Hi. I’m Andrew.
I’m a hypnotherapist in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. This is why I do this work, and how I think about it.
17 years of holding the line.
For 17 years, I worked in medicine in environments where there was no doctor down the hall, no hospital to call. Just me, and the people who needed care.
I learned every part of the job — physical health, mental health, sleep, stress, grief, pain management, the slow erosion of a person who has been suppressing too much for too long. I learned it because I had to. There was no one else.
I saw what stress does when it has nowhere to go. I saw what suppression costs over decades. I saw what happens to people who are taught their whole career that the answer to “how are you” is “fine.” And I saw — over and over — that the people who most needed help were the ones least likely to ask for it.
I got tired of patching people up.
I made the leap because I got tired of patching people up.
Year after year I watched the same pattern. Someone walks in carrying real pain — physical, emotional, often both. The system has two settings. Medicate the symptom, or send them to a therapist who medicates the symptom. Sometimes that’s the right answer. A lot of the time it isn’t. A lot of the time the person comes back six months later worse off, with a diagnosis they didn’t have before and a prescription that made the original problem harder to reach.
I started looking for tools that worked differently. Tools that go after the cause instead of the symptom, that respect the person’s capacity to change instead of treating them as broken. Hypnotherapy is the one I trained in, but the bigger thing — the conviction underneath — is that most people have more power to change than the system gives them credit for. The work is helping them find it.
Directly, calmly, with no agenda except the work itself.
I don’t pathologize. I don’t perform expertise at you. I take what you came in with seriously, and we work the problem together. The session is yours. My job is to make sure the tools work.
That means I’ll tell you the truth about what hypnotherapy can and can’t do. If something you bring me is outside my scope — a clinical mental health condition, a medical issue that needs a doctor — I’ll say so, and I’ll point you toward who you actually need. The goal is for you to get help. Not necessarily for me to be the one who provides it.
What I can do, and what I’m good at, is helping people who are carrying something heavy find a way to set it down. That’s the work.
What’s on the wall.
That work shaped how I do this work now: with no agenda except the work itself.
If you’ve read this far,
you already know whether we might be a fit. Twenty-minute consult, no pitch, no pressure. If it’s not the right match, I’ll tell you that too.
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