Julie Cochrane··5 min read

What Actually Happens in an RTT Session

A plain account of what a session looks like, what hypnosis really is and what people tend to experience during and after.

What Actually Happens in an RTT Session

One of the most common questions people ask in a discovery call is what an actual session looks like. The word hypnosis carries a lot of cultural baggage. I want to be plain about what we do and what we don't do.

A session runs around two hours. We start with a conversation. I want to understand what you're carrying, what you've tried already and what would be different in your life if the thing in front of us was resolved. This part isn't just preamble. It's where I learn enough about your inner landscape to know where the work needs to go.

Then we move into hypnosis. This isn't a performance. It isn't a loss of control. You'll be aware the whole time. You'll hear my voice. You'll be able to speak. What changes is that the noise of the conscious mind quiets down and the subconscious becomes more available. Most people describe it as similar to that drifting state just before sleep, when the mind is open but you're still here.

From there we go looking for scenes. Not memories you sit and try to recall. The subconscious offers them up. Often surprising ones. We work with what surfaces. The point is to find the moment a particular belief or pattern was installed. The scene is rarely as dramatic as the conscious mind expects. It's usually quieter and more ordinary than that.

When we find the scene, we don't just look at it. We work with it. The younger version of you who took on the belief gets to be met. She gets to hear what she didn't get to hear at the time. The subconscious gets shown that the rule is no longer needed. This is the part that does the actual shifting.

After the hypnosis I record a personalised audio for you, designed for the specific work we did. You'll listen to it daily for the next 21 days while the subconscious settles into the new pattern. The audio is part of the work. People who skip it tend to get less out of the session than people who use it.

You won't bark like a chicken. You won't lose your wallet. You won't forget your name. You'll probably feel quieter than you've felt in a long time and a little tender, in a good way, for a day or two afterwards.

If anything about this still feels unclear, the discovery call is the place to ask. There are no wrong questions and no obligation to book a session at the end of it.

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