If you're looking for a fast, reliable approach to guide and support you through the healing process of your traumatic memories, you have come to the right place.

Emotional trauma typically results from sudden, severe, recurring, or prolonged stressful events that exceed your emotional coping abilities. It can be as disturbing, painful, and debilitating as physical injuries, profoundly affecting emotional and even mental well-being. Trauma can be any disturbing experience that results in helplessness, dissociation, confusion, anxiety, or other unpleasant feelings with long-lasting effects on one’s attitudes, behavior, and other aspects of well-being.

When you accidentally hurt your knee, the resulting pain is a reliable measure of the extent of the trauma suffered. The pain that follows is not there to punish you for the accident, but to signal that you are injured and to make you limp out of a survival instinct that will protect the injury and promote healing. And you will only limp as long as the injury has not yet healed and your knee is still painful - not as long as you remember what happened! Similarly, when you are hurt emotionally, the painful emotional feelings that follow are there as a survival mechanism that will restrict and control your behaviour to protect you from similar injuries and promote healing.

While physical wounds are caused only by something that actually happened, and only to the extent that it happened, emotional wounds can be caused not only by what happened objectively but also by the subjective perception of what happened or could have happened. What has the potential to fulfill or to haunt one's life is the reading of the emotional memory of an event, not the event itself. Thus, the only accurate measure of a traumatic event is how you perceive it - not the objective assessment of the event or what others think or say about it.

The common perception is that stress and anxiety are caused by external factors, processes, and events that happen to you, such as health issues, aging, family, career, financial matters, social ties, loneliness, life’s purpose, self-esteem, etc. Yet, you are not passively undergoing any of these. You are the one who makes sense of these everyday experiences, and it is you who perceive them as stressful, emotionally neutral, or joyful events. In the long run, the cumulative effect of stress and anxiety can wreak havoc havoc on your mind and body. Living with lasting stress or anxiety is much like living in a house full of mold. You feel it, and it hurts you even if you do not see or touch it.

Stress never really stays in your head. When you are stressed, it is not only your mental but your spirit, soul, and body that are stressed, and you feel it inside of you. Stress is an emotional feeling that inhabits you! Your mental acknowledges and confirms its presence in your life by shifting your mind into a specific, stressed state of mind. For as long as the stress is bearable, it will most likely be dissipated through the resilience mechanism, or eventually, induce bearable levels of anxiety. When the stress becomes extreme and stretches the perceived emotional tension beyond your tolerated limit, the emotional response mechanisms may not be able to handle the load, and you can get hurt, and may end up traumatized.

When they do occur occasionally, stress, anxiety, or other negative emotions are not disorders in themselves, nor are they normative concepts. However, whatever the nature of your stress, anxiety, trauma, or other emotional issues, as soon as you perceive it as an overwhelming experience, it strongly indicates that you are dealing with more than a regular, adaptive emotional response. It's time either to do an online self-assessment or, better yet, talk to your doctor. Nevertheless, this approach can still be used as complementary therapy to help relieve your bothersome symptoms, regardless of your health condition!

Although most people associate emotional trauma with exposure to extreme, unpredictable, and uncontrollable life-threatening situations - such as war, natural disasters, major accidents, assault, or kidnapping - most of those who suffer from emotional trauma have not themselves experienced nor witnessed dangerous events. The human brain is versatile and can receive information of any nature. When exposed to horrible things, it is not the brain that is likely to be injured, but our guardians of moral standards, the soul and spirit, are likely to be injured when pushed to beyond our limits. For this reason, emotional, physical, or sexual abuse, and bullying at school, at work, or at home are the leading causes of emotional traumas.

When the stress related to past events is lasting, and you remain constantly on high alert and irrationally focused on specific triggers related to past events, you are probably dealing with traumatic stress. In that case, specific noises, sounds, images, gestures, words, smells, or thoughts can trigger flashbacks and irrational behaviors. When a trigger reminds you of a traumatic event, time will seem to collapse, and you’ll feel a similar degree of fear or terror as you did when the original event happened. Thus, when exposed to your alert trigger, you can feel fearful or even terrorized in common situations that don’t represent any real danger to a rational mind.

Even though emotional trauma seems to be a highly individual experience, trans-generational trauma, or hereditary trauma, as well as behavioral patterns may be transmitted across generations through the process of parental epigenetic programming. Thus, traumatic experiences can be passed down from generation to generation, such that children 6 years old and even younger may suffer from preschool traumatic stress and display similar behavioral issues as their parents, or their ancestors. Since in Somatic Hypnotherapy you do not necessarily need to understand or to know the exact roots of your irrational negative feelings to be able to uproot them, this approach is the therapy of choice for most symptoms related to hereditary and trans-generational emotional traumas.

Unlike conventional hypnotherapy approaches that focus on adding a fresh layer of positive emotions over your lasting fears and traumas, Somatic Hypnotherapy is all about releasing the past by rearranging the emotional reading of the past traumatic experiences. In its change management framework, this approach focuses on changing the perception of past unpleasant events by altering the somatic component of negative emotions associated with unpleasant events. An emotional trauma is not healed until, when you think about it or talk about what happened, you hardly feel anything inside that bothers still you.

Regardless of whether your trauma has been induced by dangerous events, sexual or physical abuse, bullying or emotional abuse, or has been trans-generationally inherited, Somatic Hypnotherapy is an efficient tool to decompress the triggers and to release the symptoms. This is possible thanks to a technique specific to Somatic Hypnotherapy that disables the traumatic emotional response pattern through a quick and efficient dissociative process between the traumatic emotions and the factual memories associated with that event.

Somatic Hypnotherapy can help you experience a significant improvement in the following symptoms of emotional traumas:

Intrusive Experiences

• Unexpected recall of disturbing or intense past moments

• Sudden emotional or physical reactions to reminders

• Recurring thoughts, images, or impressions from the past

• Unwanted flashbacks that feel vivid or overwhelming

Heightened Sensitivity or Reactivity

• Feeling on edge or overly alert, even in safe situations

• Being startled easily by sounds, movements, or voices

• Trouble relaxing, staying calm, or feeling “settled”

• Sudden rushes of emotion without clear triggers

Strong Emotional or Physical Reactions

• Irritability, frustration, or quick emotional outbursts

• Feeling overwhelmed by intense emotions

• Physical tension, clenched muscles, or restlessness

• Physical discomfort when exposed to certain stimuli or situations

Changes in Awareness or Perception

• Feeling disconnected from your surroundings or from yourself

• A sense that things feel distant, dreamlike, or unreal

• Moments of “blanking out” or mentally checking out

• Trouble focusing or staying mentally present

Avoidance or Emotional Numbing

• Pulling away from people, places, or activities once enjoyed

• Tuning out emotions or going into “automatic mode”

• Avoiding conversations or thoughts related to a past experience

• Not wanting to feel or remember, even if unintentionally

Changes in Beliefs or Outlook

• Difficulty trusting others or feeling safe in the world

• A sense of guilt, shame, or self-blame, even without clear reason

• A feeling that something is “broken” inside or can’t be repaired

• A loss of meaning, hope, or purpose

Effects on Relationships and Daily Life

• Feeling disconnected from loved ones

• Trouble feeling close or emotionally available

• Withdrawal from social situations or relationships

• Difficulty concentrating, planning, or staying organized

• Reduced interest in work, hobbies, or daily routines

Disrupted Sleep or Rest

• Difficulty falling or staying asleep

• Light or restless sleep; waking up tense

• Frequent distressing dreams or emotionally intense sleep

• Waking up tired or feeling emotionally drained

After your first session in Somatic Hypnotherapy, you will experience a significant improvement in your trauma-related anxiety, whatever its nature. You'll feel as if your heart has forgotten the stressful, anxious, traumatic, or painful component of the unpleasant events of your past, while your cognitive memory keeps intact the factual details After a maximum of three sessions, while revisiting the images, and cognitive understanding of the factual events of your trauma, you will feel as if your traumatic experience hapenned hundred of years ago, and time has erased the negative feelings associated with the event that we have worked.

At the end of your therapy, you will be able to review the traumatic events we worked on and watch them like a movie that no longer touches you. As you release the patterns of your overreactions, you will change your perception of those past experiences, which in turn will readjust your behavior. Once the healing process is completed, the victims of a traumatic event will be able to confront a past threat or traumatic memory much more rationally, and without excessive fearful feelings or uncontrolled reactions.

Following your Somatic Hypnosis therapy, you will be able to think anything you want about the once troubling events we have worked on, and your thoughts will no longer have the power to awaken your old, once painful, or unpleasant feelings. Don’t remain imprisoned by memories of what others have done: don't allow them to cripple your life.

As stress and anxiety are most likely the leading cause of your issues, before filling in the appointment request, please self-assess your anxiety online and make an informed choice.

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