Hypnotic Regression Therapy. A gentle journey back to the root of your experiences.
What is regression therapy?
Regression therapy is a form of hypnotherapy that helps you access the deeper layers of your subconscious mind — the place where memories, emotions, and beliefs are stored. Regression therapy is often the type of Hypnotherapy you see in movies.
The word “regression” simply means “to go back.” In this context, it refers to safely revisiting earlier experiences in order to understand how they may be influencing your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours today.
During a session, you are guided into a deeply relaxed, focused state (hypnosis), where you can explore past experiences with greater clarity and awareness. These may include:
Childhood memories and formative experiences
Significant emotional events
Patterns that you may not consciously understand
For some clients, symbolic or past-life experiences
The aim isn’t to relive the past — it’s to gain insight, release emotional weight, and create change in the present.
It is not always necessary to find the source of an issue to resolve it. There are many techniques we can use to resolve present issues without regression therapy.
How can regression therapy help?
Many of the challenges we face in life don’t always have a clear, logical cause. You might feel:
Stuck in repeating patterns
Held back by fears or anxieties
Triggered emotionally without understanding why
A sense that something “deeper” is influencing your life
Regression therapy works by helping you uncover the root cause of these experiences — often found in earlier memories or emotional imprints stored in the subconscious.
By bringing awareness to these deeper layers, you can begin to:
Understand your emotional responses more clearly
Release unresolved feelings
Shift limiting beliefs
Create new, more empowering patterns
Many people describe the experience as gaining a new perspective — like finally understanding a part of themselves that didn’t make sense before.
What happens during a session?
Each session is a safe, guided process tailored to you.
Typically, you will:
Begin with a relaxed conversation to clarify your goals
Be gently guided into a calm, focused state (hypnosis) by identifying a feeling in the present and then going back through your memories to find the first, or significant, times when you felt that feeling or exprienced a thought. Alternatively, I might guide you back through ages in your life - called age regression therapy or I might allow your subconscious mind to go whereever it wants to while under Hypnosis and see what comes up - free-floating regression. I do not practice past-life regression.
Explore relevant memories, images or impressions at your own pace
Process, reframe, or release what arises by looking at your past experience with your current-day wisdom.
Return feeling aware, grounded, and often lighter
Regression therapy uses a combination of deep relaxation, focused awareness, and gentle guidance to help you access the deeper layers of your subconscious mind. By following emotions, sensations, and inner awareness, the mind is naturally able to connect to earlier experiences that may be influencing your present life. Through this process, you can safely revisit, understand, and transform these experiences, creating lasting change.
A note on false memories & Revivication….
Hypnotic regression is not a reliable method of learning whether something happened in your life or not. The ways events are coded by the brain - how they are stored as memories - is very complex therefore in some cases they are not accurate. For example, dreams may be confused as memories, someone may have told you about something that happened to them and you imagined the situation so vividly that you believe it happened to you. Therefore, if you are hoping to confirm whether something happened to you, regression therapy is not a suitable means to do so. It can be useful for remembering more details about a situation you know definitely occured (as is common in forensic hypnosis).
Regression therapy can be effective for giving new insight to a memory that has been recurring and causing unpleasant emotions in the present, and holding you back in some way.
Revivication is when you revisit a memory but feel as though the event is occuring now. There are techniques to prevent this from happening if doing so would cause distress, but we will discuss the risks of revivication depending on your specific circumstances.
In some cases, the initial sensitising event which was the event that set off the current problem, was unrelated to the current problem. For example, someone with a fear of spiders may not have had a terrifying spider event as a child, it could have been another type of insect or it could have been a feeling of a loss of power over a situation that now occurs when a spider is present. Someone with a fear of flying may have had terrible news on a phone call right before boarding a plane which now presents as a fear of flying. I have had a client with a fear of flying discover that the initial sensitising event was their husband’s cancer diagnosis and the loss of control was the issue. This is the danger in regression therapy - it is possible to go looking for a memory that isn’t there.