About
Your Journey Within
Returning to Your True Self, Returning to Love, and Living the Life You Are Meant to Live
There are moments when the life you are living no longer feels like the life you truly want. You may continue fulfilling your responsibilities, caring for those who matter to you, and doing everything you know to move forward, while familiar emotions, reactions, or patterns keep bringing you back to something you thought you had already left behind.
You may recognize what you would like to experience differently. You may even see the pattern and the way it affects your relationships, choices, or daily life. Yet knowing that it is there does not always change how it feels or how you react.
Sometimes an experience is already part of the past, while something connected with it continues appearing in the present. It may show itself in the way you protect yourself, the choices you make, the relationships you enter, or an emotion that feels stronger than what is happening in the moment.
Long before I understood why this happens, one question stayed with me.
Why can two people go through similar experiences, yet one is able to move forward while the other continues carrying the emotional weight of what happened?
Wanting to understand that difference became part of what drew me toward psychology.
Through my studies, I began to see more deeply how an experience can continue influencing life long after the event itself has passed. What you felt in that moment matters. How you perceived what was happening matters. The meaning given to the experience matters. The conclusions formed about yourself, other people, love, trust, belonging, or what seemed necessary to protect yourself can continue shaping the way you react years later.
A child who feels rejected may quietly conclude that love can disappear. Someone who experiences betrayal may learn to protect the heart before trust has a chance to grow. Someone who once felt powerless may learn that staying in control offers protection from being hurt again.
The original experience may be over, while the memory of it can still carry the meaning, painful emotions, limiting beliefs, and protective reactions formed at that time. When something happening in the present touches that earlier memory, those old meanings and emotions can become active again and begin shaping the way the situation is perceived and reacted to today. This is how something that belongs to the past can continue influencing relationships, choices, emotions, and everyday experiences in the present, and why similar situations can lead to very different reactions from one life to another.
As I continued through my academic education and later through years of professional experience, I saw more clearly how these earlier meanings and learned reactions could continue shaping emotions, relationships, choices, and the way life was being lived in the present.
When the teachings of Matthew Brownstein later became part of my path, many things I had already studied, known, and experienced began to come together with greater clarity.
What became especially meaningful was the way Matthew Brownstein structured the hypnotherapy protocols to create a clearer path through the subconscious mind. The process could follow the emotions, beliefs, meanings, and learned reactions back to the experiences where they first took shape, allowing what was still influencing the present to be uncovered at its source.
From there, painful emotions could begin to transform, limiting beliefs could be reframed, and meanings formed long ago could begin to change. What had been carried for years could start to release, creating more space to be present, open your heart to love, and reconnect with your True Self.
As this transformation unfolds, learned reactions can begin to lose their influence. There can be greater clarity, deeper presence, and more openness in the way you meet life.
This is where the freedom to choose again becomes part of the way you live. From that place of greater freedom, you can respond with a deeper connection to your True Self, open your heart to love, and meet the present with greater freedom to love.
Your journey begins where you are, with what you are experiencing today.
My academic studies, many years of experience listening to and learning from the lives of clients from different backgrounds, formal training in hypnotherapy, meditation practice, and continued study of the subconscious mind have all contributed to the perspective I bring to this journey.
Childhood Regression, Past Life Regression, Eye Movement Facilitation, Parts Therapy, Neuro Linguistic Programming, Breathwork, Hypnotic Programming, and other pathways may become part of your journey, depending on what emerges along the way.
Each pathway offers a different way of turning inward, while the deeper direction remains connected to transforming the subconscious mind, releasing what holds you back, opening your heart to love, being in the present moment, returning to your True Self, returning to love, and experiencing the freedom to choose again.
“What if something within me is keeping me in the same patterns and disappointment? What if looking within could lead me toward the life I truly want?”
Return to the Love You Are
As painful emotions transform, limiting beliefs are reframed, and learned reactions begin to lose their influence, the way you experience the present can begin to change.
Forgiveness can become part of this process, allowing the emotional weight connected with the past to release and creating more space for the life you are living now.
With greater presence, the heart can open more freely to love. Your connection with your True Self can become clearer, and the freedom to choose again can begin to shape the way you meet your relationships, your choices, and the life in front of you.
From this deeper place of freedom, you can respond with greater clarity, live more fully in alignment with your life’s purpose, and move toward the life you are meant to live.
Transform the subconscious mind. Release what holds you back. Open your heart to love. Be in the present moment. Return to your True Self. Return to love.
And from that place, choose again.
Professional Background Clarification
My psychology degrees were earned internationally, and my professional authorization to practice psychology applies in Colombia.
I am not licensed as a psychologist in the United States, and I do not present myself or offer services as a psychologist in the United States.
The psychology education and credentials shown on this website are included as part of my academic and professional background. They reflect knowledge gained through formal education, professional experience, and continued study, and are presented so you can understand the background that has contributed to the perspective I bring to my hypnotherapy practice.
The services presented through this website in the United States are offered through my training and certification in hypnotherapy.
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
A Foundation of Knowledge and Continuing Study
Academic education, professional training, years of experience with clients, and continued study have shaped a broad foundation of knowledge about the mind, human behavior, emotions, the subconscious, and the experiences that influence how life is perceived and lived.
Since completing my first university degree in 2001, my professional path has included many years of experience with clients from different backgrounds, circumstances, and stages of life. Over time, these encounters have offered a deeper perspective on how uniquely each life is experienced, how learned responses take shape, and how beliefs, emotions, memories, and meanings formed through experience may continue to influence the present.
The credentials presented below are part of my educational and professional background. They are included so you can know the education, training, experience, and continued study that have contributed to my knowledge of the subconscious mind and to the path that eventually led to my present practice in hypnotherapy.
IMPORTANT PROFESSIONAL CLARIFICATION
My psychology degrees were earned internationally. My professional authorization to practice psychology is in Colombia and does not constitute licensure or authorization to practice psychology in the United States.
The psychology education and credentials presented on this page are included solely as part of my academic and professional background and the knowledge acquired through formal education, professional experience, and continued study. They are not presented as credentials to provide psychology services in the United States.
Certified Hypnotherapist
Florida Department of Education, Commission for Independent Education, Licensed School #3448
My certification as a Hypnotherapist was completed through the Institute of Interpersonal Hypnotherapy, where Matthew Brownstein teaches a structured model for accessing the subconscious mind to uncover and transform painful emotions, limiting beliefs, meanings, and learned reactions connected with earlier memories at their source. As what has been carried begins to transform, the present can be met with greater clarity, different responses can become possible, and the freedom to choose again can emerge.
As everyone’s journey within unfolds in its own way, what no longer serves the present can begin to release, creating more space for peace, presence, and a return to the True Self, return to love, so life can be lived with greater freedom and in deeper alignment with what is meant to be.
2001
Degree in Psychology
UNIVERSIDAD DE NARIÑO, COLOMBIA
University of Nariño, Colombia
2004
MASTER’S DEGREE IN CLINICAL AND FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY
UNIVERSIDAD DE SALAMANCA, SPAIN
University of Salamanca, Spain
Professional Credential in Colombia
COLEGIO COLOMBIANO DE PSICÓLOGOS, COLPSIC
Colombian College of Psychologists
2018
Reiki Master Teacher
Spirit Counsel Reiki
2020
WellPoint Hypnosis Method™ Certified
WELLPOINT HYPNOSIS METHOD™
2024
Certified Anahat Meditation Instructor
Anahat Meditation System Matthew J. Brownstein
Active Member of IAIH
As an active member of the International Association of Interpersonal Hypnotherapists (IAIH), I uphold its commitment to ethical practice, professional standards, continuing education, and integrity in the field of Interpersonal Hypnotherapy.
“For so long, I made every effort to rearrange the world around me so life could feel different. Yet, after all those efforts, life continued to feel the same. It was through experiencing Matthew Brownstein’s model of hypnotherapy as his client that I began to realize the answer was not in changing what was outside of me, but in turning my attention inward, into my journey within. As I released what had held me back and opened my heart to love, my journey within was a returning to my True Self, return to love. From this returning came the freedom to choose again as my life continues to unfold before me just as it is.”
Lily Ardizzone
Your Journey within
Your Journey Within begins where you are. You may have spent years searching for answers in the world around you, changing circumstances, relationships, or parts of your life, hoping that life will finally feel different. And still, the questions may continue. Why do I always feel the same? Why does this keep happening to me? Why do people keep treating me this way? Why do they take advantage of me? Why do they hurt me?
After looking for answers outside yourself, something may begin to shift. Your attention starts to turn inward, and a different possibility opens.
That turn inward is where Your Journey Within starts. Following Matthew Brownstein’s hypnotherapy model, different pathways bring forward subconscious mind content and provide a process for uncovering and deeply transforming it at its source. Earlier experiences may emerge along with recurring emotions, learned reactions, limiting beliefs, and meanings formed about yourself, other people, and the world around you.
As this content is transformed, you begin to release what holds you back and open your heart to love. A current experience can be met as it is now, with freedom to choose again, be more fully in the present moment, return to your True Self, return to love.
“Teach only love, for that is what you are.”
ACIM, T-6.I.13:2
THE PATHWAYS
Your Journey Within
You begin exactly where you are, with what is present for you today. Each pathway unfolds one step at a time, following what emerges along Your Journey Within.
Different pathways may become part of your journey:
Hypnotic Programming
Release what holds you back and transform the subconscious patterns that no longer serve you. Personalized hypnotic programming reinforces new beliefs and more beneficial ways of responding, opening the way to greater peace, the freedom to choose again, and a deeper connection with yourself, others, and the universe as you return to your True Self and return to love.
Neuro-Linguistic Programming
The way you think, the language you use, and how you respond to life are deeply connected. By exploring and reframing the patterns shaping these experiences, new ways of communicating, choosing, and moving forward can emerge, opening the way to greater clarity, confidence, and alignment with your True Self.
Parts Therapy
Brings every part within you into harmony, transforms inner conflict, and guides you toward a deeper sense of wholeness. As each part aligns with one meaningful direction, you become freer to choose again, open your heart to love, return to your True Self, and live more fully in alignment with your life’s purpose.
Breathwork
Intentional breathing can bring what has remained beyond conscious awareness into view, allowing emotional burdens to transform, limiting beliefs to be reframed, and greater calm, clarity, and inner balance to emerge. As you return to your True Self and open your heart to love, you become freer to choose again, live more fully, and fulfill your life’s purpose.
Childhood Regression
Some of the challenges you experience today may have begun much earlier than you realize. Fear of rejection or abandonment, difficulty trusting, the need to please others...
Past Life Regression
Explore deeper subconscious experiences to discover meaningful insights, expand your perspective, strengthen self-awareness, and encourage personal transformation.
BEGIN YOUR JOURNEY WITHIN
Return to Your True Self. Return to Love.
As what holds you back begins to release, the way you experience yourself, others, and daily life may begin to change. You may open your heart to love, be more fully in the present moment, return to your True Self, return to love. As life unfolds before you, you are free to choose again how you respond to what is happening now.
Return to your True Self.
Return to love.
Live the life you are meant to live.