Welcome to my website, for prospective clients, hypnosis students, and colleagues

Welcome to the psychotherapy and hypnotherapy practice of James M. Hislop, LCSW-R, located at 939 Route 146, Building 200 in Clifton Park, NY.
I provide individual psychotherapy for adults age 18 and older, integrating evidence-based treatment with advanced clinical hypnotherapy to support emotional healing, personal growth, and mind-body wellness.

My areas of interest and specialization include:
• Psychotherapy enhanced by the study and practice of hypnosis
• The therapeutic use of film to illuminate life themes and promote healing
• Grief, loss, and the process of emotional acceptance
• Aging with resilience, meaning, and grace
• Understanding how modern culture impacts relationships and emotional well-being

I also offer a comprehensive 100-Hour Hypnotist Certification Training Program for clinicians and wellness practitioners seeking advanced skills in hypnosis.

In March 2025, three new Certified Consulting Hypnotists graduated from our program.
The class schedule for the 2026 training program is listed below.

2026 CLASS SCHEDULE
8:00am – 6:00pm

Saturday & Sunday:
January 10–11
January 24–25
February 7–8
February 21–22
March 7–8

Make-Up Date:
Saturday, March 28

If you are seeking psychotherapy, hypnosis, or professional training, you will find a warm, confidential, and supportive environment here.

James M. Hislop, LCSW, BCH, CI

  • NYS Licensed Clinical Social Worker

  • Board Certified Hypnotherapist and Hypnotherapy Instructor through the National Guild of Hypnotists

Now available for telephone and audio-visual consultations and in-person psychotherapy consultations. Have your session from where you are most convenient and safe. Call my private cell phone, 518-577-8367, and leave a message with your preferred availability. Leave your phone number, and I will do my best to return your call by the next business day. For emergencies, go to your appropriate hospital emergency room.

       

Psychotherapy • Hypnotherapy • Stress Management

I help adults reduce anxiety, ease emotional overwhelm, and build a calmer, more confident way of living. Through a blend of psychotherapy and clinical hypnotherapy, I offer a warm, supportive, and respectful space where you can heal, gain clarity, and move forward with strength.

For more than twenty-five years, I’ve worked with individuals facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, relationship challenges, and long-standing emotional patterns. My approach is compassionate, collaborative, and paced gently according to your needs.

Psychotherapy for Adults

I provide individual psychotherapy for clients age 18 and older. Together we work to reduce anxiety, navigate life transitions, strengthen emotional resilience, and understand recurring patterns.

Hypnotherapy & Mind–Body Wellness

Clinical hypnosis can support:

  • Stress reduction

  • Anxiety relief

  • Weight and body-image concerns

  • Motivation and focus

  • Improved sleep

  • Emotional balance

  • Releasing unhelpful habits

Many clients describe feeling calmer, clearer, and more grounded after each session.

Stress Management & Deep Relaxation

Using hypnosis, guided imagery, breathwork, and mind–body techniques, I help clients develop healthier responses to stress and restore emotional steadiness.

Hypnotist Certification Training (100 Hours)

I also teach a 100-hour Hypnotist Certification Training Program for clinicians and wellness professionals. Workshops, group meetings, and ongoing mentorship are offered throughout the year.

Ready to Begin?

If you’re seeking emotional clarity, stress relief, or a new approach to personal change, I’m here to help.

Call or text:

518-577-8367
Or reach out through the Contact page.

“It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames. We all do things, both awake and asleep, which surprise us. Perhaps we have co-tenants in this house we live in…”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, quoted in The Myth of Sanity, by Martha Stout, PhD

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“We humans are anatomically and behaviorally two different people, in constant conflict...”

— Stephen Wolinsky, PhD., Trances People Live

 

Hypnosis is an especially effective influence technology that is at the heart of advertising, religion, politics, courtship, and psychotherapy.

Consulting hypnotists are non-licensed professionals who offer important client services, including smoking cessation, weight management, and stress reduction to individuals, groups and corporations. Other services include attention training, self-hypnosis, theatre techniques, confidence building, public speaking, spirituality, and many others.

Hypnotherapists, [MSW, PhD, RN, LMHC, MD], as licensed therapists, may use the same hypnosis theory and techniques for diagnostically appropriate mental health services including age-regression, parts therapy, Gestalt therapy, and other techniques.

“The job of the hypnotist was no longer to induce a trance, but rather to dehypnotize the individual out of the trance he/she was already experiencing...”

— Stephen Wolinsky, PhD., Trances People Live