Session 1 — mapping
Around two hours: interview and goal-setting, a standardised measure of hypnotic suggestibility, a baseline reading of the nervous system, the profiling battery and a first therapeutic intervention.
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A ten-session protocol · Warsaw
Precision NeuroHypnotherapy™Hypnotherapy guided by a profile of how you actually respond
Precision NeuroHypnotherapy™ is SACRUM's own protocol. The first session builds a profile of how you respond to hypnosis; every session after that uses that profile to choose the induction, the language of suggestion, the modality and the therapeutic technique. It is still hypnotherapy — run on what demonstrably works for you rather than on the assumption that it works the same way for everyone.
Led by Piotr Matejuk and Weronika Wąsiakowska
Starting point
„We do not ask whether you are «in a trance». We ask how you specifically respond to specific hypnotic procedures, under what conditions that response is repeatable, and whether using it improves the outcome of therapy.”
What it actually is
Classical hypnotherapy rests on the therapist's experience and on whatever can be picked up in conversation. It works, but the first sessions often amount to feeling around in the dark: which induction suits you, whether you respond better to an image or to a sensation in the body, whether you need to be led directly or given space and choice. Several meetings can pass before that becomes clear.
Precision NeuroHypnotherapy™ moves that part of the work to the very beginning and turns it into a separate, structured stage. The first session — around two hours — is mapping: a clinical interview, a standardised measure of hypnotic suggestibility, a baseline reading of how the nervous system is working (EEG, heart rate, heart rate variability, skin response, breathing), and then a short battery of tasks testing how you respond to different kinds of suggestion. It ends with a real therapeutic intervention, not merely with measurement.
The result is a profile: a description of how strongly and how quickly a response to suggestion appears in you, which modality — visual, auditory, somatic — produces the cleanest reaction, how far the response is experienced as happening by itself, how your autonomic system reacts to deepening and to rising emotion, and which style of guidance works better, directive or permissive. From the second session onwards that profile is the prescription for how the therapy is run.
From session two you are back in ordinary hypnotherapy — except that it is now run to your profile, with discreet monitoring in the background. The therapist marks key moments with a single button and the analysis happens after the session, not during it. Session five includes a short recalibration of the profile, because some responses change with practice. Session ten closes the process and compares three measurement points — the first, the fifth and the tenth — to see what actually changed.
The order in which we read this data is fixed and comes from the protocol: first the clinical goal and safety, then your own account of what you experienced, then physiology, and EEG last of all — as a contextual layer. The instrument reading never chooses the technique for the therapist and never outweighs what you say about your own experience.
You can start with the profiling session alone — you get a walkthrough of your profile and a first intervention, and decide about further work later. Beyond that there are two paths: a shorter cycle of five meetings around one clearly defined goal, and the full ten-session protocol with profile recalibration and a final comparative measurement.
How it runs
From the first message to closing the process.
Sessions 2–4 — therapy and profile verification
Ordinary hypnotherapy run to the profile, with monitoring in the background. We check which parts of the profile hold up in real work and which depend on the day and the context.
Session 5 — recalibration
A short comparative block on the full measurement set, after which we return to therapy. The profile gets a second version, taking into account what has shifted over four meetings.
Sessions 6–9 — precision therapy
Work run on the refined profile: the choice of modality, language style and level of emotional activation is based on the history of your own responses in previous sessions.
Session 10 — consolidation and review
Closing the process, carrying the effects outside the consulting room, and a repeat comparative measurement. You get a plain-language summary of what changed between the first and the last session.
Who it is for
Clear expectations before the first session.
People who have tried hypnosis with mixed results
If it worked once and not another time and nobody could explain why, the profile usually shows where the difference was.
People working on one specific, stubborn goal
Anxiety, sleep, pain, a habit, preparing for a difficult situation — where it pays to invest the first session in making the next nine precise.
People who want to understand their own process
For those who engage more easily when they know what is being done and why, and can see the change described plainly.
The profile
Eight dimensions we describe after the first session.
The profile is not a test you pass or fail, and it does not place you on a scale from «suggestible» to «resistant». It describes the way you respond — so that the next nine sessions can start from the right place.
01Absorption
How far does attention get taken up by the experience?
We look not only at the peak but at stability — whether focus holds across the whole sequence or falls apart after a moment.
02Suggestive responsiveness
How quickly and how strongly does a response appear?
We note the delay between suggestion and reaction, and how distinct it is. A slow response does not mean a weak one — it means a different pace of guidance.
03Sense of agency
How far is the response experienced as happening by itself?
This is one of the most characteristic dimensions of hypnosis and at the same time the hardest to read from the outside. We ask about it directly, after every task.
04Modality
Which way of presenting things makes responding easier?
Visual, auditory, somatic, kinaesthetic, taste and smell. Not in order to stick a «visual learner» label on you — in order to know which channel to start with today.
05Autonomic regulation
What genuinely changes arousal and comfort?
Heart rate, heart rate variability, skin response and breathing show which ways of settling actually work for you and which merely look relaxing.
06Emotional flexibility
Can activation be raised and lowered safely?
We check the range within which difficult emotions can be worked with so that they can be processed, not merely survived.
07Style of suggestion
How does the manner of guidance land?
The same content given directly, given permissively, or given as a description of what is happening right now produces completely different effects in different people. We check which form to use.
08Clinical effect
Does the therapy actually help?
The dimension that outranks all the others. A profile that does not translate into change in your life is a curiosity, not a result.
Limits of the reading
What this measurement says, and what it will never say.
There is no single EEG marker from which the «depth of hypnosis» could be read off, and no reading on its own is proof of trauma, of relaxation or of access to the subconscious. That is why the range of things we will say about your data is set in advance in this protocol, rather than improvised at the table.
What we do say
- “In four earlier sessions, somatic suggestions had the highest ratings and the best short-term effect.”
- “This passage resembles your earlier windows of high absorption — with a caveat about signal quality.”
- “Your response to direct guidance is more distinct than your response to open suggestions.”
- “Here is how things have shifted against your own baseline measurement.”
What we never say
- “You are now eighty-two percent into a deep trance.”
- “The EEG indicates trauma.” or “The EEG indicates dissociation.”
- “Theta went up, so we will do a regression.”
- “Your brain is eighty percent relaxed.” or “Theta is the subconscious.”
Equipment and proportions. The full measurement set goes on in sessions one, five and ten — the three comparison points. At the other meetings a light headband and a heart rate reading are enough, and if the equipment gets in the way of the work or of the relationship it comes off and the session carries on without it. Therapy takes precedence over measurement — always, without exceptions and without negotiation.
An important boundary
What this is not.
- The measurement is not a «trance detector». There is no single EEG marker that lets anyone read off the «depth of hypnosis», so nobody will tell you that you are «82% in trance».
- EEG in this protocol is not used to identify trauma, dissociation or psychiatric disorders, and it is not a diagnostic examination in the medical sense.
- The automatic ideomotor response — a finger or hand movement appearing without conscious effort — is a working tool, not a lie detector and not proof that a memory is true.
- Work with autobiographical memory is not a method for recovering historically certain memories and is not used to establish facts or assign blame.
- This service is developmental and educational in nature. It is not a healthcare service under the Polish Act on Medical Activity of 15 April 2011 and does not replace psychiatric treatment, psychotherapy or pharmacotherapy. In a mental health crisis contact a doctor — Polish crisis line: 116 123.
- Consent to therapy is not consent to the use of your data in research. Those are two separate decisions and we ask about them separately; you can go through the entire protocol without sharing data for anything beyond your own therapy.
Next step
Led by Piotr Matejuk and Weronika Wąsiakowska
Before booking you can ask about the format, the scope and availability. We answer plainly — including when a different method would serve you better.