FAQ

How the Journey Unfolds

The Sovereign’s Journey is a carefully structured 13-week process that combines psychotherapeutic counselling, fairy tales, and the Hero’s Journey to explore the shadow. It isn’t random exploration—it’s a guided path with clear stages that ensure safety, depth, and integration. Your Shadow isn’t your enemy—it’s the part of you waiting to return. This course is the process of meeting it, learning from it, and integrating it into your life story.

Map of Transformation

Step 1: Answering the Call (Weeks 1–3)

Focus:  Choosing Your Story and initial exploration 

Process:

• We begin by grounding in the present—exploring how your current challenges show up in relationships, work, or your sense of self.
• You choose a fairy tale that resonates with your inner world. Characters and landscapes from this story become your symbolic guides.
• We identify the “protector self”—the part of you that keeps life functioning but also hides the Shadow.
• Outcome: You uncover the first whispers of your Shadow and recognise the patterns that call for transformation.

Step 2: The Descent (Weeks 4–9) Crossing the Threshold 

Focus: Going Deeper into the Shadows 

Process:

• You cross the threshold—a conscious commitment to face what has been avoided.
• Through guided psychotherapeutic work, we encounter archetypal figures from your fairy tale:
• You may encounter the Villain – reframed from an enemy into a misunderstood guardian.
• The Beast/Beloved – a hidden, perhaps a repressed part of you longing for acceptance.
• The Witch/Crone/Trickster – not necessarily negative,  but maybe a teacher with fierce wisdom.
• Hypnotherapeutic methods help you dialogue with these figures safely, unlocking hidden emotions and insights.

Step 3: The Return (Weeks 10–13)

Focus: Integration & Sovereignty

Process:

• You begin weaving the gifts of the Shadow into your daily life.
• Sessions focus on practical integration—how to embody your new qualities in relationships, work, creativity, and self-care

How Psychotherapeutic Counselling and Hypnotherapy Enhances the Process

• A clear roadmap (the Hero’s Journey) so you never feel lost.
• A personal mirror (your fairy tale) that makes the abstract tangible.
• Safe pacing with counselling and hypnotherapy techniques to ensure integration
• Create a bridge between the unconscious and the everyday self. While hypnotherapy allows you to access the subconscious and its archetypal imagery, psychotherapeutic counselling helps you make sense of it consciously. Together, these approaches 
• Gain a deeper understanding of your thoughts, emotions, and life story through compassionate dialogue, reflection, and therapeutic insight, you —making integration possible and lasting.
• Step into a new narrative where you are the sovereign author of your life

 Contact me  to begin your  Journey

For true success ask yourself these four questions:

Why?

Why not?

Why not me?

Why not now?

James Allen

If you have any further questions, please do contact me and I will be happy to clarify any questions that you may have. 

pete@hypnoticodyssey.co.uk