Choury DeVelle
Choury DeVelle
Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist
Choury is the founder and CEO of Orange County Hypnosis Center. He has worked in this capacity for the past 10 years.
Choury started his education in psychology as a pre-med student at the University of Colorado in 1968 with a focus on becoming a psychiatrist. While attending CU as a full-time student during the day, he worked nights as a pharmacy technician at Colorado General Hospital for 3 years. As a pharmacy Tech, Choury was responsible for supplying all the wards of the hospital with their nightly medications. It was during this time that he couldn’t help but notice that there was an overwhelming use of mind and mood altering drugs in the psychiatric ward. Although drugs were useful in many cases when the patients had anger and/or self destructive tendencies, there were others who were withdrawn and docile who were obviously suffering from emotional, or physical traumas but were unaware of how or where they originated. For instance, some of the Vietnam Vets had complete loss of memory regarding the battles responsible for their injuries. The doctors did their best to find out as much as they could in private and group sessions with the young veterans but because of the memory loss, the results were limited at best and the drugs weren’t helping.
Disillusioned and frustrated by all of this, Choury left the university and began a 15 year odyssey of trying to find his place in the world of healing while trying to heal his own traumatic relationship with his father. Although his fascination with the mind continued, there were years and years of self-destructive behaviors that followed. He travelled the country doing odd jobs while researching and working as a part-time hypnotist, he even worked in the entertainment industry for several years. Plagued by his anger and resentment for his father who was an alcoholic and very physically abusive, Choury found himself becoming very much like his father, smoking and drinking in excess which led to him becoming very ill with heart problems and eventually a brain tumor that very nearly took his life.
It was during this time of his journey that he worked with a young woman from France who specialized in healing herbs and teas. This woman had such a powerfully positive effect on him that within a day of working with her, his tumor simply disappeared. Needless to say his doctors were stunned at his spontaneous healing. Many emotional and spiritual awakenings followed which prompted Choury to forgive his father, stop his addictive behaviors and eventually, go back to school and finish his Bachelor of Science Degree in 1987 at the University of Redlands in Redlands Ca. He later studied hypnosis at Kona University in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii and become a certified clinical hypnotherapist.
Since that time, Choury has written two books about his journey of self-discovery and has devoted his life to developing a method of talking to the subconscious mind that is very similar to the experience he had with the healer from France. For lack of a better term, he calls this method ‘Bio-feedback’ because the process allows the subconscious mind to be heard through the physical body and it often tells the therapist what modality will be the most useful in treating the patient’s condition. This process utilizes many traditional insights of classical and modern psychology with ancient but very effective techniques used by the healers of India known as the Vedantic and Tantric methods of releasing negative emotions. The results of these combined techniques have been overwhelmingly successful in reducing issues related to memory loss, PTSD, Bi-polar, OCD, Manic behaviors, Alcohol, smoking and Drug Addiction, Anxiety and Depression.
“There is an unlimited potential that exists within each of us.” Says Choury. “Even with the current knowledge that we have regarding the Placebo and Nocebo effect on the physical body, the true healing is in the nature of our consciousness. We’ve only scratched the surface of what the mind and spirit can do. My job as I see it, is to bring this awareness to all who are seeking a better way of living.” You can learn more here: https://orangecountyhypnosiscenter.com/. If you would like to reach out to Choudry, please email to: chouryd@yahoo.com
Choury started his education in psychology as a pre-med student at the University of Colorado in 1968 with a focus on becoming a psychiatrist. While attending CU as a full-time student during the day, he worked nights as a pharmacy technician at Colorado General Hospital for 3 years. As a pharmacy Tech, Choury was responsible for supplying all the wards of the hospital with their nightly medications. It was during this time that he couldn’t help but notice that there was an overwhelming use of mind and mood altering drugs in the psychiatric ward. Although drugs were useful in many cases when the patients had anger and/or self destructive tendencies, there were others who were withdrawn and docile who were obviously suffering from emotional, or physical traumas but were unaware of how or where they originated. For instance, some of the Vietnam Vets had complete loss of memory regarding the battles responsible for their injuries. The doctors did their best to find out as much as they could in private and group sessions with the young veterans but because of the memory loss, the results were limited at best and the drugs weren’t helping.
Disillusioned and frustrated by all of this, Choury left the university and began a 15 year odyssey of trying to find his place in the world of healing while trying to heal his own traumatic relationship with his father. Although his fascination with the mind continued, there were years and years of self-destructive behaviors that followed. He travelled the country doing odd jobs while researching and working as a part-time hypnotist, he even worked in the entertainment industry for several years. Plagued by his anger and resentment for his father who was an alcoholic and very physically abusive, Choury found himself becoming very much like his father, smoking and drinking in excess which led to him becoming very ill with heart problems and eventually a brain tumor that very nearly took his life.
It was during this time of his journey that he worked with a young woman from France who specialized in healing herbs and teas. This woman had such a powerfully positive effect on him that within a day of working with her, his tumor simply disappeared. Needless to say his doctors were stunned at his spontaneous healing. Many emotional and spiritual awakenings followed which prompted Choury to forgive his father, stop his addictive behaviors and eventually, go back to school and finish his Bachelor of Science Degree in 1987 at the University of Redlands in Redlands Ca. He later studied hypnosis at Kona University in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii and become a certified clinical hypnotherapist.
Since that time, Choury has written two books about his journey of self-discovery and has devoted his life to developing a method of talking to the subconscious mind that is very similar to the experience he had with the healer from France. For lack of a better term, he calls this method ‘Bio-feedback’ because the process allows the subconscious mind to be heard through the physical body and it often tells the therapist what modality will be the most useful in treating the patient’s condition. This process utilizes many traditional insights of classical and modern psychology with ancient but very effective techniques used by the healers of India known as the Vedantic and Tantric methods of releasing negative emotions. The results of these combined techniques have been overwhelmingly successful in reducing issues related to memory loss, PTSD, Bi-polar, OCD, Manic behaviors, Alcohol, smoking and Drug Addiction, Anxiety and Depression.
“There is an unlimited potential that exists within each of us.” Says Choury. “Even with the current knowledge that we have regarding the Placebo and Nocebo effect on the physical body, the true healing is in the nature of our consciousness. We’ve only scratched the surface of what the mind and spirit can do. My job as I see it, is to bring this awareness to all who are seeking a better way of living.” You can learn more here: https://orangecountyhypnosiscenter.com/. If you would like to reach out to Choudry, please email to: chouryd@yahoo.com
