About me, the founder - Joanna Malinowska

I am a qualified and experienced 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 have the Reiki Practitioner qualifications and I have experience with the old traditional Slavic healing method. I am also a Family Constellations Facilitator.

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 (no 1358N).

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.

Hypnotherapy is the therapy performed in hypnosis; the hypnotic state makes the therapy very effective. Hypnosis relaxes and opens the doors for a skilful therapist to help the client to make the positive lasting change. My approach to the therapy is eclectic. It means that I am trained in various techniques and therapies I use the one which is most suitable and effective for the client and client's needs.

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. 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 Centred Therapy the problem is what the client sees as a problem. The client has an active role in the therapy and the therapy is tailored exactly to the client's needs. The therapy is empowering, the client not only solves the current problems, but also learns how to deal with the future issue, especially as I teach self-hypnosis techniques.

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 together with my husband we'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.