Abandonment Trauma Brisbane
Frequently Asked Questions
1. How does hypnotherapy help with abandonment trauma?
Abandonment trauma creates deep subconscious fear patterns that affect relationships, trust, and emotional stability.
Clive’s hypnotherapy gently heals these wounds, rebuilds inner safety, and restores your ability to feel secure and valued.
2. Why does abandonment hurt so deeply?
Because it disrupts the emotional foundation of safety and belonging.
Hypnosis helps heal the younger part of you that still fears being left behind.
3. Can hypnotherapy help with fear of being left or rejected?
Absolutely.
Hypnosis calms the emotional trigger and helps you feel secure, steady, and confident within yourself.
4. Why do I get anxious when someone doesn’t reply or pulls away?
Your nervous system may react as if abandonment is happening again.
Hypnosis retrains this response so you remain grounded and calm.
5. Can hypnosis help with clinginess or over-attachment?
Yes.
These behaviours come from fear — hypnosis replaces fear with emotional independence and strength.
6. Can hypnotherapy help with shutting down or pulling away to avoid being hurt?
Definitely.
Hypnosis heals the protective patterns that keep you distant or emotionally guarded.
7. Why do I attract people who trigger my abandonment wounds?
Unresolved trauma can recreate familiar emotional dynamics.
Hypnosis helps break this cycle and attract healthier relationships.
8. Can hypnotherapy help with hypervigilance in relationships?
Yes.
Hypnosis calms the fight-or-flight system so you stop monitoring for signs of abandonment.
9. Can hypnosis help heal childhood abandonment?
Absolutely.
Clive’s trauma-informed approach helps reparent and heal the inner child gently and safely.
10. Can hypnotherapy help with abandonment trauma from divorce, separation, or breakup?
Yes.
Hypnosis helps release emotional shock, rebuild confidence, and restore your sense of worth.
11. Can hypnosis help with anxious attachment style?
Yes — deeply.
Hypnotherapy helps you feel secure inside yourself so connection feels safe.
12. Why do I feel unworthy or “not enough” when someone leaves?
Abandonment often creates subconscious beliefs about worth.
Hypnosis rewrites those beliefs and restores self-esteem.
13. Can hypnotherapy help me trust people again?
Yes.
Hypnosis helps you develop internal trust first so external trust becomes easier.
14. Can hypnotherapy help with emotional flashbacks triggered by abandonment?
Definitely.
Hypnosis reduces emotional intensity and brings stability and clarity to overwhelming moments.
15. Can hypnotherapy help with abandonment trauma linked to loss, grief, or parental absence?
Yes.
Hypnosis heals long-standing wounds and restores emotional wholeness.
16. What if I can’t talk about what happened?
You don’t need to.
Healing can occur without describing painful details.
17. Is online hypnotherapy effective for abandonment trauma?
Yes — often even more powerful.
Feeling safe at home allows deeper emotional release and transformation.
18. Why do I feel terrified when I get close to someone?
Your mind may associate closeness with eventual loss.
Hypnosis helps dissolve this fear so intimacy feels safe.
19. How quickly can hypnotherapy help with abandonment trauma?
Many clients feel relief, lightness, and emotional stability within just a few sessions.
20. How does hypnotherapy create long-term healing from abandonment trauma?
By helping your subconscious:
Heal old emotional wounds
Release fear of being left
Strengthen inner safety and security
Build worthiness and self-respect
Calm emotional triggers
Stop recreating abandonment patterns
Create grounded, secure, healthy connection
You don’t just “cope” with abandonment trauma.
You become someone who feels whole, safe, worthy, loved, and emotionally strong — free from the wounds of the past.