What is hypnotherapy?

Understanding the Conscious and Subconscious Mind

If you’ve ever thought:

“Why do I keep repeating the same pattern?”
“I know better… so why do I still do it?”
“Why does part of me want change and another part resists it?”

You’re describing the difference between the conscious and subconscious mind.

The Conscious Mind vs The Subconscious Mind

Think of your mind like an iceberg.

The conscious mind is the visible tip above the surface — the part we think we are operating from most of the time.

The subconscious mind is everything underneath — vast, powerful, and largely automatic.

Clinical hypnotherapy is a therapeutic approach that uses focused relaxation and guided attention to access the subconscious mind safely. This part of your mind is responsible for 80-95% of your thoughts, behaviours and reactions.

You are not asleep. You are aware of what is happening.
You are in complete control the whole time.

What happens during a hypnotherapy session?

Everyone enters a natural state of hypnosis each day.

Have you ever got so lost in a book that you can’t remember what you have just read? Or been driving somewhere, arrived, and have no memory of the journey at all?

Both of those situations are simply natural hypnotic states.

We naturally enter this state at the beginning and the end of the sleep cycle too.

In this focused and relaxed state, we can:

Identify limiting beliefs
Reframe (change) outdated narratives
Install healthier self-concepts
Reduce emotional intensity linked to past events
Strengthen confidence and resilience

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate”
Carl Jung

The Benefits of Clinical Hypnotherapy

Clinical hypnotherapy can support:

Anxiety and stress

Trauma including PTSD and childhood trauma

Low self-esteem

Phobias

Sleep difficulties

Confidence issues

Imposter syndrome

Emotional triggers

Habit change

HEY, I’M Debbie…

Debbie is a trauma-informed therapist and coach specialising in nervous system regulation and the connection between mind and body.

Her work focuses on how trauma and chronic stress shape emotional regulation, behavioural patterns, and relationship and attachment dynamics. She writes about trauma recovery, subconscious belief change, anxiety, depression, mindset patterns and the science of lasting psychological change. Her approach integrates neuroscience, somatic therapy and clinical hypnotherapy to help people create meaningful and sustainable transformation from the inside out.

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