📍 South Carolina: Michael Burney, Consulting Hypnotist – Columbia
1709 Laurel Street
Columbia, SC 29201
📞 Phone: 803-500-5077
✉️ Email: mburney@columbiahypnosis.com
Appointments are required.
Meet Michael Burney
Are you looking for an experienced consulting hypnotist in Columbia, South Carolina?
Biography: Michael Burney is the director of Columbia Hypnosis, where he offers personalized hypnosis sessions for clients seeking to change unwanted habits, strengthen performance, manage stress, and pursue healthier patterns.
Michael has worked with hypnosis clients for more than 16 years. His approach begins with learning about each client’s circumstances, desired outcome, and motivation for change. He then develops a personalized strategy intended to help the client work more effectively with thoughts, habits, emotions, and subconscious associations.
Sessions are private, confidential, and available by appointment. When a concern involves medical care, mental health treatment, trauma, or persistent pain, Michael may collaborate with or require a referral from an appropriately licensed healthcare professional.
Areas of Focus
Michael works with clients pursuing goals involving:
- Smoking cessation
- Weight-management habits
- Stress reduction and relaxation
- Sports performance
- Confidence and self-esteem
- Fears and performance anxiety
- Public-speaking confidence
- Exam and interview preparation
- Unwanted habits
- Personal motivation
- Emotional Freedom Techniques
- Havening Techniques®
- Mindscaping
- Complementary pain-management support
Hypnosis for pain, trauma-related concerns, or another diagnosed condition should be provided only with appropriate medical or mental-health involvement.
Why Might You Choose Michael Burney in Columbia?
If you have struggled to change a habit, fear, or automatic response through willpower alone, Michael Burney offers private hypnosis sessions designed around your circumstances, motivation, and desired outcome.
Michael has worked with hypnosis clients for more than 16 years. His personalized approach may benefit you if you want a practitioner who will first understand what you are experiencing and then recommend techniques suited to the change you want to make.
How You May Benefit
Your individualized sessions may help you:
- Identify thoughts and associations reinforcing an unwanted habit
- Develop healthier responses to familiar triggers
- Strengthen motivation and self-confidence
- Practice relaxation and focused attention
- Prepare mentally for athletic or professional performance
- Reduce fears or performance anxiety
- Improve public-speaking, interview, or exam confidence
- Reinforce healthier eating and lifestyle choices
Specialized Smoking-Cessation Support
Michael is a Certified Quit Success® Smoking Cessation Specialist. If you want to stop smoking, he can help you examine the routines, impulses, emotional triggers, and subconscious associations connected to the habit.
Training and Certifications
Michael’s professional background includes certifications or training through:
- American Board of Hypnotherapy
- International Association of Professional Conversational Hypnotists
- Association of EFT Professionals
- Certified Havening Techniques® Practitioner
- Certified Quit Success® Smoking Cessation Specialist
- NESTA® Sports Hypnosis certification
- Medical hypnosis training
- Take Shape for Life® health-coaching training associated with the MacDonald Center for Obesity Prevention and Education at Villanova University
The official Havening Techniques® directory has Michael as a certified practitioner since May 2018.
A Personalized Approach to Change
Hypnosis is a collaborative process. Clients remain aware and involved, and the experience does not remove their judgment or personal control.
Michael uses hypnosis as a focused personal-development process intended to help clients:
- Examine automatic patterns
- Develop more constructive mental associations
- Strengthen motivation
- Practice relaxation and focused attention
- Reinforce healthier choices
- Prepare mentally for personal or performance goals
Free Strategy Session
Prospective clients may schedule a complimentary telephone strategy session to discuss:
- The change they would like to make
- Whether hypnosis may be an appropriate option
- Michael’s proposed approach
- Anticipated scheduling and fees
- Whether professional authorization or a referral may be needed
Contact Columbia Hypnosis
📍 Columbia Hypnosis
Inside the offices of Post Trauma Resources
1709 Laurel Street
Columbia, SC 29201
📞 Phone: 803-500-5077
✉️ Email: mburney@columbiahypnosis.com
🌐 Website: ColumbiaHypnosis.com
Office Hours
- Monday: 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
- Tuesday: 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
- Wednesday: 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
- Thursday: 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
- Friday: 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
- Saturday: 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
- Sunday: Contact the office to confirm
All sessions are available by appointment only.
Independent-Practice Disclosure
Columbia Hypnosis is independently owned and operated. Michael Burney is not an employee, agent, or representative of Healthy Life Centers. His office being located inside Post Trauma Resources does not necessarily mean that Post Trauma Resources supervises or provides his hypnosis services.
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, advertising claims, or results.
