Hi, I’m Erika,
Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, Subconscious Repatterning Specialist & PhD Researcher
Hi, I’m Erika.
I’m a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist specializing in self-sabotage and subconscious patterns.
I work with people who know what they want and often know exactly what they should be doing..
but still find themselves
procrastinating,
overthinking,
starting and stopping,
putting themselves last,
talking themselves out of opportunities,
or returning to patterns they genuinely want to change.
But more than that, I understand what it feels like to know what to do and still feel unable to follow through.
Because I didn’t just study self-sabotage.
I lived it.
My Own Experience With Self-Sabotage
For me, self-sabotage showed up most visibly through my relationship with food, my body, and my weight.
For years, I knew how to lose weight on paper.
I understood food.
Movement.
Motivation.
Discipline.
I made plans. I started over. I promised myself that this time would be different.
And yet, somehow, I kept finding myself back in familiar patterns.
At the time, I thought the problem was that I needed more discipline.
Eventually, I began to understand that there was something much deeper happening.
The weight wasn’t just weight.
For me, it had become connected to protection.
Being unseen felt safer.
Staying invisible felt safer.
And certain patterns around food had become connected to comfort, safety, and familiarity.
Consciously, I wanted change.
But another part of me had learned that staying exactly where I was served a purpose.
And that realization changed the way I understood self-sabotage.
What Changed
By the time I finally turned inward, I had already been a Hypnotherapist for five years.
I had helped clients uncover subconscious patterns, shift beliefs, and create meaningful changes in their own lives.
But I had not fully turned that same level of curiosity toward myself.
When I began using Hypnotherapy and Subconscious repatterning in my own life...
I stopped looking only at what I was doing and started becoming curious about why the pattern was there in the first place.
I began recognizing beliefs and associations that had quietly been influencing me:
“If I change, I’ll be seen.”
“If I’m seen, I may be judged.”
“Food is comfort.”
“It’s safer to stay invisible.”
“I can’t trust myself to follow through.”
Those thoughts weren’t simply about food or weight.
They were connected to
identity,
safety,
visibility,
trust,
and how I saw myself.
And once I began working with those deeper patterns,
I stopped fighting myself in the same way.
What My Own Transformation Taught Me
Through my own journey, I ultimately released 83 pounds in six months.
But I want to be very clear:
Hypnosis did not magically make the weight disappear.
Weight loss was one visible outcome of a much bigger internal transformation.
What changed most was the relationship I had with myself.
I became more willing to see what was underneath my behaviors instead of judging myself for having them.
I began making decisions from a different place.
And I learned something that now influences the way I work with every client:
What looks like self-sabotage on the surface
may make perfect sense once you understand
what the subconscious pattern has been trying to accomplish.
That lesson went far beyond weight loss.
It changed the way I understood
procrastination,
perfectionism,
people-pleasing,
fear of visibility,
lack of follow-through,
emotional coping,
and the countless ways we can unconsciously pull ourselves away from the very things we consciously want.
How I Help My Clients
Today, I work with people who are tired of feeling like they're getting in their own way.
They may know exactly what they want—but find themselves:
procrastinating on things that matter to them
overthinking decisions
struggling to follow through
starting strong and repeatedly stopping
putting everyone else's needs ahead of their own
avoiding opportunities because they don't feel ready
struggling with perfectionism
second-guessing themselves
using unhealthy behaviors to cope with uncomfortable emotions
feeling uncomfortable being seen, heard, or successful
repeating patterns they consciously know they want to change
In my work, we don't focus only on trying to control the surface behavior.
We become curious about what's underneath it.
Because procrastination may not simply be laziness.
Perfectionism may not simply be having high standards.
People-pleasing may not simply mean being nice.
And repeatedly pulling back from something you consciously want may not mean that you don't want it badly enough.
Sometimes the pattern has become connected to safety,
protection,
belonging,
rejection,
visibility,
identity,
or fear of what might happen if things actually change.
That's where our work begins.
My Approach
My approach to hypnotherapy isn't about forcing you to become a different person.
And it isn't about telling you to simply think positively,
try harder,
or become more disciplined.
I want to understand why the pattern exists.
Together, we can explore the subconscious beliefs, emotional associations, protective responses, and identity patterns connected to what keeps happening.
Hypnotherapy may be used to help you:
uncover subconscious patterns connected to self-sabotage
challenge beliefs you've outgrown
develop greater trust in yourself
create different internal responses to familiar triggers
become more comfortable taking action and being seen
strengthen an identity that feels more aligned with where you're going
The goal isn't perfection.
The goal is alignment.
When you aren't spending so much energy fighting yourself,
you have more energy available to actually move forward.
What If Self-Sabotage Isn’t the Real Problem?
What if the behavior you've been judging is only the part you can see?
A pattern that frustrates you today may have developed because, at some point, it helped you
avoid something uncomfortable
protect yourself emotionally
maintain connection
or stay within what felt familiar.