Notice
Name what is actually happening in the body — sensation, tension, tempo — without grading it as good or bad.
Hypnotherapy · Somatics · Nervous-System Literacy
Nobody ever handed you the manual. So you assumed you were the problem.
You’re not. The response made sense when your system first learned it — it simply hasn’t been updated since. Online hypnotherapy and somatic work to bring your body and subconscious up to date with what you already know.
The Method
Four moves, repeatable anywhere
Judgment narrows. Understanding creates room. Instead of treating you as a defect to be fixed, the work gives you a loop you can run on your own — in a meeting, in traffic, at 3 a.m.
Locate
Find the controls you can actually reach right now: breath, posture, gaze, pace, contact, attention.
Choose
Run a small, deliberate experiment instead of an automatic response. Agency stays with you.
Recheck
Read your own data. What shifted, what didn’t, and what that tells us about the next move.
How I work
Trauma-informed and somatic at its core. I work bottom-up — starting with the body, where stress, craving, and old patterns live, before insight or discussion.
Adaptation, not defect
Craving, shutdown, anxiety, and overwhelm are treated as intelligent survival responses rather than personal failures. When shame drops, curiosity becomes possible. Curiosity is what makes learning safe.
State before story
A dysregulated body cannot think clearly or choose well on command. We settle the nervous system first. The story is revisited afterward, with more of you available to look at it.
Choice and titration
Every practice includes permission to modify, slow down, keep your eyes open, stay seated, observe, or pass. The work meets your nervous system where it actually is, not where it is supposed to be.
Experience over explanation
Awareness answers “I know why.” Integration answers “I no longer need to react that way.” Every session moves toward the second one.
Education over dependency
The goal is not a long relationship with me. The goal is that you become a better observer of your own mind, body, and behavior — until you can keep going without me.
A systems mind
My first career was architecture: reading systems, finding what is not working, rebuilding it soundly. I bring the same lens to people.
Ways to work together
Deep Change Session
For meaningful, lasting change around a specific issue or pattern. Hypnotherapy, somatic awareness, and subconscious work to shift the responses that no longer serve you.
I don’t watch the clock. We stay with the process until it reaches a natural completion.
- Anxiety and chronic stress
- Relationship patterns
- Self-sabotage and stuck points
- Confidence and self-worth
- Habits, sleep, and performance
- Life transitions and identity
Support Session
Not every session needs to be a deep dive. Sometimes you need help finding your footing after a difficult week, or working through something that’s come up unexpectedly.
Available in 15-, 30-, 60-, or 90-minute formats, depending on what you need.
- Regulating your nervous system
- Integrating previous work
- Preparing for a conversation or event
Therapy Integration Program
For people already doing meaningful work in therapy who want their subconscious mind and nervous system to fully participate in the changes they’re making.
Bridges the gap between understanding and embodiment.
- Ongoing hypnotherapy and somatic work
- Personalized support between sessions
- Works alongside your therapist — never replaces them
The Lab — for facilities and programs
An experiential group for treatment centers, recovery programs, and organizations. Nervous-system education, somatic experiments, and practical tools participants can apply immediately.
Each group is adapted to the population. Available virtually or in person by arrangement.
- Detox, residential, PHP, IOP, outpatient
- Complements the clinical team — never replaces it
- Twelve-group curriculum, or adapted to your structure
One-to-one sessions
You don’t need more insight.
You probably already know why you react the way you do.
You’ve read the books. You’ve been to therapy. You’ve had the breakthroughs. You understand your patterns.
And yet, in the moments that matter, your body still reaches for the old response.
That’s because insight doesn’t automatically become integration.
My work bridges that gap.
Using hypnotherapy, somatic awareness, and nervous system-based approaches, I help your subconscious and your body catch up with what your conscious mind already knows—so change begins to feel natural instead of forced.
This isn’t about fixing you.
There was never anything wrong with you. Your nervous system simply learned the best strategies it could with the information it had at the time. Those strategies may no longer serve you, but they can be updated.
Willpower isn’t what you’re missing either. It’s a starter motor—enormous force for a few seconds, then it hands off. I’d rather you spend it getting to the session and doing the experiment than burning it trying to force a pattern in real time.
Whether you’re feeling stuck, repeating familiar relationship patterns, struggling with anxiety or self-sabotage, or simply sensing that you’re capable of showing up differently in your life, we’ll work together to create change from the inside out.
I work remotely with clients around the world through private online sessions.
If you’re looking for another conversation about your problems, I’m probably not the right fit.
If you’re ready for your mind, body, and subconscious to start working together instead of against each other, I’d love to help.
One to One
Hypnotherapy with somatic integration
Sessions may include hypnosis, guided imagery, mindfulness, EFT, breathwork, grounding, and concrete behavioral-change planning — sequenced to what your system is doing. All sessions are private and online.
No cost, no obligation
Start with a free consultation
A short introductory call to talk through what you’re working on and whether this is the right fit — before you book anything.
Deep Change Session
$400per session
Typically one to two hours — shorter or significantly longer depending on what unfolds.
- For a specific issue or pattern
- Hypnotherapy, somatic awareness, subconscious work
- No clock-watching — we finish at a natural completion
- Take-home practice you can actually run
Support Session
$125from
15, 30, 60, or 90 minutes — whatever the week actually needs.
- Finding your footing after a hard week
- Something that came up unexpectedly
- Nervous-system regulation and integration
- Preparing for a conversation or event
Therapy Integration Program
Enquireongoing
For people already doing meaningful work in therapy.
- Ongoing hypnotherapy and somatic work
- Personalized support between sessions
- Bridges understanding and embodiment
- Works alongside your therapist
What individual work can address
- Emotional regulation & stress reduction
- Anxiety management & nervous-system tools
- Habit change & behavioral goals
- Confidence & performance support
- Sleep support & present-focused coping
- Grief & life transitions
- Mind-body awareness & somatic grounding
What it is not: medical care, psychotherapy, psychiatric treatment, crisis services, or a guarantee of outcome. Sessions are paid at the time of booking.
The Lab
An experiential group for treatment centers, recovery programs, and organizations.
Nervous-system education, somatic experiments, practical tools, and interactive exercises participants can apply immediately in everyday life. Each group is adapted to the needs of the population. Available virtually or in person by arrangement.
People do not change through insight alone. They change through repeated experiences of safety, awareness, regulation, choice, and new action. The Lab is built bottom-up — breath, posture, movement, sensation, orientation — and every session runs as an experiment. Participants are never told which tool should work. They test one, collect honest data, and find out what actually shifts their own system. No result is wrong.
The goal is not to change the person. The goal is to create enough safety, understanding, and embodied access that people can reconnect with capacities already present.
Every group follows five steps
Notice where you actually are — a number, a word, a sensation.
The theme, in clear and unoverwhelming language.
A somatic or experiential practice, with options for different nervous-system states.
Notice what changed. Every response is information.
Leave with one tool to test outside the room.
The full twelve-group curriculum
Why the right starting point is different for everyone.
Grounded witnessing and the body’s signals.
The physiology of impulse and urges.
Window of tolerance, resourcing, titration.
Breath and the body’s calming response.
Movement, discharge, and completion.
Putting energy into what can actually be changed.
How state shapes perception and meaning.
Somatic ego-state work.
Embodied cognition, movement, and play.
Co-regulation, connection, safe presence.
The specific tools that work for each nervous system.
About Sonya
A systems engineer’s eye, turned toward the nervous system
Sonya trained first in architectural engineering, and it still shapes how she works. She looks for patterns, feedback loops, and leverage points — the same way a complex structure becomes workable once you understand what each part is carrying.
Her approach combines clinical hypnotherapy, somatic awareness, and behavioral-change methodology in a calm, structured sequence: notice the logic behind the response, replace the deficit story with accurate information, then restore genuine choice through small experiments you can test.
“People do not need to be treated as defects to access change.”
She also facilitates psychoeducational and experiential groups on anxiety, depression, ADHD, substance-use recovery, life transitions, and mindfulness — built for psychological safety, with no forced participation.
Training & Credentials
- A.O.S., Mind-Body PsychologyHMI College of Hypnotherapy
- Diploma in Clinical HypnotherapyHMI College of Hypnotherapy
- Certified Clinical HypnotherapistCCHt
- Neuro-Linguistic ProgrammingCertified Practitioner
- Emotional Freedom TechniquesEFT Practitioner
- Mental & Emotional Release®MER Therapy Specialist
- Trauma Recovery HypnosisSpecialist
- Hypnosis & PTSDSpecialty Training
- Hypnosis & CBTSpecialist
- Hypnosis & ADHDSpecialist
- MindscapingSpecialist
- Alcohol & Drug TechnicianPreviously Registered
Questions people ask
Answers before you ask.
Will I lose control under hypnosis?
No. Hypnosis is not unconsciousness and it is not surrender. You remain aware, you can speak, move, and stop at any point, and you will not do anything that conflicts with your values. It is closer to a focused, absorbed state you have already experienced — driving a familiar route, or losing an hour in a book.
Can everyone be hypnotized?
Nearly everyone can access a useful state, though people get there differently and at different speeds. How readily you respond is not a measure of intelligence, willpower, or character. If one door does not open easily, we use another.
How many hypnotherapy sessions will I need?
It depends on what you are working with and how your system responds. Many people begin to notice shifts within the first few sessions. I will not quote you a number before I have met you, and the goal is always for the work to end — not to continue indefinitely.
What actually happens in a hypnotherapy session?
We talk about what is going on and what you want to be different. I explain what your nervous system is likely doing and why. Then we move into an experience — breath, somatic work, or hypnosis — and afterward we look at what changed. You leave with something practical to use.
Do you offer online hypnotherapy?
All one-to-one sessions are private and online, and I work with clients around the world. The Lab is available to facilities virtually or in person by arrangement.
What if I am skeptical?
Skepticism is welcome and it does not interfere. You do not have to believe anything for your nervous system to respond. I would rather you test the work than trust it.
How is hypnotherapy different from therapy?
Talk therapy is largely top-down — understanding first. This work is bottom-up — it starts in the body and works toward meaning. Many of my clients have done years of good therapy and arrive understanding themselves well. What they are missing is not insight; it is integration.
What if I become emotional?
Emotion is information, not a problem, and nothing is forced. You can slow down, pause, keep your eyes open, or stop at any moment. Pacing belongs to you.
Scope of practice
I practice within the scope of clinical hypnotherapy and psychoeducation. I do not diagnose or treat mental illness, I do not prescribe, and I do not promise cures. This work complements — and never replaces — psychotherapy, medical care, psychiatric care, or a treatment program. Where it is useful, I am glad to work alongside your existing providers. If you are in crisis or in immediate danger, please contact emergency services or call or text 988 in the United States.
Get in touch
Start with a simple conversation
No intake pressure, no health history required up front — just a short conversation about what you’re working on and whether this is a good fit.