Catherine Powell Cognitive Hypnotherapy

05/11/2025

In this solo episode, we look at anxiety through the lens of primary pain: for some people, terror wasn’t a reaction to an event, it was the event.

Drawing on clinical work and lived experience, we unpack how nervous systems organise whole lives to avoid re‑experiencing what once felt unsurvivable, how those protective “products” create secondary pain (anxiety, depression, codependency), and why regulation alone is necessary but not sufficient.

We talk safety signaling, preparation before any deep work, and how to meet terror with reverence, pacing, and care, especially in developmental and complex trauma.

If you’ve ever felt a “fear of the fear,” or you work with clients who do, this conversation is for you. https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/852325.rss

05/10/2025

20/09/2025

Phenomenological somatic enquiry, done safely, is the way to identify the body's held patterns InCorr Method

10/09/2025

08/09/2025

In therapy, we encounter many faces of survival.

Some clients please and placate, smoothing over conflict to secure safety.
Some lie, twist, or manipulate, believing distortion is the only way to stay in connection.
Some shout, wound, or rage and demand their only way to ensure they can have their needs met.

Though they look different, each behaviour is a trauma response, a strategy born from the uncertainty of survival. And each carries its own relational weight.

*The Therapist’s Challenge

-With the pleaser, authenticity is hidden. The therapeutic relationship may feel warm on the surface, while deeper wounds remain inaccessible.

-With the manipulator, trust falters. The therapist may feel disoriented, left questioning what is real.

- With the demanding, safety is tested. The intensity can overwhelm, leaving the therapist struggling to stay grounded and compassionate.

Working with these responses isn’t only technically demanding,it is emotionally painful.
As therapists we may feel a myriad of things with its foundations based in our own relational trauma.

The Way Through

The task is not to fix or erase these patterns, but to see them as adaptations, the best strategies a person could find to survive.

When we recognise survival logic, compassion becomes possible. Not just for the client, but also for ourselves as practitioners navigating the difficulty.

This is the paradox of trauma therapy: Trauma responses create relational difficulty, And they are also if handled properly provide the gate way for clients healing.

Holding both truths is where healing begins.

24/07/2025

Proud to say that I am an InCorr Method practitioner

19/07/2025

We rise by healing.

At InCorr, we’re not just training practitioners we’re building a movement.

A movement to support therapists and coaches to heal,
so they can guide clients not just toward coping but toward wholeness.

And when a client heals at the level of the nervous system,
their family shifts. Their parenting shifts. Their relationships transform.

This is how the ripple spreads.

➤ Therapist heals →
➤ Client heals →
➤ Family heals →
➤ Generations change

This is how we rise.
Through interoception, safety, and a return to the body’s wisdom.

💙 Welcome to the InCorr Method.
Healing the healers so the world can heal.