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

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5900 Canoga Avenue
Woodland Hills, CA 91367

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

Meet Melany Cohen, LMFT, C.Ht.

Woodland Hills Counseling & Hypnotherapy

Are you looking for a licensed psychotherapist and certified hypnotherapist in Woodland Hills, California?

Biography:  Melany Cohen is a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Certified Hypnotherapist who works with adults and teenagers experiencing emotional distress, chronic pain, anxiety, unwanted habits, and other patterns affecting their quality of life.

Melany understands that finding the right therapist can make an important difference. She creates a supportive, collaborative environment in which clients can feel heard, explore the sources of their difficulties, and develop a personalized plan for change.

An Integrated Approach to Therapy

Melany combines psychotherapy with clinical hypnosis when appropriate. While psychotherapy helps clients explore their thoughts, emotions, relationships, and experiences, hypnosis may provide another way to work with automatic reactions, deeply established habits, and subconscious associations.

Treatment is tailored to the client rather than based on a standardized script. Sessions may include discussion, information gathering, goal development, psychotherapy, hypnotic techniques, and practical strategies for use between appointments.

When clinically appropriate and agreed upon, Melany may provide a recording that clients can use to reinforce relaxation or therapeutic goals outside the session.

Areas of Focus

Melany works with clients seeking help for concerns that may include:

• Anxiety and excessive worry

• Performance and test anxiety

• Chronic pain and stress-related symptoms

• Fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue

• Migraines and musculoskeletal pain

• Irritable bowel syndrome

• Parenting challenges

• Smoking cessation

• Substance-related and behavioral addictions

• Emotional eating and weight-management behaviors

• Disordered eating

• Trichotillomania and hair pulling

• Dermatillomania and skin picking

• Fears and phobias

• Unwanted habits and behavioral patterns

• Confidence and performance improvement

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.

Education and Credentials

Melany’s published 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.

📍 5900 Canoga Avenue
Woodland Hills, CA 91367

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

Contact Melany to request a complimentary 15-minute telephone consultation and discuss whether her services may be appropriate for your needs.

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.