Hypnotherapy by issue
Hypnotherapy for sleep problems and nightmares in Amsterdam and online
One DIT session of up to 3 hours, a personal recording and at least 3 months of follow-up. You work on the root cause, not the symptom. Online via Zoom in English, or in person in Amsterdam.
Free 15-minute introductory call. Reply within 1 working day.
Does this sound familiar?
You lie awake and your head keeps going. Today's conversation, tomorrow's list, something from ten years ago. You look at the clock and work out how many hours you have left. Or you do fall asleep, but at three in the morning you are wide awake and the tension rises.
During the day you are tired, irritable, less sharp. You have had the tips: no screens, no coffee, a fixed routine. It helps a little. Melatonin helps a little. But your body never really settles, as if it does not believe it is safe to let go.
Hypnotherapy for sleep problems starts with that question: why is your system still switched on at night?
How DIT is used for this
Insomnia is almost never a sleep problem. It is a safety problem. Your subconscious keeps watch because it once learned that letting go is dangerous: a restless home, a period of worry, a moment when you were not safe at night. During the day you can push that aside; at night that control drops away and the vigilance returns.
In a DIT session you go to the origin of that vigilance. You process the moment your body decided to keep watching, and you give your subconscious permission to let that task go. You then receive a personal hypnosis recording of 15 to 20 minutes that you listen to every evening before sleep. For this topic that recording is especially important: the aim is for it to become a fixed moment of relaxation in which your body can learn that the day is done.
Nightmares
Nightmares that keep coming back, sometimes for years, are a signal that something has not been finished. Often it is an experience you never fully processed: an accident, a loss, a period of fear. Your subconscious tries to order it at night and replays it again and again. That is not weakness; it is the system doing its job without managing to complete it.
With hypnosis for nightmares you work in the session with that unfinished experience. You look at it in a safe, calm state, with Draga beside you, and you complete what could not be completed back then. The aim is that, once the experience is processed, your subconscious has no reason left to repeat it at night. Here too you listen to your recording daily afterwards, and Draga follows for at least three months how your nights are going.
Nightmares after severe trauma, for example with a PTSD diagnosis, belong with a specialised clinician. Discuss this openly in the introductory call so that you take the right step.
How it goes
Free intake
15 minutes by phone or video. You describe what is going on, Draga tells you whether DIT suits your situation. Within 1 day of your message.
The session
Up to 3 hours, via Zoom or in Amsterdam, within 2 days of the intake. Conscious, in conversation, at your pace.
Recording and follow-up
You receive a personal hypnosis recording of 15 to 20 minutes that you listen to daily. Draga stays in touch for at least 3 months.
Price and guarantee
€250 all-in
Intake, session of up to 3 hours, personal recording and at least 3 months of follow-up. No hourly rate, no follow-up trajectory. Payment before the session by iDEAL or bank transfer.
Listened to the recording, stayed in touch, and still no change after 3 months? Then you get a second session free. No refund, but a second chance. See pricing and how it works.
Frequently asked questions about sleep problems
Does a hypnosis recording for bedtime really work?
The recording is made from your session and your own words, not a standard sleep audio. Listening daily is part of the method. You can keep using it as an evening ritual after the three months are over.
I take sleep medication. Can I take part?
Yes, in consultation with your GP. Never change your medication on your own. The session aims to let your body settle by itself again; tapering off is something you then discuss with your doctor.
My nightmares are always about the same thing. Is that a good sign?
It is above all a clear sign: there is one experience asking to be processed. That suits the one-session approach of DIT well, in which you work specifically with that one experience.
Can I do the session in the evening?
Yes. Draga also works in the 18 to 21 CET block. A session lasts up to 3 hours, so keep the evening free and make sure you have nothing to do afterwards.