What an online hypnosis session looks like - step by step

Before a first session, most of the tension is often not caused by hypnosis itself. It is caused by not knowing.

What exactly will happen? Do I close my eyes right away? Do I have to talk about things? Will memories come up? What if I do not see anything?

So instead of telling you to "trust the process", I would rather show you how that process actually looks.

First we talk

I do not begin a session by counting down from ten. First I want to understand what you are bringing.

I do not need your whole life story. What interests me most is what is happening now. What do you want to change? In which situations does the difficulty appear? What do you feel then? What do you do? What would be different if that pattern no longer had such power over you?

On that basis we set the direction of the work.

Then we move into hypnosis

You can sit or lie down - whichever feels easier. I guide you with my voice. We direct attention to the breath, the body, the imagination or other elements that help to reduce outside stimuli and to focus on what appears inside.

I am not trying to make you "lose awareness". Quite the opposite. I want your contact with what appears to be as good as possible.

Then the actual work begins

And here there is no ready-made script. One person notices an emotion. Another suddenly has a specific situation in front of her eyes. Someone else says: "I see nothing, but I feel a weight in my chest." All of that can be material to work with.

I ask. We check. We follow. I do not tell you what you should see. I do not explain what an image "certainly" means. I do not try to fit your experience to a theory. That is one of the most important principles of my work.

Will childhood come up?

It may. But it does not have to. If we are working with a reaction that genuinely connects for you with an earlier experience, a memory may appear spontaneously.

I do not, however, treat hypnosis as a reliable tool for recovering photographically accurate memories. Memory is open to reconstruction, and research shows that hypnotic attempts to "recover" memories can also increase confidence in memories that are not true.

So we do not hunt for memories. We work with what matters in your experience now.

At the end we come back

You do not open your eyes and hear "thank you, goodbye". I leave time for a calm ending, for attention to return to your surroundings, and for a conversation about what happened.

Sometimes a person wants to talk a lot. Sometimes she needs a moment of silence. I do not try to force the whole experience into a single interpretation. Not everything has to be named straight away.

And after the session?

You go back to your day. You may notice thoughts, emotions or reactions connected with what we worked on. You may also notice nothing in particular. I do not hand you a list of "integration symptoms" to expect.

If we are working in a longer process, at the next meeting we check one thing above all: what has changed in real life?

Because in the end that is what interests me. Not how remarkable the session was. Only whether something starts working differently outside it.

If you want to see what such a session would look like in your case, let us start with an intake call. Book an intake call - 30 minutes, online, free of charge.

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