FAQ's

Hypnosis is a powerful state of focused awareness that can be used to uncover and dissolve the root cause of many issues people suffer from every day. Hypnosis allows you to access all of the healing resources inherent within the subconscious mind, promoting natural healing from within.

Hypnosis is used to help people discover the subconscious reasons for their symptoms, behaviors or habits. When they are discovered, certain tools and techniques are used to help release them and relearn a new positive way of thinking, subconsciously. This is called hypnotherapy.

Hypnosis has been sanctioned and used by the medical community since 1958 to help patients overcome chronic pain, create anesthesia and heal psychogenic illnesses.

Hypnosis works by achieving a level of focused awareness, and at the same time bypassing the analytical aspect of the mind. Another way to describe the analytical aspect of the mind is that it is a comparing mechanism. When new information is introduced to the mind, the comparing mechanism compares the new information to what it already believes is either true or false. This is a protective aspect of our mind.

This is why changing habits by willpower alone is so difficult - we often already believe we cannot change, so thinking about making the change happen (using willpower alone) is ineffective. Hypnosis is powerful because with focused awareness the analytical aspect of the mind is bypassed, and new, healthy and beneficial suggestions can be made directly into the subconscious, without the comparing mechanism rejecting these new beliefs. So the change we want to achieve in our life is accepted by the subconscious mind as true, and we see results quickly.

No! Hypnosis is a perfectly normal and common state of mind we go into naturally every day. You enter hypnosis regularly when daydreaming, watching a good movie, or reading a book. During these activities you remain consciously aware and in complete control, just as you do when a professional hypnotherapist assists you in entering into a state of hypnosis.

Your hypnotist has no control over you and cannot make you do anything that you don't want to do.

Therapy is a method of helping people to move toward health and wholeness.  Hypnotherapy is the applied process of using hypnosis to help people move toward health and wholeness.

Helenita Jacobs is a Certified Hypnosis Professional and Master Hypnotist, trained in the most advanced and modern hypnosis system: 5-Path® (5 Phase Advanced Transformational Hypnosis) through the Banyan Hypnosis Center. She is a Registered Hypnotherapist in Washington State and a Certified Consulting Hypnotist with the National Guild of Hypnotists. 

Yes of course! You've already been hypnotized anytime you watched an enjoyable movie, or read a good book. Hypnosis is a normal and natural state of mind that everyone has already experienced. Actually, it's such a normal state of mind that most people don't realize they are hypnotized.

All you need to do to go into a state of hypnosis when working with your Aligned Path hypnotherapist is be willing and able to follow gentle instructions for reaching a state of focused awareness.

There are laws that govern various States that are limiting  or deciding the terminology and criteria for the terminology. When using the term hypnotherapy it is implied that the hypnotist may be engaging in psychotherapy, which is not the case.

The National Guild of Hypnotists is encouraging all of its members to use the title of "Hypnotist" in all cases.

I use the NGH recommended title of "Consulting Hypnotist". The official definitions of Consulting Hypnotism approved by the National Guild of Hypnotists are “Consulting Hypnotists help ordinary people with ordinary, everyday problems using individual hypnotic techniques” for practitioners, and “Consulting Hypnotism is motivational coaching by means of hypnotism”.

I practice in the State of Washington where I am considered a "Hypnotherapist". In order to practice in Washington State we have to obtain a "Hypnotherapist Registration".  

I am also a member of the IAHP (International Association of Hypnosis Professionals) and my preferred designation is "Certified Hypnosis Professional". This designation is approved by the NGH.

Each session is customized for you. As a 5-PATH® hypnotist I know how to match the right inductions, deepening techniques, suggestions and other techniques for you so that you may achieve maximum results. 

As your hypnotist I use the 5-PATH® Hypnotherapy System. Our work together is not one of those one-shot deals. We will work together as a team as you go through the process, neutralizing any old limiting beliefs, emotions or habits that have caused you to not be as successful as you would like to be regarding the issues that you want to work on.

I will go beyond merely suggesting changes and the visualization techniques offered by so many which only bring about limited results. As your 5-PATH® Hypnotist I have been trained to find the actual cause of the problem and eliminate it, and then give you suggestions for success. This enables you to be very successful and experience long term and even permanent results.

Yes, all of the sessions are virtual. I work with people from all over the world. YES, it works JUST as well, so long as you have privacy, no interruptions (think kids, partners and pets). You also have to have a good internet connection, and a good headset with a mic on it, is a must. Set up a free consultation and I can tell you more.

All of our sessions are conducted via Zoom. If you have not used Zoom before, it is easy to use. Here is some information on how to join a meeting.

We can set up a short meeting before your first session to test everything out.