Lisa Petrocchi is a medical and master hypnotherapist with a BA in history from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the administrative director at the Palo Alto School of Hypnotherapy (PASOH), where she received her hypnotherapy training and has worked for 11 years. She manages the school’s master and community outreach programs.
As part of PASOH’s community outreach program, Lisa oversees the group guided imagery sessions at Hope House, a women’s rehabilitation center in Redwood City, California. She has also been a guided imagery facilitator at Stanford Health Care (SHC) in Palo Alto, California, for five years. She has worked with patients and their families and the hospital staff at the bone marrow unit and in oncology. In addition, Lisa has been a guided imagery facilitator for the Bay Area Cancer Connection (BACC) in San Mateo, CA, for over five years, where she offers a bi-monthly healing guided imagery support group for cancer patients and survivors.
She is a native Californian and grew up in the Bay Area, appreciating the unique energy of the landscape and embracing the region’s diversity. She acknowledges the personal history we all carry with us and how dealing with our past may lead to guilt, shame, anger, or judgment. Unfortunately, we judge our past from today’s perspective. Lisa prepares her clients for the future by helping them better appreciate their history.
“There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.” — C. S. Lewis