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Counselling
Counselling
Trauma-Informed | Nervous-System Aware | Evidence-Based | Integrative Healing
Clinical Hypnotherapy is one of the most powerful and gentle ways to access the deeper layers of the mind where trauma, anxiety, addiction patterns, pain, and emotional imprints are stored.
Unlike traditional talk therapy, hypnotherapy works with the subconscious mind — The part of you that holds:
- Automatic emotional reactions
- Internalized beliefs
- Protective parts
- Sensory memories
- Behavioral loops
- Deeply rooted habits
- Unresolved emotional pain
In a safe, guided, trauma-informed trance state, you can access the origin of your patterns and create lasting change.
*Hypnotherapy helps you transform what feels “stuck” — At the deepest level of the mind and body.*
Hypnotherapy is ideal for individuals who:
- Feel stuck despite insight
- Want deeper emotional access
- Struggle with anxiety or panic
- Have unresolved trauma
- Experience urges or compulsions
- Seek mind-based healing
- Carry subconscious blocks
- Seek body-based healing
- Want an alternative to talk-only therapy
- Desire internal clarity, safety, and transformation
*If you feel stuck or disconnected from yourself, hypnotherapy may be the path forward.*
- PTSD / C-PTSD
- Childhood emotional wounds
- Shame
- Overwhelm
- Emotional flashbacks
- Self-worth and identity wounds
- Grief & unresolved loss
- Panic attacks
- Overthinking
- Stress responses
- Fear triggers
- Sleep disturbances
- Porn / sex addiction
- Love addiction
- Relationship addiction
- Behavioral addictions (food, phone, technology)
- Substance recovery support
- Relapse cycles + urges
- Trauma loops feeding addiction
- Chronic pain
- Medical trauma
- Tension patterns
- Pain-amplification from trauma
- Nervous-system hyperarousal
- Public speaking
- Test anxiety
- Work/life balance
- Creative flow
- Executive performance
- Goal settings
- Sleep improvement
- Weight + eating patterns
- Smoking cessation
- Motivation
- Nervous-system calming
*Hypnotherapy can help where insight alone hasn’t been enough.*
Most struggles are not created at the conscious level.
They form in the subconscious, the nervous system, and the emotional body.
Hypnotherapy bypasses cognitive overwhelm and directly supports:
- Emotional healing
- Behavioral transformation
- Nervous-system regulation
- Trauma release
- Belief rewiring
- Habit change
- Embodied integration
Your subconscious is not the problem — It’s the part of you that has been trying to protect you.
Hypnotherapy simply gives it a new job.
*When the subconscious shifts, everything shifts.*
Clinical hypnotherapy is:
- A focused, relaxed state of awareness
- A collaborative process between therapist and client
- A way to access subconscious emotions and patterns
- Grounded in consent, pacing, and nervous-system safety
Clinical hypnotherapy is not:
- Stage hypnosis
- Mind control
- Sleep or unconsciousness
- Something done to you
*You remain conscious, aware, and in control throughout hypnotherapy.*
Most hypnotherapy is not trauma-informed.
At Thrive, we use a clinical, attachment-based, nervous-system–aware model that ensures:
- You stay in full control
- Your nervous system stays regulated
- No suggestion bypasses emotional safety
- No retraumatization
- No forced regression
- No pushing deeper than your body allows
Our approach blends:
- Polyvagal theory
- Somatic tracking
- Internal parts work
- Breath-based stabilization
- Guided subconscious healing
- Nervous-system safety protocols
- Neo Linguistic Programming (NLP)
*Safety is the foundation. Depth is the outcome.*
You are awake. You are aware. You are in control the entire time.
A session typically includes:
1. Nervous-system grounding
2. Relaxed trance induction
3. Exploring the subconscious layers connected to your struggle
4. Meeting emotional parts or memories safely
5. Releasing outdated beliefs or stored patterns
6. Integrating new emotional frameworks
7. Returning fully grounded and clear
Clients often describe the experience as:
- “Deeply calming.”
- “Safe and surprisingly gentle.”
- “Like meeting a part of myself I had forgotten.”
- “Releasing something old without being overwhelmed.”
*It’s not losing control — It’s reclaiming access to your internal world.*
At Thrive Beyond Trauma Counseling, clinical hypnotherapy is never used in isolation.
It is integrated with:
Trauma-informed psychotherapy
Nervous-system regulation
Somatic awareness
Emotional processing and recoding
- Neo Linguistic Programming (NLP)
This ensures that subconscious work is supported by grounding, integration, and relational safety — Not bypassing or quick fixes.
*Hypnotherapy at Thrive is offered as a flexible, trauma-informed modality — Used independently or integrated with other approaches when appropriate.*
For trauma, C-PTSD, emotional flashbacks, triggers, chronic overwhelm.
For porn, sex, love, relationship, and behavioral addictions.
For nervous-system recalibration, panic, overthinking.
For pain influenced by trauma, tension, or emotional overwhelm.
For professionals, students, creatives, and executives.
For sleep issues, smoking cessation, eating patterns, motivation.
For anxiety, trauma release, addiction recovery, breath integration, and emotional regulation.
Clinical hypnotherapy is one of many tools available in trauma-informed care.
If and when it is used, it is always guided by your goals, your consent, and your nervous system — Not a protocol or timeline.
*Your healing pace and autonomy always come first.*
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No — Hypnotherapy increases control and internal clarity.
Yes, when done with a trauma-informed clinician (ours are).
No — You process what your system is ready for.
No — Trance states are natural and reversible.
Yes — Research supports hypnotherapy for trauma, anxiety, addiction, and pain.
Begin Your Healing Journey With Gail
Gail is the Head of Holistic Care at Thrive Beyond Trauma Counseling, leading integrative mind-body services that support trauma recovery and behavioral addiction healing. She brings deep mind-body wisdom into Thrive’s trauma-informed work, complementing our therapeutic approach with whole-person care.
Whether you are healing trauma, shifting patterns, calming your nervous system, or seeking deeper emotional access — Hypnotherapy offers a gentle, profound pathway inward.