Vanessa Herrera: Hypnosis for Court Anxiety and Staying Calm

Hypnosis has an image problem, so Vanessa Herrera starts by pointing out how ordinary it is. Driving on autopilot and arriving somewhere you did not intend to go. Losing yourself in a film you know is fiction. The groggy half hour before you are properly awake. All of it is the same altered state, and so, she argues, is what happens to you under years of sustained stress from an abusive partner. Vanessa Herrera is a hypnotherapist based in Los Angeles who works with clients over video, in Eng...