About Us

Steve Kormas and Cindy McClure are Clinical Hypnotherapists with a difference. Their technique uses a unique blend of mind sciences that releases the negative emotions stored in their clients sub-conscious mind that affect their behaviours in different ways including depression, addictions and phobias. At their Caulfield clinic, they work through the alphabet of issues from Anorexia to Zoophobia. We work with children, adolescents and adults.

Using a simple metaphor, what happens in the brain is like that of the captain and a crew of a ship. The ship’s captain (the conscious mind) stands on the bridge of the ship and says ‘ok ship – turn port! (or left, if you aren’t nautical)’ and the crew (the subconscious mind) decides to go in the opposite direction. They are fully aware of what they shouldn’t be doing or feeling; however, they continue to do so. Eventually, they have a mutiny on their hands. HTH has to redirect ‘the crew’ so that they follow the direction of ‘the captain’.

All of our behaviours and bodily functions are managed by that part of the brain called the subconscious mind. It all happens unconsciously or out of conscious awareness or what Steve refers to as being ‘on auto pilot.’ For instance, something as simple as lifting your arm requires your conscious mind to make the decision and
sends a signal to the subconscious. Once the message is received, the subconscious then takes over and lifts the arm.

We have hundreds of muscles from our shoulder to the tips of our fingers. Doing this consciously might go something like this: “muscle number one contract 5%, muscle number two contract 15%”, etc. It would literally take forever to move our bodies if this were managed by the conscious mind.

Similarly, all of our emotional memories and most of our past data are stored at the subconscious level. It is impossible for us to consciously recall events from our distant past in detail, particularly our early years. For example, “Can you remember your decisions at the age of two?” We cannot consciously recall those
specific moments when we created the beliefs that translate into our responses, particularly those that happened much later as a result of a negative experience.

Everyone has experienced ups and downs in their lives. The way Cindy and Steve deal with these negative events of the past is determined by our beliefs and decisions and eventually, this ascertains whether the events become a `problem’.

For example, someone leaves a relationship that, at the time, they were sad or angry about. During that moment, it’s normal to have these emotions; they might even get drunk a few times just to forget about the way they feel. However, to continue this behaviour (feeling bad about this event) and then continuing the behaviour for
the next 10 years long after you remember why you are automatically running this pattern is debilitating.

This is similar to getting a stone caught in your shoe and over time you continue to walk with the stone in your shoe until it pierces the skin. The skin grows over and this in turn affects your walk and then your hip and then as time passes your spine.

After 20 years, if the stone wasn’t there you would be in a completely different place physically. This is what happens to people’s emotional well being over time. And this can affect their physiology since the mind and body are so interconnected. HTH removes the stone so to speak.

Leading Edge Research

Dr. Candace Pert PhD (Molecules of Emotion, Scribner, 1997) suggests that our molecules of emotion play a strong role, guiding what we experience as conscious choice.

Elmer Green, the mayo Clinic physician who pioneered biofeedback for the treatment of disease has said, “Every change in the physiological state is accompanied by an appropriate change in the mental emotional state, conscious or unconscious, and conversely every change in the mental emotional state, conscious or unconscious is accompanied by an appropriate change at the physiological state.”

Our emotions literally affect our physiology. Over time this turns into issues such as weight problems, addictions — whether it is substance addiction or shopping addictions. People don’t even realise that they use a buying spree just to get a positive emotion that results from a decision or belief made at the subconscious level
so many years earlier.