• What is hypnosis or hypnotherapy?

Hypnosis or hypnotherapy is a therapy method that works with your subconscious mind. About 95% of your brain is your subconscious and about 5% is your conscious mind.  Imagine your subconscious mind being like a hard disk of a computer recording every experience you live through in your life.  Corresponding feelings are memorised and attached to each of those experiences. Based on your previous experiences, your brain makes conclusions about you or the world around you. These are also stored in your subconscious mind, and are like codes your computer/your brain operates by at any given time. With RTT hypnotherapy, we uncover and change the underlying conclusion/s recorded in your subconscious mind that are dictating how you feel, think and act. By changing the underlying code, we change the way the whole system operates, or how you show up in the world. And once you change how you are, your circumstances change accordingly. 

For example, I worked with a person who had a fear of presenting in front of colleagues. Her job at the time required her to do this quite often. She was experiencing anxiety few days before, during and after each presentation she was doing. Using RTT hypnotherapy we have uncovered that in her childhood her brain made a conclusion that she is not very smart and she should not speak. This is because whenever she was about to express her opinion or decide on something, in her childhood, her parents would stop her and they would do it for her. They thought they were being helpful. But her child's brain understood: "I am not smart enough, so they have to do it for me".  30 years fast forward, her subconscious still held the same conclusion about her. That she is not smart. That is why before each meeting she would feel fear and panic, she couldn't speak well and she acted as if she wanted to run and hide, instead of speak. Her brain was panicking thinking she would embarrass herself. Good news is, these conclusions in our subconscious mind can be changed. And this is what we do with RTT Hypnotherapy. With my client, we changed what she believed about her speaking capabilities.  Shortly after our session she noticed that she no longer had anxiety ahead of meetings. She led meetings so well that she got a praise by her bosses for her presentation skills. 

• Is hypnosis an unnatural state?

Hypnosis is one of your natural states you are in unknowingly every day. When you are waking up in the morning you pass through a state between feeling fully asleep and fully awake. This is the state we call "hypnosis".  And it is in this relaxed state that we can access all the information in your subconscious that are uncovering the root cause of your presenting challenge. 

• Hypnosis sounds scary. I am scared of loosing control. 

During an RTT (Rapid Transformational Therapy) hypnotherapy session you actually have all the control. You are like a "pilot" and I am like a flashlight, lighting up the way for you. When in hypnosis people feel very relaxed. And very often after a session people tell me "hypnosis actually feels very normal".  That's exactly it. 

Your mind will always be scared of something new you have never done before. That is because your mind is trying to protect you from a potential danger. And for your mind, new holds potential danger. But it is in the new that we expand and grow. If we only do what we know, our life will stay withing the known. Nothing will change. Having something new and better to show up in your life requires you to step into something new, you have never done or explored before. 

• How many sessions do I need to get the result I want?

This is like asking a coach: "Hey, how long will it take me to run a marathon in under four hours?" Your coach would probably tell you: "It depends on your current fitness situation, and on your involvment going forward."

From my experience so far, I have seen people completely change their condition (free of anxiety, free of people pleasing, quitting cigarettes, overcoming fear of flying, overcoming feeling stuck, re-gaining motivation at work, better sports performance, overcoming attachment to a toxic ex partner, going through a grieving process, etc.) within few weeks. 

I have seen people who felt better after few weeks, and wanted to continue with sessions to feel even better, and improve other aras of their life. 

Therefore, the short answer is - it depends and it is up to you. 

We are all unique, with our own story, our specific current desires and our unique path. 

• How come RTT hypnotherapy can give results in as little as few weeks?

In this therapy method, already in the 1st session we find the root cause of your challenge. And we change it. As soon as you change the root cause of an issue, all the sympthoms around it change. 

• Why is RTT hypnotherapy different to a standard hypnotherapy?

RTT combines the most effective principles of hypnotherapy, psychotherapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and neuroscience.