What Is Hypnotherapy & What It Absolutely Is Not.
Hypnotherapy is A science-backed, soul-grounded tool for healing, rewiring, and lasting transformation.
Yet when you hear the word “hypnosis,” what comes to mind?
A swinging pocket watch?
Someone on stage clucking like a chicken?
A trance you can’t escape from until someone snaps their fingers?
Let’s set the record straight.
Hypnosis is not mind control.
It’s not woo.
It’s definitely not something that can make you do anything against your will.
In fact, hypnosis is one of the most powerful tools we have for rewiring the subconscious mind, healing the nervous system, and breaking free from stress, anxiety, and unhealthy coping habits.
Let’s break it down—science meets soul style.
What Hypnosis Is
A Natural State of Focused Awareness
Hypnosis is a state your brain already knows.
It’s that liminal space between sleep and wake, where your body is deeply relaxed but your mind is calm, clear, and receptive.
You’re not unconscious—you’re tuned in.
A Deep Form of Intentional Meditation With a Goal
Unlike traditional meditation, which focuses on clearing your mind of thoughts. Hypnosis gently guides the mind toward specific healing or change.
Whether it’s calming anxiety, releasing trauma, breaking habits, or building self-trust—hypnosis helps your mind align with your deeper desires.
A Tool to Rewire Subconscious Patterns
Most of your habits, triggers, and self-beliefs aren’t logical. They’re subconscious.
Hypnosis helps you access those deep-rooted patterns and shift them from the inside out.
This is how we move from “This is just how I am” to “This is who I choose to become.”
A Way to Bypass Overthinking and Access Real Change
When you’re in a hypnotic state, the part of the brain that’s hyper-critical or anxious temporarily quiets down.
This makes it easier to receive healing suggestions that stick—because they’re delivered at the level where your beliefs are actually formed.
What Hypnosis Isn’t
It’s Not Stage Hypnosis. Although For Fun It Can Be.
Stage hypnosis is for entertainment.
Therapeutic hypnosis—like the kind I offer in Hood River, throughout the Columbia River Gorge and beyond—is client-led, safe, and trauma-aware.
You're always in control, always aware, and always able to come out of it at any time.
It’s Not Mind Control
You cannot be made to do or believe anything that goes against your core values.
Hypnosis actually strengthens your sense of agency, helping you reconnect to your own voice and intuition.
It’s Not a Trance You Can’t Wake From
There’s no such thing as getting “stuck” in hypnosis.
You’re fully present and can exit the state anytime—no finger-snapping required. Although sometimes you may actually fall asleep. That’s OK!
Why Working With a Trained Hypnotherapist Matters
There are plenty of meditation apps and generic hypnosis scripts online—but for real change to happen, you need more than a soothing voice.
You need someone who understands the nervous system, subconscious communication, and trauma-informed care.
That’s why combining clinical hypnotherapy with transformational coaching is so effective. It’s not just about helping you relax—it’s about helping you rewire.
How This Approach Works
We Use Personalized Language That Speaks to Your Subconscious
A skilled hypnotherapist listens closely to:
The exact way you describe your challenge
Your sensory language (visual, feeling-based, auditory, etc.)
The emotional charge behind your words
Then, we mirror that language back to your subconscious—so your system receives it with trust and familiarity.
This isn’t “you should feel calm.”
It’s: “You feel a grounded steadiness blooming in your chest, like the wise woman you already are.”
Your subconscious listens when it hears itself reflected.
Coaching Bridges the Insight Into Real-Life Change
Even the most profound shift in session can fade if you don’t integrate it.
That’s where transformational coaching comes in.
We work together to:
Identify the core belief keeping you stuck
Reframe and rewire that pattern with intention
Implement aligned micro-behaviors in your day-to-day life
Anchor these shifts using somatic tools and nervous system regulation
This is the part where transformation becomes sustainable.
This Isn’t One-Size-Fits-All Healing
You’re not a generic script.
That’s why my approach combines:
Clinical hypnotherapy for subconscious rewiring
Trauma-informed coaching for integration
Somatic and energetic practices for embodiment
Your own voice, wisdom, and body cues
Because that’s how it actually sticks. And lasts.
Why Hypnosis Works (Brain Science Meets Embodiment)
You may have heard of the “three brains” model:
Reptilian brain: governs survival, safety, fight or flight
Limbic brain: holds emotion, memory, attachment
Neocortex: the thinking, self-aware, problem-solving mind
Most sabotage patterns happen when these systems are out of sync.
You may want to feel confident—but your body still feels unsafe.
You may crave calm—but your brain is stuck on high alert.
Hypnosis helps all three brains come into harmony.
It calms the stress response, bypasses critical overthinking, and plants new empowering beliefs directly where they’re needed most.
Your Brain Can’t Tell the Difference Between Real and Imagined
This is what makes hypnosis so powerful.
When you visualize a new way of being in a hypnotic state, your brain encodes it as real.
You literally begin to rewire your emotional and behavioral patterns from the inside out.
That means you can practice:
Feeling calm in situations that once triggered you
Responding to stress with clarity instead of overwhelm
Embodying confidence in your relationships, your career, or your healing
And over time, your brain and body begin to respond as if that’s your new normal.
Because it now is.
Final Truth: Hypnosis Isn’t Magic—It’s Biology
But it feels like magic when your body finally feels safe, when your mind softens, when your whole system exhales and says: “This is who I am now.”
Hypnosis is not something done to you.
It’s a collaborative process you engage with—one that reminds you how powerful and capable you already are.
Ready to Experience Hypnosis for Yourself?
Whether you’re working through stress, anxiety, burnout, emotional blocks, or identity shifts, I offer:
Private Hypnotherapy + Coaching Sessions in Hood River and Online
Hypno-Healing Soul Circles in the Columbia River Gorge
Custom subconscious rewiring sessions based on your unique patterns
Because your mind isn’t the problem.
It’s the portal.
