r/hypnotherapy

Hey everyone!

I started my hypnotherapy practice, Heartwork Hypnosis™, a couple of months ago. So far, my clients seem to be doing quite well, but I was hoping for some constructive feedback on the practice website. Anything that you like, dislike, suggestions, etc. would be really helpful.

This is the website: https://heartworkhypnosis.com/

Consider this post market research and thanks in advance! After all, feedback is the breakfast of champions ☺️

Hi guys! I'm looking for a professional hypnotist and figured Reddit would provide. I need help with getting hypnotized out of some limiting beliefs and mental blocks. I would prefer to go in person, but if you have worked with someone remotely and they were worth it I'd open to a recommendation!

Please only recommend someone you've worked with and can vouch for based on your results. I came here instead of Googling so I can get honest referrals and reviews. Also if you have price range that the sessions would cost, that would be helpful too. I am based in Florida and looked into one I had found on Google and they were $3k which is not in my budget right now. I don't know if this the normal price or not, but I'm hoping I can find something more affordable.

TIA!!

English is not my native language. I write simple, but I try to share important thing. Please be patient with my grammar.

This is from shamanic session I did with subject I call Omar. He is adult man from Houston area. During healing soul journey, he dropped into theta brainwave trance. Past childhood. Past trauma. All way to before he was born.

What he found there was not what anyone expect.

Before incarnation, Omar and his mother were together. No bodies. No space between them. Just consciousness. He describe it like this: "Like there's no separation and there's no space. I feel more like a blob than anything else." She was close, another node of awareness next to him.

Then he saw something like checklist. Experiences this life would bring. Weakness. Helplessness. Hard things. And he did not want to go.

He said: "I don't think I want to go." It will be difficult.

But then he undrestood that this is how light expands into darkness and help others. "It feels like it's a required experience." His Higher Self showed him why. The point was not to fix anything. The point was to understand. "It's not for changing. It's for understanding." You can study suffering from outside. But you only know it by living it.

His mother agreed on soul level to play the harsh role. Her mission was to make him tough enough for this world. She did it. But there was cost. Some beings volunteer for dark roles. Not because they are evil. Because the plan requires it.

When we finished, Higher Self had simple message. "Love everyone. Let go. Learn to forgive."

The Lesson

You chose this life. Even the painful parts. Not because you deserve suffering, but because before incarnating you wanted to understand something that can only be learned through direct experience. The people who hurt you may have been volunteers too. This does not excuse what happened. But it can change how you carry it.

Practical Exercise

Find quiet place where nobody will disturb you for twenty minutes. Sit or lie down, whatever is comfortable. Close eyes.

Take five slow breaths. On each exhale, let your body get heavier. Feel the weight of your arms, your legs, your head sinking into whatever supports you.

Now imagine you are standing at the edge of a vast, dark space. Not scary dark. More like the dark before stars were born. Warm. Infinite. This is the space before incarnation. Before body. Before name.

Step into it. Let yourself float. There is no ground, no direction. Just awareness.

Ask silently: "Show me the moment before I came here."

Do not force anything. Let image, feeling, or knowing come on its own. Maybe you see light. Maybe you feel presence of other beings near you. Maybe you sense a decision being made. Maybe you feel reluctance, like something inside you did not want to go. That is okay. Just observe.

If you see or feel something, stay with it. Do not analyze. Do not judge. Just be there, like you are watching a memory that is older than your body.

When you feel ready, take three slow breaths and come back. Open eyes slowly. Write down whatever you got, even if it make no sense. Especially if it make no sense. The logical mind will try to explain it away. Let it be strange.

Do this for seven days in row. First time you may see nothing. That is normal. The door opens when you stop knocking so hard. By day three or four, something usually surface. A feeling, a image, a knowing that was not there before. Trust it.

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I’m going to be extremely blunt because I’m trying to find out if what I want is actually possible or if these therapists are overselling things.
I’m a 20 year old guy and my entire life I’ve considered myself straight. I’ve only ever wanted relationships with women, fallen for women, pictured marriage with a woman, etc. Sexually too.
That being said, over the years I did have curiosity through porn and fantasies involving men/trans content sometimes, but I never actually did anything with a guy in real life before this. It stayed in the realm of fantasy and curiosity.
A few weeks ago, I impulsively drove to a sauna near me that’s known for gay hookups. Even on the drive there I kept internally telling myself “don’t do this,” “turn around,” “leave,” etc. I genuinely did not feel mentally grounded. It felt like I was on autopilot and detached from myself.
I walked around for a while telling myself I wasn’t actually going to do anything and then eventually ended up giving another guy oral sex. The second it was over I immediately felt overwhelming panic, shame, disgust, regret, and emotional shock. I left feeling like I had just done something completely out of character that I never actually wanted in reality.
Ever since then my brain has basically broken.
I replay the memory constantly from the second I wake up until I fall asleep. I connect random things in daily life back to it. I look at myself differently. I obsessively analyze what it “means.” I feel disconnected from myself and emotionally trapped inside the memory. It genuinely feels like my nervous system froze around the event and can’t move on from it.
The weird thing is I don’t even want to repeat it. If anything the experience itself made me realize I did not actually want that life or reality. But my brain keeps obsessing over the fact it happened at all.
So now I’ve been researching hypnosis, EMDR, and especially memory reconsolidation because I honestly do not just want coping skills. What I want is to weaken and alter the memory to the point where emotionally it stops feeling like my reality.
I’ve already spoken to multiple hypnotherapists and some of them have told me that while you cannot literally erase factual memory, it may be possible to alter the subconscious/emotional experience of it so deeply that it feels distant, unreal, dreamlike, foggy, detached, or emotionally replaced by an alternate version of events.
One therapist literally described it as creating a “parallel reality” internally where my brain emotionally experiences the outcome as me turning around, leaving, going home, etc instead of actually going through with it.
That is honestly what I want. I want the original memory weakened enough that it no longer feels emotionally real, dominant, or defining in my mind.
So I’m asking people who actually understand hypnosis and reconsolidation:

Is this genuinely possible to some extent?

Can memories actually become emotionally detached
enough that they stop feeling personally real?

Has anyone experienced something like this successfully?

Or are these therapists selling fantasy?

I’m going to be extremely blunt because I’m trying to find out if what I want is actually possible or if these therapists are overselling things.
I’m a 20 year old guy and my entire life I’ve considered myself straight. I’ve only ever wanted relationships with women, fallen for women, pictured marriage with a woman, etc. Sexually too.
That being said, over the years I did have curiosity through porn and fantasies involving men/trans content sometimes, but I never actually did anything with a guy in real life before this. It stayed in the realm of fantasy and curiosity.
A few weeks ago, I impulsively drove to a sauna near me that’s known for gay hookups. Even on the drive there I kept internally telling myself “don’t do this,” “turn around,” “leave,” etc. I genuinely did not feel mentally grounded. It felt like I was on autopilot and detached from myself.
I walked around for a while telling myself I wasn’t actually going to do anything and then eventually ended up giving another guy oral sex. The second it was over I immediately felt overwhelming panic, shame, disgust, regret, and emotional shock. I left feeling like I had just done something completely out of character that I never actually wanted in reality.
Ever since then my brain has basically broken.
I replay the memory constantly from the second I wake up until I fall asleep. I connect random things in daily life back to it. I look at myself differently. I obsessively analyze what it “means.” I feel disconnected from myself and emotionally trapped inside the memory. It genuinely feels like my nervous system froze around the event and can’t move on from it.
The weird thing is I don’t even want to repeat it. If anything the experience itself made me realize I did not actually want that life or reality. But my brain keeps obsessing over the fact it happened at all.
So now I’ve been researching hypnosis, EMDR, and especially memory reconsolidation because I honestly do not just want coping skills. What I want is to weaken and alter the memory to the point where emotionally it stops feeling like my reality.
I’ve already spoken to multiple hypnotherapists and some of them have told me that while you cannot literally erase factual memory, it may be possible to alter the subconscious/emotional experience of it so deeply that it feels distant, unreal, dreamlike, foggy, detached, or emotionally replaced by an alternate version of events.
One therapist literally described it as creating a “parallel reality” internally where my brain emotionally experiences the outcome as me turning around, leaving, going home, etc instead of actually going through with it.
That is honestly what I want. I want the original memory weakened enough that it no longer feels emotionally real, dominant, or defining in my mind.
So I’m asking people who actually understand hypnosis and reconsolidation:

Is this genuinely possible to some extent?

Can memories actually become emotionally detached
enough that they stop feeling personally real?

Has anyone experienced something like this successfully?

Or are these therapists selling fantasy?

Hello!

I am completely overwhelmed in trying to find a hypnotherapist to help me with test anxiety. I am in school for court reporting and really need to overcome a mental block that I’ve been facing recently to pass my tests.

Can anyone point me in any direction to find a hypnotherapist for this? Every time I try to Google or anything, I just get so overwhelmed. Any help is greatly appreciated thank you!

Good morning everyone. Thank you for taking the time to read my post. I am currently seeking some answers, opinions, and perhaps solutions to a phenomenon involving many people, although not publicized and/or spoken of openly in most cases. It is of a mildly sensitive matter, although the implications are potentially quite severe. I prefer to discuss in private chats, with qualified individuals that would be kind enough to grant me an audience. I will be as streamlined and direct as I can in order maximize any time alotted to me. Thanks again, hope to hear from you all.

I really want to get out there and start helping people change to become their best selves. I know hypnosis can really help a lot of people. I like the idea of using recorded tracks to help people after the session revisit it and play the recording to help them with self hypnosis. Where do I start on this path?

Hi! Ive been looking into hypnotherapy to help me with ptsd and depression .I am a bit scared to try it out as idk if it actually helps and also a bit scared to trust the hypnotherapists 😅 could u guys please guide me ?

Hi,

I recently had a hypnotherapy session, in hopes of reaching my unconscious more directly. After 2 years of talk therapy, I had felt like the constant analysis can only get me so far.

I acknowledge that my expectations of hypnotherapy could have been too high. But when I had absolutely zero visualizations when the hypnotherapist was suggesting things for me to picture, it felt very disappointing, and frustrating, cause there was a “task” that I felt like I was failing to complete.

Since I had no visuals, the memories that did come to mind felt like a conscious association rather than something my unconscious presented to me.

The hypnotherapist made a claim that my unconscious is speaking, just not in a way that I find satisfying, and I doubt whether it’s good enough.

That being said, the session didn’t really feel like it reframed anything for me, it didn’t rearrange anything, really. Or maybe it’s too subtle to notice.

For context: after I shared my struggle, the hypnosis prompt was to think of a person saying they don’t like me, and it did remind me of situations in middle school, when people I considered my friends intentially excluded me from group activities. Intellectually I can see how that’s a pretty big deal, to be betrayed by someone you thought liked you, and to then develop a distrust and avoidance of relationships. But I don’t feel connected to this insight on an emotional level.

What am I missing here? Am I just too in my head about this whole thing? Is there something else I could consider doing if the hypnotherapy feels like it’s missing a mark? Am I romanticizing it too much, and it’s not actually supposed to feel like much?