Clinical Hypnosis

Clinical hypnosis is one of the tools I use within therapy—it is not a stand-alone or one-time intervention. It is integrated into a broader, active therapeutic process where you are learning how to work with your thinking, emotional responses, and behaviour patterns.

In this approach, hypnosis is understood as focused attention. By working with how attention is directed and organized, we can access and shift patterns that are often difficult to change through insight alone. This allows us to work more directly with emotional responses, learned patterns, and automatic reactions.

Hypnosis is used as part of the therapy process to help:

• shift unhelpful thinking patterns
• change emotional and behavioural responses
• reduce reactivity and increase flexibility
• strengthen new ways of responding in real time

It is always combined with practical, structured work so changes are understood, applied, and sustained. This is an active process. Clients are not passive during hypnosis—you are engaged in learning how to work with your own attention, responses, and internal experience. The goal is not a one-time experience, but building the ability to create change consistently.

Recent research supports the view that hypnotic communication and suggestions effectively changes aspects of the person’s physiological and neurological functions. 

Depending on your needs, this work may be integrated with cognitive and behavioural strategies, as well as approaches that support emotional regulation and body-based awareness. The focus remains on helping you shift patterns in a way that is practical and usable in your day-to-day life.

Clinical hypnosis is used when it supports the work—it is one of several tools used to help create meaningful, lasting change.

Clinical hypnosis is a form of somatic, experiential therapy that works directly with the body and nervous system—not just thoughts. Rather than only talking about patterns, we work with how they show up in real time—in attention, emotion, and physiological response—so change happens at the level where those patterns are actually maintained.

What makes this approach different form standard somatic therapy is that it works with the organizing process behind the pattern, not just the surface experience. Instead of trying to regulate or manage symptoms, we shift how attention and meaning are structured in the moment, allowing the nervous system to respond differently without force or repetition—often leading to change that feels more immediate, natural, and lasting.