What happens during hypnosis?

Hypnotherapy is a type of therapy that uses hypnosis to help people make positive changes in their thoughts, feelings, or behaviors. It involves guiding someone into a deeply relaxed, focused state—kind of like being in a daydream—so they’re more open to suggestion and inner exploration.

While there is a LOT of misinformation about hypnosis and funny assumptions made, there is also a lot of research that backs hypnotherapy as an amazing adjunct to more traditional forms of talk-therapy.

After a hypnosis session, most of my clients report feeling more relaxed, more trusting of themselves and their life path and more able to access deeper parts of themselves that have been buried.

Once these parts are re-discovered, we are able to work on meeting their needs, even if the wounds are old and have been troubling them and impacting their lives for years.

  • Research has confirmed that while under hypnosis, consciousness shifts from the more intellectual, task oriented, executive functioning part of the mind to the more expansive, “felt” sense orientation of focus. During hypnosis, parts of the brain expand, while others relax.

  • Similar to a computer system with multiple layers to process and store data, our mind has many layers. Most of the time, we are accessing our conscious or “executive” mind, the initial layer that enables everyday functioning in life.

    This space is where we get caught in a loop telling our “stories” and getting caught in patterns that no longer serve us.

    Through hypnosis, we can tap into the next layer of information (the subconscious mind) where many stored emotions and memories are trapped. Once accessed, we can often release or correct.

  • The Transpersonal approach to Hypnotherapy emerged as a subfield of psychology in the 1960’s. It is a more holistic view that presumes that the self can exist beyond the identity and considers the whole person.

    It includes the idea that each individual has a higher or spiritual self (sometimes referred to as the “Wise One”)that has access to all things knowable through their consciousness and that this consciousness is also interconnected to the consciousness of all.

Misleading Information about Hypnotherapy:

When I first learned about hypnosis, I was likely just like you…skeptical. Most people’s first introduction to hypnotherapy is usually at a state fair or an event where someone is bringing people up on stage and convincing them to do embracing things. This is NOT what hypnosis is or why it was developed.

It’s not mind control or sleep—it’s a natural, trance-like state of heightened focus and concentration. Think of times when you’ve been so absorbed in a book or movie that you lost track of time—that’s a similar state.

Hypnosis is not:

  • Losing control: You will be aware and conscious throughout your session.

  • Being unconscious or asleep: You must be awake for me to do a session on you, but you will be accessing different parts of yourself and your brain. Once you have a few sessions you will become familiar with the sensation of entering this state and it’s actually far less dramatic than most of us think it is!

  • Forgetting or amnesia: While you will be lucid during your session, often you will remember very interesting and specific details.

  • Divulging secrets/truth serum: During hypnosis, you only have to share what feels right to share. There are many sessions I’ve personally had where I kept many details private to myself and didn’t share with my practitioner. They were meant for me and me only. They were no less meaningful or impactful because I chose not to share them. What you share is up to you.

  • Forensic Evidence: The mind is a funny thing. What comes up in a session may or may not be an “accurate” event…and to be honest, it doesn’t matter. What matters is that when we meet this memory in hypnosis, we give this part of you what it needs during the session so that healing can take place. Hypnosis is not to be used for forensic purposes.

How to prepare for your Hypnosis Session:

For hypnotherapy to work, it’s important that you’re comfortable and relaxed and that you can hear me well. Please put animals in another room as in most cases, they will pull you out of the hypnotic state.

Online Sessions:

If we are doing this via zoom, make sure you have a fully charged headset or earbuds and that your phone or computer is set up so that I can see you and that you won’t run out of battery during our session.

Types of Hypnotherapy Sessions

  • These 90 minute sessions will help you adjust to the hypnotherapy process and give you time to work your way into your first hypnotherapy session. Come with a particular focus in mind for what you'd like to work on.

    $215 for first intake

  • These 50 minute sessions are designed to help address specific issues as they arise. You will be guided into a deeply relaxed state and we will then look to find your block is and address the need. A series or 4 sessions is often recommended over the course of 4-6 weeks. $175 per session.

  • These 2.5 Hour Sessions are designed to help you access information, knowledge, healing and awareness from past lives. Powerful and long, it's recommended that you start with a few clinical sessions to adjust to hypnosis before diving into a regression session.

    $350 per session

Hypnotherapy is great for:

  • Reducing anxiety and helping you to find the root cause of where it is coming from.

  • Helping you to find more self-love and compassion.

  • Helping to increase you sense of self worth so that you can attract relationships that mirror these emotions.

  • Helping you to decrease actions of self harm and increase actions of self love so that you can find patterns that work better for you in life.

  • Helping you to release heavy burdens that you have carried on behalf of your family or other relationships so that you can live life in more lightness.

I’m ready for my first session. How do I get started?

If you’re ready for hypnotherapy, I ask that you first start by booking a free 15 minute consultation call so that we can go through a few new client items. All hypnotherapy must be paid for out of pocket (no insurance accepted). Shoot me an email or call my office to set up an initial consult call.