What Is Hypnosis?

Most people have already experienced hypnosis without realizing it.

It happens when you are driving and miss your exit because your mind drifted. It happens when you catch yourself staring off, daydreaming, and detached from the moment. These “foggy” states are light forms of hypnosis. Sleepwalking is a deeper version of the same process. Your brain naturally moves in and out of these states every day.

The problem begins when those patterns of disconnection take over. Feeling numb, bored, or absent from your own life can become a way of coping. Hypnotherapy uses those same natural states to create change, rather than leaving you stuck in them.

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How Hypnosis Works

Hypnosis can be understood through a simple model of the mind.

• The conscious mind is where focus, decision-making, and worry take place. It is also where overthinking lives.

• The subconscious mind is more like a storage system. It holds every belief, label, and habit you have picked up along the way. It does not filter what is useful or harmful, which is why old habits and destructive patterns feel so automatic.

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When your conscious mind looks for a response, it pulls from what the subconscious has stored. If the same old answer is all that is available, you fall back into the same behavior.

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Hypnosis shifts that process. In a focused and receptive state, your subconscious becomes open to healthier instructions. New options are introduced, so when your brain looks for an answer, the subconscious has better choices ready.

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What to Expect

Hypnosis is not stage magic. You do not lose control. Everyone is capable of entering hypnosis because it is a natural function of the brain.

In my sessions, hypnosis is combined with coaching and practical skills. You will experience hypnosis, but you will also learn how to stay grounded in daily life, how to stop checking out, and how to make better choices in the moment.

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My approach is direct. Change is not always comfortable, and my role is to guide you through that discomfort so you can move out of survival mode and into a healthier, more present life.