What is Hypnotherapy?
Hypnotherapy is a powerful, gentle way to help you make changes by working with the part of your mind that truly runs the show—your subconscious.
You’ve probably heard of “hypnosis,” but this isn’t about clucking like a chicken or giving up control. It’s actually a natural state of focused awareness, and it’s something you experience every day. That moment just before you fall asleep, or when you’re so absorbed in a good book you lose track of time? That’s a form of hypnosis.
How It Works
Your brain operates on different wave patterns depending on your state of mind:
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Beta – This is your normal, alert state. It's where we spend most of our day, thinking, planning, doing.
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Alpha – A more relaxed state, like when you close your eyes, take a few deep breaths, and let your shoulders drop.
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Theta – A deeper relaxed state, similar to that dreamy moment right before sleep or right after waking.
Hypnotherapy helps you gently move from Beta into Alpha or Theta—where your subconscious mind becomes more open and receptive.
Why This Matters
Your subconscious is where your:
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Beliefs
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Emotional responses
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Habits
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Memories
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Patterns
...all live.
It runs 90–95% of your daily behavior, often without you even realizing it. That’s why logic and willpower aren’t always enough to make lasting change.
Hypnotherapy helps us go to the source—to find out why you're stuck, where your patterns began, and how to update them.
What You Can Do in Hypnotherapy:
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Let go of limiting beliefs
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Change unhelpful habits or behaviors
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Understand where certain emotional patterns came from
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Reframe how past experiences are affecting you
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Reduce anxiety, fear, or overthinking
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Be open to suggestions that support your health and well-being
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Tap into your creativity, confidence, and intuition
You remain fully aware during hypnotherapy. You’re not asleep, you’re not unconscious, and you’re always in control.
It’s simply a way to work smarter, not harder—by working with the part of your mind that’s already running things behind the scenes.
If you’re curious, I offer a free consultation so we can chat about whether this might be right for you.
Want to learn more? Let’s talk.
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Why Inner Work Matters (And Why Hypnotherapy Helps)
Most of what we do every day is not run by conscious choice.
It’s run by the subconscious mind.
Your subconscious is responsible for your emotional reactions, your habits, your automatic responses, and the patterns you repeat without meaning to.
It’s also your long-term memory.
That means it stores not just what happened to you, but how your system learned to respond.
This is why symptoms don’t appear randomly.
They make sense when you understand where they came from.
In hypnotherapy, we work directly with the subconscious.
That allows us to be far more efficient than trying to change things through willpower or surface-level insight alone.
Rather than telling yourself to feel calm, confident, or relaxed, we look at why your system learned to stay alert, guarded, or tense in the first place. When the subconscious understands that the old response is no longer needed, it can update.
That’s when change actually sticks.
Inner work isn’t about fixing something that’s broken.
It’s about releasing outdated patterns that are still using up energy.
When those patterns resolve, people often notice they have more clarity, more emotional space, and more capacity to respond instead of react. Life feels lighter, not because circumstances magically change, but because the system isn’t working so hard in the background anymore.
This is the work I do.