If you have a consequential job, you rarely suffer from a shortage of knowledge. The harder problems are about judgement and action: how to think about a difficult situation, what deserves your attention, what assumptions are distorting your judgment, and how to respond with greater clarity.
That’s where we come in. We provide solution-focused advisory services for executives, professionals and founders dealing with high-stakes personal and professional challenges. Where required, we also use hypnosis to help conclusions to feel settled.
When We Can Help
Our clients come to us when they are:
- Questioning themselves after a promotion or increase in responsibility
- Intimidated by more senior or powerful people
- Overthinking an important decision
- Struggling with criticism, conflict or a difficult professional relationship
- Carrying too much responsibility for things outside their control
- Dealing with perfectionism or fear of failure
- Preparing for a consequential conversation, presentation or transition
- Recovering confidence after a setback
- Finding that they understand something rationally, but do not yet feel or act accordingly
Sometimes the issue is harder to categorize. You might simply have a situation you cannot stop thinking about and want a capable outsider to spot the issues. That’s where we can help.
Our Approach
Our work is far more directive than conventional coaching. We do not restrict ourselves to asking questions until you arrive at every answer yourself. Instead, we aim to:
Understand the situation
We listen closely enough to model the structure of your problem.
Identify what matters
Complex situations often contain much noise, but only a few meaningful fulcrum points.
Reason it through
If we believe a different interpretation is more accurate or useful, we explain why. The goal is not just positive thinking. It is clearer, more principled thinking.
Make it easier to act on
When appropriate, hypnosis helps reinforce conclusions that you already recognize as sound, so that you can decide and act in accordance with your knowledge.
Why Hypnosis?
There is often a chasm between knowing something and responding as though you know it. Hypnosis can help your automatic thinking catch up with your considered judgment. The purpose is not to give you fantasies, but to realize useful ideas.
Brief by Design
We do not assume that an advisory relationship should continue indefinitely. Most problems we accept can be clearly defined and scoped, and we are accustomed to working on timelines of five or fewer sessions.
At the outset, we will clarify what you want to change, whether our approach is appropriate and how much work we reasonably expect it to require.
Who This Is For
Our approach tends to work best with intelligent, independent people who want direct, substantive guidance. You do not need to believe in hypnosis. You only need to be willing to reconsider an idea when a better argument is presented.
If you want open-ended exploration or a coach who primarily asks questions, we might not be the right fit.
If you want a thoughtful outsider who is willing to understand your situation, form a clear view and state it succintly, we might be.
Executive Advisory With Luke Chao
Executive advisory engagements are currently led by Luke Chao, founder of The Morpheus Clinic for Hypnosis. Since 2006, Luke has worked with lawyers, executives, founders and other clients carrying significant responsibility. His approach combines careful listening, clear reasoning, direct guidance and hypnosis where appropriate.
You bring a specific problem or problem set. We help you understand it more clearly, decide how you want to respond, and make that response feel natural. Sessions are available in downtown Toronto and online.
Start With the Problem
You do not need to know whether what you are dealing with is a coaching issue, a hypnosis issue or something else.
Bring us the problem.
During your consultation, we will determine whether our approach is appropriate and, if so, recommend a clear scope for the work.
If you would rather speak with a member of our staff, please phone us at 416-556-4068 (in Toronto) or 1-888-HYPNO-24 (toll-free in the U.S. and Canada).
Disclaimer
* Ideal results described on this site, including testimonials, represent the outcome of an ideal client. Your results might be different, and will depend on your hypnotic suggestibility, motivation to change, past history, and other factors that are not in our control. Our work as hypnotherapists is not a substitute for medical care, psychotherapy or psychological advice.