How Hypnotherapy Helps Heal Betrayal Trauma

In his groundbreaking work “The Body Keeps the Score,” Dr. Bessel van der Kolk reveals a profound truth about trauma: it’s not just an experience, but trauma is a result that affects the here and now

We remember trauma in our whole body, leading to a complex web of emotional and physical responses that can persist long after the initial event.

Trauma Stays in the Body

Betrayal trauma leave open wounds that time does not heal. It comes from someone close—a partner, friend, co-worker, relative—someone you trusted.

When that trust is broken, it doesn’t just hurt emotionally. Your body remembers. Trauma doesn’t get processed like other experiences because it is overwhelming for your brain. So the memory shatters into fragments and pops up randomly as intrusive thoughts and intense feelings in your body that make you feel like you are experiencing the trauma again in the here and now.

You might disconnect from the pain to survive it, you feel numb and hopeless but you also lose touch with joy, peace, and connection.

Why Betrayal Trauma Feels So Deep

This kind of trauma brings a mix of confusion, shame, anger, and grief. It can mess with your ability to feel safe and trust again. You might feel stuck, anxious, or triggered AF.

Trauma can show up in your body as fatigue, muscle tension, stomach problems, or sleep issues.

Why Talk Therapy Doesn’t Always Work

Talking about betrayal might make you feel worse. It can revivify the trauma and make it feel like you’re re-living it. But who said remembering is recovering?

No one.

Ever.

If you feel like talking about trauma and sharing painful, personal details makes you feel worse, you’re not alone. Iatrogenic harm is when what you’re doing to help, unintentionally makes the original condition worse.

Because of the way that trauma is processed, or actually, not processed, verbal pathways will not take you across the line.

How Hypnotherapy Can Help

Accelerated Hypnotherapy works by calming the nervous system.

Important note: This does not mean you have to relax! If you could relax, you probably wouldn’t be reading this. Come as you are, anxious, stressed, exhausted, stuck AF.

No relaxation required.

Accelerated Hypnotherapy accesses the subconscious mind—where trauma lives. Here’s how it helps:

• Gets under the surface: You don’t have to relive every detail of your trauma because your Superconscious mind remembers everything. Hypnotherapy works with imagery and sensation.
• Helps release emotion: Emotional pain that is stuck in thought loops and in the body can shift and be released safely in this state.
• Rebuilds mind-body connection: Trauma disconnects you from your body. Hypnotherapy gently reconnects you in the most safe and gently way.
• Shifts beliefs: You may have picked up beliefs like “I’m not safe” or “I’m not lovable.” These can shift under hypnosis.
• Restores emotional range: If you’ve gone numb, this can help you feel the good stuff again—like hope, joy, peace, passion.

What a Hypnotherapy Session Looks Like

• A free Clarity Session to understand your issue
• Accessing a deep sense of calm
• May integrate OEI therapy for trauma
• Integrating memory into the past
• An experience you take with you after the session
• Experience shifts after the session

You Don’t Have to Do It Alone

Trauma is challenging to navigate on your own because you’re stuck and not able to find your way out on your own.

If you’ve been struggling to move forward after betrayal, it’s not because there’s something wrong with you. This is how trauma shows up. We feel stuck, numb, hopeless, and triggered all at the same time.

Your system is doing its best to protect you.

But there is another way.

Accelerated Hypnotherapy works with the way your brain is designed to help you get unstuck and move forward to a whole new future.

Let’s connect.