HypnotherapyMeet your therapist: Diane Ulicsni
Sports PerformanceOptimal sports performance not only takes skill, talent, and personality, it encompasses psychological training too. We use many techniques in private sessions for performance enhancement that allow the release of negative emotions and the recovery process to correct debilitating negative effects. Some of these techniques are Brainspotting (discovered by Dr. David Grand), NLP Neuro Linguistic Psychology, Guided Imagery, Hypnosis, emotional freedom techniques, and bilateral stimulation. Our purpose and passion is to get in front of as many athletes as possible to teach sports performance and to resolve issues that get in the way of excellence. High anxiety, negative thoughts and loss of confidence are often the state-of-mind barriers that impede performance, especially when an injury occurs. We have experience teaching sports performance to several groups of kids referred by sports personalities like Alberto Salazar in 2001, Central Catholic High School, St. Mary’s, Lake Oswego High School, and coach Bob Williams. Many sports psychologists work on the mechanical problems facing athletes, such as stance, swing, and breathing. With our many years of experience, we have determined that there is much more below the surface. Top athletes and other people bring all of their life experiences to the plate. It seems that panic, the yips, and anxieties appear from nowhere. Performance problems of all types arise from negative or traumatic experiences or stressors, such as not being able to "get the ball across the plate." This causes fear or humiliation. Negative experiences can, and do get stuck in the nervous system and, as a result, get re-triggered. Sports or head injuries, especially in childhood and adolescence can cause future performance anxieties and inhibitions, such as yips, breathing problems, and freezing up. Athletes and non-athletes alike can become victim to their emotions and have high levels of sports performance anxieties. This can also play into how an athlete recovering from an injury or surgery can often suffer from fear of re-injury and loss of confidence and is a common complaint. Anxiety Relief Here’s an excerpt on panic disorder from a feature by Carol Sorgen, in WebMD: "Diane Ulicsni knows all too well how terrifying panic attacks can be. For more than 12 years, Ulicsni, director of The Hypnosis Center in Lake Oswego, Ore., suffered from chronic panic attacks that led her on a seemingly endless round of doctor and emergency room visits. Convinced she was having a heart attack, Ulicsni endured the all-too-common symptoms of panic attacks (also known as panic disorder), which include a feeling of intense fear, sense of doom, or feeling of unreality, accompanied by physical symptoms such as a racing or pounding heartbeat; difficulty breathing or a feeling of choking; sweating, shaking, or flushing; chest pains; dizziness, light-headedness, or nausea; fear of losing control; and tingling or numbness in the hands. Ulicsni, who finally found relief from her panic attacks through hypnosis and is now a board certified Hypnosis Specialist, says that hypnosis – which has been recognized by the American Medical Association since 1958 as a form of treatment – is one of several non-drug approaches that can significantly ease, if not cure, panic attacks.”
Diane Ulicsni lives her passion in life by helping others discover their inner strength! She believes that your outside world is the mirror image of your inside world. Diane has spent 20 years helping people learn about their inside world (where your true power lies) .Through powerful techniques, such as Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Guided Imagery, Hypnosis, Brainspotting and HNRI (hemisphere neurological reprocessing and integration) , Diane helps her clients to break through old behaviors and create new, more successful pathways in the brain for ongoing success. |
Diane Ulicsni- KOR NEWS
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- Hanna Williams, a fifth-year LPGA Tour member, reached a milestone for any golfer -- her first professional victory!
Hanna Williams has been working with a trainer, Beaverton-based Donn Dimond of The KOR PT, who has helped her become stronger and more flexible. The work helped her better use the swing she has been building with instructor Gary Gilchrist. Hanna Williams started working with Gilchrist -- who has worked with Michelle Wie, Sean O'Hair and Suzann Pettersen -- in July 2007.
"He was one of the first people to tell me that I need to get stronger to achieve things in my swing and be more flexible," Hanna Williams said. - Hanna Williams, a fifth-year LPGA Tour member, reached a milestone for any golfer -- her first professional victory!
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