About me, the founder - Joanna Malinowska

I am a qualified and registered clinical hypnotherapist. I have completed a Diploma in Hypnotherapy and Counselling and a Certificate IV in Clinical Hypnotherapy at the Academy of Applied Hypnosis, Australia's leading school in hypnotherapy. I have acquired qualifications in Hypnoanalysis, Transactional Analysis, Gestalt and Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). I also have the Reiki Practitioner qualifications (Reiki II) and I have experience with the old traditional Slavic healing method, similar to Reiki.

I am accredited and registered as a clinical member by Australian Hypnotherapist Association (no CM 0307138) . I am also a Registered Professional Member of the Australian Society of Clinical Hypnotherapists.

I enjoy my work. It gives me an enormous amount of satisfaction to be able to help people to find their potential and to overcome their issues and problems. And an even greater satisfaction that the methods I am using are so effective. Quite often the issue had affected the client for a long time, for many years, some clients say they always had this problem - yet it can be solved in a few sessions, in a safe and non invasive way.

My approach to the therapy is eclectic. It means that I am trained in various techniques and I use the one which is most suitable and effective for the client and his needs. And one of the most important selection criteria is the client's wish. For example, I may think that the solution to the client's issue lays in the past and the best solution would be a hypnoanalytical technique called Regression. But if the client rejects this technique, I would still have a handful of other techniques.

The other face of my approach is the Client Centered Therapy. My role as a therapist is to help the clients find and utilize their full potential. This way the positive changes can be quickly achieved and they are permanent. The client has an active role in the therapy and the therapy is tailored exactly to the client's needs. It is different from the common medical model, where the doctor tells the patient what his problem is and what he has to do. In the Client Centered Therapy the problem is what the client sees as a problem. 

I am bound by the strong  ethical principles of Australian Hypnotherapist Association. I am even more bound by my own ethical codes and principles, which are of the highest standard and very simple:

When I work with clients, I am able to use not only my professional knowledge and experience, but also years of rich personal experience. In my life, before committing myself to the hypnotherapy, I had a handful of professions. I have a Master degree in Science, and I worked as a high school teacher, I had a successful carrier in IT. I am a Mother and I've raised three wonderful young people. I was born in the totalitarian regime and I've spent my formative years on selecting the truth from lies; I had my little part in the underground peaceful freedom movement. And much, much more, just the life, full of events, sometimes traumatic. There are professions when the age gives the advantage, and hypnotherapy is one of them.