Hypnotherapy works by guiding you into a deeply relaxed, highly focused state, where the changes you want to achieve are suggested to your subconscious, facilitating healing and behavior change. For Hypnotherapy to be successful, you must recognize the specific changes you want to make and have a strong desire to make them. The reason people struggle with change and sticking to those changes is the inability of the conscious mind to communicate with the subconscious mind. If it were possible, everyone would succeed in making changes. A hypnotherapist is trained to guide an individual into a relaxed, highly focused state. While in this state, the changes the individual wishes to make are suggested to the subconscious mind, where they will remain in a holding area of the mind that hypnotherapists like to call the critical mind. On the night of your session, you and your conscious mind will go to sleep, and the critical mind will transfer the suggestions given during your session to the subconscious, where they will begin making the changes you want.