Hypnotherapy
What is hypnotherapy?
Hypnotherapy is an effective and profound form of treatment for psychological, emotional, and physical complaints. It is a gentle but powerful method that helps you connect with yourself on a deeper level. Not by trying harder, but by turning inward and listening.
Hypnotherapy can provide support for persistent complaints such as:
Anxiety or chronic worries
Stress or long-term tension
Burnout or persistent fatigue
Trauma or experiences of loss
Pain and psychosomatic symptoms
Deep-rooted patterns and recurring habits
Hypnotherapy can be seen as a natural path toward healing, insight, and change — at your own pace, with respect for who you are. By working with the subconscious, people often experience more inner calm, resilience, self-confidence, and clarity in both body and mind. This can help you process old pain, transform deep-rooted patterns, and integrate new possibilities into your daily life.
Hypnotherapy works with trance: a state of deep relaxation and focused inner awareness. In this state, you are deeply relaxed while remaining fully present and alert. Your attention is directed inward, your awareness is clear, and you are open to new insights and perspectives.
Trance makes it possible to communicate directly with the subconscious mind. This is often where the origins — and persistence — of symptoms, patterns, and beliefs are found. Working at this level allows change to occur more quickly and sustainably than through talking alone.
Hypnotherapy is not about “being gone” or losing control. On the contrary: you remain fully in charge of yourself.
Hypnosis: you remain in control at all times
Contrary to common misconceptions (or what is shown in stage hypnosis), you remain fully conscious during hypnotherapy. You can speak, move, or express what you need at any moment. Your observing awareness stays present — even in a deep trance.
This is often referred to as dual consciousness: one part of you is immersed in the inner experience, while another part remains aware of the here and now.
You can never be made to say or do anything you don't want to. It is always possible to come out of hypnosis immediately.
Short-term hypnotherapy program
A hypnotherapy program typically consists of 5–8 sessions. During these sessions, we explore together what you are experiencing and what you would like to change. We clarify your goals, identify what truly matters to you, and work on the automatic responses, inner beliefs, and emotional patterns that are anchored in your subconscious.
Through hypnotherapy and therapeutic trance, these unconscious patterns and inner blockages can be transformed. This allows you to integrate new insights and choices into your daily life, leading to lasting change — both internally (emotions, beliefs, inner experience) and externally (behavior, relationships, performance).
Why short-term?
I believe clients deserve a focused and effective approach. Hypnotherapy works directly at the subconscious level, allowing deeply rooted patterns to change more quickly and efficiently than through talking alone. A short-term, solution-focused process enables you to get started right away, transform your patterns, and take meaningful steps toward your goals and aspirations.
Client-based approach
Every person is unique. That is why I work in a client-centered way, taking into account your personality, background, experiences, mindset, emotions, and future aspirations. Techniques and interventions are carefully tailored to what best supports you.
Hypnotherapy at Essential Living is not a standardized protocol. I integrate methods from hypnotherapy, regression, visualization, and related approaches, adapting them to your specific needs. This results in guidance that is thoughtful, personalized, and effective — at my practice in Amsterdam Zuid or online.
Would you like to explore what hypnotherapy can mean for you? Feel free to contact us for a free intro session.
Connect consciously with your subconscious through hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy helps you listen to yourself in a different way — beyond conscious thinking, toward what arises from within. You come into contact with feelings, memories, and beliefs that often lie beyond conscious awareness, yet strongly influence how you feel and behave.
By taking these inner signals seriously, space is created for:
new insights
soothing and relaxation
healing
lasting change from within
In hypnotherapy, you don't learn what to do, but you discover what you truly need.
"Real listening is one of the most powerful forces for change that I know."
- Carl Rogers
Working with your subconscious
Our behavior and perceptions are largely driven by unconscious processes. Experiences that have not been properly processed can become stuck in your body and inner system, leading to automatic reactions, limiting beliefs, or recurring complaints.
Consider:
anxiety that seems to arise “out of nowhere”
physical symptoms without a clear medical cause
recurring patterns you struggle to break
feelings of shame, guilt, or loss of control
Talking about a problem is sometimes not enough to change these deeply rooted patterns. The conscious and subconscious mind, in a sense, speak different languages. Hypnotherapy helps you understand the language of the unconscious — and work with it directly.
Exploring trance
“You are in trance more often than you might think.”
Trance is a very natural state. You may recognize it when:
you drive home on autopilot and suddenly you've already arrived
you become completely absorbed in a book or film
you daydream and briefly lose track of time
These are everyday, spontaneous forms of trance. In hypnotherapy, these natural states are consciously and therapeutically used to activate the self-healing capacity — something we all possess.
Your subconscious often holds important information about what is needed to heal or change. Hypnotherapy helps you reconnect with that information. Feel free to reach out for a free intro session.
When is hypnotherapy right for you?
Hypnotherapy can be helpful for a wide range of psychological, emotional, and physical concerns — from concrete issues and challenges to deeper questions of meaning and life direction.
One of the key benefits of working with hypnotic trance is that we don't just talk about the issue, but work at the level where it originates: in the subconscious.
Learned responses and patterns
Many difficulties arise from automatic learned behaviors or unconscious reactions. You may know that something is unnecessary or safe, yet your body and emotions respond differently. For example:
"I know I don't need to be afraid, but my body reacts differently."
Hypnotherapy works at the root of the issue — on a subconscious level. Below is an overview of common issues, problems and themes for which hypnotherapy can be effectively used.
Hypnotherapy for psychological, emotional and physical concerns
Emotional & psychological concerns
Anxiety (all forms)
Chronic worry and persistent rumination
Depressive feelings
Perfectionism and need for control
Emotional dysregulation
Stress and overload
Difficulty relaxing
Shame and guilt
Negative self-image
Trauma & loss
Complicated or complex grief
Childhood trauma
Sexual abuse
Trauma / Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Attachment issues
Behavior & patterns
Obsessive thoughts and compulsive behavior
Self-exploration and insight into behavioral patterns
Breaking old patterns
Quitting smoking
Bodily concerns & issues
Psychosomatic symptoms / FSS (MUS) — symptoms without a clear medical cause
Tension headaches / migraines
Colitis / Crohn’s disease / Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
Chronic pain symptoms
Central sensitization
Insomnia
Eating-related difficulties
Burnout recovery
Dealing with illness
Are you unsure whether hypnotherapy is suitable for your concern, issue, or challenge? Feel free to get in touch to explore this together.
Hypnotherapy can be used as a standalone approach or as a valuable complement to coaching, counseling, psychotherapy, or EMDR.
Reach out for a free intro session.
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