What’s always with you—guiding every decision before you’ve even made it?
If you think it’s your spouse, your gut, or intuition, you’re close. But the real answer lives deeper, in a place that never sleeps.
We call it the subconscious, and it’s leading a quiet revolution.
Once dismissed as mysticism, hypnotherapy is now finding its footing between the lab and the meditation mat. Neuroscience confirms what healers have known for millennia: the human mind is programmable, and belief is its most powerful code.
In ancient Egypt, patients slept in healing temples where priests whispered mantras over them. In Greece, Hippocrates taught that imagination could heal the body. Eighteenth-century mesmerists like Franz Mesmer called it “animal magnetism.” And in the 20th century, psychiatrist Milton Erickson transformed hypnosis into a clinical dialogue with the subconscious rather than a spectacle for the stage.
Today, in a sunlit studio in Burbank, that lineage continues with Kristine Ovsepian, MA, C.Ht., founder of Journeys to Heal Inc.
“People think hypnosis is about control,” Ovsepian says, her voice calm but certain. “It’s not. It’s about conversation—with the part of you that’s been protecting you all along.”
A certified clinical hypnotherapist with a master’s in psychology, Ovsepian has guided thousands through anxiety, trauma, fears, and depression—the silent epidemics of modern life. Her sessions weave together hypnotherapy, breathwork, coaching, and reiki—ancient techniques reborn through modern science.
In recent years, studies from Stanford University and Harvard Medical School have shown that hypnosis can calm the brain’s stress centers and reduce cortisol, the body’s primary stress hormone. MRI scans reveal what ancient healers observed without machines: a quiet mind can rewire itself.
“The body follows the stories we tell ourselves,” Ovsepian says. “Change the story, and the body remembers how to heal.”
Her work reflects a deeper cultural shift. Modern life has trained the brain to stay in survival mode—scrolling, reacting, worrying. Americans spend nearly seven hours a day looking at screens, according to a Nielsen study, and stress-related health issues cost U.S. employers an estimated $300 billion annually. Ovsepian believes this disconnection from self is what hypnotherapy repairs.
Technology, paradoxically, is now part of the solution. Through encrypted Zoom sessions, she works with clients from Los Angeles, to London to Dubai, transforming a tool of distraction into one of connection. “The subconscious doesn’t care about distance,” she says. “It only responds to presence.”
Her bestselling books, Living Through Choice and Wisdom Unbounded, expand on that philosophy—reminding readers that healing begins not with resistance, but with awareness.
“Every person I meet is already whole,” she says. “They just forgot what that feels like.”
What began as ancient ritual has become a modern movement: science, spirit, and psychology converging in one universal truth—the mind’s quietest voice is often the one that knows the way home.