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Contact & fees
I am Alex V. Priala, your hypnotherapist - a master practitioner of Somatic Hypnotherapy, with an established clinic located at 186 Sutton Place, Suite 104, Beaconsfield, QC, H9W 5S3, in the West Island of Montreal. My consultations are always face-to-face, private, confidential, and by appointment only. Please allow 2 to 3 hours for our initial meeting.
Is Somatic Hypnotherapy the right approach for you?
Before reaching out, please take a moment to make sure this approach genuinely meets your needs. Somatic Hypnotherapy is neither coaching, nor life advice, nor a form of psychotherapy. Its practical goal is to help you release the patterns of inadequate emotional responses that keep you anchored in your past - improving your state of mind, your behavioral patterns, and your quality of life. If what you are looking for is someone to teach you how to live your life, this is not the approach for you. If what you are looking for is a profound, efficient, and lasting reset of the emotional weight you carry, you may be in exactly the right place.
This approach works best for people who understand - or are genuinely open to understanding - that thoughts, feelings, and emotions are not interchangeable terms, and that what has the power to fulfill or jeopardize a life is not the cognitive memory of past events, but the emotional feelings those memories still arouse. You do not need to fully understand all of this before your first session. But you do need to be open to it. If your worldview holds that human beings are sentient, spiritual, emotionally intelligent beings - and not as intelligent apes or bio-programmable machines - then Somatic Hypnotherapy speaks your language. However, if you firmly believe that absolutely nothing is happening "within you", and that love, happiness, and serenity are merely intentional thoughts, or philosophical concepts shaped at will by a rational brain, this approach is probably not your best option.
Who can apply for an appointment?
As a semi-retired practitioner with limited availability, I am not a walk-in clinic. I give priority to my long-standing clients and to new requests - through referrals. That said, I remain genuinely available to anyone facing a complex, deeply rooted, or seemingly intractable emotional situation - particularly those who have already tried other approaches without lasting relief, and who are considering Somatic Hypnotherapy as a last resort. If your situation matches one of the descriptions above, please feel free to apply; I would be delighted to help you. A thoroughly completed contact form is your best advocate.
Before applying, please verify that your issue falls within my areas of expertise. These include - but are not limited to - stress, anxiety, and panic, emotional trauma, grief, rejection, and anger, chronic pain, tension, and tics, self-sabotage and behavioral patterns, and a wide range of stress-related somatic conditions. If you are unsure whether your situation qualifies, describe it as clearly as you can in the contact form - I will read it personally and let you know.
How to fill out the contact form — a practical guide.
The contact form is the first and most important step in our therapeutic relationship. Please read the following guidance carefully before submitting your request, as a well-completed form significantly increases your chances of being accepted - and helps me prepare the most effective session possible.
Describe your situation - not your diagnosis. I am not a licensed medical doctor or psychologist in Quebec, and I do not work from diagnoses, DSM classifications, or lab results. What matters to me is not what you have been told you have, but what you experience, how you feel, and how your daily life is affected. Describe your situation in your own words - what troubles you, how long it has been present, and what it costs you in quality of life.
Mention if you believe your issue has an emotional root. While Somatic Hypnotherapy targets emotional feelings as the primary vehicle of change, many clients come to me with physical or somatic conditions - chronic pain, skin issues, autoimmune flare-ups, digestive problems, insomnia - that they sense may be emotionally connected. If this resonates with your situation, please say so. The link between unresolved emotional stress and physical symptoms is well documented, and it is often precisely where this approach can help most. A candid answer is far more useful than a polished one. There are no wrong answers.
Tell me what you have already tried. I genuinely want to know what other approaches you have explored - whether conventional therapy, medication, coaching, or other modalities - and what results, if any, they produced. This is not a judgment; it is essential context that helps me understand the complexity of your situation and assess whether I can realistically help.
State your expectations clearly. What do you hope to feel, experience, or be able to do after your Somatic Hypnotherapy sessions that you cannot feel, experience, or do now? Concrete, honest expectations - even imperfect ones - help me gauge whether this approach can deliver what you are looking for, and allow me to set realistic benchmarks for your first session.
No need to share more than you are comfortable with. You do not need to disclose the intimate details of memories or experiences you would rather not discuss. Somatic Hypnotherapy does not require you recount your past in detail. Just as a broken bone heals without requiring you to remember exactly how it broke, emotional healing can unfold without a full verbal account of the original wound.
What to expect from the therapy.
Somatic Hypnotherapy is a team effort. My role is to guide you in identifying and resetting accumulated emotional feelings - stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, guilt, shame, pain, and much more. Your role is to show up with genuine willingness to change - not perfect understanding, simply a real desire to feel differently. Unlike approaches that promise results you may experience eventually, with Somatic Hypnotherapy you assess your results on the spot, within the session itself.
I rarely work with a client for more than three sessions, regardless of the complexity of the issue. You will experience meaningful improvement after each session. And if by the end of your first session you see no improvement in the issue we have worked on - I will not charge you. That is my commitment, and it has been since the beginning.
As a Quebec based certified hypno-therapist, I am bound by professional secrecy and all other applicable national and provincial regulations. My services are still covered by certain private insurers. Contact your insurance provider to learn about your coverage.
Fees: First session (2–3 hours): $160. Possible follow-up sessions: $120. You can pay in cash or by e-transfer, at the end of your session.
The "No Results - No Pay" principle guarantees my integrity and applies to all my therapies.***
You can reach me by filling out the contact form below.
Appointment availability : 
Monday Sometimes, on request
Tuesday 9:00 | 12:00 |
Wednesday 9:00 | 12:00 | 15:00
Thursday 9:00 | 12:00 |
Friday Sometimes, on request
Saturday & Sunday - always closed
Clinic location & driving directions.
186 Sutton Place, Suite 104, Beaconsfield, QC, H9W 5S3 - West Island of Montreal. The clinic is on the second level of a business centre in Beaconsfield, at the north-east corner of Highway 20 and Boulevard St-Charles, very close to Beaconsfield train station. Tel: +1 514 507 6788 Speaker or event request : Alex Priala : somatichypnosis@gmail.com
How to get to the clinic:
The business center, very close to Beaconsfield train station, at the N-E corner of highway 20 and St-Charles boulevard.
By train: Beaconsfield station is a 5-minute walk from the clinic.
By bus: "Gare St-Charles" bus stop is a 3-minute walk. Lines 200, 201, 354, 411, and 425 all stop nearby. From downtown, take bus 211 to St-Charles / Beaconsfield, then connect to lines 200, 201, or 425 one stop north to St-Charles station. For routes and schedules, see the public transit planner, or call (514) 288-6287.
By car: Outdoor parking is available on-site, on the north-east side of the building, accessible via Sutton Place.
The "No Results – No Pay" principle guarantees my integrity and applies to all my therapies.
You can reach me by filling out the contact form below.
I look forward to reading your message. If you take the time to write to me, I will personally reply - even if only to let you know, honestly, whether I believe I can help you.
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Disclaimer: The content of this page reflects the opinion of its author, is provided for educational and general informational purposes only, and does not constitute medical, psychological, or professional advice. I do not make any diagnoses according to recognized classifications (DSM-5, ICD-10) and I do not interfere in any way with ongoing treatments.
If you are already under medical care or treatment, follow their advice and treatment. I am not a doctor or licensed psychologist in Quebec; therefore, I cannot establish or continue a treatment based on your diagnosis. If you decide to consult me, be prepared to tell me what is bothering you and how you feel about it.
For any medical emergency, call the Info-Santé service by dialing 811.
*In Somatic Hypnotherapy, the terms "feelings" and "emotional feelings" are often used interchangeably and refer to sensory experiences perceived onto or within the body, assessed, interpreted, and integrated through interoception and conceptualized by the rational mind as "emotions." - which is consistent with their traditional, biological and medical meanings, but differs considerably from the meaning of the term 'feeling' in cognitive psychology, where it often converges and merges with the term 'emotion'.
**The results may vary from person to person.
***In other words, if at the end of your session you don't see any improvement in the issues addressed in therapy, I won't accept your money!
Somatic Hypnotherapy - 186 Sutton Place, suite 104, Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 5S3, in the West Island of Montreal.