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Grace Capuzzi's Life-Changing Counseling at The Center of Success
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Grace Capuzzi's Life-Changing Counseling at The Center of Success
Ever wondered how minds can transform with the right therapeutic touch? That's exactly what this episode of The Good Neighbor Podcast uncovers with Grace Capuzzi, owner and licensed therapist of The Center of Success in Wayne, PA is all about. Prompted by Good Neighbor Podcast host Bob Blaisse, our guest sheds light on the powerful combination of counseling and hypnotherapy.
Sit back as Bob and Grace navigate the intricacies of cognitive therapies that do more than just talk to reprogram neural pathways to alter daily behaviors. You'll hear Board Certified Hypnotherapist, Grace Capuzzi debunk the myths surrounding hypnotism while revealing its undeniable efficacy in reducing anxieties, bolstering motivations and achieving goals, from improved mental health to overcoming bad habits or creating good new habits. This episode isn't just a conversation; it's an opportunity for insights into the diverse array of counseling services offered by Grace Capuzzi, whose graduate studies in social services provided her foundation as a cognitive behavioral therapist and board-certified hypnotherapist with the aid of her mentor and co-author, Wendy Merron. (Powerful Thinking on Purpose for Athletes: Harness the Power of Your Mind to Win Your Inner Game / Amazon )
Listen to Grace Capuzzi share how hypnosis is not what most think it is when used with counseling therapy to reduce or eliminate psychosis, anxiety and depression, or to speed up success for desired weight loss or to eliminate destructive behaviors. From past success, Grace provides her phone number to listeners with the invitation to reach out to her at The Center of Success, to discuss the benefits of counseling, coaching and other therapeutic modalities which her center has used with success to bring forward a better version of one's self on their journey to succeed in areas that may be holding them back.
Whether you're a parent seeking help for your child or someone ready to develop your success, this episode offers a glimpse into the transformative tools and strategies Grace Capuzzi and her Center of Success employ to pave the way for a healthier, more fulfilled life.
The Center of Success
614 West Lancaster Avenue,
Wayne, Pennsylvania 19087
TheCenterofSuccess.com
610-883-7299
--- About The Show--- Good Neighbor Podcast is a spotlight on local businesses in and around Delaware County, PA (“Delco” ) and Beyond... The executive producer and host, Bob Blaisse, is a community sponsorship advocate, business branding specialist, and publisher of several hometown magazines, including: Newtown Square Friends & Neighbors, Marple Friends & Neighbors and Newtown Edgmont Friends & Neighbors, mailed monthly to more than 12,000 homes in Western Delaware County, PA, and also available for reading online.
Counseling and Hypnotherapy for Success
Speaker 1This is Michael Barkan, welcoming you to the Good Neighbor podcast, where fans of local businesses and their neighbors come together. It's my pleasure once again to introduce my friend and neighbor, our host, bob Lacey.
Speaker 2Michael, what a great day today is. We're heading into the summer of 2024 on a beautiful day and I'm so happy today to be able to bring into you some hope Hope for a great summer and hope for a great day. But today, you know, we've got a guest that's coming on to the Good Neighbor podcast. Grace Capuzzi is our guest today. Hello, Grace.
Speaker 3Hi Bob, how are you?
Speaker 2Very good, grace. Sorry I'm setting the audience up to believe that hope is on the way. But Grace and hope because Grace is a therapist, a local therapist in the Delaware County, chester County, montgomery County area. Right there in the corner of Delaware County heading into the main line of Philadelphia, grace Capuzzi is the therapist at the Center of Success, and what a great name for a psychologist and a person who can bring therapeutic counseling to help you. Whether it's small needs in your life sports make you better, lose weight, all kinds of things Grace, the Center of Success covers the whole spectrum of helping the person bring the better version of themselves forward.
Speaker 3The Center of Success is we do a combination of helping individuals. We treat anxiety, depression, addiction, life transitions and we also use hypnotherapy as a tool to help individuals, like you mentioned, you know, overcome fears, help with weight management, improve confidence, and we work with athletes as well to help enhance their performance.
Speaker 2Now Grace, today the term that is pretty broad in all kinds of psychological counseling. For all of those areas it would be like cognitive therapies, right? Yes, maybe we just let the audience know from a perspective of counseling, you know like you can get career counseling, but now we're talking about kind of life counseling. You can get a life coach, but here we're talking about a trained therapist that understands behaviors and really sometimes the behaviors that we don't even understand why we are having those behaviors. And I'm sure that's where the area of cognitive therapy comes in. Let's give the audience just a thumbnail view of really what the foundational understanding of cognitive therapy is and then maybe we move on to some of these other systems that you might use for support.
Speaker 3Yes, absolutely so. Cognitive therapy I use a for so I was trained as a licensed social worker and I help individuals, you know, assess, you know behaviors, behaviors that are impacting their daily function, and you know we teach them, we help teach them different strategies to, you know, rewire their neural pathways, and so I do talk therapy, which is more of the cognitive behavioral therapy, and then I also use a blend of hypnotherapy with just a tool to help enhance their cognitive needs and increase motivation.
Speaker 2Well, hypnotherapy is something that I hear everybody's eyes perk up a bit because there's views of hypnotherapy that we see on TV or the classical entertainment hypnotist or something, or even the evil genius that uses hypnotherapy and that kind of crazy stuff. But I think the average person might say, look, if I could get some hypno, whatever to help me not want to eat sugar or lose some weight or that kind of things. Maybe help us understand from a perspective of we know counseling is talking back and forth and helping the person who's sharing, revealing things that are bothering them, but really trying to get to the root of where they might spring from. Sometimes we don't even know where they spring from and in hypnotherapy, help us understand a little bit. When you have a client that you would say I'm going to use some hypnotherapy, I mean you don't get to watch out and start spinning it in front of them, right? What do you say to them? That is the level of what you're going to understand or remember during this practice of some hypnotherapy.
Speaker 3Great question and how I explain hypnotherapy to others, and there are common misconceptions and myths. But the first thing that I want to make clear to my clients is that I am not here to control you. You are not going to leave my session quacking like a duck. I like to describe hypnosis as a cousin to meditation. So really the main difference between meditation and hypnotherapy is meditation focuses on letting your mind wander, while hypnosis helps you focus your attention on the outcome you desire. So hypnosis is similar to a. It's like a focus concentration, similar to watching a movie or playing a sport. It's really just a deeper level of awareness that helps you achieve the outcome you desire.
Speaker 2Well, grace, that's a good question, I mean. The next question that follows through on that is someone would say are the results easier for you as a therapist or is the results faster for the person who's being counseled? Some people I've heard go to counseling for a long time to be able to get kind of analyzed or understood, to be able to find out really what it is that's been bothering them for so long and sometimes it's even medical hard to get through that and there's referrals you might need to make from what you're learning that maybe they do need to be on drugs. When it comes to your average patient success factor, how long does it take for you to be able to kind of really deduce, figure out that this is very deep, or this is a few sessions, or is it possible that even with hypnotherapy the person has, you know, got a really fast, rapid start to finding their better version of themselves?
Speaker 3Yeah, so typically with hypnotherapy, we do 10 sessions or five sessions and if I'm strictly working with a client, just for hypnotherapy, I'll do 10 or five sessions, and that's usually more for, like, weight management, quitting smoking, overcoming fears and phobias. Now, if you have more complex complexities, such as, you know, anxiety, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, I will do a blend of talk therapy as well as hypnotherapy, which will extend beyond 10 sessions. But that's a deeper approach.
Speaker 2Um, when working with individuals who've experienced significant traumas, so when, when your clients are coming to you, the one person leaving could be somebody that my Lord, if we knew the trauma that they had from sexual abuse or something just horrible versus someone else who is maybe got a smaller issue and not be afraid to be uh speaking in public or or not be afraid to uh play uh sports, that you know they're fearful, they're going to get hurt or something. You you must be taking your therapies into more mainstream areas and then yet also dealing with you know really tragic circumstances, or even just the life transitions of being steep in grief that someone has a hard time getting through.
Speaker 3Yeah, absolutely, and a lot of times. You made a great point with trauma is a lot of trauma. Survivors will block out the trauma. They will not necessarily remember the details, and that's perfectly OK, and that's where, as a hypnotherapist, it's not really important to remember. Your memory distorts information over time, so it's not important to remember the exact details of the trauma. But we work on changing the feelings that are associated with that trauma so individuals can move on and live a life where they feel empowered and successful, rather than staying stuck in their trauma.
Speaker 2Good reason why your practice is called the center of success. Yes, we're talking to Grace Capuzzi, and her last name is, as it sounds, spelled C-A-P-U-Z-Z-I. Grace Capuzzi is a clinical social work therapist with master's degrees and licenses in counseling and certifications in hypnotherapy. She's a board certified hypnotherapist and uses a variety of treatment I think they call them modalities to be able to help people succeed.
Speaker 2And what a great concept, right? I mean people who feel like they need to go to a therapist could feel like they're damaged and need to catch up, but in reality, grace, what you're doing is helping people succeed, really from a starting point of wherever they are, which could be. I don't necessarily feel like I'm depressed or I don't feel like I'm really overweight, but I feel something and I want to be my better self. I want to get through this and I don't even know why I'm feeling this way or why I'm maybe into some destructive behaviors. Your, I guess, counseling to become that better person is often maybe a little quicker because of the hypnotherapy. Is that possible that they're able to kind of break through quicker?
Speaker 3Yes, hypnotherapy can accelerate therapeutic processes, and one of my big things is I never, growing up is I struggled with mental health and I never. It can also feel very lonely suffering with mental health and I never want others to feel lonely or isolated. So when you come to our practice, we want you to feel supported and empowered and that you're not alone in your suffering.
Speaker 2And coming to the practice can mean even talking via online sessions. Right, you can have a phone call. They can come to your practice. You're located on the main line in Philadelphia. Maybe tell the listeners that where about they can find you if they actually want to visit you personally.
Speaker 3Absolutely so. We do sessions in person and via telehealth. You can find myself on our website at the center of successcom, or you can call and schedule a free film consultation with me at 610-883-7299. And I'm also on psychologytodaycom and you can Google Grace Capuzzi if you want to schedule through that. So there's a few ways to schedule with me, but the easiest way is the centerofsuccesscom.
Speaker 2And I have to say, grace, I think I've driven by your building. It's been there for a while. If those of you in the Philadelphia area are familiar on the Philadelphia main line with the cities, like you know, villanova and Devon and Stratford, you know Wayne. Wayne is the post office address there on Lancaster Avenue, but I remember your building being right there at this Braxton's Feed Store. It's like a really old historic building there right at the intersection of Lancaster Avenue and is it is at Swedesford Road or Old Swedesford Road, yes, right on the corner there. So anyone from the Philadelphia area, you've probably driven right by Grace Capuzzi's Center for Success. It's been there for a while and Grace has a lot of understanding from her educations, her certifications, understanding from her educations, her certifications a Bryn Mawr College graduate and board certified hypnotherapist. You've also been mentored by some pretty successful people in your training for hypnotherapy. I understand and counseling as well.
Speaker 3Yes, wendy Marin has been a huge influence. She started the Center of Success over 25 years ago and I was introduced to her and she is the one that trained me in hypnotherapy, and then I also have other clinical mentors who have helped me. So Wendy Marin and I have been working together and she also sees individuals part-time through the Center of Success.
Speaker 2I can't say it enough to our listeners the Center of Success is not just a place to find solutions for what is causing you and holding you back from being a happy person and being a successful person. It's a center of success for being a more successful person, even for successful people. So if you are involved in sports and you want to be able to kind of get to the next level of your game, or if even they talk about the Zen of golf or one of these sports that you know, you just somehow or other to be able to kind of know how to follow the mechanical trainings that you've been given but to have the desire to be a winner, those kind of hypnotherapies are available to you. If you're someone that cannot even understand why you participate in destructive behaviors that you want to try to get out of your life, it may need talking out those reasons and it may also need hypnotherapy.
Speaker 2Certain other benefits at the Center of Success, I understand Grace, you can be coaching people, or there's even something that I've heard called and I don't know really fully what it is, but EFT. Explain that to me a little bit if you can. Is that a new modality?
Speaker 3Absolutely. Eft is not a new modality, but it's one that most people don't use often, and I like to describe it as holistic acupuncture.
Speaker 3What does the FG stand for Emotional freedom tapping or emotional freedom technique, either, or and it's you know it's. It's based on ancient Chinese methods and it's you use different tapping modalities on your body, so different trigger points on your bodies, and when clients come to us, we teach them how to emotionally free, how to use emotional freedom tapping to help alleviate anxiety, depression. We work with trauma, so all sorts of things that can help with But-.
Speaker 2Walk out from a session with a tool as well to be able to One of the most powerful tools that I teach my clients. And when you can see these areas, destructive behaviors, or you see these feelings coming upon you, what you're saying is that you would teach them certain parts of their body to tap a little bit, which would bring some kind of a nerve ending recollection in their neurology. That would help them kind of advance further in stopping that behavior or not being afraid.
Speaker 3Yes, so I teach them. There's different meridian points located all over your body and those are the points that we tap on to help alleviate emotional and physical distress.
Speaker 2So it's really from what we're hearing here about the center of success and, by the way, you can read about Grace Capuzzi in the Psychology Today website. She is kind of one of the psychologists in residence in that website. You can search and read her biography. But we're talking about different modalities here from the center of success, not the least of which is hypnotherapies, but also strong specialties of expertise. Grace, I as a kind of a lay person thinking who would go for counseling, would obviously think that things like self-esteem or addiction you know, anxieties, depression, those kinds of things we think about that. But are there, are there other things that are more, other specialties, that people who would harm themselves or even people who are at risk in you know they're taking their life or something like that? Are you in deep on a lot of those kind of subjects as well, with a lot of your clients?
Speaker 3Absolutely yes, I did. I worked previously four years with first episode psychosis dealing with schizophrenia. First episode psychosis, bipolar. So I've been dealing with a lot of co-occurring mental health, working at Eagleville Hospital with individuals suffering with substance use disorder so a wide variety of you know concerns. I help individuals.
Speaker 2It must be very, very rewarding and I cannot imagine how it would not be when you're a licensed therapist, a certified hypnotherapist, and you can bring people into the center of success. You're bringing them into a new center of their life and we're very happy to have you here. Grace. You are a good business in our community. You're a good neighbor of our community. For the people in our community, particularly say parents or spouses or individuals that know that they need help, I think anyone could feel comfortable calling Grace, visiting her website, getting in touch with Grace, setting an appointment with Grace Capuzzi for even just an introductory get to know you moment by phone. You can reach Grace at the centerofsuccesscom and Grace give the phone number out one more time 610-883-7299.
Speaker 2610-883-7299. Anxiety, depression, mood swings. If you're a parent and you're worried about your adult child or your teen, grace Capuzzi is someone you might want to reach out to. Grace, thank you very much for sharing your professional practice, your center of success, here with us today on the Good Neighbor podcast. I'm excited to get to know you and I can assure you, grace, that I will be referring people to you, as I know and people talk to me about, who can be trusted to be able to take such a sensitive matter as talking about their fears and their disabilities but to really, for good reason, become more successful, and I'm very proud and very happy that you joined us here today.
Speaker 3Thank you so much, bob, and I appreciate you know the opportunity. It's been a pleasure.
Speaker 2Thank you very much. Thank you, Grace.
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