About
About PAM
Pam Ray, BSE, CHT
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When I was 3 years old, walking around in plastic high heels, pushing a baby carriage, I knew I wanted to be a mom (and obviously fashion diva). When I was 4 and learning to read from my mother, I knew I wanted to be a teacher. When I was 6 and walked into my first dance studio, I knew I wanted to be a dancer.
I now have a BSE in both Elementary and Special Education and am a proud and happy mom of three sons and two fur babies. I have been a dancer since the age of 6, and have been dance instructor, studio owner, and choreographer, for all of my adult life. Mommyhood, teaching, dancing, children, and choreography, along with sunshine, tropical beaches, music, reading, and laughing are all my favorite things in life.
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Many years ago, I added a new love to my life…hypnotherapy. While working on my Masters in Counseling Psychology, we students were required to take part in our own therapy. It was my great fortune that I began my required personal therapy with a licensed marriage and family therapist who was also a hypnotherapist. In short, I will be forever grateful for the growth, healing, insight, and change that occurred in my life because of hypnotherapy. It is powerful, positive, effective, natural, and life-changing.
During that time, I was also introduced to EFT, Emotional Freedom Technique. To say that it got me through some challenging times in my life is an understatement. I’ve seen the profound effect it has had on others both personally and professionally. It’s simple, easy, fast, and, people, it works!
When I was pregnant with my third son, I found myself feeling increasingly anxious about juggling three little tornadoes of testosterone. In an attempt to lessen my anxiety, I had a personal hypnosis CD made that I listened to every night of my last trimester. In truth, I usually just drifted off to sleep right after the beginning of the CD, so wasn’t even consciously aware of hearing most of it. I am not kidding, you guys! EVERY SINGLE thing I visualized in that CD came true in my labor, delivery, and recovery. If I had been prepared for the power of the personalized hypnosis recording, I would have asked for no pain during labor and delivery!
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During my graduate work in counseling psychology, where my specialization was children and adolescence, I also completed training as a facilitator for ACT Raising Safe Kids Program, a program developed by the American Psychological Association to teach positive parenting skills to parents and caregivers of children birth to age 10.
Fast forward to present day. I have been so blessed and fortunate to have studied at HCH under the direction of Dr. Holly Holmes-Meredith, Doctor of Ministry, MA, MFT, CCHT, and many other experienced, amazing practitioners/instructors, and am now a Certified Hypnotherapist. I’m also certified in Reiki, and have studied Neuro Linguistic Programming, Bilateral Stimulation, past life hypnotherapy, dreamwork, sand tray therapy, and many other modalities that continue to support my clients in their journeys. I gratefully continue to expand my knowledge and further my education at HCH through workshops and continuing education classes in hypnotherapy, energy studies, Reiki, and EFT.
I love that hypnotherapy is empowering, effective, and both pragmatic and free-flowing at the same time. It appeals to both the creative, organic, right brain in that it is creative, ever-evolving, and unique. On the other hand, our organized, systematic left brains can appreciate the efficiency, effectiveness, and focus-driven nature of hypnotherapy.
I am honored and excited to use my knowledge, skills, love for, and belief in hypnotherapy to enhance lives. It is my mission to use my skills to empower and assist you in eliciting the healing powers within you, through the use of hypnotherapy, EFT, personal recordings, and self-hypnosis. It is my goal that everyone leaves our experience together more relaxed, lighter, with a positive take-away, and closer to living an authentic, bright life.
What is Sorcha?
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SORCHA is a Gaelic word meaning “brightness” or “light.”
Pronounced sor-i-kah or sur-i-kah.
It is my belief that there is a bright light inside each of us. It doesn’t matter what we call it – soul, spirit, higher self – it’s there, and it’s the part of us connected to a higher power. We often lose our connection with the light within us, through trauma, during our upbringing, or for any number of reasons. This light is meant to lead us on our path through life, shine the light in the dark, keep us warm, give us life, and is at the center of our very being. It’s who we are.
Through hypnotherapy, we can reawaken, reignite, and reconnect with this loving, healing, internal, bright light, allowing us to live an authentic life filled with purpose, depth, learning, growth, happiness, peace, abundance, and, of course, light.
