Mark Barrus

Who We Are… and What We Do

Hypnotherapy for Stress Relief, Smoking Cessation, Weight Release, and Phobia Management

Transform Your Life with Hypnotherapy

Since 2004, Healthy Life Centers has been dedicated to helping individuals break free from stress, unwanted habits, and phobias. Whether in person at our Fountain Valley and Huntington Beach offices or through TeleHealth sessions on Zoom, Skype, Facetime, and Doxy.me, we provide flexible and effective hypnotherapy solutions tailored to your needs.

Hypnotherapy is a powerful, evidence-based method for achieving mental and emotional well-being. Our expert practitioners specialize in stress relief, smoking cessation, weight management, and phobia elimination, ensuring you receive the highest quality care.


Why Choose Healthy Life Centers?

Certified and Experienced Hypnotherapists

Not all hypnotists are equally qualified. Many claim to offer hypnosis services but lack the credentials to deliver effective results. At Healthy Life Centers, our certified hypnotherapists have years of experience helping clients achieve lasting transformations.

TeleHealth and In-Office Sessions

We offer the convenience of both in-person and remote hypnotherapy sessions, allowing you to access professional help from the comfort of your home.

Proven Success Since 2004

With over two decades of experience, we have helped hundreds of individuals overcome anxiety, eliminate smoking habits, manage their weight, and free themselves from phobias.

Personalized Hypnotherapy Programs

Each session is tailored to your unique needs, ensuring that you receive a customized approach that maximizes success.


Hypnosis for Stress Relief

How Stress Affects Your Well-Being

Chronic stress can lead to anxiety, sleep disturbances, weakened immunity, and even physical illness. Hypnotherapy helps reprogram the subconscious mind to create a state of relaxation and resilience.

How Hypnosis Relieves Stress

  • Induces deep relaxation

  • Rewires negative thought patterns

  • Increases emotional regulation

  • Enhances focus and clarity

 

Hypnosis for Smoking Cessation

Why Is It So Hard to Quit Smoking?

Nicotine addiction is both psychological and physiological. Willpower alone often fails because smoking becomes deeply ingrained in daily routines and stress responses.

How Hypnotherapy Helps You Quit Smoking

  • Removes subconscious smoking triggers

  • Rewires brain responses to stress and cravings

  • Strengthens commitment to a smoke-free life

  • Eliminates withdrawal anxiety and emotional dependence

Our Process:

  1. Identify and neutralize smoking triggers

  2. Reprogram cravings through subconscious suggestion

  3. Strengthen motivation and willpower

  4. Ensure long-term success with follow-up reinforcement sessions


Hypnosis for Weight Release

Addressing the Root Cause of Weight Struggles

Emotional eating, food cravings, and negative self-image often undermine weight loss efforts. Hypnotherapy reprograms your subconscious to align with healthier eating habits and positive body perception.

Benefits of Hypnosis for Weight Loss

  • Eliminates emotional eating

  • Reduces cravings for unhealthy foods

  • Enhances motivation for exercise

  • Improves self-confidence and body image

Our Approach:

  • Guided hypnosis for healthy food choices

  • Eliminating reliance on food for comfort

  • Boosting motivation for regular exercise

  • Reinforcing lasting behavior change


Hypnosis for Phobia Management

Understanding Phobias

Phobias are deeply rooted fears that can cause extreme distress and avoidance behaviors. Common phobias include fear of flying, heights, enclosed spaces, and social interactions.

How Hypnosis Eliminates Phobias

  • Rewires subconscious fear responses

  • Desensitizes triggers through gradual exposure

  • Strengthens confidence in overcoming fear

  • Establishes a calm, controlled state in anxiety-inducing situations

Success Stories:

  • Clients who previously avoided flights now travel fearlessly

  • Individuals with social anxiety gain confidence in group settings

  • Those with fear of heights can comfortably enjoy high places


Get Started with Hypnotherapy Today

Your First Step to a Healthier Mind and Body

Choosing the right hypnotherapist is essential to your success. At Healthy Life Centers, we ensure that you receive expert care, whether in-office or via TeleHealth.

How to Book a Session:

  1. Call or text us at 888-865-1870 for a consultation

  2. Complete the Client Questionnaire to speed up the process

  3. Select a service that best suits your needs

  4. Begin your journey toward transformation


Why Hypnotherapy Works

  • Safe & Natural – No medications required

  • Long-Lasting Results – Rewires subconscious patterns for lasting change

  • Scientifically Backed – Numerous studies support hypnosis for behavioral change

  • Personalized Approach – Tailored sessions for individual success


Contact Healthy Life Centers

For expert hypnotherapy services, reach out to our headquarters in California today. Take the first step toward a healthier, happier you.

📞 Call/Text: 888-865-1870
🌍 Location: Fountain Valley & Huntington Beach, CA main offices, and offices across the USA
💻 Virtual Sessions Available via Zoom, Skype, and Facetime

Healthy Life Centers has been helping people relieve stress and unwanted habits since 2004.

We have helped hundreds of patients over the years, either in person at the office or through Telehealth, which now includes video conferencing platforms like Zoom, Skype, Facetime, and Doxy.me.

You have the choice to choose a service based on its suitability for your needs and your level of comfort.

The success of the program depends on having a good working relationship with the practitioner, so choose carefully going ahead. To discover someone you can connect with, look through the public Hypnotherapy database or the internet.

We have in-office visits here in Fountain Valley and Huntington Beach, and we also provide TeleHealth Hypnotherapy sessions.

Step one is to call or text at 888-865-1870 to speak with us now, or speed up the process now with the client questionnaire.

Hypnosis for stress relief, smoking cessation, weight release, and phobias, are specialties, and many “hypnotists” claim to provide these services, but may or may not be qualified to help you get the results you want.

 

We make sure that you get the best because your mental health is critical to your overall wellness. Google has a very good database of Hypnotherapists, as this method has been gaining popularity for decades.

You may contact our corporate headquarters in California at any time.

Healthy Life Centers LLC
19792 Ranger Lane
Huntington Beach, CA 92646
United States
714-362-0034

and

Healthy Life Centers LLC
17284 Newhope St, Suite 210
Fountain Valley, CA 92708
United States
714-270-4713

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Mark Barrus

 

Congratulations on your decision to take control of your life!!
Let us be your New Year’s Re-Solution, instead of just a resolution.

We are the leader in absolutely safe, all-natural, non-invasive tobacco and weight loss programs

Questions to be answered:

How will hypnosis help?

What do I do with my hands?
How do I keep from gaining weight?
How do I keep from going “Stir Crazy” after stopping smoking?
What do I do with all the free time I have now that I am no longer a smoker?

How We Do It

Hypnosis works by “separating” your habit
from the “triggers” that “remind” you to smoke.

The hypnotist will then simply help you disassociate your habit from your everyday triggers.

These triggers could be any, or all, of the following:
Boredom, stress, after a meal, when you wake up, on a work break, driving in the car, watching TV…. Sound familiar?

If you want the benefit of the outcome, we can help you over the hill.

You’ll be Happy you did.

Did you know that it’s possible that you could live
an “extra month” longer per year by stopping smoking?

That’s because
Each cigarette takes an average of
8-12 minutes off of your life.

You spend a fortune every month on a habit
you don’t want anymore. Why?

 

On a scale of 1 to 10, how much do you want to stop smoking now?

The only risk with hypnosis is that you enter into it answering a “4” or less.

The benefits always outweigh the risk if you can answer the above question honestly,
as the only way for anyone to stop smoking is if they
desire the benefits of feeling good as a non-smoker.

Hypnosis for Smoking Cessation

Congratulations on your decision to take control of your life!!The use of Hypnosis (the Greek word for sleep) as a method to help people stop smoking has become a proven, reliable therapy. For a person to be successful using hypnosis to help stop smoking, one important requirement is necessary:

The person must want to stop smoking for the right reason.

No one forced you to start smoking, just as no one can force you to stop. “You need to go out through the in-door

Even though they sound good, some of the wrong reasons are because the doctor wants you to stop, your spouse or your kids are pressuring you to stop, or because you fear sickness or death.

The only right reason to stop smoking from a hypnosis point of view, is if you can hold a cigarette in your hand, look at it and honestly say to that cigarette, “I don’t like you and I don’t want you in my life anymore.” This, and only this mental attitude allows the hypnosis suggestions to enter your subconscious mind, and change can begin. The other “wrong” reasons can then become excellent support attitudes.

One on One Sessions are Very Different From Group seminars, Because it is Tailored to Help the Individual.

“Too many people will respond to an advertisement about a hypnotist working at a hotel, who will do a smoking cessation group session based on aversion therapy, and then move on to another place.”

 

This will work for some, but not all of the people who come to the session.

Aversion Therapy May Not Be the Answer

Many different hypnotherapists practice various techniques. For some, aversion therapy works.
However, if the smoker already knows about the bad taste, the bad effects, and is still smoking, the aversion therapy is a bit old-fashioned. 

Another, more powerful technique is to reach out to the subconscious mind and address the part that is the smoking part.

 

Regress to the first cigarette, and have the client relive it. Have them remember just how terrible that first cigarette was.

However, they continued to smoke in order to demonstrate to their buddies that they shared their coolness in smoking.
It was a necessary transition from childhood to adulthood.
If the hypnotized smoker still hangs around with the folks who gave them their first cigarette, find out.
Ask yourself, “Why are you still attempting to impress them?” if the response is no. There is no explanation other than habit.
They have nobody to prove their adult status to. However, smoking a cigarette is not evidence. By starting from that vantage point, it will be easier for the client to stop smoking and develop a new behavior.

Visit the NGH website. In 1954, the AMA approved hypnosis as an additional or supplemental treatment to conventional medicine.

Additionally, it is not totally true to say that hypnosis should only be performed by a psychiatrist or psychologist.
Given that it is specialized, a licensed hypnotherapist is likely to have much more education.
There is no assurance that a licensed hypnotherapist would offer better remedies than a psychiatrist.

Among hypnotherapists, Milton Erickson was undoubtedly the greatest. He had a distinctive approach to working with clients. The results of traditional hypnotists’ direct orders to a client were not always quantifiably successful. The client’s subconscious mind can reject the recommendations.

One of Erickson’s observations about humans was that they don’t always obey commands. However, if a hypnotic metaphor or example were provided, the subconscious mind may act on it and alter. He realized that a mind may enter a hypnotic state and be open to change if specific linguistic patterns were used. Many of these linguistic patterns may be found online in what is now known as the Milton Model.

Change may happen reasonably quickly and with greater results when a customer can do so simply.

The Zebu cards are a series of cards that are now being reprinted after being out of print. Each card in the deck features an Ericksonian linguistic pattern. Learn the pattern by doing it. Salad cards, made in England, are comparable to Zebu cards. Their construction is comparable. Once the patterns are understood, they may be leveraged to generate rapport and a successful conclusion with customers.

NLP, which uses many of the same techniques as Erickson hypnosis, was created by two of Erickson’s pupils, Bandler and Grinder, who imitated Erickson and his work.

 

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Hypnosis is the bypass of the critical faculty of the conscious mind
and the establishment of selective thinking”.

 

Critical Faculty: The part of the Conscious Mind that passes judgment.
Selective Thinking: Whatever you believe wholeheartedly.

(U.S. Dept. Education, Human Services Division)

 

 

The following are the Standard Industry Classification codes applied for our services: SIC Code: 8093, SIC Code: 8099-08, SIC Code: 809908, Hypnotherapy, SIC Code: 8049-02, 804902 Hypnotists, NAICS Code 621999 All Other Miscellaneous Ambulatory Health Care Services

Disclaimer:
The individual results are the results experienced by the persons themselves. It is possible that your experience would be different. Usually, that is based on your desire to change your behavior, as we cannot make you do anything against your will or if you are doing this under duress. You need to speak with the specific practitioner with whom you are considering and ask them about their specific protocol. Additionally, this is not any type of substitute for medical, psychological, or psychiatric help, and we always encourage you to speak with your doctor regarding and type of lifestyle change you are considering.

 

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2 comments on “Who We Are… and What We Do
  1. Cope More says:

    Acknowledging what that cigarette means to the client, recognizing the triggers that get them to reach for a cigarette, the fears the client may have regarding giving up smoking, exploring the stressor's currently in the clients life is of upmost importance for a successful session. The information you gain in the pre hypnosis session can help to individualize the therapist dialog for that specific client.

    • Mark Barrus says:

      Cope More Smoking was, for me, a cure for boredom. I was never bored in the 25 years that I smoked, because I could always "kill" 10 minutes with a cigarette.