About Dr. Lazarus"My greatest enjoyment is guiding children and parents to a sense of confidence and self-reliance with regard to their health issues"

- Dr . Jeffrey Lazarus

Jeffrey E. Lazarus, MD, is a board certified pediatrician who combines more than 25 years of general pediatrics experience with the use of medical hypnosis and visualization techniques to treat children and adults.  He now practices in Menlo Park, California.

He completed his pediatric residency at Stanford University Medical Center and practiced general pediatrics in Cleveland, where he was also an Associate Clinical Professor at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital.

In 2000, Dr. Lazarus began special training in medical hypnosis to address issues not effectively treated by traditional medicine. He then migrated his practice from general pediatrics to treating specialized pediatric issues with medical hypnosis.

Today, Dr. Lazarus is one of only 8 pediatricians and one of 52 medical doctors in the U.S. certified as Approved Consultants by The American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. He maintains an active speaking schedule, educating medical staffs and parents groups throughout the US and internationally about the benefits of medical hypnosis.

“While I focus on pediatric conditions, I do have adult patients as well.  No matter what their ages, I show each patient how to manage their conditions through medical hypnosis, often called self-hypnosis,” said Dr. Lazarus.  “After an initial consultation, if I think medical hypnosis can help them, and they are open to it, we begin to work on a treatment for their condition. Often after just 2 or 3 visits, dramatic improvement can be seen.  It’s very empowering, and the results most often last a lifetime.”

“As you will see in the videos on this website, during medical hypnosis, each patient is led through a series of guided imagery/visualization exercises that leave him or her feeling safe, relaxed and alert. What I practice is not the stereotypical hypnosis portrayed in movies and Las Vegas stages,” he added. “What I give my patients is a skill, not just a pill.”

Dr. Lazarus enjoys guiding children and parents toward becoming confident and self-reliant with regard to health. Families appreciate his thoroughness, compassion, and warm sense of humor.

Dr. Lazarus’ Background

Dr. Lazarus became interested in medical hypnosis as a patient himself. After trying traditional therapies for plantar warts without success, he recalled that one of his five-year-old patients had rid himself of hundreds of warts with self-hypnosis.

Dr. Lazarus contacted Karen Olness, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine.  She was also co-author of the premier book in the field of pediatric hypnotherapy, “Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy with Children”.

Dr. Olness taught Dr. Lazarus the technique of self-hypnosis, and within three weeks, his own warts disappeared—never to return.

Since then, Dr. Lazarus studied intensively with some of the most renowned experts in the field of medical hypnosis, and he has applied the techniques he learned to help hundreds of children, as well as adults, overcome personal difficulties. using medical hypnosis to treat a variety of conditions.

If you or your child has an issue you would like to discuss with Dr. Lazarus, please contact him through this site or by phone.