My Story
My name is Kate Bowen
and I am a Clinical Hypnotherapist
I came to hypnotherapy as a client, having tried a seemingly endless list of options to deal with my own issues. I tried ignoring, pretending, numbing, CBT, DBT, one-on-one therapy, group therapy, psychiatry, psychology, medication, meditation, yoga, tapping, and many, (many!) self help books. And while some of these things worked some of the time, I still felt hopeless and stuck. Stuck in a body and life that I didn’t feel any love for, or control over; like my mind was disconnected from my body & soul. I had become a master of over intellectualizing my trauma and my emotions, but not actually feeling or processing any of it.
I was diagnosed with major depressive disorder and an eating disorder, to add to the list of unprocessed childhood trauma and abuse, generational and racial trauma (collectively cPTSD). I struggled with anger issues, my inner critic, anxiety, insomnia, body dysmorphia, and a complete lack of self worth/ self love. Even though I could identify and analyze my issues, there was a vast disconnect between “knowing” these things about myself, and “feeling” or “doing” anything about them.
It was from that place that I finally took the leap and decided to try working with a Clinical Hypnotherapist. It was scary, and there were no guarantees, but I’d tried literally everything else, and didn’t know where else to turn.
Within a few sessions, I had an entirely new outlook on life. I had hope! I had actionable goals and the motivation to achieve them. But most importantly for me, I felt worth and peace. Hypnotherapy was the key that unlocked it all for me. It was like my mind, soul and body finally came together. It was deep and lasting change, that altered the course of my life.
The impact it had on me was so profound, I immediately wanted to study hypnotherapy and learn all I could. As I went through my training, I became more and more certain that hypnotherapy was a gift that I wanted to share with others.
And that brings us to you!
Hi. I’m glad you’ve found me. How can I help?