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The Power of Fairy Tales & the Hero’s Journey for Working with the Shadow 

Rewrite Your Story, Live Your Truth

I will be researching how Fairy tales and the hero’s journey can work with hypno-psychotherapy as part of my level 7 dissertation. I only have a few places for clients to work within this study. All the work is totally free, and will involve 12 weeks of one to one therapeutic work. If this is something you are interested in please contact me for more information. 

On the following pages you will find general information. 

Every life is a story—and every story holds the power to change. Just as heroes in fairy tales face trials, meet mentors, and overcome shadows, you too can step into a journey of transformation.

Through the combined approaches of hypnotherapy, psychotherapeutic counselling, and the guiding maps of fairy tales and the Hero’s Journey, you can uncover the hidden patterns shaping your life, integrate the parts of yourself you’ve pushed away, and reclaim your authentic power.

Fairy tales are more than childhood stories—they are mirrors of the human psyche. Their villains, trapped princesses, forgotten helpers, and enchanted beasts symbolise the parts of ourselves we ignore, fear, or long to reclaim.

The Hero’s Journey is  a universal map of transformation, and provides a structure for your path: the call to adventure, the descent into the unknown, the ordeal, and the triumphant return. Together, these mythic maps guide you safely through your own Shadow Work and understanding yourself better.

The greatest journey isn’t out there — it’s within.

A 12-week Shadow Work course of 1 -1  psychotherapeutic counselling and  hypnotherapy

Through this blend of psychotherapeutic counselling and therapeutic trance, you’ll safely encounter your Shadow, integrate hidden parts of yourself.

Why Shadow Work with Therapy?

Self-help focuses on the light: goals, affirmations, positivity. But transformation requires going deeper — into the Shadow.

Through psychotherapeutic counselling, you’ll explore your patterns, defences, and inner conflicts in a safe, supportive space. Through hypnotherapy, you’ll access unconscious imagery, symbols, and emotions that can’t be reached by words alone.

• Left unintegrated, the Shadow drives:
• Repeating relationship or career struggles
• Emotional triggers and self-sabotage
•  A nagging sense of incompleteness
• But with counselling and hypnotherapy, your Shadow potentially becomes a source of:
• Emotional resilience and confidence
• Creative energy and intuition
• A deeper sense of belonging and wholeness

The Framework: Three Maps for Transformation

1. Your Personal Fairy Tale – The Mirror

Using hypnotherapy and guided imagery, you’ll enter the symbolic world of your chosen fairy tale.  The characters — witches, beasts, tricksters — become living metaphors for parts of your psyche.

2. The Hero’s Journey – The Path

Psychotherapeutic exploration follows Joseph Campbell’s monomyth: the call, the descent, the ordeal, and the return. This provides structure, meaning, and safety for Shadow integration.

3. The 12-Week Mythic Structure 

Each week combines psychotherapeutic counselling, hypnotherapy, and reflective exercises. You’ll process consciously, work with unconscious material, and integrate new insights into your everyday life.

Weeks 1–3 | Answering the Call

Explore your protector self through counselling.

Use hypnotherapy to step into your chosen fairy tale and meet your first Shadow figure.

Weeks 4–9 | The Descent 

Cross the threshold into avoided emotions and patterns. In trance, dialogue with villains, beasts, or witches — reframing them as guardians of lost power.

Integrate Shadow gifts: anger into boundaries, fear into intuition, desire into vitality.

Weeks 10–12 | The Return

Use counselling to explore how your integrated Shadow shifts relationships, work, and self-worth.

Practice living as your Sovereign Self — whole, compassionate, and authentic.

Anchor the transformation with hypnotherapy, ensuring lasting change.

Is This Program for You?

This immersion is for you if:
✔ You’re caught in repeating patterns that talking alone hasn’t shifted.
✔ You feel “half-alive,” hiding or dimming yourself to be accepted.
✔ You’re curious about hypnotherapy and how trance can unlock unconscious healing.
✔ You’re ready to move beyond surface-level fixes and do deep, integrative work.

This is more than self-help. It’s a psychotherapeutic initiation — a safe, guided process that blends the science of therapy with the symbolism of myth.

Feeling stuck can be emotionally draining. It can create a sense of loss, even if you can’t quite name what’s missing. It can feel safe—because it’s familiar—but it doesn’t have to be your forever.

You have the power to choose a different path, to take back authorship of your life, and to write the chapters that truly belong to you.

With psychotherapeutic insights and hypnotherapeutic strategies, I guide you through the process of breaking free from old, limiting scripts and stepping into your authentic story. Obstacles and emotional barriers are addressed, not as roadblocks, but as stepping stones toward change.

Your New Story Begins the Moment You Decide to Change.

This is your opportunity to be heard, to be understood, and to redefine the way you live. I can’t walk the path for you, but I can show you the way.

Are you ready to become the author of your own life?

I can’t go with you, but I can show you the way.

Re-engage creativity

It’s very likely that you have so much potential just resting inside, waiting to be awakend and unlocked and utilised. whatever your feeling right now, it can be transformed, you can make a difference in your life. There is always a way forward and the future can be yours to take the reins and live your full potential. 

‘When someone really hears you without passing judgment on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mould you, it feels damn good’. Carl Rogers.

.I offer a calm, warm and attentive approach that is free from judgment. I don’t offer advice, instead through careful considered questioning, I encourage you to tell your own story in a way that is comfortable for you, and work with you supporting your journey acting as guide. Your journey is personal and individual to you. I don’t use formulaic scripts in my work, instead all work is curated and personalised around you and your story. I am the guide travelling by your side, on your journey.  

pete@hypnoticodyssey.co.uk