Hypnotherapy in Counseling: Accessing the Subconscious for Deep Emotional Change

When talk therapy alone doesn’t seem to shift the stuck places in your life, it may be time to explore the power of the subconscious. At Heart Space Counseling Center, we offer hypnotherapy in therapy sessions as a safe, focused way to access deeper emotional layers, break through resistance, and facilitate lasting change.

Heart Space's very own Eli Schaugh, MFTC, is a trained and compassionate hypnotherapy practitioner who integrates clinical hypnotherapy with traditional psychotherapy to help clients release limiting beliefs, resolve internal conflicts, and reconnect with their inner clarity.

Whether you're dealing with anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship distress, or performance-based challenges, Eli’s approach to hypnotherapy is gentle, non-invasive, and profoundly effective.

What Is Hypnotherapy in Counseling?

Hypnotherapy is a therapeutic technique that uses guided relaxation and focused attention to access a trance-like state of heightened awareness. In this deeply calm and alert state, clients are able to connect with subconscious patterns and beliefs that often drive emotional responses, behaviors, and stuck points.

Key benefits of hypnotherapy in therapy include:

• Accessing and shifting limiting beliefs held in the subconscious

• Enhancing emotional regulation and nervous system calm

• Creating new internal scripts for confidence, peace, and motivation

• Healing inner child wounds and stored emotional pain

• Supporting trauma reprocessing and nervous system repair

How Eli Schaugh Integrates Hypnotherapy Into Therapy

Eli uses clinical hypnotherapy as part of an integrative approach that includes attachment theory, family systems, and parts work. Sessions are always paced collaboratively, with your emotional safety and consent at the center.

Whether you're:

• Managing high-functioning anxiety or panic attacks

• Trying to overcome fear-based blocks around love, success, or safety

• Struggling with chronic self-doubt, impostor syndrome, or burnout

• Working through relational trauma, grief, or identity loss

...Eli tailors each hypnotherapy experience to your specific goals and nervous system.

Clients often report feeling both empowered and deeply relaxed during and after sessions—with insights that continue unfolding in their everyday lives.

Why Choose Hypnotherapy?

Many clients are drawn to hypnotherapy for mental health because they:

• Feel like they "know" the issue intellectually but still feel stuck emotionally

• Want to break through old patterns that talking alone hasn’t shifted

• Are open to experiential, mind-body therapy approaches

• Want to engage in deep healing without having to relive every detail of past trauma

Hypnotherapy meets you where language and logic sometimes fall short—and gives your system a new path forward.

Conditions and Concerns Hypnotherapy Can Help With

Hypnotherapy has been used successfully to support:

• Anxiety and chronic stress

• Low self-worth and internalized shame

• Trauma and PTSD (as an adjunct to EMDR or somatic work)

• Relationship wounds and fear of vulnerability

• Sleep issues, test anxiety, and public speaking

• Emotional eating, perfectionism, and people-pleasing

Let Your Subconscious Help You Heal

When the conscious mind hits a wall, hypnotherapy offers another way in. Therapy with Eli Schaugh can help you access the deeper wisdom and emotional clarity already inside you—and build the life and relationships you want with greater ease.

We offer hypnotherapy in Lakewood, CO and throughout Colorado via secure telehealth.

🌿 Ready to Work With Your Mind, Not Against It?

Reach out today to schedule a session with Marriage and Family Therapist Candidate Eli Schaugh and explore how hypnotherapy in counseling can support your growth, healing, and transformation.