M.A.; L.C.P.C.; A.C.H.; C.R.T.
Schaumburg
(847) 370-5181
susanatchison@earthlink.net
Aromatherapy, Breathwork, Energy and Space Clearing, Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy, Reiki, RoHun, Chakras

Services

Describe your services:
Through altered states (trance) therapy, I help individuals to quickly resolve issues that had seemed deep, difficult, or stuck. Examples of these would be anger, anxiety, compulsions, fears, phobias, depression, or feelings of being empty. Often people need healing around past lives, birth issues, soul retrievals, and energy attachments. Many of my clients are searching for a deeper spiritual connection. I am highly intuitive and use those abilities during the session to assist you in your healing. In addition, I also use pure essential oils to raise the vibrational frequencies, unlock hidden memories for healing, and restore harmony, peace, and joy.

How does your healing modality work?

I use several modes of altered state therapy to help you reach the source of your issues, which often are buried deeply in your brain, central nervous system and body. Your brain and body encodes and buries these traumas as a means of protecting you in that moment – yet that same protection often turns into limiting armor later in life. Think about a scab; initially it is there to protect the wound. If it were to harden up and never fall off, it would soon begin to block the circulation and flow all around it. Altered state (trance) therapy can reach and release these blocked areas in ways that talk therapy cannot.

The types of altered state/trance therapy that you might experience while in a session with me include Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy, Breathwork, and RoHun energy therapy. Heart-Centered hypnotherapy is a means of deep, permanent healing designed to go beyond the surface intellectualizations to reach the source of the pain, release and heal it, and replace it with positive feelings. Breathwork is related to hypnotherapy; it is a means of bypassing the conscious mind, which often blocks our healing, and going right to the source of the issue to release and heal it. RoHun, which means “vibrational healing”, combines psychology, energy work, and spirituality to clear, heal and balance your chakras. The RoHun card process uses a deck of cards to illuminate your issues. RoHun chakra cleansing takes you back to clear out negative messages you absorbed while still in the womb, and then continues to purify each of your chakras. You might sum up all of these gentle and effective healing modalities as, “Healing Soul trance therapy”.

Healing Soul trance therapy might also utilize Past Life therapy, Soul Retrieval, Rebirthing, or removing Energy Attachments:

Past Life therapy – traumas, intense feelings, or even your death in a prior life can follow you into this one, resulting in emotional reactions such as fears, phobias, or anger. Intense, unexplained reactions to certain people or situations can be past-life carryover.

Soul Retrieval – significant trauma can cause a part of your soul to split off, taking with it memories of the event as well as qualities such as innocence or trust.

Rebirthing – issues like feeling stuck, helpless, unable to breathe, or resenting authority can reflect difficulties experienced during your birth process.

Energy attachments – are like viruses, taking advantage of a lowered defense system to attach to your energy field. Living people can also “cord” you; attaching energy cords to siphon off your energy or affect you in some way.

These therapies work with any issue, because although each person’s issues result from different situations, they all go back to similar sources: the inability at the time of stress or trauma to deal with the anger, fear, grief, guilt, shame and other emotions that were created. This may have happened in our adulthood, as a child, an infant, a fetus or during a past life. You may be interested to realize that what you experienced and reacted to does not need to be perceived as a trauma to an onlooker. Only you know how an unkind word from an important person at a key time in your life, or simply not feeling understood, nurtured and loved, might have affected you.

During these experiences, we make decisions about ourselves or about other people or the world or life in general. Examples of these decisions might be, “the world is not safe”, “I’m not worth anything”, or “it’s not safe to love or be intimate with anyone”. These decisions, which were made in our subconscious at the time in an attempt to protect ourselves, then began to run our lives in a non-productive manner, much like a bug in a software program. In your session, you will go back to the original situation that caused the trauma, release the stuck energy and emotions, take your power back, identify the decision that you made at the time which is now creating difficulty for you, change that decision and re-nurture yourself, thus restoring inner balance and harmony.

How do you see your services evolving over the next three years?
Currently I see people individually, and I plan to continue this. I am studying and working with Shock, which is what happens to us when we experience situations that felt overwhelming. Shock is held in your central nervous system; symptoms can be as varied as feeling numb or scattered, or hyper and “jittery”. A person with shock symptoms needs to have special, careful, loving assistance to move slowly and gently through their process.

I have begun to facilitate “Personal Transformation Intensive” groups. These are groups that meet regularly over a period of about five months to work through an intensive process of hypnotherapy, breathwork, and psycho-drama. The process is incredibly effective, as the members learn from and grow with each other. In addition, I have a passion to follow in my teacher’s footsteps…to “teach the teachers and heal the healers”. To this end, I continually study and learn. It is important to me to always be growing, both personally and professionally.
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Benefits

What are the benefits/results people see?
Healing Soul trance therapy is powerful and life-changing. Very often, immediately after a session, people will say that they feel “lighter” and more whole. They have let go of the emotions that were restricting them. It took a lot of energy to hold those emotions in! If they used to get angry easily, they find that this no longer happens. If they wanted to make a change and could not, they find that they now are able to easily make that change. Fears evaporate and life becomes more fun. Their bodies move more fluidly as the tensions have released, and even their faces look different.younger and more vibrant. See my website at www.ahealingsoul.net for client experiences and testimonials.

Why do people come to see you?
Do you recognize any of these situations?

* You know the source of your pain, but still have not been able to get rid of it.
* You know that you “just don’t feel right”, but can’t put your finger on why.
* You are ready to heal these feelings and experience a joyful state of well-being.

Or perhaps you have experienced a feeling of emptiness, like something is missing inside; feeling as if there is something inside that just doesn’t belong to you like a weight, an object, coldness, or blackness; unexplained feelings or behaviors, uncomfortable feelings around certain people, or an inability to resolve your issues no matter what you’ve done.

Because it accesses the subconscious to get to the heart of the matter, one Healing Soul therapy session can accomplish more than many talk sessions. You are actively engaged in the process, which enables you to feel the difference.

Who is an ideal client?
You are. If you are reading this, then you have the interest and desire to access your own inner power and resources to heal your life.

What makes you different/good at what you do?
I am kind and deeply compassionate. One of my strengths is to give people their own space to heal. This means that I am comfortable with (and compassionate about) whatever you may need to reveal to me along with your emotional release. I am grounded and secure, fully present and loving. Sometimes that means that I will invite you to review your perceptions or interpretations. We can all get stuck in our own perceptions or stories. Our best teachers challenge us to move past those into new levels of understanding.

Perhaps this quote from a client says it best: “Susan’s wonderful heart and unconditional presence gave me the absolute comfort and safety to work at a deep level with issues that had kept me stuck for a long time. Her intuition, insightful mind, and creative flexibility allowed us to work together in ways that gave me the chance to stop resisting looking at what I needed in order to transform my problem.” Please see www.ahealingsoul.net for more testimonials.
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Philosophy/Approach

Describe your healing philosophy:
I believe that this era is one in which people are taking back their own power. My philosophy is that the deepest, most powerful and complete healing happens when you reach inside and heal yourself. I am simply a guide and facilitator; I hold the space for you while you do your healing work.

Describe your style or approach:
I accept you as you are, and love you where you are. I understand what it is to be human, with all our weaknesses and strengths. I believe that people want to be well, and that any dysfunctional emotions or behaviors are simply attempts to take care of ourselves in the only way that we know at the time. I have an innate ability to see your strengths and possibilities for growth.

Why do you do what you do?
I was born to help people to heal. In my teens, I was very interested in past lives. This interest got put on the back burner while I worked in a corporate environment. When I worked as an analyst, I learned that I like to find patterns and hidden answers. When I worked in sales, I discovered that I loved to listen to both what people said and what was left unsaid, and that I excelled at helping them to meet their needs. As it became apparent to me that it was time to move on from this career, I began to pray for guidance, and became aware that I am here to work as a healer. As this realization developed, I was guided to resources that would facilitate my journey into healing, both for myself and for others. It has been an incredible journey.
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Education/Background

Education/Training:
* Bachelor of Science degree in Management from Elmhurst College
* Masters in Communications from Governor’s State University
* Masters in Counseling Psychology from Northeastern Illinois University
* Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor
* Advanced Clinical Hypnotherapist
* Release Therapist (breathwork)
* RoHun Therapist
* Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) practitioner
* Internationally Certified Aromatherapist

In addition, I have taken specific training in Akashic Records reading, Aptitude Testing, Brain dysfunctions (e.g., ADD), Career Counseling, Family Systems therapy, Grief and Trauma therapy, Life Coaching Skills, Reiki, Personal Energy and Space Clearing, Shamanic Journeying, and Intuitive Development.

I started my hypnotherapy training with the Wellness Institute in Seattle in 2000, and have done extensive additional work in Shamanic and Subtle Energy Healing with them. Through the Wellness Institute, I have studied, and continue to study, healing in areas such as Shock, Past Life, Interlife, pre- and peri-natal (re-birthing), Gestalt, Psychodrama, Soul Retrievals, Spirit Releasement (clearing elementals, entities, aliens, thought forms, and other energy attachments), and Shadow work.

I feel blessed to be able to continue to study and learn the healing arts. In addition, I am fortunate to have been on – and to continue to be on – my own healing journey. In healing, I believe that the client can only go as deeply as the therapist has been. I have walked through my own pain and faced my own fears. When we are working together, you can be certain that I understand your journey. As your guide, I hold my hand out to help you along your path. My understanding is based on experience.

Years Professionally Practicing:
I have been practicing professionally since 1999.

Contributions/Publications:

Organizations:
• Leader of the Supervision group for Chicago-area Heart-Centered Hypnotherapists

Talks, classes & workshops:
• Soothing Shock: Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center
• Soothing Shock with Essential Oils: The Wellness Institute’s bi-ennual national conference
• Soul Retrieval: Transitions Bookstore, Chicago.
• Developing Your Intuition: Discovery Center, Chicago
• Developing Intuition with Aromatherapy: 2006 Mid-America Hypnosis Conference
• Introduction to Aromatherapy: Discovery Center, Chicago and various locations
• Aromatherapy for Therapists: various locations
• Liver Cleansing: various locations

Articles
• Aromatherapy for Caregivers: Chicago Caregivers magazine
• Aromatherapy for Therapists: Delphi University’s RoHun journal

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What to expect

Describe a typical session:
When you first call me, we’ll talk about what you want from your therapy, and I’ll answer any questions you have about hypnotherapy, Breathwork, or RoHun therapy. Once we make an appointment, I’ll send you a form on which you can describe what issues you want to work on, and how your life will be different once those issues are resolved.

Before our appointment, I will clear my mind and meditate or pray. Much of my work is intuitive, and so it is important for me to have a clear and open link to my Source. I also ensure that space in which we will work together is energetically clear for you.

When you come to see me, we will begin by talking for about 30 minutes, so that you can tell me about your issue(s). I will be listening to you on many levels. One level is to hear your story in its entirety, to understand your history and your emotions. Another is to hear what is left unsaid.to listen “between the lines”. Yet another level is to listen for patterns or concepts in what you say. And an important type of listening is for your “trigger” words or phrases – those words that you may be unconsciously using which could be key to your issue. Examples of these might be the use of words like “restricted”, “struggle”, “blocked”, etc, which could indicate that the problem began at your birth or even in a past life.

As I listen to you, I will begin to know which modality – Heart-Centered hypnotherapy, Breathwork, the RoHun card process, or RoHun chakra cleansing – would be most effective for you on that particular day. Sometimes we will muscle test to confirm this.

Next we will begin the trance process. You will recline in a softly lighted room on a massage table while listening to relaxing music. I will guide you through the process of relaxing deeply, letting your conscious mind gently release and your subconscious mind come to the forefront. It is important to note that, although your conscious mind becomes very relaxed, it is always present and you will always be aware of what you think, say and do. The most important factor in our work together is that you feel completely safe, and this means that you always are aware and have control.

Then we will begin to take you to the source of your issue. Some people go immediately to the source situation and others work backward through a series of similar situations over their life until they get back to the source. Either way is good. In altered state therapy, your sub-conscious will take you exactly where you need to go, and it also will not take you where you are not ready to go. You are always safe.

Once you reach that original situation, you can release the emotions that became stuck at the time. This is your opportunity to take your power back. If you were attacked, physically, verbally, emotionally, or sexually, this time around you get to redo it and win. For some people, this is a very physical activity. I have pillows and cushions so that people can physically experience kicking or pushing their way out of something. This is important because it moves the energy that had been stuck in the body out. Emotions and energy that are coagulated in the body can result in physical disabilities, and getting them out often relieves pain and illness. Other people prefer to work verbally, or even silently, in their heads. Whatever you choose is the best for you. I am there to support you.

Next you will identify the decision that you made at the time, connect that decision to the problems that you have been having in your life, and choose a new decision. We have just moved a lot of negative, limiting energy and emotion out of you, so we want to replace that with a positive energy and emotions. This ensures that the healing is permanent. We can do this with inner child work, in which you hold and love the part of you that did not get adequately nurtured. For those who prefer other ways, we can fill that area with golden white light or any means of your choice.

At various times during the session I may ask you if you wish for me to give you some pure essential oils. These therapeutic-grade oils have scents that go directly from your nose to the amygdala, which is in the center of your brain where you store your emotions. They gently and effectively unlock stored memories and emotions for healing.

We will close your session with music or a song selected especially for you. While you are listening to this, we will seal your healing with essential oils designed to instill a sense of harmony, joy, peace, or spirituality.

For information specific to RoHun therapy, please go to my website, www.ahealingsoul.net.

How long is a typical session?
Each session is between 2 and 2-1/2 hours. My clients love this, as it allows
them plenty of time for themselves. They say that they appreciate having the
ability to relax and really explore. Another benefit is that so much can be accomplished in one visit that they can come fewer times, thus saving them in travel times and costs.

You are welcome to schedule an introductory session of just one hour, so that
you can get to know me and determine if you would like this type of process.

Describe your office or treatment room:
We will meet in my cozy office, which is easy to get to from I-90 (just down the street from Woodfield mall). As we talk, you will relax on a comfortable sofa and perhaps put your feet up on the ottoman while you gaze at the charming fireplace, the quilt on the wall, or the statue of Buddha or photos of Jesus, Mother Mary, Karunamayi, and other spiritual guides and protectors. When we are ready to begin the altered state process, you will simply step across the room to the massage table, covered with freshly laundered sheets. Blankets, bolsters and pillows are available for your comfort. Healing is sacred work, and so we will be close to my altar. It is a warm, spacious and safe area for you.

How should someone prepare for a session?
Wear comfortable clothing. You will remove your shoes for the work, so you may wish to wear or bring a pair of socks.
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Logistics

Office hours/days of the week:
Monday – Saturday between 11:00 am and 8:00 pm.

Fee Range
$225 per session, payable by cash or check.

Take Insurance?
I choose not to take insurance. However, I am happy to give you a receipt which you can submit to your insurance company.

Cancellation Policy?
No charge if you cancel more than 24 hours in advance. For cancellations that are less than 24 hours, there will be a $50 charge.
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Closing Comments

What else might someone want to know about you?
I have a great sense of humor and love to laugh. I have studied yoga for many years and value the lessons our bodies can teach us. I like to create gardens and in doing so, focus on providing sanctuary for birds and other wildlife. I have a loving and supportive husband. We recently were befriended by a local coyote that we named Rocky. Rocky took us on walks and taught us many things. She is gone now, but we are eternally grateful for having had the gift of this magical time in our lives. Coyote medicine teaches us the healing power of laughter.
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