What to expect in a session
In a session you will experience a sense of transformation and healing by exploring your active imagination. This can be done through sound healing, guided imagery, hypnotherapy, counseling, artwork, meditation, body awareness, dream exploration and drumming lessons. Click on the links to the left for additional information about healing modalities and scheduling.

What is Depth Hypnosis?
Depth Hypnosis is a therapeutic model that draws from Hypnotherapy, Energy Medicine, Buddhism and Shamanism. Depth Hypnosis was developed by Dr. Isa Gucciardi, founding director of the Foundation of the Sacred Stream.

The Practitioner
Mer Zandifar is an artist, musician, co-founder of the non-profit program, Awakening Through Art and board member of Children's Path Program. She is certified hypnotherapist with over ten years of experience studying music, dance, therapeutic and meditative techniques from around the world. Mer holds a BA in Psychology with an emphasis in Psychobiology, and is enrolled in a MA program in Counseling Psychology and Holistic Studies. She has worked in schools and group homes as a teacher and youth counselor and gives rhythm and percussion lessons for people of all ages (including the Sufi frame drum, doumbak and djembe).

In her private practice in San Francisco, Mer integrates depth hypnosis, sound therapy, somatic and transpersonal psychology, mysticism and art in working with people who face challenges such as depression, anxiety, life transitions and creative blocks.