New to Hypnosis

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Permalink Reply by Richard Nongard - NLPBoard.com on December 28, 2009 at 7:39am

Go on craigslist.com and look to share office space with a massage therapist, chiropractor, other hypnotist or even someone in an unrelated field. You are wise to not try to proctice out of your home. Althoguh It may be scarey to look at commiting to 100-200 a month (usually what a sharing arrangement will cost - depending on the city) the reality is only ONE client a month paying your for smoking cessation once should pay for your office rent ech month. (I charge $229 for 3 smoking cessation sessions, I am in Oklahoma and on the low end- in NYC $400 is closer to the average).
If you cant find anything in craigslist, go rent a small one room office, In tulsa you could find this for $350-400 a month in a decent building. Again, seems like a lot each month, but two clients would pay for this. And just by having your own office you establish a level of credibility and professionalism that will bring you addditional clients.
Welcome to the world of hypnosis, hope this helped.

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Permalink Reply by James Hazlerig - HypnosisAustin on December 28, 2009 at 7:54am

Hey, Michael,

Welcome to the profession.

Richard has given you some great pointers. One other option is to rent on an as-needed basis from a company like Regus. www.regus.com

While my main office is in Bastrop, when I go into Austin, I use a Regus office. It's always clean and very professional looking. I use it on an as-needed basis, but they also offer plans, where you can use an office a certain number of hours per month plus have an answering service for your business phone, a business mailing address, and so on. It's like having your own receptionist--they even answer the phone with your business name. If you live near a Regus facility, it's not a bad way to handle a part-time hypnosis business.

Best of luck,

James

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Permalink Reply by Scott Sandland on December 28, 2009 at 8:59am

The advice you've already received is great, so I'm going to go with a different area that you may want to consider as you start out in hypnosis. Here are a list of questions to consider. Think of it as mapping the route before you leave the house. You don't have to have all of these answered, just some food for thought:

What kind of practice do you want to have? Are you looking to get people off the street, do you plan on on advertising, are you interested in medical referrals, etc?

What kind of people are in the area where you want to practice? What will their needs be? Do you want to find a niche or are you more interested in working with anyone who comes in for anything?

Start thinking about what your vision for your practice is. Start thinking about what kinds of clients you want to be seeing and what it takes to get in front of them.

The last piece of advice I have is this: never stop learning. I don't care how good your instructors were, there is a lot more out there that can help you help people. I've been doing this eleven years and I'm still learning. Keep an open mind to new ideas and your skills will grow exponentially.

Good luck, and let us know how it goes,
Scott

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