General Practitioners

• Medical Weight Loss
  A common misconception is that a person in Hypnosis is unconscious and under control of the hypnotist.  Nothing could be farther from the truth.  When a person is in Hypnosis, you are deeply relaxed physically, yet mentally, many times more alert than in your normal state of awareness.  You hear and respond to everything, and you are an active participant in the therapy.  You have great control over what you will or will not do and could instantly reject any suggestion you might find to be uncomfortable.  When a person likes and wants the suggestions given, they allow the suggestions to enter into the subconscious mind.  This part of us is like a computer and must respond to what is allowed to go into it.  We are all what the programming in the subconscious mind perceives us to be.  If this part of the mind views us as fat, we become fat.  If it perceives that we smoke, we smoke and so on with smoking, weight loss, and other problems.  Yet, if the mind perceives that we are a non­smoker or slim, we become that which we perceive.

Psychiatrists

• Mental Health
  The Loughmiller Institute, founded by psychologist Grover C. Loughmiller in 1974, is presently the practice home of Stephen C. Westmoreland, Ed.D. Dr. Westmoreland became the Institute’s psychologist in 2002 and has worked to offer comprehensive mental health counseling and testing services to East Texans since that time.