Britt Hallenrud Hypnotherapy

20/12/2025

Did you know? Most chronic pain is neuroplastic pain.

Neuroplastic pain occurs when the brain and nervous system become hypersensitive, and send pain signals even when there is no actual tissue damage.

The good news is this can be addressed through retraining the brain to recognise and interpret safe signals from the body, thus eliminating or significantly reducing your pain.

Because neuroplastic pain is commonly influenced by stress, anxiety, and adverse past experiences, neuro-somatic therapy also focuses on building self-regulation and nervous system safety, supporting both pain relief and long-term resilience.

08/10/2025

Hello Surfcoast!

I’m Britt Hallenrud, a somatic clinical hypnotherapist, and I’m excited to be joining the wonderful team at Torquay Health (1/30 Gilbert St, Torquay).

I specialise in helping people manage:
✨ Anxiety and stress
✨ Chronic pain conditions such as IBS, migraines and fibromyalgia
✨ Emotional eating and habit control
✨ Sleep difficulties and insomnia

I use evidence-based hypnotherapy and counselling techniques such as CBT, Gestalt, Regression, IFS & Parts Therapy, psychosynthesis and NLP (to name a few) to support lasting change, helping you feel calmer, more in control, and connected with your body.
If you’ve been struggling with any of these issues, or just want to explore how hypnotherapy might support your wellbeing, I’d love to connect.

You can get in touch via DM or email on britt@britthallenrudhypnotherapy.com.au.
Here’s to feeling in control, empowered, and more balanced!

Britt

30/07/2025

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"When we learn to move beyond mistaken concepts and see clearly, we no longer solidify reality. We see waves coming and going, arising and passing. We see that life, composed of this mind and body, is in a state of continual, constant transformation and flux. There is always the possibility of radical change. Every moment - not just poetically or figuratively, but literally – every moment we are dying and being reborn, we and all of life."

~ Sharon Salzberg

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23/05/2025

Q: "How to know if a thought is from trauma or from intuition? I have a stressful job and all my mind tells me is to leave it."

A. Trauma and intuition can sound similar at first. Both can say “Leave the job” — but for very different reasons. So, how do you know what’s what?

First, we have to learn to listen differently. Not by immediately making meaning. Not by believing every thought our mind offers. But by creating space — enough to notice how the message arises, where it comes from, and what energy it carries.

So listening is foundational to know the difference.

Here’s a simple way to feel the difference:

1. Trauma thoughts often arise from urgency, fear, despair or overwhelm. They tend to be fast, looping, or pressured. They come with emotional heaviness — panic, shame, dread — and often carry an “act now or something bad will happen” energy.

So when your mind says, “Leave the job,” it might not mean the job itself is the problem —
but that a part of you is overwhelmed, exhausted, and unheard.

If others or you’ve dismissed your needs again and again — at work, in childhood, in relationships —this thought could be a call to tend to the overhwlm, unmet needs or what led to overwhelm. Otherwise, you change the job and may end up in the same situation.

2. Intuition, by contrast, tends to come from a deeper, steadier place.

It might still be firm — but it isn’t frantic. It comes with a sense of clarity, not collapse. Even when it says something hard, it doesn’t pressure. It feels neutral, spacious, or grounded — like a truth gently rising from your body rather than your mind.

If thoughts like "leave the job" pop up from intuition, it can offer clarity on how the job doesn't serve you anymore or is not aligned with you. These points to strengths or truths that are suppressed, that are not expressed and lived.

The Self Attunement Audio Toolkit was created to guide you in exactly this: learning how to listen beyond the noise, make space for what’s underneath, and reconnect with the deeper wisdom.

Comment 'Attuned' or visit my profile to get your copy.

Love,
Ally.

21/05/2025

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This post beautifully demonstrates how a mother wound can shape our sense of self and the way we relate to the world.

As a hypnotherapist, I often see how early dynamics with our caregivers, especially our mothers, leave deep emotional imprints. These can influence our self-worth, relationships, and the narratives we live by.

It’s powerful (and healing) to bring awareness to these patterns using hypnotherapy as a tool to reprogram and rewire our internal narrative into a more positive and empowering one.

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20/05/2025

One of the first things I introduce in my hypnotherapy sessions is self-regulation—through practices like witnessing, stop&redirect and mind-body connection.

Send a message to learn more

18/05/2025

Feeling constantly on edge or overwhelmed?
Stress and anxiety don’t just live in your mind—they take root in the body too.

Clinical hypnotherapy can help calm your nervous system, reduce racing thoughts, and create space for clarity and calm.

I offer both online sessions and local appointments Mondays & Saturdays. If you’re ready to feel more like you again, I invite you to reach out.

📍 Book a free Discovery Chat to learn more.

14/05/2025

Ever wondered what clinical hypnotherapy really is?

It’s not mind control or stage tricks—it’s a gentle, evidence-based way to help your subconscious mind let go of what no longer serves you.

Whether you’re feeling stuck in old habits, overwhelmed by stress, or ready to reconnect with your calm, clinical hypnotherapy can support real, lasting change.

Curious to know if it’s right for you?
Send me a message or book a free discovery chat today.

23/04/2025

Q: "What most helps with identifying and actively changing unhelpful patterns?"

A: Changing an unhelpful pattern is not just about willpower—it’s about awareness, relationship, and integration. These stages form the foundation of true change:

1. Awareness: We must first see the pattern clearly—mentally, emotionally, somatically. Many patterns run unconsciously until we bring gentle, consistent attention to them.

2. Change your relationship with the pattern. Move from identifying with it or urgently trying to fix it or shame to witnessing it. Validate its presence, give it space, listen.

3. Curiosity and compassion: Every pattern is asking to be seen—truly seen, heard, allowed. When we meet it with curiosity and even a sliver of compassion, something begins to shift.

4. Attuning to how the pattern has impacted the body and the nervous system and what they need to sustain the integration of the pattern. Connect with the realities and needs of the body and the nervous system.

5. Seek the wisdom within the pattern. What role does it serve, what wound or unmet need is protecting or revealing? The most important wisdom comes from the pattern, not from outside, books or other people.

6. Create a new pattern that shows the system that the old, unhelpful pattern is not needed. A pattern cannot change if the system instinctively feels it's still needed. Even relating differently to the pattern is a new pattern.

7. Integrate the wound(s)/unmet needs that sustain the pattern.

8. Be patient. A pattern changes gradually, bit by bit. At first, you might notice a greater capacity to see, pause, make new choices, and be present. And then you might notice that the intensity of the pattern decreases, hold the feelings inside the pattern until it softens more and integrates.

Want guided support in resourcing your system and softening patterns from the inside out?
Explore the Self-Attunement Audio Toolkit—a collection of embodied audio practices to help you access the internal safety, clarity, and capacity needed for real change.

Comment 'Attuned' or visit my profile to download your copy.

Love,
Ally.

23/04/2025