Hypnotherapy is like meditation with a guided purpose. It is a skill developed over sessions to go into a deeply relaxed state to receive important information or experiences through our subconscious.

There can be a lot of fear and baggage when people hear the word hypnotherapy or hypnosis because the media has portrayed these things inaccurately. The truth is that we go into trance everyday. When you are driving a car and you lost a sense of time or daydream, that is trance. Some of us go into deeper states while others don’t and that is ok. The subconscious and your body is a brilliant knower of how deep you need to go.

In a therapeutic setting these trances can be used to somatically release emotions from the body, develop healthy habits, set goals, spiritually explore, investigate creative blocks and remember early memories or past lives (if your belief system resonates with that concept).

My training with Hypnotherapy is extensive and I started back in 2017 with direct methods aligned with the National Guild of Hypnotists and the Michael Newton Metaphysical Hypnosis and Energy Releasement methods. Currently, I am finishing up my study in Counselling Hypnotherapy, which is an indirect method founded by Dr. Milton Erickson, at the Orca Institute in British Columbia. This method is designed to work alongside counselling and is aligned with the values of humanistic psychology by allowing hypnotherapy to be person-centred.