Somatic Hypnotherapy is a holistic naturopathic practice that uses hypnosis to identify, assess, and facilitate the release of trauma and other unresolved emotional issues that the body holds and stores as trapped feelings "within you" - whether you call that "within you" your body, your subconscious, your soul, your spirit, or your nervous system - and your trapped feelings are trauma's byproducts such as stress, anxiety, anger, guilt, shame, pain, and other unpleasant emotional or somatic experiences.

While conventional approaches in hypnotherapy aim at facilitating changes in mindset and emotional response patterns by inducing new layers of emotional feelings through "re-programming the mind", Somatic Hypnotherapy changes this paradigm, achieving the desired changes by "de-programming the subconscious mind" of unwanted emotional response patterns. For instance, in cases of insomnia, rather than inducing new sleep patterns, why not address the root cause of insomnia—often emotional in nature—and thus restore the innate pattern of natural, restorative sleep?