What is Hypnotherapy and HeartHealing™?

When you know better, you do better. In theory.

You already know plenty. You know why you over-give. You know where the pattern came from. You've read the books and you can explain yourself beautifully.

And you still do the thing.

That's because the thing doesn't live where your thinking lives. It lives underneath, in the subconscious, where old beliefs and reactions have been running on autopilot since you were small. Head trash is loud, but it isn't where things change.

Hypnotherapy is how we get underneath

Hypnosis is a deeply relaxed, focused state. That's all it is.

You're awake. You hear me. You can talk, move, laugh, stop at any time. Nobody is taking over your mind. Most people say it feels like the moment right before sleep, when your body is heavy and your thinking finally gets quiet.

And when the thinking gets quiet, we can reach what's been running the show.

HeartHealing™ is what we do once we're there

HeartHealing™ is a heart-centered way of working with the subconscious. We find the emotional root of the pattern, the moment or the belief it grew from, and we work with it there.

Sometimes that root is something you lived. Sometimes it's something you were handed: the fear, the grief, the survival patterns that came down through your family before you had any say in it.

You're not forcing anything. What was hidden becomes conscious, you process it, and it moves through.

In my sessions, hypnotherapy and HeartHealing™ aren't two separate things. One is how we get in. The other is what we do there.

What people bring to this work

Almost anything with a "why do I keep doing this?" in it.

How you treat yourself

Never feeling like enough, no matter how much you get done

A voice in your head that's meaner to you than you'd ever be to anyone else

Putting yourself last and calling it being practical

Not trusting your own decisions

How you are with other people

Over-giving, people pleasing, saying yes when you mean no

Boundaries that feel like confrontation

The same dynamic showing up with a different person

Being afraid of being seen, judged or found out

Stress and your body

Running on stress and never really coming down

Trouble switching off at night

Knowing you need to take care of yourself and not doing it

Feeling disconnected from your body, or at war with it

Habits and fears

Habits you've tried to quit with willpower

The snack, the scroll, the thing you reach for when you're not even hungry

Fears that don't make logical sense, like speaking up, being visible, flying or driving

Freezing right before something that matters

The bigger questions

Not knowing what you want anymore

A life that's good, and something's still off

Old stories from childhood that are still running the show

Patterns that seem to run in your family

And sometimes nothing's wrong. You're just curious about yourself. That's a good enough reason.

Where your body comes in

I spent more than 20 years as a massage therapist before I trained in this work. For all of those years I told clients the same thing: your body remembers everything.

Every fall off your bike. Every injury. Every time you got scared, uncomfortable or embarrassed. It holds all of it, whether you know it or not.

So in some sessions I'll guide you to meet the guardian of your body, and together we go to an area that needs your love, care or attention. You don't have to know what you're looking for. The body knows.

What a session is like

We talk first. You bring me the piece that's bugging you, and I ask a lot of questions, because there is never just one piece of the puzzle.

Then you get comfortable and close your eyes, and I guide you down into that relaxed state. From there I'm with you the whole way, asking, listening and following what comes up.

You receive a guided hypnosis audio I make for you to listen to for 25 days or so after the session, so what shifted in the session keeps settling in afterward.

Sessions are 75 - 90 minutes, in person in Vancouver, WA or on Zoom from anywhere.

Why I trust this

I was the client before I was the practitioner.

From the outside I was fine. A successful practice, a life I loved and chose. Underneath I was over-functioning, running on cortisol and adrenaline, and calling a long bath self care because there was nothing left.

The problem was never my circumstances. It was the story running underneath all of it. And I couldn't think my way out of a old story I didn't know I was running me ragged.

This work is how I found it. That's why I do it.

What clients say

"I've done so much personal growth work before, but this was different.

For the first time, I feel at peace with myself and who I am."

J.L.

"After working with Piper, I stopped over-giving and started trusting myself and my decisions.

I've never felt this peaceful or truly myself."

C.R.

What this isn't

This isn't therapy or medical care. I don't diagnose or treat medical or mental health conditions. If you're working with a doctor or therapist, tell me, and we'll make sure this fits alongside that.

I'm a certified hypnotherapist, registered in Washington State, and a Master HeartHealing™ Practitioner, including the ancestral path.