Getting to the root of the problem
It's not that disease starts in the mind — EVERYTHING starts in the mind
Your subconscious mind controls approximately 95% of your life.
Today's science estimates that 95% of your brain's activity is subconscious, meaning that the majority of the decisions you make, the actions you take, your emotions and behaviours, depend on the 95% of brain activity that lies beyond your conscious awareness. The control centre of the body – your Mind – influences everything from temperature regulation to pain perception and emotional control, yet it’s often overlooked by the healthcare system. Traditional psychological treatment addresses your conscious mind and ignores the subconscious part of your mind, responsible for 95% of the decisions we make.
Hypnosis is different from other psychological methods because it addresses the cause and other contributing factors directly at the subconscious level in the person’s mind, where their memories, habits, fears, associations, negative self-talk and self-esteem germinate. The problem today is that most hypnosis practiced is more like a relaxation exercise than a transformational experience. It is void of any real therapeutic intervention; it just feels good. My approach is empirically driven, evidence-based and proven effective. It’s a quantum leap beyond most hypnotherapy practiced in Australia or world-wide.
Strategic hypnosis utilises focussed awareness, absorption, relaxation, disassociation and suggestion to help someone tap into their unconscious mind. It is based on the fact that the mind possesses immense potential for healing and change. By accessing the unconscious, you can identify and modify deep-rooted patterns, beliefs and behaviours to promote personal growth, overcome challenges and enhance well-being.
Hypnosis + CBT Psychotherapy help to change a person’s behaviour. It can help them disassociate from negative emotional patterns (fear and unease) and associate them with better coping mechanisms. This can help them change their panic-stricken behavioural response to something more productive. Changing the subconscious reflex is the only way to truly get rid of the panic and anxiety that the person experiences.
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Harmony creates health
Because you're not just a body — or just a mind
Your mind and body are like two musicians in a duet constantly listening and responding to each other. When they’re in sync, the music flows. But when one falls out of tune, dissonance arises, and you feel it as symptoms, stress, or imbalance. This communication happens through a bi-directional loop, a continuous exchange of information between body and brain.
- Emotions act as chemical messengers (like cortisol, adrenaline, dopamine, serotonin, GABA, and oxytocin), impacting how you feel mentally and what you experience physically.
- The nervous system, especially the vagus nerve, carries signals between your brain and major organs like your heart, lungs, and gut regulating everything from stress response to digestion
- The gut-brain axis means your gut health directly influences your mood and cognitive clarity
- Sensory feedback like posture, breath, muscle tension, and heart rate can instantly shift your emotional and cognitive state
So, when you’re stressed, your body releases hormones and tightens in response. When your gut is inflamed or your breath is shallow, your brain senses that and may shift you toward anxiety, exhaustion, or brain fog. That is why true healing doesn’t happen in isolated parts. It happens in the whole system. When you recognise that your body, mind and heart are in constant dialogue, it becomes clear that physical symptoms often carry emotional or psychological roots and vice versa. When everything is in tune, life feels better.
At Fork in the Road Wellness, I don’t treat symptoms in isolation. I help you work holistically across the deeply interconnected aspects of your being — physical, mental, emotional and spiritual — to create long-lasting change and harmony.
Strategic Psychotherapy, Modern Clinical Hypnotherapy and Guided Meditation are mind-body approaches designed to help you access and shift the deeper patterns beneath your symptoms — not just manage them. This opens the door to sustainable, transformative healing that honours the full complexity of who you are.
Your habits create your destiny
You become what you repeatedly think, believe and do
Because your mind learns by repetition — the thoughts you feed it, the emotions you reinforce, and the stories you believe become the patterns you live. Your brain is always forming and reinforcing neural pathways — links between your thoughts, emotions, habits, beliefs and physical responses. This is called neuroplasticity, and it’s how we learn new things and it's how change happens.
But here’s the thing:
Neuroplasticity builds whatever you repeat even if it's stress, anxiety, worry, fear or avoidance. That’s why patterns can feel so automatic. They've been practiced. The more they've been repeated, the stronger the pattern is.
Strategic psychotherapy, clinical hypnosis and therapeutic guided meditation help you interrupt those patterns and build new ones.
In a calm, focused state like meditation or hypnosis, analytical reasoning processes begin to quiet, creating space for deeper, non-conscious patterns to surface. These patterns, emotional associations, habits and beliefs are where real transformation begins.
Hardwire the right software programme in your brain
At Fork In the Road Wellness you'll learn how to:
- Install new mental and emotional patterns based on calm, clarity, and confidence
- Disrupt anxiety loops, reactive patterns, or self-sabotaging thoughts
- Strengthen positive neural connections through guided visualisation, repetition and breathwork
- Regulate your nervous system and calm the body, creating the conditions for change.
- Access and release stored emotions safely and effectively
- Practice being who you want to become — by thinking it, feeling it, and seeing it in your mind first.
Mental rehearsal isn’t just imagination. It’s a proven technique used by top athletes and performers to enhance outcomes. Neuroscience shows that vividly visualising an action or emotional state activates the same neural pathways as physically experiencing it, strengthening those connections over time.
Breathwork accelerates this process. When the nervous system shifts out of survival mode, the brain becomes more flexible and receptive. Emotional charge softens. Old patterns loosen. The breath acts as a bridge — connecting body, mind and deeper awareness — so change isn’t forced, but embodied.
With consistent practice, old neural circuits weaken and new, healthier patterns take root — creating lasting transformation from the inside out.
Train your brain, transform your body
Rewire your brain to wellness
As your brain rewires, your body responds:
- When you shift from fear to calm, your nervous system regulates
- When emotional stress is released, sleep, digestion, and immunity improve
- When anxious or reactive patterns soften, you can handle uncertainty with more resilience
- When your inner dialogue becomes more compassionate, your system shifts out of fight-or-flight and into heart coherence — a grounded, healing physiological state
True wellness doesn’t just mean thinking differently — it means feeling and behaving differently, and living in a body that feels safe again.