➳ You’re looking for a powerful form of inner discovery and wisdom.
➳ You’re stuck repeating the same pattern over and over, and it’s time to make a change.
➳ You want real relief. From your inner critic, stress, fear, or something else.
➳ You’ve always felt ‘different,’ sensitive or intuitive, and want to develop these gifts and live more fully.
➳ You’re looking for a powerful form of inner discovery and growth.
➳ You’re stuck repeating the same pattern over and over, and it’s time to make a change.
➳ You want real relief. From your inner critic, stress, fear, habit, or something else.
This work is also a powerful support for those who have undergone a therapist-assisted psychedelic journey, or similar experience. To learn more about my psychedelic integration work, click here.
To my work with clients, I bring well over a decade of intensive meditation practice, training in Buddhist chaplaincy and Buddhist psychology, training in Applied Shamanic Counseling, and in-depth training and work with Depth Hypnosis creator Isa Gucciardi, PhD. It is my honor to help you get to the heart of an issue and transform it from the inside out.
Depth Hypnosis is a powerful therapeutic modality created by Isa Gucciardi, PhD. and stands at the crossroads of Buddhism, shamanism, hypnotherapy, and transpersonal psychology. A spiritually-centered counseling form, Depth Hypnosis uses guided meditation and altered state work to help clients resolve issues quickly and deeply, connecting them to their own innate ability to heal and grow. Depth Hypnosis works on all levels: mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually. To learn more about classes and other offerings taught by Depth Hypnosis creator Isa Gucciardi, please visit the Foundation of the Sacred Stream website.
Click here to read what my clients have to share about working together in this powerful modality.
In addition to supporting clients with Depth Hypnosis, I also draw on modalities including:
Shamanic Counseling: Applied Shamanic Counseling is a form of spiritual counseling that supports you to learn to use the shamanic journey as a tool for inquiry and healing. With my support, you will learn to enter an altered state (typically assisted by the sound of drumming), connect with a guide, and begin a powerful process of healing through the shamanic journey.
Traditional Hypnotherapy: At its core, hypnotherapy is a healing technique that supports clients to go into a deep state of relaxation where they are more open to healing and change. When working with this modality, we will discuss the issue you would like support on and co-create a hypnotherapy meditation and healing session just for you.
Depth Hypnosis and Shamanic Counseling are powerful healing modalities for a wide range of issues. Some of the themes that I work most frequently with clients include:
During a session with me, you can typically expect to spend time in inquiry and discussion around what you’d like to work on, and in a lightly altered state of consciousness brought on through various forms of guided meditation. Sessions may include hypnosis, regression within past or present lifetimes, clearing of energetic or mindset blockages, work with dreams, shamanic journey, ancestral lineage work, and more. For each session, please be sure to be in a quiet place where you can close your eyes, lay down or sit comfortably, and relax without interruption.
Talk therapy is an incredible healing resource, but many people reach a point where they’ve talked through an issue for years, understand it intellectually and emotionally, and still aren’t getting the depth of transformation they long for.
If this sounds familiar, you’re in the right place. Sometimes talking about an issue just doesn’t get at the deeper layers that need to be addressed.
Simply put, by going beyond the conscious mind, Depth Hypnosis and Shamanic Counseling help to create healing experiences that we can’t access at the talk level. Through this work, we are able to access and heal that which is hidden, unknown, or suppressed within the body, mind, and spirit.
Colette, a psychotherapist herself and Depth Hypnosis client explains her experience like this:
“Before I started Depth Hypnosis, I was working with a therapist to understand my attachment issues but felt stuck in how to use this understanding to truly heal. I was still reacting in my current life based on those old wounds. I had done a lot of work to gain an understanding of the mental and emotional, but the physical and spiritual ways of healing weren’t yet accessible.
Now, I feel that I have been able to make progress in visiting those moments of attachment trauma and correcting them within a safe environment. As a result of this work, I feel able to use my voice to draw boundaries and protect myself in a way that didn’t feel accessible before. I can say “no!” in situations where I have been triggered and shut down in the past.”
First things first: Hypnosis is often very misunderstood. Most forms of hypnosis that we’ve seen, whether in movies or in real life, are examples of stage hypnosis. You know what this looks like: a hypnotist leads someone into a trance where they cluck like a chicken or become convinced they’re a pirate captain. This is definitely not what we’ll be doing!
Whether we’re working with Depth Hypnosis, Suggestion Hypnosis, or Shamanic Counseling, you’ll be guided into a gentle trance state through meditative techniques, shamanic drumming, or guided imagery and relaxation.
In this altered state, you might perceive things in a variety of ways – through your inner senses of sight, hearing, smell, touch, or an intuitive sense of “just knowing.” You’ll be supported to broaden your perception, deepen your intuition, and come to know new inner landscapes. For some, this experience is quite vivid and for others it is more subtle and strengthens with time and practice. Every person experiences the altered state a little differently, and the best way to understand it is to try it out for yourself.
You’ll also be in control and aware of your surroundings at all times. Often, clients describe this almost as if they are inhabiting two worlds at once. You may be laying on your couch, knowing you are at home, and also journeying into an imaginative and unique inner world at the same time. Working with me, you will be actively sharing your experience in the altered state and we will be working together to guide you to the appropriate inquiry and healing for your needs. You will always be capable of asking to be counted out of the trance state if you become uncomfortable.
Most clients choose to work with me on a long-term basis, meeting weekly, biweekly, or monthly. We will typically begin with a focus on a particular theme, and our work will grow and deepen over time according to your needs. A recent pilot study of Depth Hypnosis has found that clients often see gains in wellbeing in just 8 sessions.
I also work with clients on a short-term basis to navigate significant life events such as preparation and healing for surgery and childbirth, preparation or integration of psychedelic experience, etc.
