Read what Mental Health Professionals Have to Say about Dynamic Hypnotherapy with Rapid Trauma Resolution

Kerri Saunders, L.C.S.W (Click to view film)

There is an ineffable spirituality to Dr. Connelly's life-changing work with clients. The mind and the world are immeasurably changed for the better."

The Reverend Dr. Larry B. Lake, Ph.D., DMin, LMHC

"Dr. Connelly's treatment approach goes beyond theory, beyond technique to the essence of healing itself. He has developed a powerful method of rapidly reducing pain and improving physical and emotional health. My patients have been delighted with the results."

Stuart Sinoff M.D., Neuro-Ophthalmologist

"Dr. Connelly offers an intelligent method that can quickly eliminate compulsive behavior and emotional problems. He is a brilliant and sensitive practitioner."

Joel Levien, M.D., Internal Medicine & Gastroenterology

"Dr. Connelly is a wonderfully skilled and innovative practitioner. He has developed a very effective method of quickly resolving the negative influence from traumatic past events. His work has also proven extremely effective in enabling couples to resolve sexual and relationship problems."

Robert Schenck, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist

"Dr. Connelly demonstrates a method of psychotherapy that is amazing, precise, and effective. It is like brain surgery without the blood."

Mabel M. Rodrieguez, LCSW

"Dr. Connelly provides the most respectful, efficient and powerful approach to change I have encountered in my thirty years of work in psychotherapy."

Paul Martin, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist

"Dr. Connelly is an expert at eliminating the negative effect that past events can have on physical and emotional health. By quickly getting to the core of psychological problems and bringing resolution, he facilitates dramatic, positive and lasting change."

Shawn Gersman, M.D., Psychiatrist

"Dr. Connelly provided me with the fastest, most powerful clinical skills I've ever learned. It revolutionizes the practice of psychotherapy."

Lisa More, LMHC Licensed Mental Health Counselor

"Dr. Connelly not only changed my approach to doing psychotherapy, he changed my approach to life. Training with him was the best gift I ever gave myself."

Carol A. Knight, LMHC, Licensed Mental Health Counselor

"My clients and I continue to be startled by the quick results of the interventions utilizing breakthrough technologies taught to me by Dr. Connelly."

Jerry M. Thompson, LMHC

"The impact on health care is tremendous. This unique, educational and healing training has changed my view of psychotherapy."

Homero A. Sanchez, M.D., Psychiatrist

"I have used what I learned from Dr. Connelly for over a year and have seen my clients make seemingly impossible changes quite effortlessly and naturally. I will never do therapy in my old way again."

Ron Deage, LPC, LCDC, LMFT

"Radically relevant. Amazing. Dr. Connelly provided me with the most consistently, thoroughly effective therapeutic tools and concepts I have encountered."

Annette McMurrey, LPC

"Dr. Connelly's training is powerful and revolutionary. I learned more about how to than in any course I have ever taken. The orientation is on effecting immediate change. You can't argue with the results."

June D. McGee Ph.D., Licensed Professional Counselor

"Dr. Connelly provided me with the most thorough, compassionate, affirming and effective system of treatment I have encountered in my 20 years in the field of mental health."

Worley Fain, Ed.D., Psychologist

"Probably the most powerful and moving experience of my life. It opened up every part of my existence and made me at peace with myself."

Valerie Coope, RN

"Here is a follow up report on the patient of mine with dizziness and dysequilibrium. He and his daughter came for a return visit yesterday and they reported that his symptoms are nearly completely resolved. He attributes much of his current level of comfort to his single meeting with you. I agree. He has had only two very brief periods in which symptoms started to come on, but they resolved, not building to the type of climax that had characterized previous spells. If you recall, he had several recent visits to Emergency Rooms, lengthy, costly, and invasive cardiologic workups on more than one occasion, and had seen many different specialists, all to no avail."

Stuart E. Sinoff, M.D., Board Certified Neuro-Opthalmologist

"Your training is awesome, incredible, entertaining, funny, and unexpected. Every single second of the day contributed to the final outcome. It has been a privilege to spend this week in this amazing experience. Thank you for shining your wisdom."

Claudia Rojas, DMD, MHC Dentist and mental health counselor

"This training exceeded all of my expectations and will forever change my life. Not only will these changes affect my professional life but my personal life as well. I can truly say I will never view myself or the world in the same way again."

Melissa Smith, LMHC

"Phenomenal - excellent - innovative - ground breaking To experience a true master a work is incredible and to learn from him is incomparable."

Bobbe Veech LMHC

"This training has profoundly changed my past perceptions of trauma resolution toward a more efficient, positive and client empowered approach. The skills are invaluable in the treatment of a variety of problems related to anxiety, depression and complicated bereavement. I recommend this training with enthusiasm to any licensed professional."

Mary Murey Psy.D.

"Excellent. The most advanced, comprehensive, intensive hands on training I have ever experienced or heard of! Dr. Jon can change peoples lives in a positively dramatic healthful way in just a few minutes with just a few words. I am forever changed in positive healthy ways as a result of this experience."

Ryan Moore, Ph.D., Mental health counselor

"This training was renewing and transformative. I am excited about working with clients again and dazzling them with their own rapid life changes."

Mark Highsmith Ph.D., Psychologist

"I never before believed that major life traumas could be dealt with or resolved in such little time."

C Krinski, Psy.D. LMHC/CAP

"Training with Dr. Connelly has been a life changing experience for me. I have received so much more than I ever thought possible, both personally and professionally. Jon's techniques and underlying beliefs produce a type of therapy that is both compassionate, humane and powerful. I am profoundly grateful for the effect this has had on me and my deepened sense and ability to effect those I work with. "

Beth Krempleaski, LMHC

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"Being violently raped in my own home and left with my face so battered that I could not recognize myself in the mirror was a horribly traumatic experience that I thought I could never clear from my mind. For seven years after this event I experienced insomnia, terrible nightmares, panic attacks, and terrible feelings of shame.
After only three visits with Dr. Connelly I was freed from the ongoing negative effects from this experience. It has been almost a year since he worked with me and I continue to be able to sleep through the whole night without nightmares or sleeping pills and this is something I never thought would be possible. I no longer wake up in a cold sweat with feelings of terror. I used to be filled with fear just looking at my bed and wondering what kind of night I was going to have. Now I look at my bed as a place of comfort.
I am absolutely clear through every part of my mind that what happened is finished, over and done. I can even talk about it without feeling any negative emotional response. There are not enough words in the English language to thank Dr. Connelly for helping me through this."

"Dr. Connelly told me he could help rid me of all my ghosts from past events. I was skeptical, but my journey since has been incredible. I find myself taking risks and experiencing an openness that has created wonderful new adventures for me. I feel excited for the first time in many years and feel so much gratitude that I was led to him. The skepticism is now gone and I truly believe in this incredibly enlightening process."

"For many years I had been struggling with chronic migraine headaches. I tried multiple medications and prevention diets. Perhaps because I myself am a health professional I was reluctant to consider other then traditional medical treatment. I simply did not believe anything else would work.
I do not understand how or why Dr. Connelly's process works, but I know that it does. I have been free of headaches and pain relievers."

"Dr. Connelly's method is by far the most complete in its ability to facilitate and resolve trauma. It has enabled me to reach the final plateau of my healing process. I so much want to thank him for the gift he has shared with me. Dr. Connelly has assisted me in creating a most longed for reunion with a very dear and long-lost loved one - Me!

I am enjoying a kind of knowingness that my past is most definitely over and truly look forward to a joy filled future. I feel great peace within myself and I am able to move ahead each day in the direction of my dreams. I am experiencing a confidence I've only dreamed of having before meeting Dr. Connelly. What is most amazing is that so much of what I've wanted to create for myself, such as a better work situation, etc. is manifesting now as if by magic. I'm really thrilled and oh so grateful."

"I am writing you to thank you for the therapy work you did with me three years ago concerning my relationship with my father. Though he has been dead for six years, and I am nearly fifty years old myself, I have been plagued all my life with anxiety and anger because of my father's mistreatment of me in childhood and his emotional inaccessibility to me throughout life. For years, I have had temper problems and anxiety problems including panic attacks, and depression. In a single session, you relieved the tremendous burden of my father's negative influence on my life. Finally, I am free of the resentment I felt toward him. I have a sense of peacefulness and energy that I hadn't had for twenty years. I can't thank you enough. You've given me something of limitless value that I thought I could never have."

"As you know, for five years I have struggled with severe pain due to fibromyalgia. It was difficult to get out of bed and walk across a room in the morning. My physical activities became extremely limited. The future looked bleak and I was depressed and frustrated. This tainted all aspects of my life. Two weeks ago I found myself running down the beach. It was an astonishing experience and one that I now take great joy in repeating. This break-through was due entirely to the work you did with me. I know that miracle is a strong word, but it certainly feels like one to me. You have my deepest gratitude."

"As you know, I presented myself with a myriad of issues, including an eating disorder, severe depression, and unusual physical symptoms characteristic of a weakened immune system. My outlook was bleak. I was weak, vulnerable, insecure, and afraid. My helplessness overshadowed any sense of hope within me. I was thoroughly convinced that I was beyond help and would continue to live in physical and mental pain.
My work with you proved me wrong. With your tools and insights for simultaneously achieving mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health, I've transformed. I've stopped "binge" eating for emotional comfort and satisfaction; the desire no longer exists. I now eat sensibly and healthily and will continue to do so.
The physical, mental, and emotional strength that I've gained through working with you has brought tremendous stability to myself and my life. I can now enjoy the time I spend alone without feeling depressed or afraid. I can now actually focus on things without negative or self-destructive thoughts racing through my mind. I'm no longer caught up in my circle of problems because I finally see a way out. My strength has also manifested itself in my relationships with others. I am able to stand up for my beliefs and to approach conflict without harboring anger or resentment. I can feel things in the moment and then let go so that I am no longer affected by them.
I would not have been able to do it without your help

I am writing to let you know how much I appreciate what our one meeting has done for me. As you know, I had been on a strict once a week schedule of meetings with my previous therapist and once a month visits with the psychiatrist who had prescribed the anti-psychotic and antidepressant medication. I am now off of these medications and no longer see either the psychotherapist or the psychiatrist. I feel confident that I made the right decision.
I am amazed at the precision with you were able to get to the heart of my emotional upset. I felt as if I was inconsolable. The other amazing thing was that the issue that was upsetting me was more than nine years old and a very private and painful one for me.
Nothing prepared me for the resulting calmness, peace and confidence that I experienced after working with you. I appreciate your ability to deal with such an emotionally charged and difficult issue with humor, compassion and gentleness.
My home has started to look more organized. I am dealing with a difficult person at work with ease. My husband and I are talking about issues that are essential to our marriage but were too uncomfortable to discuss previously. You also enabled me to take a new look at my religion and appreciate the teachings and beliefs and free my mind from the negative and unpleasant interpretations that I had formed.
Thank you so much for your skill, your compassion and for being the light for me and for others when we were unable to be aware of ourselves as the light that we are. Most of all thank you for reminding me of who I am."

A Lost Girl in a Lost World

I was adopted at 3 weeks old by a mentally ill alcoholic woman. Years of physical and psychological abuse followed. Sometimes her sister would come to visit us. Her sister was a Catholic nun. Once, as a young girl I woke up feeling a cold, sharp feeling against my chest just below my throat. Then the cold was gone and I could see it. The biggest butcher knife we had in our kitchen, and my adopted mother had it in her hand, twisting and turning it over my head. I was crying and calling for help while she repeated nonsensical psychotic jabber holding the knife to my throat then sliding it over my body. My aunt never came. I didn't understand why she would let me endure years of horror from my adoptive mother’s maltreatment without ever helping me. After all, she was a nun! My adoptive mother had a vicious grip and glaring eyes. She would often scream that I was a worthless disgrace and embarrassment and that was why my real parents didn't want me. Verbal and physical abuse continued throughout my childhood. When I tried to run away I was labeled a juvenile delinquent and the police returned me home for more of the same. Occasionally, our family priest took me to the rectory summer cottage on Cape Cod. One afternoon I was taking a nap on the couch. He sat down beside me and put his hand on my breast over my shirt. I didn't know what to do so I just pretended to be sleeping. He unbuttoned my shirt and reached inside to fondle my breasts. Finally, he left. Later, after conducting Saturday evening mass we ate dinner together and then I went to bed. He came into my room and began touching me again but this time it didn't stop. I cried quietly as he raped me. I thought the pain would never stop. I didn't understand. I was ten years old. When he left I curled up in the fetal position and stayed that way all night. I never slept. When the light of dawn came through the window I saw so much blood all over the sheets. I had no one to tell. During my teen and early adult years I tried to escape from my feelings with alcohol and drugs. I developed an eating disorder and I became involved in abusive relationships. I was lost, isolated, hopeless, depressed, angry, self-destructive and desperate. Suicide attempts, unplanned pregnancy, abortion, and then an even deeper and more devastating depression that continued for about ten years. I sought out therapy where I was told I had to feel worse before I got better. I was told I would have to relive the painful issues of the past if I wanted to get well. I recall my unending crying and deep sobbing every Wednesday afternoon in weekly therapy. Things did get worse but they did not get better. After 6 months of therapy I was suicidal once again and went into a psychiatric hospital. There were endless probing questions from the staff. A psychotic man stalked me insisting I was his dead wife that he had raped and murdered. I was in so much pain. I wanted to get better. I went into many types of therapy over the next ten years including individual, group, inpatient, outpatient, insight oriented, process oriented, task oriented, client centered, gestalt, and many others. One therapist had me wear a thick rubber band on my wrist and snap myself painfully whenever I had unhappy feelings. Another had me drinking from a baby bottle to nurture my inner child. The first really hurt and the next was just plain weird but neither brought relief from my pain. Through art therapy, I began studying to be a mental health counselor both to find my own answers and to help others. I continued my own therapy at the same time. Cognitive therapists encouraged me to analyze the logic of my thoughts but this didn't help me. Others encouraged positive affirmations such as repeating the words “I am happy” but this felt untrue and disingenuous and caused my mind to flood still more with negative thoughts. I was given all types of homework assignments and tasks to complete. I received a myriad of diagnoses, although that never resulted in any increased efficiency in finding relief. I tried to help myself with a book called the Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis. It encouraged me to turn anger into action and plan a confrontation but I believe people who commit these acts generally do not have a sense of remorse or regret and besides, God handles judgment, not me. At age 38 I ended therapy. I was just honestly worn out from it all. In the fall of 2004 I attended a clinical training in Rapid Trauma Resolution sponsored by the Institute for Survivors of Sexual violence. This was completely unlike any therapeutic approach I had heard of or experienced. Dr. Connelly showed us that therapy did not have to be painful or take a long time. I was amazed to watch his patients laughing while clearing away the ghosts from their past. His compassion and humor actually made the process of resolving trauma fun. After all of my experiences in learning about various therapeutic approaches I was delighted to find a process that was fast, powerful, gentle and effective and I wanted to benefit from it personally. I traveled to meet with Jon on two occasions and that was all it took to have an overwhelming feeling of freedom and relief. I now have much more energy and enjoy day-to-day life much more than I ever have. I’ve lost weight and started running again after 20 years and completed several road races. I have more love to share in my marriage. The rape, abuse, and terror I lived through are now merely experiences I went through, nothing more, and nothing less. I can think about them or describe them without any negative feelings and this is something I would have never believed possible. My interest in my career has been renewed because I finally have therapeutic tools that free people from the negative effect of past events and change their lives. I can now fully live, be transparent, share my story, work with others, transform their lives and share in their triumphs! I am blessed and thank the Lord every day for leading me to this healing and truly transformational process. I am grateful much beyond words. All the past events have served a purpose; the evils have been turned to good.