technique nor your results.

Virtual hypnosis sessions are conducted once you have headphones or earbuds on (or perhaps you can connect your phone to a Bluetooth speaker that you can place on top of a pillow behind your head), a place to prop up your phone or laptop so that you don't have to hold it, a comfortable chair or sofa to lean back in and a very quiet room with no distractions, children screaming, phones ringing, or a loved one telling you dinner's ready.

If your home is always too noisy, then perhaps you have access to a friend's quiet home, an office or even a library that you can go to in order to find that quiet time. Many larger libraries have booths, like a small office with a closed door, that you can use for free. Don't forget to take your headphones, earbuds or Bluetooth speaker with you.

There's no such thing as a one visit cure-all for smoking, vaping, opiates, or any addiction for that matter. Most people will go back to their addictions if they only go to a hypnotist for one session. I recommend at least 6 sessions, one every other day for two weeks, if you're serious about quitting smoking, drugs or opiates for good. You should never wait too long in between each session.

I would like you to be very wary of commercially advertised therapy groups which claim you only pay let's say $29 out of pocket per session. First, the owners of these companies are not therapists, and therefore are not ethically bound to keep your very personal information from third parties for personal gain.

Second, they charge insurance companies up to $350 per session along with your $29 for a therapy session alone, without using hypnosis. Regardless of where you live, an in person session with a therapist, who does not use hypnosis should never cost more than $100. These commercially advertise therapy groups that charge four times as much as a regular session have the same moral ethics as hospitals that charge you $40 for a box of Kleenex, and are one reason why insurance premiums keep going up.

And third, when searching for a medical hypnotist, it is best to first look under psychologist and then for one who uses hypnosis within one's practice. For serious emotional, mental or physical ailments, never go to a hypnotist with no medical training. It would be like  giving a child a scalpel to operate on you.

I also don't kiss and tell, as the old saying goes. My clients, both individual and corporate, are kept strictly confidential. Not even my closest friends know who my clients are or their issues.

                          Michael Conrad (me)