Awareness Brings Positive Change

At the heart of meaningful change lies a simple yet powerful truth: awareness matters.  When we bring compassionate attention to our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours – even the most difficult ones – we begin to shift.  Awareness helps us to see what is, including the patterns that may be holding us back.  But it also opens us to something more: the deeper truth of who we are, beyond our personality self.  And from this space, change happens.

Talking it out

Therapy begins with relationship.  A safe, accepting therapeutic space has consistently been shown to be the most important factor in healing.  In this space, talk therapy helps you to recognize patterns of thought and behaviour that no longer serve you.  It offers perspective, reflection, and the grounding support needed to understand how difficult experiences may be held in place. 

Often this work leads to an “aha” moment – when something becomes so clear you can’t unsee it.  From there new possibilities emerge.  As Maya Angelou said, “you do what you know, and when you know better, you do better”.

“You do what you know, and when you know better, you do better.”​ – Maya Angelou

Becoming Aware of the Unconscious

Much of what shapes our experience happens below the surface.  The unconscious mind is not rational or time-bound; it holds both our creative potential and our repressed pain.  Freud helped establish that persistent emotional or physical symptoms can sometimes trace back to unconscious memories – and that transformation begins when these memories come into awareness.

Since then, many approaches, from Gestalt to mindfulness-based therapies, have continued to affirm the power of working with what was once hidden.  When unconscious patterns become conscious, we can begin to meet ourselves with understanding – and choose differently.

Listening to the Body  ​

Our bodies speak in sensation, tension, and subtle shifts of energy.  Somatic therapy begins here, inviting Experiencing us not notice what is present physically when emotions arise.  The simple act of placing awareness on body sensations can begin to release discomfort.

Techniques like Gendlin’s Focusing or Somatic emphasize this body-first awareness.   In Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT, tapping) or EMDR, clients focus on a distressing thought, emotion, or sensation while using structured methods (like tapping or eye movements) to help the nervous system process and release intensity.  Awareness is not just a step in the process; it is the process.

You are more than this Body-Mind

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Whether we recognize it or not, we are more than our thoughts and emotions, and more than our body.  Beyond the everyday self lies a deeper truth: the Higher Self – calm, clear, connected.  Beyond that, the Soul.  And beyond even that a Divine Source. 

Transpersonal hypnotherapy can help access these levels of awareness.  Clients often find deep insight, comfort and guidance by connecting with spiritual resources meaningful to them – whether that’s Source, God, Goddess, Spirit, Angels, or simply the wisdom of the universe. 

In this space we can explore and even shift energetic dynamics with others.  Hypnosis can be used to strengthen connection to the Higher Self or to release what no longer belongs.  Wherever you are on your spiritual path, this work gently invites your own inner knowing forward.

When we become aware – of our thoughts, our pain, our patters, our sensations, and our deeper Self – we begin to change.  Not by force, but by presence.  Not by striving but by softening into what is.  Awareness itself is not passive.  It is a powerful and sacred doorway to a life that feels more whole.