The Inner Permission Method
a structured approach that combines CBT-Hypnotherapy, Shadow Work, and Embodiment to help you rewire your response to visibility
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How it Works
The core of my method is CBT-Hypnotherapy, blended with Shadow Work and Embodiment Practices. Click below to learn about it.
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About CBT-Hypnotherapy
Let’s talk about what hypnosis is, how it works, how does it feel and why it’s efficient.
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Science & Brain Stuff
If you are wondering about the scientific evidence behind the method and what happens in the brain during hypnosis, this section covers it.
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We start by bringing unconscious patterns into awareness, by mapping the link between triggers, feelings, thoughts, body reactions, and behaviors. This makes it clear what your system automatically does when you are about to be seen, before you consciously decide anything. Once the pattern is identified, it can be worked with instead of unconsciously repeated. We also work with the protective parts of you that are driving these patterns, like the part that keeps you small to avoid being seen as 'too much' or 'arrogant.' These parts aren't the problem, but they're trying to help. We'll understand what they are protecting you from and find them a better role, so they stop blocking your visibility.
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Using CBT-Hypnotherapy we work on creating an internal pause where the usual stress response no longer runs on autopilot. By working with focused attention and reduced mental noise, the old reaction loses momentum. This interruption weakens the habit loop that normally drives avoidance or self-doubt.
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In this step new responses are learned during hypnosis, through focused mental rehearsal, physical and emotional engagement, not just reasoning. The brain is guided to experience a different way of thinking, feeling, and responding to visibility as if it were already happening. This allows new neural pathways to form around showing up, safety and confidence.
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Repeated rehearsal and reinforcement strengthen the new pathway until it becomes the preferred response. CBT-Hypnotherapy supports this consolidation so the new behavior holds even under pressure,. Over time, promoting yourself no longer triggers the old alarm, because the nervous system has learned a different default.
HOW IT WORKS
Your brain is neuroplastic, meaning it can be rewired. When new ways of showing up are experienced and repeated, the brain updates the pattern and self-promotion can start to feel safer, more natural, even enjoyable.
Hypno-CBT® is a unique form of hypno-psychotherapy that integrates hypnosis, cognitive behavioural therapy and mindfulness. Research shows that adding hypnosis to CBT(Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) improves outcomes for around 70% more, compared with CBT alone. (link)
It’s a structured, evidence-based process for updating beliefs, reducing stress and anxiety, and increasing emotional and behavioral flexibility.
What is CBT-Hypnotherapy?
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The feeling is similar to when you watch a movie and you are absorbed by what’s going on there. And yet, you can still hear the door bell and you can pause it anytime.
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Greater Effectiveness: Combining CBT and hypnosis has shown 70% better outcomes compared to CBT alone.
Faster Results: Hypnotherapy helps achieve meaningful improvements more quickly.
Brain-Based Changes: Neuroscience confirms hypnosis directly influences brain areas linked to emotions, habits, and responses.
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No. You are awake and at all time in control of your actions.
This page has a lot of complex info, but when you experience it, the process feels actually smooth and relaxing. That’s what I’ve been told by other people. :)
SCIENCE & BRAIN STUFF
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THE SHORT EXPLANATION:
Brain-imaging research shows hypnosis can change patterns in attention and self-monitoring networks, which may help people get less hooked by self-consciousness and more able to stay engaged with a chosen goal.
Hypnosis helps change patterns because it’s effect on the brain:
reduces self-critical noise,
stabilises attention,
makes new experiences feel real enough for the brain to learn from,
allows old threat-based predictions to be replaced with more accurate ones.
That’s why change can feel efortless and more natural over time. The brain isn’t being forced to behave differently, it’s being retrained.
THE LONG EXPLANATION
During hypnosis, the brain doesn’t switch off and it doesn’t go into a special “sleep” state. Instead, how different brain systems talk to each other changes.
Normally, when someone feels anxious about being seen or performing, three things tend to happen in the brain at once:
the self-monitoring system becomes overactive (“How am I coming across?”),
the threat system stays on alert,
and attention keeps bouncing between worries, predictions, and self-criticism.
Brain-imaging studies show that during hypnosis, this balance shifts.
First, self-monitoring quiets down.
Areas involved in constant self-evaluation and internal commentary become less dominant. This is why people often report feeling less self-conscious or less “in their head.”Second, focused attention becomes stronger and steadier.
Networks that help you stay engaged with one thing at a time become more coordinated. Instead of scanning for problems, the brain can stay with a chosen image, idea, or task.Third, the connection between thinking and bodily awareness changes.
Regions involved in noticing internal sensations become more connected to intentional focus. This helps thoughts feel more “real” and embodied, rather than abstract or distant.Importantly, this doesn’t mean losing control. It means less internal interference and more direct learning.
Why this helps change patterns and behaviour
Most unhelpful behaviours aren’t driven by logic. They’re driven by learned brain–body responses. The brain learned them through repetition, emotion, and experience, not through reasoning.
In hypnosis, the brain is in a state where:
old alarm signals are quieter,
attention is more stable,
and new experiences are taken in more deeply.
That makes it easier for the brain to update its predictions.
When someone rehearses a new response in this state — for example, speaking up without collapsing into doubt — the brain processes it less as “just imagination” and more as a valid experience. This matters because the brain updates its wiring based on experience, not explanation.
Over repeated practice, the brain starts to expect the new response instead of the old one. The nervous system no longer reacts as strongly, because it has learned that the situation isn’t as dangerous as it once assumed.
A widely cited fMRI study (Jiang et al., 2017) found that during hypnosis there was:
reduced activity in the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC)
increased connectivity between DLPFC and insula
reduced connectivity between DLPFC and posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) (a key default mode network node)
If you read the long version, you might be a bit geeky, just like me. :)
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In a rigorous trial for fear of being judged, 84% of people receiving CBT-style cognitive therapy no longer have issues after treatment, compared with 42% in an exposure + relaxation program. That’s double! (A randomized controlled trial’, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 74(3), pp. 568–578.
The average person receiving hypnosis improved more than ~79% of people in control conditions (and ~84% at follow-up).
In controlled research, people doing hypnosis for anxiety typically improve more than about 4 out of 5 people who don’t get the hypnosis intervention. (THE EFFICACY OF HYPNOSIS AS A TREATMENT FOR ANXIETY: A META-ANALYSIS, 2019 Jul-Sep;67(3):336-363)
Adding hypnosis to CBT protocol improves outcomes: across 18 controlled studies (n=577), CBT+hypnosis outperformed CBT alone, and the average CBT+hypnosis client did better than at least 70% of CBT-only clients. (Hypnosis as an adjunct to cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy: a meta-analysis)
What this means in plain English: CBT works well for fear of judgment and social anxiety, twice as well as other common treatments. Hypnosis works very well for anxiety on its own. But when you combine them? You get significantly better results than either approach alone. About 70% better, in fact. That's why CBT-Hypnotherapy is the foundation of my method, because not only I saw it working with so many people, but it’s also backed by science.