Forget the swinging watches and the guy clucking like a chicken on stage. Clinical hypnotherapy is nothing like that.
It's a natural, focused state of deep relaxation — similar to how you feel when you're absorbed in a great book or driving a familiar route on autopilot. In that state, your mind is calm, open, and more receptive to change. You're aware the whole time, always in control, and you can't be made to do anything you don't want to do.
What it can do is help you get underneath the thoughts and patterns that talk therapy alone sometimes struggles to reach.
Used alongside traditional therapy, hypnotherapy can be effective for:
It's especially powerful for interrupting the automatic loops — the worry spiral, the stress response, the old reaction you wish you could change but can't seem to think your way out of.
Both Autumn Hahn and Jenny Morales are Certified Clinical Hypnotherapists (CHt). Autumn also draws on Rapid Resolution Therapy®, a modern approach that uses guided, relaxed states to clear the emotional charge behind trauma and anxiety — often in fewer sessions than you'd expect.
Whether hypnotherapy is your main approach or one tool within your broader therapy, it's always tailored to you and your goals.
You stay seated (or lying down) and comfortable. Your therapist guides you into a relaxed, focused state with your full consent, then works with you on the goals you've set together. Most people describe it as calming and pleasant — a bit like a guided meditation with purpose. You come out feeling rested, and nothing happens that you're not aware of.
Hypnotherapy works well over secure video from the comfort of your own space — many people find it even easier to relax at home. Most major insurances accepted.
