Journey to the Subconscious to Solve Problems

“You’re getting sleepy, very sleepy….”

A soft voice intones that suggestion. Its owner gently swings a shiny bobble or perhaps a pocket watch to capture the listener’s singular attention. Soon come the soothing words, “You can feel your eyes close as you relax,” an instruction meant to transport the mesmerized to the land of nod.

That is the image of hypnotism commonly shown in movies, on TV, or performed on stage as entertainment, with the hypnotized unable to resist suggestions and doing something comical. But that example bears no resemblance to the approach taken by Carolyn Beauchamp and other hypnotherapy practitioners. 

Beauchamp defines hypnosis as simply an altered state of consciousness, while hypnotherapy is deliberately induced hypnosis by professionally trained and qualified practitioners for therapeutic purposes.

She is an advanced certified clinical hypnotherapist who recently opened an office at Skin Renewal Systems Salon and Spa on Marco Island. She’s also a certified Hope Coach, someone who assists people who are experiencing a painful situation, hopelessness or the feeling that there is no way forward. 

Being unconscious is not part of the process.

“What we do is we bypass the conscious mind where all the programs are, and we go right into the subconscious mind where the programs are that we need to change,” explained the Naples resident. “Hypnosis is a natural God-given state. You go in and out of hypnosis 100 times a day. One example is when you're watching a movie, and you get involved in a character's situation, you're in hypnosis because you're in an altered state of consciousness. Say you're driving home from work, and you're thinking about what you need to get at the store and you miss your turn, you were in hypnosis.”

Hypnotherapy, or medical hypnosis, addresses such issues as addiction, pain relief, smoking cessation, losing weight, PTSD, insomnia, phobias, Positive Suggestion Therapy and anxiety, to mention a few. 

Beauchamp also offers past life regression, which takes a person back through time to access memories and experiences normally hidden in their subconscious mind. She believes many life challenges are rooted in early childhood traumas, whether consciously remembered or not, and accessing them can lead to major breakthroughs and lasting resolutions.

Aside from past life regression clients, all services first begin with an initial consultation before subsequent sessions are held. The initial session includes gathering client information, followed by recorded hypnosis with positive suggestion therapy for the client’s use at home.

Beauchamp’s manner is warm, decidedly upbeat, engaging and empathetic. New age music softly plays in the background, helping set a relaxing mood as she chats with clients, eliciting information and learning about their issues and goals. But sessions unfold without the trappings commonly associated with hypnosis.  

“You're not unconscious, you're conscious,” said Beauchamp. “It's almost like you're in two worlds. You know, you're sitting in the chair there with me, but you know that you're having an experience of an altered state. Like if you're in a past life, you know you're in the past life, but you're also aware that you're in my office. And you will never do anything that's against your moral code. If you’re in hypnosis and the hypnotherapist says to you, ‘Go steal this from a store,’ your subconscious will reject that if it's not in your belief system. That's why what we say as a hypnotist or hypnotherapist is that you never lead the client. You say, ‘What's happening? Where are you? How do you feel and what's happening?’ You don't plant something in their mind.”

Beauchamp’s clinic will be open from 10:00 AM. to 5:00 PM, Tuesday through Friday, with time for just two sessions per day to foster a relaxed atmosphere for each client and her as well. 

“I've learned over the years what really works for me and what works for my clients because you can't rush through it,” she said. “I want you to be comfortable enough to be able to sit and talk to me for as long as it takes to get out what you’re feeling and going through. And there's nothing worse than someone looking at their clock and saying, ‘Well, hurry up. You've only got another ten minutes.’ That doesn't work.”

Beauchamp is a former singer and actor who’s had her own hypnotherapy practice since 2012. Helping people live their best lives by addressing the root cause of their problems drives her love of hypnotherapy. 

“That's the beauty of hypnosis,” she said. “When you bypass the conscious mind, you can go right to the false beliefs, and you can change them in the quantum field, and you can change them quickly. That's why people get such great results quickly in hypnosis over talk therapy or antidepressants. Those are masking the symptoms that we're looking to address. So it's a wonderful, amazing, magical process.”

For more information about Carolyn Beauchamp, advanced certified clinical hypnotherapist, visit inquirewithinfl.com/ or call 300-1633. Skin Renewal Systems Salon and Spa is located at 1000 N. Collier Blvd. in the Heritage Square Plaza. For more information, visit skinrenewalmarco.com/.