basic premise to hypnotherapy

Every practitioner takes their own approach to understanding and facilitating hypnotherapy. But at its core, the modality is based on the concept that each person has had a unique critical experience, relating to a certain pattern or behaviour, which shapes their future experiences and actions. Hypnotherapy allows you to gently and safely identify the critical experience and repattern it, so that you can exist within a new internal landscape. The practice works because your unconscious mind is always in a space of neutrality, and all behaviour is learned and habituated.

how hypnotherapy works

Hypnosis is a behavioural trait that everyone possesses, but people respond differently to different types of hypnotic influence. Therefore, the integral role of the therapist is to understand the client in order to create a receptive state of mind, and adapt their suggestions in order to create the desired effect.

When you enter a hypnotic state, it simply means that you are in a receptive state of mind to accept suggestions, and go through a deep process of unlearning and relearning. In this state, suggestions are sent directly to the subsconscious mind, without any possibility of first consciously rationalizing or analyzing. This is because there is an innate filter between the conscious (aware thoughts) and subconscious mind (behaviours and pattern-storing, making up 90% of your total mind) — which explains the difficulty of breaking a habit solely through the conscious mind.

Hypnotherapy is a two part process. The first step is to create a state of focused attention and awareness of thought. When your mind is in a focused state, you are decreasing the external stimuli and distractions, and you eliminate the innate contradiction of your two minds. The second is to accept new suggestions and repattern whatever is no longer serving you.

what to expect in a session

Trust your unconscious to guide you. Each session with me is entirely shaped by what glimmers of information your subconscious mind is ready to share with you. Depending on what it shares, and whether it is ready to negotiate a new role, we can start to understand how deep-rooted the concern may be and how many sessions it may take to resolve it.

some of the shifts you may see

In each session, Michaela will offer her expertise to:

  • negotiate with your unconscious mind to accept a new way of thinking

  • offer suggestions until your unconscious mind accepts them as unconditional

  • build your self-worth, personal power and confidence

  • uncover any subconscious barriers to help overcome resistance

  • find emotional mastery; understand your patterns in order to let go of self-sabotage

  • teach how to solve your own problems going forward (note that once the presenting concern is healed, you should not need to keep coming back for “touch ups” - if the presenting problem returns, it means it has not been completely resolved)

topics we can work on

Whether you want to work on your relationships, money, love, career or any other areas of your life where you feel like you have self-limiting beliefs or self-sabotaging patterns, hypnotherapy is a modality that can help you step into your personal power, and dissolve any blocks that have not reduced through other forms of self reflection or work.

hypnotherapy process for clients

Interview | we start every session gaining an understanding of the presenting problem, conscious understanding of the problem, discuss any noticed changes or discoveries between sessions. First time clients should expect a longer interview period.

Induction | establishing communication with your unconscious mind (hypnosis). This is done by offering a series of suggestions, until I am confident that you are in the desired, relaxed state.

Post-induction | continue offering suggestions, this time tailored to the presenting problem to guide the unconscious mind through discovery and resolution. Each session is unique and the unconscious mind is ultimately the driver - it reveals what it wants to reveal. Therapist will continue guiding until there is some form of integration or understanding with the unconscious to learn new behaviours.

Waking | wake from hypnosis and check in. I will generally avoid analysis of what came up in the session to allow things to continue coming up over the next few hours or days.