Integral Somatic Hypnotherapy

We begin by exploring what you would like to understand, change, or heal. I then guide you into deep relaxation and a body scan, noticing what draws your attention — perhaps a knot, tension, emotion, image, or blockage. We follow the memories, associations, protective patterns, or parts of the psyche that emerge, working therapeutically towards healing and integration.

A knot or blockage describes how something may feel during a session — perhaps tightness, pressure, heaviness, numbness, constriction, or stuck energy. Rather than assigning it a fixed meaning, we explore your experience. Emotions, images, memories, beliefs, or associations may then emerge, revealing what the body may still be holding in ways that no longer serve you.

A body scan involves moving your awareness through the body and noticing what you experience. You may become aware of tension, warmth, heaviness, tingling, colour, imagery, movement, or energy and flow. A particular sensation can become the starting point for deeper exploration, but there is no correct experience or fixed meaning.

Yes, sometimes. Staying with a sensation may allow an emotion, image, association, or earlier memory to emerge naturally, and the work can then move into regression or Inner Child Healing. We do not deliberately search for childhood trauma or assume every sensation has roots in the deep past. Instead, we follow your own experience and work therapeutically with whatever naturally comes into awareness.

The subtle energy body describes an inner landscape beyond ordinary physical sensation. You may experience warmth, colour, light, movement, expansion, contraction, tension, or a sense of energy and flow. Some call it the soul body, but no particular spiritual belief is required. We simply remain open to how your inner experience presents itself as an energetic felt-sense.

There are similarities. Like IFS and somatic parts work, the process can explore different parts of the psyche and their protective roles. Integral Somatic Hypnotherapy combines this with hypnosis, body scanning, somatic awareness, and regression. If protective parts of the psyche arise in your experience, we may explore what each part protects, helping them move towards greater harmony and integration.

Yes. Hypnosis is deep relaxation, not surrendering control. You remain aware of what you are experiencing and can speak, move, pause, or stop whenever you wish. You also do not need to visualise clearly. Some people experience images or colours, while others notice sensations, emotions, words, memories, or intuitive knowing. I guide you in following whatever emerges naturally.