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★★★★★ Rated 5 stars on Google · Licensed, Native clinicians · In person in Utah & Missouri · Online across UT, MO & AZ
Where you are
Something in you remembers, even when you can’t.
Maybe you know something happened — but the memory is blurry, or missing entirely.
What you can feel is the ache of it: a hole somewhere in you, a heaviness that sits just out of reach. And no matter how hard you try — talking, understanding, pushing through — you can’t quite get to it.
Meanwhile your body reacts before you’ve decided to: the tight chest, the flinch, the anxiety that arrives with no clear reason.
Or it shows up as the pattern you can’t think your way out of — the habit you’ve quit a dozen times, the grief that won’t lift, the worry that won’t settle. You’ve worked at it, and it’s still there, running underneath.
That’s not a failure of effort, and it’s not a character flaw. Trauma and old pain don’t only live in words and memories — they live in the body.
The body doesn’t forget, even when the conscious mind can’t reach what it’s holding. That’s the part hypnotherapy works with — gently, at your pace, with you fully awake and in the room the whole time.
What it actually is
You stay awake. You stay in control.
Let’s clear up what it isn’t, because the movies and stage shows get it wrong.
You don’t lose control. You don’t fall asleep. No one plants ideas in your head or makes you do anything against your values.
There’s no such thing as getting “stuck” — you could stand up and walk out for popcorn at any moment.
What it actually is: a natural, focused state of deep relaxation you drift into all the time — the absorbed feeling of a good movie, or that drift right before sleep.
In therapy, we simply guide you there on purpose. You hear every word, you remember it after, and you’re steering the whole way.
The difference
Hypnosis is the doorway. Hypnotherapy is the work.
There’s a difference worth naming. Hypnosis is the state — that focused, relaxed attention.
Hypnotherapy is what a trained clinician does with it: using that open state to reach the root of a pattern and help it change.
The state is the doorway. The therapy is the work that happens once you’re through it.
How it works
Why willpower alone hasn’t worked.
Picture your mind in two parts. Logic and willpower are a small slice — maybe ten percent.
The other ninety percent is the subconscious: your emotions, habits, and automatic reactions. The patterns you’re fighting live in that ninety, which is why forcing it keeps failing.
They began as protection, stored in the body long before words.
So we work where they live — releasing them through the body with trauma-informed breathwork and gentle Gestalt energy release, not just talk.
What we help with
What people come to us for.
People bring all kinds of things to this work.
Hypnotherapy isn’t a cure or a guarantee — it’s a way of working with the deeper mind that many people find reaches what other approaches couldn’t.
What it can do for you, we’ll talk through before we start.
Anxiety
The kind of stress that won’t switch off — a mind that keeps scanning even when you’re safe. We work with the part underneath the worry, not just the thoughts on top.
Trauma & PTSD
When something hard is still living in the body. We go gently, often alongside EMDR, and never faster than feels safe.
Grief & Transitions
Loss, endings, the ground shifting under you. A place to let what’s stuck begin to move.
Habits — Smoking & Vaping
The habits you’ve quit a dozen times. We work with the parts of you the cravings speak for, so being done can actually hold.
Weight & Food
It was never really about the food. We work the patterns and feelings underneath, so change comes from the roots.
Sleep
For the mind that won’t power down at night. We help your system learn the way back to rest.
Confidence & Self-Worth
The voice that talks you down. We reach the moment it first took hold and let a truer belief take root.
People-Pleasing
The habit of putting everyone else first. We work with the part that learned keeping others happy was how to stay safe.
Fears & Phobias
The fear that’s bigger than the moment calls for. We help the part holding it feel safe enough to loosen its grip.
The method
Our approach is Heart-Centered.
We practice Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy — and here, that name is how the work is done, not just a label.
We also bring our own lens to it. As Native clinicians, we infuse Indigenous healing wisdom into the work — care that honors your roots and where you come from, not just a symptom.
No two sessions look the same. We draw on what fits you in the moment and weave it together, so the work meets you where you actually are.
We don’t analyze you from a distance. We meet what comes up with compassion and hold the space while you do the healing — you’re always the author.
It’s built to be safe, too. We find steady ground before we go anywhere tender, and you keep the controls the whole time, so healing happens without reliving the worst of it.
- Root-cause work, not just surface relaxation
- Held with compassion, never judgment
- You set the pace — we build safety first
- Ego State Therapy and EMDR, woven in when they fit
- You leave each session with a recording to keep settling at home
Every clinician who offers hypnotherapy here is a Native therapist trained in the Heart-Centered model — so you get the same depth of care whoever you work with. Meet the team and book the clinician who feels like the right fit for you.
What to expect
Steps in the Process.
Reach out
Book a session or a free consult to get started.
We meet first
A full intake, built around you. We never do hypnosis with a stranger.
We begin
Usually 90 minutes to two hours — a natural state, no substances, ever. In our offices or online.
You keep the work
You leave with a recording, so the change keeps settling gently at home.
Trauma-informed
When trauma is part of the picture.
Most people who find their way to us are carrying trauma — and many can’t point to a single clear memory of it. That’s normal, not a gap in you.
When something overwhelms us, especially early on, the experience often gets stored in the body and nervous system instead of as a story we can recall.
You feel the effects — the reactions, the anxiety, the ache, the shutdown — without the narrative that would explain them.
This is exactly where hypnotherapy does what talk alone often can’t. We work with the body’s felt memory directly, at a pace that always feels safe, so the old charge can finally release.
You don’t have to relive the worst of it, and you don’t need to remember every detail to heal.
When trauma is in the picture, we weave in what fits — EMDR, parts work, and breathwork — so healing meets you where the wound actually lives.
The goal isn’t to dig up the past for its own sake. It’s to help your nervous system finally learn that it’s safe now — and we go only as far as you’re ready, together.
Specialty Programs
Two paths people ask for by name.
The two people ask for most by name — part of a much wider range of what we help with.
Trim-Life Weight Release
It was never really about the food.
When the feelings underneath get met, the grip loosens — and change comes from the roots, not another round of willpower.
Freedom from Smoking & Vaping
The habit was doing a job for you.
We heal what it’s been holding and build a healthier way to meet that need — so being done can finally stick.
In person in Utah & Missouri — and online.
We see clients in person in South Jordan, Utah and St. Charles, Missouri, and online across Utah, Missouri, and Arizona. Every session is private, and you leave with a recording so the work keeps settling at home.
Testimonials
Positive Reviews From Our Patients
Investment
A handful of sessions — not years.
Hypnotherapy is self-pay, with packages and financing available, and you’ll always get a Good Faith Estimate before we begin. See our Investment page for current rates.
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
No. You’re aware the whole time, you can hear everything, and you can stop whenever you want. Hypnosis is focus, not surrender.
Hypnosis is the state — a relaxed, focused calm. Think of it as the doorway. Hypnotherapy is the actual healing work we do once you’re through it. On its own, hypnosis can relax you or offer a helpful suggestion; hypnotherapy goes further, gently reaching the root of a pattern so it can release. We use the state — the therapy is the point.
It’s a fair thing to ask. Our work does include age regression — gently revisiting where a feeling began — and sometimes memories do surface. What matters is how we hold them: not as literal fact or proof of exactly what happened, but as what your mind is bringing forward to help your system understand and heal. We never suggest what “must have” happened to you or lead you toward a conclusion, and you stay aware and in control the whole time. The goal is healing and relief — not building a case about the past.
It’s a recognized clinical tool with a long research history, practiced here only by licensed clinicians. We keep it grounded — culturally attuned, and never ceremony.
Most people describe deep relaxation and a kind of soft, clear focus. Like the moment before sleep, but present.
It depends on what you’re working with. Some people feel a shift in one or two; deeper patterns take a few more. We’ll set expectations honestly at your intake.
Hypnotherapy is self-pay — we don’t bill insurance for it. Packages and financing are available, and you’ll always get a Good Faith Estimate before we begin. See our Investment page for current rates.
Ready when you are.
Book a session or a free consult if you’re not sure where to start. We’ll meet first — a full intake — so the work is built around you.