• 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 now. By changing the underlying code, we change the way the whole system operates, or how you operate. And once you change how you operate, 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. Which meant that before, during and after each meeting where she was presenting she was experiencing anxiety. 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, her parents would stop her and they would do it for her. They thought they are being helpful. But her child's brain understood "I am not smart enough, so they have to do it for me".  Then 30 years fast forward, her subconscious still held the same conclusion that dictated how she felt, spoke and acted now as an adult. 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 that she would embarrass herself. Because her brain thought "when you speak, you are not smart, and everyone can see that".  Good news is, these conclusions in our subconscious mind can be changed! And this is what we did. We changed what this person believed about her speaking capabilities.  Shortly after our session she reported back to me that she not only no longer had anxiety ahead of meetings, but also she led meetings so well that she got praised 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 in between feeling fully asleep and fully awake. It is that relaxed state that we call "hypnosis".  And it is in this relaxed state that we can access all the information in your subconscious that are 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 your GPS navigation system. 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 or something you don't understand. That is because your mind is trying to protect you from a potential danger. 

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

As per my experience, majority of people get a result they want in one to tree sessions. For example, 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. 

Some people decide to continue with additional sessions focusing on other challenges they are facing. For example, after 2 sessions they re-gained motivation at work. Now they want another session to focus on finding a balanced healthy relationship and breaking the pattern of choosing "toxic" relationships. 

Finally, there was one person I worked with for one year continuously. This person was going through a lot of changes and challenges in life. So once we worked on one topic and changed it, they wanted to continue with the next one, and then the next one and the next one. They also appreciated guidance and support our sessions offered in the turbulent times they were facing. 

Therefore, to conclude, we are all unique, with our own story, our specific current desires and our unique path. And the answer is, it is up to you. 

• How come RTT hypnotherapy can give results in as little as one to tree sessions?

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, the issue itself changes. 

• 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.