When the pressure eases, everything shifts.
Feel Better - Live Better
When your inner narritive shifts, change ripples outward:
Into how you feel. Into the choices you make.
Into how you move through your life.
How you lead.
For the high-achieving individual who looks entirely composed on the outside, but is secretly running on the fumes of chronic stress, anxiety, deep overwhelm, hidden self-doubt or unwanted habits e.g.
If you are ready for more than simply getting by, it’s time to address the root. Your subconscious mind isn't broken, it is simply operating from an outdated survival map.
Thriving isn’t about perfection, it’s about feeling grounded, balanced, and at home within your own skin.
Less pressure. More clarity. A steadier way of being.
Outwardly, you appear capable, composed, and highly successful. Inwardly, your nervous system is running on the fumes of sustained subconscious stress.
Changing the deep patterns beneath the surface allows you to move from constant subconscious reaction to unshakeable grounding:
From chronic physical anxiety habits (tension, burnout, nervous ticks, repetetive behaviors) to complete somatic safety and physical ease in your own skin.
From exhausting loops of overthinking, deep self doubt (such as second guessing, imposter syndrome, self-critical e.g.), and stress overload to waking up rested, thinking clearly, and leading with quiet, authentic self-confidence.
From a career and life that feel forced or harassed to a deeply self-aligned way of living and responding to the world.
For many people, the pressure isn't always visible. It lives beneath the surface, quietly influencing how they experience daily life.
Many of the patterns we struggle with today didn’t begin as problems.They began as adaptations.
For a New Baseline
By safely shifting long-standing subconscious patterns, you stop living in constant fight-or-flight. A new way of being emerges naturally:
Unshakeable Grounding: A deep sense of contentment, emotional harmony, and feeling completely at home within yourself.
Mental & Professional Precision: Clearer focus, stronger self-trust and self-confidence, and the capacity to navigate high-stakes transitions and balance life without burnout.
Somatic Relief: Effective stress regulation and physical ease, allowing your nervous system to finally remember how to settle and rest.
When your inner narrative shifts, change ripples outward into how you feel, into the choices you make, and how you lead.
Much of what we struggle with often isn't immediately visible, including to ourselves.
Does Any of This Feel Familiar?
When Logic and Willpower Aren’t Enough
The Internal Load: Exhausting loops such as overthinking, perfectionism, procrastination, imposter syndrome or severe mental spiraling.
The Emotional Tax: Fear, guilt, or shame loops that quietly undermine your self-confidence, leading to people-pleasing or struggling with boundaries.
The Physical Toll: Chronic stress responses; tension, tightness, digestion issues, restless sleep, or brain fog even though “everything looks fine” from the outside.
The Breaking Points: Anxiety or panic that surfaces right before big moments, or appears out of nowhere, leaving you feeling drained before the day even begins.
This is not failure. It’s a sign your nervous system has been in survival mode for too long.
By safely shifting long-standing subconscious patterns, you stop living in constant fight-or-flight. A new way of being emerges naturally:
Unshakeable Grounding: A deep sense of contentment, emotional harmony, and feeling completely at home within yourself.
Mental & Professional Precision: Clearer focus, stronger self-trust, and the capacity to navigate high-stakes transitions and balance life without burnout.
Somatic Relief: Effective stress regulation and physical ease, allowing your nervous system to finally remember how to settle and rest.
When your inner narrative shifts, change ripples outward into how you feel, into the choices you make, and how you lead.
This work isn’t about dissecting or reliving the past. It's about creating a new baseline that is deeply felt.
Surface-level strategies and coping mechanisms rarely last. Logic and reasoning alone cannot override a nervous system stuck in survival mode. This is why traditional approaches often bring intellectual insight, but can fall short of deep, lasting physical relief.
Root & Rise is built on a different framework. We work directly at the subconscious level to recalibrate the automatic responses shaping how you think, feel, and respond. Change that is deeply felt, not forced.
Private clinical hypnotherapeutic sessions with me are deep, fluid, and tailored dynamically to your system's processing capacity, without a rigid session clock.
Subconscious processing does not adhere to a standard clock. Our deep hypnotherapeutic sessions are fluid and tailored dynamically to your nervous system’s capacity on that specific day, ensuring you are fully integrated, grounded, and clear before leaving the session.
The Truth About “Stuck”
What Becomes Possible
The Container for Lasting Change
You’re not here because you haven’t tried hard enough. You’ve read, you’ve reflected, and done meaningful inner work, maybe traditional talk therapy or coaching. Yet anxiety, looping thoughts, imposter syndrome, perfectionism and the quiet exhausting pressure to hold it together continue to return.
Here’s the truth. You are not broken. You don’t need saving, and this is not a falure of willpower.
You simply learned to survive by carrying too much for too long. Your current struggles -from chronic anxiety to subconscious habits- are not flaws; they are resourceful survival adaptations that your mind and body are still running from an outdated map.
Disclaimer: My approach is not a replacement for licensed medical advice or treatment. However, I often collaborate with licensed professionals on a referral basis, as this work can enhance or accelerate the positive effects of medical care. Individual results may vary. Always seek medical advice from a licensed healthcare provider for medical concerns.
Hi, I’m Elisabeth
I know the space between awareness and real change because I lived it.
For many people, chronic pressure isn't always visible. It lives beneath the surface, subconsiously quietly dictating how they experience daily life. It is a place I know well, and the one that ultimately led me to this work.
While in a demanding teaching career, I experienced a severe nervous system bottleneck. The mind-body shift I achieved through clinical hypnotherapy completely changed not only how I felt, but how I moved through the world, bringing a clarity, steadiness, and sense of ease I had never known before.
Driven to understand this transformation clinically, I became a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist through the American Hypnosis Association, hold a degree in Mind-Body Psychology and founded MindBody Empowered, private practice in Clinical Hypnotherapy. Thriving isn’t about forcing perfection; it’s about feeling balanced, grounded, and finally at home within your own skin.
I am here to help you return there.
Disclaimer: My approach is not a replacement for licensed medical advice or treatment. However, I often collaborate with licensed professionals on a referral basis, as this work can enhance or accelerate the positive effects of medical care. Individual results may vary. Always seek medical advice from a licensed healthcare provider for medical concerns.
Testimonials
“Since seeing Elisabeth, I now have effective means to considerably reduce my anxiety. She has given me many tools to work with strong emotions, which before were debilitating. Elisabeth is kind, competent, compassionate … has helped me to be able to create peace in my life.”-Jessica Lynn, Encinitas, CA
“Elisabeth helped me when I was dreading a planned surgical procedure, with high projected pain levels. She taught me tools and skills to relieve my anxiety, help me relax and stay focused on self-care and practicalities before surgery, days in hospital, and after-care convalescence. It really helped me stay focused, master pain and cope calmly, and I had a shorter convalescence period than expected. Elisabeth was calm and supportive. Her approach worked for me. The tools I learned -priceless.” -T. Espaas, Trondheim NO
“Elisabeth has such a calm and reassuring presence, it’s easy to feel comfortable and trust her. Working with her has helped me find a deeper sense of inner peace, set healthier boundaries, and communicate more clearly. I also have a much better understanding of my own behavior patterns and emotions. Since starting with her, I feel more confident, more energized, and better equipped to handle everyday life. I warmly recommend her.”- E. Bjerke, Oslo, NO
Meaningful change doesn’t have to feel like an uphill battle.
“Elisabeth .. has given me a precious gift, that of being able to find peace and tranquility by myself. I have suffered with anxiety for many, many years and [she] has given me tools to use that work very quickly to bring down the anxiety. I have not had this lowered level of anxiety for a long, long time. I know this will help to improve the health of my mind and body. I highly recommend Elisabeth .. to anybody who wishes to pursue self improvement in any area of their lives.” -JLF, San Francisco, CA
Shared with permission. Some identifying details omitted for privacy.
Structured Group Sessions
Come as you are - Leave a little lighter
What to Expect
What Happens
Safety | Containment
Who This Is For
These are guided, structured experiential sessions that offer participants a supportive space to step away from the demands of everyday life and experience a quieter, more settled state of mind.
The focus is not simply on feeling better in the moment, but on creating an opportunity to slow down, reconnect, and leave with practical tools that can be carried into everyday life.
Each session begins with a warm welcome and an introduction to what participants can expect. For new groups, this includes a brief introduction to my work, an overview of the conscious and subconscious mind and their responses to stress, and what participants can expect from hypnosis, providing context for the experiential exercises that follow. Participants are also invited to ask questions before the experiential portion of the session begins. Depending on the group and setting, sessions may also include a brief reflective exercise.¹
Participants are then invited to engage in mindful breathing, guided relaxation, and a guided inner journey designed to quiet mental activity, reduce internal pressure, tension and support a greater sense of calm, relaxation and wellbeing.
The session concludes with a gradual return to full alertness and awareness. Participants are then given a few quiet moments before returning to their day.
Every session follows a thoughtfully structured format with a clear beginning and closing, helping participants feel comfortable, supported, and fully present throughout the experience.
Experiencial sessions such as these are designed for adults (18+) in quiet community, professional, and wellness settings. These sessions are intended to support relaxation, mental ease, and the release of internal pressure and stress.
While much of my work focuses on women, sessions can also be adapted for small mixed groups when appropriate.
Group Session Formats
60–90 minutes
Small groups (4–12), adults (18+)
Quiet, private setting at your location
Seated, supported, and comfortable
Complimentary Community Support
Designed for structured groups in community and professional wellness settings.
I reserve a limited number of complimentary group sessions each year for qualifying community organizations, women's groups, and public sector initiatives.
If you believe your organization may benefit from this offering, I would be happy to learn more.
Please email elisabeth@mindbody-empowered.com.
Complimentary sessions are arranged directly with organizations and are not publicly bookable.
¹These guided, structured experiential group sessions are designed for adults (18+) in community, professional, and wellness settings. They are intended to support stress reduction, relaxation, mental ease, and the release of internal pressure and tension.
These group sessions are not a substitute for licensed medical or mental health care and are not intended for the diagnosis or treatment of mental health disorders, including dissociative disorders, or for complex trauma processing.
Pro-bono
Community Offering
Inquire About Group Sessions
Interested in bringing this into your group, retreat or organization? You are welcome to reach out. I would love to discuss availability and fit. I invite you to book a complimentary call or send me a direct message: elisabeth@mindbody-empowered.com
¹These guided, structured experiential group sessions are designed for adults (18+) in community, professional, and wellness settings. They are not entertainment, stage show events. They are intended to support wellness, relaxation, mental ease, calm, and the release of internal tension.
These group sessions are not therapy sessions, or a substitute for licensed medical or mental health care and are not intended for the diagnosis or treatment of mental health disorders, including dissociative disorders, or for trauma processing.