Lisa Oliver is a freelance writer and researcher who works from her home in the wilds of Tangowahine, Northland, New Zealand. During the past ten years Lisa has written on a number of topics including parenting and alternative health articles, travel articles about her corner of the world and other places, and academic articles on Law, Business, Psychology, Counseling, Criminology and Philisophy and Religion.

In more recent times Lisa has completed her book on domestic violence entitled "Invisible Bars: Why women don't leave" as well as ebooks on NLP, ghosts, perimenopause, writing as a work at home enterprise and her popular book "20 Ways to Make $100 Cash TODAY" (without a computer). She is currently working on a book about why men abuse their partners and in a more light hearted vein "Wicked Step Mum 101".

When Lisa is not writing for her American clients she operates her own private counseling service for couples and older women. She can be contacted via email at ogp201@maxnet.co.nz

My passion is ...

helping others to find their passion in life

I know too much about ...

just about everything according to my kids

My parents always told me ...

There is a whole world out there for the taking

My childhood ambition ...

Was to be a lawyer and a writer

My favorite memory ...

A million of them to do with my kids

Why I write ...

Because I can and because I want to

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

I am re-reading Kathy Reich's books and the Encyclopedia of Witchcraft

My first job ...

Making Pizza's

My best moment ...

Hearing my Dad tell me he loved my first book

My inspiration ...

Life

Health & Fitness > Alternative Therapies Hypnotherapy: Does it work?

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Hypnotherapy has been used by medical professionals and alternative health care workers for centuries but it only gained scientific recognition from the 1950s onwards. Basically defined hypnotherapy is a therapeutic process that requires the patient to be induced into a trance-like state. While in that state the patient is more agreeable to accepting ideas and suggestions from the therapist that will enable the patient to overcome problems that are affecting their ability to live life to the full.

One of the reasons why hypnotherapy has enjoyed some notoriety in the past is because o...

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