How I Work: The CBT-Hypnotherapy Method

This is the only method that works with all of you at once

This is the only method that works with all of you at once: your protective parts, your nervous system, your body, your beliefs, and your behavior. We identify the vicious circles keeping you going in circles - the perfectionism that has you rewriting posts endlessly, the imposter syndrome that questions your expertise, the fear of being "too much" or "not enough." Then we interrupt these patterns using CBT-Hypnotherapy: we work with the parts of you creating the resistance, challenge the beliefs fueling your anxiety, and retrain your nervous system to respond differently. We rehearse your new way of being through hypnosis and anchor it through your body. We create coherence between your mind, emotions, body, and actions. That's why the change lasts. That's why people stop avoiding and start showing up.

Why your nervous system is calling the shots (not you)

Your nervous system learned long ago that visibility carries risk. Being seen maybe meant criticism, standing out meant rejection, making mistakes meant shame or punishment. So your brain did what it does best - it built a protective pattern: visibility equals danger.

This pattern lives in your body, not just your mind, which is why logic and willpower can't override it. You can know that posting is safe, you can understand your business needs visibility, you might have watched every marketing guru on YouTube, but when it's time to actually do it - panic mode activates. Threat detected, and then the safety mechanisms kick in: doubt, endless editing, procrastination, overthinking, the whole crew.

Every time you avoid posting or promoting yourself, you feel temporary relief, and your nervous system takes note: "See? Avoiding keeps us safe, let's keep doing this." The pattern gets reinforced. Your mind says "just do it," your body says "absolutely not," and the body wins every time.

This is why mindset work alone doesn't create lasting change - because we're dealing with an automatic threat response that's trying to protect you by keeping you hidden.

The solution: rewire the pattern at the source

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.

Here's how we do it:

1. Identify the automatic response

We start by bringing unconscious patterns into awareness, mapping the link between triggers, feelings, thoughts, body reactions, and behaviors. This makes it clear what your system automatically does when you're about to be seen, before you consciously decide anything. 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, they're trying to help. We understand what they're protecting you from and find them a better role, so they stop blocking your visibility.

Once the pattern is identified, it can be worked with instead of unconsciously repeated.

2. Interrupt the pattern

Using CBT-Hypnotherapy, we create 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.

3. Rewire the response

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.

We also use body-based practices throughout - like expressing what you're afraid of through posture, taking the stance of your new confident self, or using movement to anchor new patterns. Change lasts when mind, emotions, and body work together.

4. Solidify the change into your new default

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 your nervous system has learned a different default.

What it's like to work together

In our first sessions, we map exactly what's happening: the specific fears keeping you going in circles (like being seen as "too much" or "not enough"), the vicious circle you're caught in, and what beliefs are driving it. We identify the protective parts of you that created these patterns - they're not the enemy, they're trying to help.

Then we design together what your new default will look like: how you'll think, feel, and behave when you're confident and visible.

Finally, we use hypnosis and body-based practices to rehearse and embed this new way of being until it becomes automatic - not just in your mind, but in your nervous system.

Sessions are 60 minutes, online via Zoom. Most people notice a shift within 3-4 sessions, and people usually achieve their goal in 8-10 sessions. Endless processing isn't my thing - I do focused work on specific patterns, which makes the results come faster.

You can book sessions once a week or once every two weeks, depending on what works for you.

Understanding CBT-Hypnotherapy: what it is and why it works

Hypno-CBT is a unique form of hypno-psychotherapy that integrates hypnosis, cognitive behavioral therapy, and mindfulness. It's a structured, evidence-based process for updating beliefs, reducing stress and anxiety, and increasing emotional and behavioral flexibility.

What hypnosis actually feels like

The feeling is similar to when you watch a movie and you're absorbed in what's happening. You're focused, engaged, but you're always aware and in control - you can still hear the doorbell, you can pause anytime, and you're never "under" or unconscious. You have full autonomy throughout. It's focused attention, not a trance state where you lose control.

What happens in the brain during hypnosis

The short version:

Brain-imaging research shows hypnosis can change patterns in attention and self-monitoring networks, which may help people become less caught up in self-consciousness and more able to stay engaged with a chosen goal.

Hypnosis helps change patterns because of its effect on the brain: it reduces self-critical noise, stabilizes attention, makes new experiences feel real enough for the brain to learn from, and allows old threat-based predictions to be replaced with more accurate ones.

That's why change can feel effortless and more natural over time. The brain isn't being forced to behave differently, it's being retrained.

The longer version (for fellow science nerds):

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, which 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, so 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, which 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.

Most unhelpful behaviors 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, and the nervous system no longer reacts as strongly because it has learned that the situation isn't as dangerous as it once assumed.

The science backing this approach

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 - I've seen it work with so many people, and it's backed by solid science.

The research:

• In a rigorous trial for fear of being judged, 84% of people receiving CBT-style cognitive therapy no longer had issues after treatment, compared with 42% in an exposure + relaxation program. That's double.

• 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.

• 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.