What is Cognitive Hypnotherapy?
Cognitive Hypnotherapy is an evidence-based approach that draws on Cognitive Theory, Positive Psychology, and NLP. It also seamlessly integrates frameworks like Gestalt and Transactional Analysis to look at how you perceive your current reality and map the internal roles or patterns you might be stuck looping in.
Unlike traditional hypnotherapy, it doesn't follow a fixed script — every session is built entirely around you. Using a powerful, bespoke technique developed by Trevor Silvester called Wordweaving™, I utilise your own unique language, metaphors, and thought patterns to help restructure how your mind processes challenges. Because this approach requires real-time strategic synthesis, building every recommendation and suggestion from scratch in the moment, it is an advanced technique that requires a highly specialized skill set to execute effectively.
This methodology is heavily inspired by Milton Erickson, widely recognized as one of the greatest and most influential hypnotherapists in history. His success is attributed to his skilful use of language. He mastered the art of speaking in a way that met people exactly where they were, utilizing multi-level suggestions, metaphors, and subtle linguistic patterns that effortlessly disarmed the conscious mind's critical resistance. For decades, practitioners and researchers tried to recreate Erickson's unparalleled results, searching for a systematic way to replicate how he targeted the subconscious so precisely. Wordweaving™ bridges that gap, capturing that fluid mastery and turning it into a structured, reliable tool. By honouring how you uniquely see and describe the world, this approach creates an ultra-tailored linguistic framework. Think of it as co-creating a highly specialized language that speaks directly to your brain, allowing you to bypass logical mental blocks and unlock your own inner strengths and solutions.
About Dominika Olszowy, CHyp, HPD, MBA
Your partner in lasting change.
I know what it feels like when something quietly holds you back — when the gap between where you are and where you want to be isn't about skill or knowledge, but something deeper. My path to hypnotherapy started with my own deep struggle. I know firsthand what it feels like to be stuck wrestling with subconscious patterns that logic, willpower or more preparation or training alone cannot fix. But more importantly, I know the way out. Finding hypnotherapy allowed me to successfully work through those blocks and rewrite my own mental script.
Having done the deep internal work to shift my own life, I don't just understand the process — I know exactly how to walk you through it, step by step. Holding an MBA, I bring a highly structured, strategic framework to my practice — but my understanding of corporate pressure doesn't come from a textbook. Having worked within fast-paced global industry leaders like Accenture, Oracle, and Expedia, I know firsthand the intensity of high-performance, rapidly changing corporate landscapes because I have lived them. I understand the relentless stress, the imposter syndrome, and the high-stakes mental blocks that professionals face daily, because I have stood exactly where you are standing. I chose to specialise in hypnotherapy because I became fascinated by its efficiency. Hypnotherapy goes straight to the root source: the subconscious mind. It doesn't just manage the symptoms — it rewrites the old programming helping you shift, grow, and live the life you have always wanted.
I trained in Cognitive Hypnotherapy at the UK-based Quest Institute, an institution renowned for its scientifically validated mindset framework. It was created by Trevor Silvester—one of the world's most highly decorated authorities in modern hypnotherapy. Trevor famously developed his advanced language models by drawing on the seminal work of Milton H. Erickson and his own close observation of another giant of the field, Gil Boyne. Backed by peer-reviewed research, this framework is engineered to dismantle limiting subconscious patterns, empowering you to regain complete internal control over your choices, focus, and professional performance. While I apply these evidence-based tools exclusively for non-medical mindset coaching and behavioural optimization, the underlying science underscores the deep efficiency of the subconscious approach I bring to our sessions.
Originally from Poland, I lived and worked in Portugal, Romania, London and Saudi Arabia. I'm currently based in Dubai and work with English and Polish-speaking clients online worldwide.
Qualifications & credentials
- Hypnotherapy Practitioner Diploma (HPD) — An advanced UK credential held by an elite percentage of practitioners. Unlike standard certifications, it requires 120 hours of live training, real-world case studies, and a rigorous, independently examined portfolio verified by the UK exam board NCFE to university-level standards—distinguishing it from typical short-course certifications.
- NLP Practitioner.
- Co-Active Fundamentals of Coaching.
- Executive MBA — Cranfield School of Management, UK - consistently ranked among the Top 100 globally by the FT.