Frequently asked questions
Is this therapy?
No. This is coaching for personal growth and self-improvement. It isn’t therapy, counseling, psychotherapy, or medical or mental health care, and Lara doesn’t diagnose or treat any condition. If you’re looking for treatment, a licensed professional is the right choice — and you can coach alongside that care if your provider agrees.
What is hypnosis? Will I lose control?
Hypnosis is a natural state of relaxed, focused attention — like being absorbed in a film or driving somewhere on autopilot. You stay aware, you can speak, and you can stop whenever you like. Nothing happens that you don’t agree to.
What is Brainspotting, and how do you use it in coaching?
Brainspotting was developed by David Grand, Ph.D., in 2003. His central discovery is that “where you look affects how you feel.” You rest your gaze on a chosen point in your field of vision while paying attention to physical sensations. In coaching, it’s used to build body awareness, steadiness and clarity about the patterns you want to change.
What can coaching help with?
Clients most often work on attachment and relationship patterns, everyday stress and anxious thinking, habits they’re ready to change, and confidence or focus. Your goals are agreed together in the free consultation.
Do you work with anxiety, trauma or addiction?
Lara coaches people on everyday stress and anxious thinking. She doesn’t diagnose or treat anxiety disorders, trauma, PTSD, depression, addiction, eating concerns or any other condition. If any of these apply to you, please work with a licensed professional.
Can I keep seeing my doctor or therapist?
Yes, and you’re encouraged to. Coaching works alongside professional care, never instead of it. Lara will never suggest you stop or change a medication or treatment.
What happens in the free consultation?
A 20-minute call. You share what you’d like to work on, Lara explains how she’d approach it, and you both decide whether coaching is a good fit. If she thinks a licensed professional would serve you better, she’ll say so and point you to resources. There’s no obligation.
How many sessions will I need?
It varies. Many people prefer a series of sessions taken weekly, which is why sessions are offered in packages of 4, 8 or 12. No particular result or timeline is guaranteed.
Do online sessions work?
Yes. You’ll need a private, quiet space, a stable connection and 75 uninterrupted minutes. Please never join a session while driving. Online sessions aren’t currently available if you’ll be in Colorado, Connecticut or Washington.
Is what I share confidential?
Yes, with limits. What you share stays private except where you agree otherwise, where the law requires disclosure, or where someone is at serious risk of harm. Because coaching isn’t licensed therapy, conversations generally don’t have the legal privilege that applies to a licensed therapist or doctor. See the privacy section below.
Do you offer sessions in French?
Yes — sessions are available in English and French.
What if I need to cancel or change my plans?
Please give at least 24 hours’ notice to reschedule. Packages don’t expire. You can cancel within 3 business days of purchase for a full refund if you haven’t had a session, and unused sessions can be refunded after that. Full terms are below.
Package terms
| Package | Sessions | Price | Per session |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single session | 1 × 75 minutes | $300 | $300.00 |
| 4-session pack | 4 × 75 minutes | $1,140 | $285.00 |
| 8-session pack | 8 × 75 minutes | $2,166 | $270.75 |
| 12-session pack | 12 × 75 minutes | $3,087 | $257.25 |
- What a package is. A series of coaching sessions offered at a reduced rate. It isn’t stored value or a gift certificate.
- No expiration. Sessions don’t expire, and there are no dormancy or rebooking fees.
- Cooling-off period. Cancel within 3 business days of purchase for a full refund, as long as no session has taken place.
- Refunds after that. You can end a package at any time. Each session you’ve already used is charged at the single-session price of $300. We subtract that from what you paid and refund the rest. Example: you paid $1,140 for the 4-session pack and used 2 sessions, so $1,140 − (2 × $300) = $540 refunded. If the sessions you’ve used add up to more than you paid, no refund is due. Refunds go to your original payment method within 14 days.
- If Lara can’t continue. If Lara becomes unable to provide sessions, you’re refunded in full for every unused session at the per-session price you paid for your package (for example, 2 unused sessions from a 4-session pack = 2 × $285 = $570), and she’ll suggest other practitioners.
- Rescheduling. Please give at least 24 hours’ notice. Late cancellations may count as a session.
- Transfers. Sessions are for the purchaser and can’t be transferred or resold.
All terms are shown before you pay and are governed by the full Terms & Conditions.
Privacy
We collect only what’s needed to schedule and provide sessions: contact details, the goals you share, where you’ll be located for sessions, and payment information (processed by our payment provider). We do not sell personal information.
This is a private-pay coaching practice that doesn’t bill insurance, so it is not a HIPAA-covered entity and doesn’t claim HIPAA compliance. We protect your information with reasonable security measures and will notify you of any data breach as Florida law requires.
Advertising and analytics tools load only if you agree to them, and we never share the goals you discuss or anything you tell us in sessions with advertising platforms. Read the full Privacy Policy and our separate Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy.
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Nature of services
Reprogramind provides one-to-one coaching for personal growth and self-improvement. Sessions may include guided hypnosis and Brainspotting-based focus techniques, used as coaching tools for goals such as managing everyday stress, changing habits and understanding relationship patterns.
These services are not therapy, counseling, psychotherapy, mental health care or medical care. Lara does not diagnose or treat any medical or mental health condition, does not prescribe or give advice about medication, and will never suggest that you stop or change a medication or treatment prescribed to you. Coaching is not a substitute for care from a physician or a licensed mental health professional.
Credentials and licensure
Lara Kassir holds the following private professional credentials: certified hypnotist (honors graduate, Hypnosis Motivation Institute); Certified Brainspotting Practitioner (private credential); and a Diploma in Personal Transformation Coaching (Animas Centre for Coaching, including 50 ICF-approved coach-specific training hours). These are private certifications, not licenses issued by any state. Lara is not licensed by the State of Florida or any other state as a physician, psychologist, mental health counselor, clinical social worker, marriage and family therapist, or other health care practitioner. Brainspotting was developed by David Grand. Lara’s Brainspotting practitioner certification is a private credential; this site is not affiliated with or endorsed by any Brainspotting training organisation.
Who coaching is for
Services are for adults 18 and over who are generally doing well and want to work on personal goals. During your free consultation, and at any point afterwards, Lara may recommend that you see a licensed professional instead of or alongside coaching, and may decline or stop sessions where coaching isn’t appropriate. This includes thoughts of suicide or self-harm, trauma or PTSD, depression, alcohol or drug use, gambling, eating concerns, psychosis or dissociation, or any condition you are currently being treated for.
Where sessions are available
In-person sessions take place in Miami, Florida. Online sessions are available to clients located in most U.S. states. Because some states regulate hypnosis services, online sessions are not currently available to clients physically located in Colorado, Connecticut or Washington [UPDATE IF REGISTRATIONS ARE OBTAINED]. You’ll be asked to confirm where you’ll be located for each session. Online sessions are also available to clients in the European Union, the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom; additional privacy terms apply (see the Privacy Policy).
No guarantee of results
Everyone is different, and results depend largely on your own participation. No particular outcome is promised or guaranteed. Client comments on this site reflect individual experiences; they are not typical results and are not evidence that coaching will work for you. Where a client has received anything of value in connection with a comment, that is disclosed next to it.
Recording
Sessions are not recorded. Florida requires the consent of everyone in a conversation before it may be recorded. If you’d like a recording of a guided practice, we’ll agree that in writing before the session begins — never during hypnosis. Please don’t record sessions yourself without written agreement.