📍 California – Melany Cohen, LMFT, C.Ht. – Woodland Hills

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Woodland Hills, CA 91367

📞 323-896-0931
✉️ melany@hypnoswitch.com

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Meet Melany Cohen, LMFT, C.Ht.

Woodland Hills Counseling & Hypnotherapy

Are Pain, Anxiety, or an Unwanted Behavior Limiting Your Life?

You may understand what you are experiencing but still feel unable to change the fear, habit, emotional response, or physical symptoms affecting your daily life.

Melany Cohen, LMFT, C.Ht., is a licensed psychotherapist and Certified Hypnotherapist serving adults and teenagers in Woodland Hills and online. She combines psychotherapy with clinical hypnosis when appropriate, helping you understand the patterns behind your difficulties and develop a personalized plan for change.

An Integrated Approach

Work With Both Conscious and Automatic Patterns

Psychotherapy can help you explore your thoughts, emotions, relationships, and experiences. Hypnosis may provide an additional way to address deeply established habits, automatic reactions, and subconscious associations.

Your treatment may help you:

• Understand what is reinforcing the problem
• Recognize triggers and blind spots
• Respond differently to anxiety or stress
• Change an unwanted or compulsive behavior
• Build confidence in your ability to function
• Practice useful strategies between appointments

Areas of Focus

What Would You Like Help Changing?

You should consider contacting Melany for support with:

• Anxiety and excessive worry
• Chronic pain and stress-related symptoms
• Smoking cessation or addictive behaviors
• Emotional eating and weight-management habits
• Hair pulling or skin picking
• Fears and phobias
• Performance or test anxiety
• Parenting challenges
• Unwanted habits and behavioral patterns

Physical symptoms should first be evaluated by an appropriate medical professional.

Chronic Pain Support

Melany has a particular interest in the relationship between the brain, emotions, stress, and persistent physical pain. Her work may incorporate psychotherapy, hypnosis, and pain-reprocessing principles to help appropriate clients change their relationship with pain, reduce fear-based responses, and develop greater confidence in their ability to function.

Chronic pain, migraines, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, IBS, and other physical symptoms should be evaluated by an appropriate medical professional. 

Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors

Melany works with clients experiencing hair pulling, skin picking, and related body-focused repetitive behaviors. Treatment may focus on identifying triggers, increasing awareness, reducing emotional distress, developing alternative responses, and addressing the underlying patterns that reinforce the behavior.

Why Might You Choose Melany Cohen?

If you understand your problem intellectually but still feel unable to change your automatic reactions, Melany Cohen offers an integrated approach combining psychotherapy with hypnosis.

Unlike practitioners who provide hypnosis only, Melany is both a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a Certified Hypnotherapist. This allows you to explore emotional, behavioral, and relationship factors while also working with the automatic habits and responses that may be difficult to change through conversation alone.

How You May Benefit

Your sessions may help you:

• Understand why a pattern continues despite your efforts to change
• Identify emotional and situational triggers
• Develop healthier responses to anxiety or everyday stress
• Address hair pulling, skin picking, emotional eating, or another repetitive behavior
• Build confidence for tests, performances, auditions, or public speaking
• Examine smoking or other addictive behaviors within a broader emotional context
• Develop skills for responding to persistent physical or emotional discomfort

Education and Credentials

Melany’s education and professional credentials include:

• California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT #90930

• Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology, Antioch University

• Certified Hypnotherapist, AL011621

• Hypnosis Motivation Institute, 2006

• Certified Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner

• Juris Doctor, University of Southern California, 2002

• California Licensed Attorney, Bar #223510

Appointment Options

• In-person appointments in Woodland Hills

• Online therapy appointments when appropriate

• Services for adults and teenagers

• Complimentary 15-minute telephone consultation

Contact Woodland Hills Counseling & Hypnotherapy

Melany Cohen, LMFT, C.Ht.

Woodland Hills, CA 91367

📞 323-896-0931
✉️ melany@hypnoswitch.com
🌐 Woodland Hills Counseling & Hypnotherapy

Begin With a Complimentary 15-Minute Consultation

You can use your initial call to describe what is happening, ask questions about Melany’s approach, review her website and biography, and determine whether her services may be appropriate for you.

In-person appointments are available in Woodland Hills, with online therapy available when appropriate. Contact Melany directly to confirm current availability, fees, and service options.

Independent-Practice Disclosure

Woodland Hills Counseling & Hypnotherapy is independently owned and operated. Melany Cohen is not an employee, agent, partner, or representative of Healthy Life Centers.

Healthy Life Centers recommends and refers prospective clients to independent practitioners but does not supervise or control their credentials, services, fees, scheduling, client relationships, professional decisions, representations, or results.

Recommended by Healthy Life Centers.