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Wellness Seminars

Seminars and individual sessions are available to individuals and organizations throughout the Maryland, DC, and Virginia area. We also offer supportive follow-up services to our program.

 

 

Stop Smoking Now!

 

Give yourself and your loved ones a gift by making a resolution to stop smoking. We can help you do it without gaining weight! We offer individual, couple, and group sessions as well as on-site seminars for businesses, private corporations, government agencies and nonprofit organizations.

We have offices in Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia and will travel to provide on-site programs throughout the United States, Asia, Europe, and South America.

Our program covers all aspects of the smoking cessation process with:

• Effective behavioral techniques
• Visualization and relaxation exercises
• Educational information

We are licensed psychologists in private practice for over 30 years, specializing in effective smoking cessation programs. Dr. Patricia Webbink draws upon her expertise in the field to help you break the addiction without persistent cravings. Her professional “Stop Smoking Now” CD provides support through the use of guided imagery, promoting deep relaxation and nurturing you to maintain a healthy, smoke-free lifestyle.

Seminars and individual sessions are available to individuals and organizations throughout the Maryland, DC, and Virginia area. We also offer supportive follow-up services to our program.

 

Lose Weight Now

 

Win your personal weight loss battle, while increasing your energy and living healthier, without deprived!

We offer individual, couple, and group sessions as well as on-site seminars for businesses, private corporations, government agencies and nonprofit organizations.

We have offices in Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia and will travel to provide on-site programs throughout the United States, Asia, Europe, and South America.

This program empowers you to:

• Take control of your appetite
• Lose weight
• Maintain a healthier lifestyle

We are licensed psychologists in private practice for over 30 years, specializing in effective weight loss programs. Our goal is to help people lose weight safely and healthily without feelings of deprivation.

We can help you reach your personal weight-loss goals, while increasing your energy, self-esteem and general well-being. We use a multi-modal approach incorporating behavioral techniques and visualization with an emphasis on overall wellness. We customize each program to meet the special needs of individuals, groups, and corporations, providing a weight loss program that is uniquely suited to you or your group. You can achieve your desired weight naturally without dangerous diets or drugs, “slimming shakes,” weekly meetings, or ongoing expense. We offer scientifically validated behavior modification techniques to assist you in altering habits and routines. “Lose Weight Now,” a CD developed by Dr. Patricia Webbink, provides a nurturing approach, helping you to create and maintain a healthy lifestyle and maintaining your ideal body weight.

Individuals have lost as much as 150 pounds with the help of a single session and regular use of the CD.

Many people struggle to achieve and maintain weight loss. According to the National Institute of Health, over half of American adults are overweight.  As you are probably all too aware, excess weight carries significant health risks and is a leading cause of diabetes, heart disease, and many other medical conditions. Let us assist you in creating the good health you deserve!

Seminars and individual sessions are available to individuals and organizations throughout the Maryland, DC, and Virginia area. We also offer supportive follow-up services to our program.

 

Reduce Stress Now

 

Reduce stress while improving your happiness and overall health. We are licensed psychologists in private practice for over thirty years. Effective stress reduction is central to all our programs through individual, couple, and group sessions as well as on-site seminars for businesses, private corporations, government agencies and nonprofit organizations.

We have offices in Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia and will travel to provide on-site programs throughout the United States, Asia, Europe, and South America.

An overly stressful environment is dangerous to your health. Stress is commonplace throughout one’s day in the workplace, at home, and in-between. Excessive stress and anxiety can lower productivity and job satisfaction. Stress can also be a significant risk factor for medical conditions like heart disease, asthma, and even cancer.

Our seminars and individual sessions teach powerful techniques to help you manage stress, empowering you to use them on a daily basis.

Through the very effective technique of guided visualization, you can achieve states of:

• Deep relaxation
• Heightened awareness
• Organization and Efficiency
• Inner balance

We recognize that each person’s circumstances are different and we tailor our programs to fit the specific needs of our clients. “Relaxation Journey,” one of sixteen professionally developed audiotapes, is available to help you accomplish balance in your life.

“Relaxation Journey,” one of sixteen professionally developed CDs and audiotapes, is available to help you accomplish peacefulness and balance in your life.

Seminars and individual sessions are available to individuals and organizations throughout the Maryland, DC, and Virginia area. We also offer supportive follow-up services to our program.

More Information from Dr. Webbink

Weight loss is a process of self-transformation.

weekend retreat, 3-hour seminars, and individual and group sessions

This unique program provides a new approach to weight loss without deprivation which involves a change in lifestyle and self-image. Professional guidance and support in individual or group sessions and weekend retreat assist the process of creating a healthier way of living and positive ways of looking at oneself. You will learn how to tap your personal power to identify and release mental and emotional block which keep you from caring for your body. You will have the opportunity to develop positive, new feelings and behaviors to create a self-nurturing lifestyle, which includes: good health, a sense of well-being; and to lose weight!

Through a multi-faceted, “whole person” program incorporating centering, behavior modification, information sharing, hypnosis, guided imagery and music, group support, or individual sessions, you will have an opportunity to:

Develop a self-nurturing lifestyle

Reduce the craving to eat

Lose weight!

You Can Quit Smoking!

Through our multi-faceted wellness program, which incorporates behavioral modification, information sharing, group support, and individual consultation, we have helped thousands of people to stop smoking, maintain better health, and work more productively.  

Develop a self-nurturing lifestyle

Reduce the craving to smoke

Stay smoke-free

Proven Effective Methods, Used Around the World

Hypnotherapy is a remarkable therapeutic modality, producing impressive results in hospitals, medical schools, universities and clinics the world over. Clinical Hypnosis has been approved by the American Medical Association since 1958.

Dr. Evelyn Browne, W. I. Director Psychological Services, (former Walter Reed Army Hospital Hypno-therapist) reports:

“Thousands of smokers and overeaters probably own their lives to this revolutionary therapy!”

Our Professional Trainers:

Patricia Webbink, Ph.D., a spiritually-oriented, licensed psychologist, has been active in the New Age community since its inception. Described as a “master therapist” by John Bradshaw, has been in private practice of individual, group, couple psychotherapy and diagnostics with children and adults for over 23 years. Special interests include: addictions, women’s issues, imagery, centering, healing the inner child, stress reduction, and relationships. At the nearby mountain Retreat Center, she conducts monthly psychotherapy retreats with nutritious food, exercise, and a relaxing and nurturing atmosphere. The author of The Power of Eyes (Spring, 1986), Dr. Webbink received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Duke University; she frequently has appeared on radio (including Voice of America in three languages), and TV (including ABC, NBC, and CBS news, and the Oprah Winfrey Show), and has been quoted in the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal, and is listed in the Who’s Who in American Women, Who’s Who in the East, and Who’s Who of American Health Service Providers. In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Webbink is a consultant to government and private agencies and to various area schools.

Peter Wesselton, C.H. has developed a pioneered “Habit Restructuring” for weight loss and smoking cessation for over twenty years. An educator by training, Wesselton has also trained in medical hypnosis through the Albert Einstein School of Medicine, Sheppard-Pratt Hospital Division of Professional Education, the Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine; and the American institute for Hypnotherapy.