MEET

YOUR HYPNOTHERAPIST

Hi there, thanks for stopping by! I’m Gwen Thomas, Certified Hypnotherapist, and member of the National Guild of Hypnotists in good standing.

I graduated from one of the most well-regarded hypnotherapy programs in the nation, an advanced program called 5-PATH®, taught by award-winning hypnotist Erika Flint, at Cascade Hypnosis Center, in Bellingham, Washington. I have been a registered and certified hypnotherapist and a certified 5-PATH® hypnotherapist since 2024.

Having grown up in the Pacific Northwest, and after 15 years of living abroad in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), I recently came back to my home region, landing here in beautiful Bellingham, to set up Highlight Hypnosis. In my hypnotherapy practice, I am devoted to helping people struggling with all kinds of issues and troubles. These include things we consider everyday issues—like general stress, anxiety, and getting rid of unwanted habits—as well as more particular concerns, such as specific fears, adverse reactions to situations, and diminished joy in life caused by physical pain.

It was after adding hypnosis into my own tool belt to tackle the chronic migraines I suffered from for 22 years that I was finally able to become—and remain—free from chronic pain. This motivates me to continue to study the latest developments in neuroplastic pain and symptoms in order to provide hypnosis that is informed in, and sympathetic to, Pain Reprocessing Therapy. A big part of this process for myself was un-repressing emotions that my nervous system had grown to interpret as dangerous, leading my own brain to “give” me migraines as a way to prevent me from having to feel those “big, scary feelings.” Once I retrained my neural pathways to understand that those emotions are in fact safe, I stopped getting migraines. Hypnosis is a highly efficient way to retrain neural pathways, because you have access at the subconscious level, where real change can occur—and quickly.

Once I realized this, it was easy to see that the same could be done for all kinds of concerns and wished-for-improvements to life (such as the aforementioned stress, anxiety, fears, unwanted behaviors, etc). I knew it was time to use the information and lived experiences I have obtained in order to help others find the relief I have found through hypnosis. Since then, I have thrown everything into establishing Highlight Hypnosis.

Explore issues that hypnosis can assist you with. I would be honored to help you with any of them today!