My path to becoming a Certified Clinical Hypnotist began through my own experience with hypnosis. Before entering this field professionally, I spent years exploring different approaches to emotional health, mindfulness, bodywork, and personal development. Hypnosis became especially meaningful to me because it gave me a way to work more directly with the subconscious patterns beneath my thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Over time, learning to understand my own inner landscape became less about overcoming myself and more about developing a different relationship with my mind, body, memory, and imagination. That experience eventually inspired me to study clinical hypnosis and offer this work to others.

My practice today brings together clinical hypnosis, somatic communication, and the study of the embodied psyche. I am interested in the relationships between the mind, body, emotion, memory, and imagination, and in how these relationships can become more accessible through altered states of consciousness (trance). An evolving part of my work is what I call Somatic Communication, an inquiry into the ways emotion communicates through the body and the body communicates with the mind. At the center of this approach is a simple idea that continues to shape my work: the body is what connects the mind to the earth.

My studies have also led me beyond modern clinical hypnosis into the long human history of trance, ritual, contemplative practice, breathwork, herbal traditions, Jungian thought, and Indigenous philosophies from cultures around the world. Long before hypnosis was given its modern clinical language, people worked with focused attention, rhythm, imagination, ceremony, altered states, and relationship with the natural world in culturally distinct ways. Learning from this wider history has inspired me to understand hypnosis within a much larger human conversation about consciousness, while respecting that Indigenous and traditional practices belong to their own cultures and should not simply be reduced to modern hypnosis. Even the word psyche points toward this larger history. The Greek psychē carried meanings connected to breath, life, soul, and the animating principle long before psychology became the name of a modern discipline.

These influences have shaped a practice grounded in curiosity about the whole person. I use clinical hypnosis as a practical way of working with subconscious patterns while continuing to study how somatic awareness, imagination, memory, mindfulness, and our relationship with the living world influence our experience of ourselves. I believe meaningful change is not simply about controlling the mind or correcting the body, but learning how to listen more closely to the relationship between them (the subconscious mind). My hope is to offer people a space where that relationship can become more conscious, more compassionate, and ultimately more easeful.

May life be fulfilling for all.
~ Xyla Marée, CCHt

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