The Mind Body Center: Leclaire Hypnobirthing Method

The Mind Body Center is a complete reproductive and healing institute and helps to guide mothers and train professionals in the psychological, nutritional, psychosocial, and psychosexual needs that arise during the prenatal and postpartum period.

We have an associate and referral medical staff, allopathic and ayurvedic physicians, a nurse practitioner, a nutritionist and acupuncturists.

Many health and wellness programs and centers deal only with the superficial ways of momentarily changing the body's biochemistry. Imagery and laughter are excellent ways to elevate one's energy, but they alone cannot alter a person's old habits and unhealthy ways of being and thinking. The Mind Body Center includes meditation, imagery and hypnosis and therapeutic touch as an integral part of its program. However, to move toward a true and lasting state of well-being, Dr. O'Neill addresses the desires and needs that well up from the unconscious which manifests through our emotions and dreams.

A center for well being that promotes the healthy interconnectedness of mind body in all health related issues, with a direct focus on:

  • Reproductive physiology
  • Fertility
  • Pregnancy and labor
  • Early parenting
  • Panic attacks

For those of you who have concerns with:

  • Conceiving or holding a pregnancy
  • Prenatal anxiety
  • Healthy pregnancy – easy labor
  • Early parenting – prenatal to 3
  • Depression
  • Unhealthy beliefs
  • Medical symptoms
  • Getting well again

We often respond automatically and unconsciously today to situations directly related to prenatal experience and early childhood and familial and societal influences. Here you are offered a path of effectively developing healthy attitudes and behaviors which will beneficially influence your:

  • Endocrine System
  • Immune System
  • Nervous System

Thus:

  • Reducing anxiety and fear
  • Increasing fertility
  • Enhancing joy of pregnancy
  • Easing labor
  • Promoting bonding
  • Developing ways of acceptance, change, and healing
  • Creating and deepening inner peace and security

What we offer:

  • Individually designed health plan
  • Guided imagery and visualization meditation
  • Clinical hypnosis
  • Sociogram and photoanalysis
  • Therapeutic touch – laying on of hands
  • Healing tapes
  • Hospital and home visits
  • Counseling/therapy
  • Five-day residential fertility retreats
  • Leclaire Hypnobirthing Method (classes, books, audio tapes)
  • Associate staff referrals

About Michelle Leclaire O'Neill, Ph.D., R.N., Director of the Mind Body Center

Michelle Leclaire O'Neill, Ph.D., R.N., has worked for 30 years in New York and Los Angeles helping patients to heal. She was on the staff of the Simonton Cancer Center for 10 years where she taught the "Getting Well Again Process" in family, individual and retreat settings. Dr. O'Neill has also trained physicians, nurses, and many other health care professionals from all over the world in Mind-Body Medicine and How to Get Well from Cancer. As a balance to her long-term work with cancer, Dr. O' Neill developed the Leclaire Hypnobirthing Method for Natural Childbirth and the Mind-Body Fertility Program. A mother, as well as a professional, Dr. O'Neill is a certified practitioner of Deepak Chopra's Magical Beginnings Prenatal Program. She is the author of Creative Childbirth, The Complete Leclaire Method, The Pregnancy Diary, Meditations for Pregnancy and Nine Glorious Months, a unique breakthrough in prenatal bonding. She has also written Twelve Weeks to Fertility and the Hypnofertility Bundle, in addition to the Hypnosis for Childbirth Tapes: I. Pregnancy, II. Labor, III. Music for Labor, Breastfeeding, Healing, Fertility and Cancer.