Husband and wife team Dr Sonia Gupte and Jit Gupte were successful professionals in Dubai but felt something was missing in their lives.
That realization led them to seek personal transformation and greater meaning, ultimately leading them to found their new hypnotherapy center, enso-nia, at 7858 Ivanhoe Ave. At their La Jolla facility, the pair work to provide deep healing to others through clinical hypnotherapy sessions, while also educating and imparting their knowledge to students as they pursue world-class certification in Integrative Critical Hypnotherapy.
Sonia worked as a family physician for 15 years, followed by eight years as a clinical hypnotherapist, and has treated over 2,000 highly successful cases around the world, which gives her the experience to treat a wide range of health, emotional and behavioural issues for all age groups.
Jit, who headed a successful architecture firm in Dubai, described his and Sonia’s decision to embark on an entirely new career and move to the US to start afresh as “an incredible leap of faith.”
“We moved to San Diego with our family from Dubai and have been in the business for about six years,” Jit said, adding, “We were running hypnotherapy as an online service.”
“Everyone had pretty much everything they wanted,” Jit said of their trip.
“But something was missing,” said Sonia, who had become disillusioned with treating patients with medicine. She thought, “Maybe this isn’t what we’re meant to do. Something bigger is calling us.”
The couple’s two-part business name has a special meaning: the Zen ENSO is a circle that symbolizes “the mind freeing the body to express its full creative potential,” while the NIA has a multicultural meaning that represents love, purpose, community building and a commitment to restoration, which is enso-nia’s core philosophy.
On their website, enso-nia.com, the couple describes their mission as follows: “We are dedicated to providing breakthrough tools that harness the hidden power of the human subconscious to create extraordinary change in all areas of life. Sonia’s insatiable quest to find a deeper connection between body and mind led her to clinical hypnotherapy, which quickly became for her the ‘fundamental missing bridge’ that provided all the answers for her patients’ unexplained chronic health conditions.”
The company’s website states that enso-nia “brings together Sonia’s expertise with that of world-class experts to provide powerful tools to anyone in need of support who wants to transform their life and live to their full potential, while providing world-class specialist education to develop change agents and help revolutionise the health and wellbeing sector.”
Sonia noted that patients’ attitudes towards treatment have changed since the pandemic, noting that people are now saying, “I don’t want to rely on prescription drugs.” “I used to be the one writing the prescriptions,” she added, concluding, “I realized that I wasn’t helping, I was just relying on prescription drugs.”
Through clinical hypnotherapy, Sonia says she found her true calling: “bridging the gap” between the mind and the body, training and empowering people to know that “we can offer you something more. It’s not a prescription. It’s the power of your mind that can heal you.”
Ensonia
place: 7858 Ivanhoe Avenue
information: https://enso-nia.com, 858-280-4047.
Hypnotherapy – Hypnotherapy is a form of therapy that uses guided hypnosis to help clients reach a state of trance-like focus, reduced peripheral awareness, and increased suggestibility. In hypnotherapy, a person responds unusually to ideas and images, but is not under anyone’s “control.” Instead, a trained clinical hypnotherapist helps clients in this state relax and turn their attention inward to discover and utilize resources that can help them achieve desired behavioral changes or better manage pain or other physical problems.
The American Psychological Association and the American Medical Association have recognized hypnotherapy as an effective treatment since 1958, and the National Institutes of Health has recommended it for the treatment of chronic pain since 1995. Hypnotherapy has been used as an alternative to anesthesia to reduce pain and anxiety before and after surgery, and it also appears to promote healing for many illnesses, including epilepsy, neuralgia, rheumatism, and skin disorders.
Under the guidance of a trained medical professional, hypnosis can be used to relieve pain, treat autoimmune diseases, combat phobias, and break bad habits like smoking and overeating. Hypnosis can also help deal with negative emotional states such as stress and anxiety, pain, fatigue, insomnia, and mood disorders.
