Embark on a journey through the realms of hypnotherapy with Paulette Deckers as she shares her profound insights and experiences in this exclusive interview. From her personal healing journey to the discovery of modalities like 5PATH hypnotherapy, Soul Entrainment, and past life regression therapy, Paulette unveils the transformative power of these techniques in addressing trauma, depression, and anxiety. MysticMag has the pleasure.
How did you get into hypnotherapy and what sparked your interest in this field?
As a person who grew up in a very unhealthy toxic environment, I suffered from a lot of residual issues of abuse, neglect, and abandonment. At some point in my 30s, I began to really question my life, why I felt I had everything in place, and still did not feel happy and content with what I had. So I began to look at different ways to help myself heal from my past. Initially like many other people I went to counselors and psychotherapists, and found some relief in those therapies, but at the end of the day, I never was able to get to the Core cause of why I felt the way I felt, and why I responded to emotional situations in an unhealthy way. Fast forward 19 years, I began looking into hypnotherapy as a new tool to help me reach my mental health goals. I did some research and found hypnotherapy to be quite interesting. Fortunately for me, there was a hypnotherapist in the area where I Iive who was quite well known for her 5PATH work.
I began to inquire about sessions and found the process to be profoundly healing in a way that nothing else had ever been for me. At the end of our five sessions together I had achieved more in helping myself understand my behavioral responses, conditioned and otherwise, which led to greater healing and understanding of myself than in all previous attempts I’d made. At that point in my life, I was looking to change direction in careers, so I decided to take the training for
5PATH hypnotherapy and have been in business for nearly 6 years now working with this process. I truly have seen many people heal from using this modality, and I firmly believe in the 5PATH hypnotic protocol as a way to help people with trauma, depression, and anxiety. Watching other people heal themselves has been amazing to me as a practitioner, and I feel very fortunate to be in a position to help people this way.
What is Soul Entrainment?
Soul Entrainment is a process that I was introduced to at a National Convention of Hypnotists back in 2019. The woman who created this process is an amazing hypnotherapist, breath coach, and a spiritual advisor to many. Karen Paolino created the Soul Entrainment protocol after dealing with breast cancer and after losing her sister suddenly. What soul entrainment work allows us to do, is to directly tap into the soul’s consciousness. As such we are able to ask soul-specific questions, about our life purpose, why we’re dealing with personal relationship issues, and any other life challenges.
When you are dealing directly with your soul, there can be no question as to the answers you receive. People who believe in a soul or a higher self would find this protocol to be incredibly beautiful, and helpful in directing them in their life and in connection with their soul’s purpose or challenges that they are facing in this lifetime. The process takes about 90 minutes, and we usually start with a list of questions generally around 4 or 5 at the most. The most important thing to remember about this type of work is deciphering whether it’s your soul answering the questions or your ego answering the questions. The soul will never speak to you in a negative way or a non-supportive way. The ego does.
The soul will only speak to you from a place of love, guidance and support. It is truly a beautiful session and I highly recommend it to anyone who would like to gain more knowledge about their soul and how to connect with their soul on a regular basis.
How much is past life regression therapy different from other forms of hypnotherapy?
That’s such an interesting question. As a hypnotherapy practitioner initially, I did not believe in past life work. It wasn’t until 2020 during lockdown that I began to research this type of healing modality. Even when I began the course, I was still not a believer. It wasn’t until I had my own past life experience during my training that I became a believer in past life regression therapy. Why is it different from traditional hypnosis?
I would have to say that we take the opportunity in this work to heal touchpoints in this life, back into the womb, and all the way back into a former life. This therapy is not for everyone. When I do my consultation for this type of session, I always ask a lot of questions about the why. I don’t find this to be a light modality, then again most hypnotherapy is emotion-based in my opinion. When people do this work it is usually to heal a past life issue due to emotional or physical damage caused in that life. I believe what most people don’t understand is that the soul can carry physical or emotional abuse, neglect, and energetic damage from a past life into your current life, and there are probably many reasons why that might happen.
So, when I do this work I don’t take it lightly, and I make sure people are doing it for the right reasons. This is not a form of entertainment, it is an opportunity for clinical healing. This is for the individual to experience their past life themselves and healing in this life through the womb and life between life. It is a healing modality where the individual gets to take charge of what they see, what they experience, and how they want to use that information in their current day life to address their own unique challenges.
What other services do you offer and what specialties do you have?
I believe that many hypnotherapists today take training after training after training. Mostly because they need to improve their skill set, and to help as many people as possible in their practice. My training involves 5PATH hypnosis, Soul Entrainment work, Trauma collapse hypnotic protocols, and anxiety and stress relief. Another thing most people don’t know about hypnotherapists is that not all of them are trained in regression techniques. There’s quite a bit of debate about regression or what we call “Regress to Cause ” as some hypnotists think it’s helpful and others do not, but it is an individual practitioner’s choice whether they want to be trained in that way or not.
Between my soul entrainment work and my past life regression therapy work, I have been adequately trained in regressive techniques. That being said, not all hypnotherapy needs to include regression. Another thing I want to add is that I have personally experienced every protocol I use on my clients. I think that is an important distinction. Would you want someone doing Past Life work, or Trauma Collapse work on you if they had not done it themselves?
What is the most difficult challenge you face as a clinical hypnotherapist?
One of the last points I would like to make is that most people do not understand how hypnotherapy works, or they don’t understand that it’s something they are in complete control of. The reason for this is that most people see what they see on TV and in the movies and they take that to be the truth, which it clearly is not!
Hypnotherapy is an incredibly powerful tool that can be manipulated by the individual with the guidance of a trained practitioner. Another misnomer is that you will do things you don’t want to do because someone who practices hypnosis made you do them. This is not true you will never do anything you do not want to do including creating healthy and positive changes in your life if you truly don’t want them. My trainer Cal Banyan always used to say “All hypnosis is self-hypnosis.”
Simply stated, you are always in control of how deep you go into the state of hypnosis and what you do to create changes in your own life, mind, and body. It is an incredibly empowering tool that I wish more people would look at as a means and a way to help themselves heal from the trauma that life causes. My biggest challenge is helping people understand these facts about hypnotherapy. I am always, always, always educating people on the properties and the guidelines of appropriate hypnotherapy practices. I would recommend that if you’re looking into hypnosis as a tool for yourself, you do due diligence to make sure you are working with an accredited and trained professional. Once you find that person, make sure you have a good rapport with them, and that you feel safe working with them. As I stated before, hypnotherapy is deeply emotional work.
To learn more about Paulette and her work, you can visit deckershypnosis.com
