{"id":2917,"date":"2026-04-29T16:29:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarymcconnell.com\/blog\/?p=2917"},"modified":"2026-05-02T12:36:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T12:36:22","slug":"regression-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themarymcconnell.com\/blog\/regression-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"How Regression Therapy Heals Present Struggles by Uncovering the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2927 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/themarymcconnell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Copy-of-Blogs-Cover-Photos.png\" alt=\"How Regression Therapy Heals Present Struggles by Uncovering the Past \" width=\"2240\" height=\"1260\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What if the key to your present pain is hidden in a forgotten memory? What if you could heal your pain with your own thoughts, you just needed the proper guidance to heal yourself. <\/span><\/p>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-3\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regression therapy is a powerful hypnotherapy-based method of helping you heal from past experiences to allow your subconscious to process new situations with a different perspective and heal from past pain that is causing current issues.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-4\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hypnotherapy and regression therapy work to relax you into seeing your subconscious mind and what it is carrying around as excess baggage that no longer serves you. We all carry things with us like don\u2019t touch a hot stove or it will burn you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-5\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These are not just things we heard growing up, something happened that shaped that knowledge in us. What if some of the knowledge we learned no longer applies, that it is no longer useful, but we just can\u2019t let the belief go.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2918\" src=\"http:\/\/themarymcconnell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Hypnosis-calm-awareness.png\" alt=\"Two women in a calming conversation.\" width=\"1184\" height=\"864\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_81 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/themarymcconnell.com\/blog\/regression-therapy\/#What_Is_Regression_Therapy\" >What Is Regression Therapy?\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/themarymcconnell.com\/blog\/regression-therapy\/#How_Regression_Therapy_Works\" >How Regression Therapy Works<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/themarymcconnell.com\/blog\/regression-therapy\/#What_Regression_Therapy_Can_Help_You_Heal\" >What Regression Therapy Can Help You Heal\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/themarymcconnell.com\/blog\/regression-therapy\/#What_to_Expect_in_a_Regression_Therapy_Session\" >What to Expect in a Regression Therapy Session\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/themarymcconnell.com\/blog\/regression-therapy\/#Is_Regression_Therapy_Safe_Myths_and_Misconceptions\" >Is Regression Therapy Safe? Myths and Misconceptions\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/themarymcconnell.com\/blog\/regression-therapy\/#Who_Should_Consider_Regression_Therapy\" >Who Should Consider Regression Therapy?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/themarymcconnell.com\/blog\/regression-therapy\/#Final_Thoughts\" >Final Thoughts<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 data-rm-block-id=\"block-6\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_Is_Regression_Therapy\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What Is Regression Therapy?\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-7\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regression therapy is a guided hypnosis that takes the client back to an earlier experience usually from childhood that shaped a belief, fear, or habit. It finds the source of the issue and addresses it, rather than addressing the current situation, based on this belief from childhood.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you are having a conversation about how you are feeling you are normally looking at how you are feeling about what is happening right now. But with focused relaxation in regression therapy you look at why you feel this way right now, it\u2019s usually an event that triggers a memory that triggers a feeling.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-8\">Like when you know you feel the warmth from the stove and know in your mind that is the point to stop your progression. You have emotional points that you stop progression beyond what you know is comfortable.<\/p>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-9\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are two types of regression therapy, either current life or past life. Each technique works differently for different results and comfort levels with hypnotherapy. Also not all therapist do both types of regression.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-10\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In age regression therapy. While hypnotized you revisit events from early times in your life that have helped shape a belief or a behavior. It allows you to see the source of a behavior or pain point in your current life that was shaped by an early life experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-11\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In past-life regression therapy. You are in a deeper state of hypnosis where you have memories from previous lives you have experienced, this can be more abstract and requires different beliefs and interpretation of experiences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-12\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In neither type of regression therapy is reliving the trauma what it\u2019s about. It\u2019s about acknowledging what happened and processing it safely and in a mentally healthy manner rather than suppressing the feelings for them to revisit when you\u2019re older.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-13\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2919\" src=\"http:\/\/themarymcconnell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Dream-to-waking-metaphor.png\" alt=\"Woman dreaming on a cozy couch.\" width=\"1184\" height=\"864\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 data-rm-block-id=\"block-14\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_Regression_Therapy_Works\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How Regression Therapy Works<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-15\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your subconscious mind is the protection you have from painful memories, the memories that taught you how to behave and what is right and wrong. All your repressed memories are here, and when you access them in a guided manner you can sort out why you&#8217;re now feeling the way you are.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-16\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When your mind represses these painful memories that shape you, it\u2019s unresolved issues that you know hurt you so you don\u2019t want to feel that again, but you don\u2019t know why it hurt you or if there was something unusual that you missed that is holding you back.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-17\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you can heal your inner child and address the repressed feelings you can heal from the pain, this will stop emotional triggers that can cause your reaction to a situation. The triggers are part of your trauma loop that you can stop. By dealing with the past, you can stop the current pain.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-18\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During hypnotherapy you enter what they call the REM (Rapid Eye Movement) this tells the therapist your ability to be hypnotized. Then with REM, you can enter a relaxed state, where you are aware but comfortable and with guidance can get back to what you need to deal with that you originally repressed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-19\">It&#8217;s like being in a dream but having a guide that keeps you from entering into the nightmare part without someone&#8217;s hand to hold. As you hold your therapist guided hand. You can see what you actually went through and deal with the reality once and for all.<\/p>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2923\" src=\"http:\/\/themarymcconnell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Client-leads-the-way.png\" alt=\"Hands discussing color palette options\" width=\"1184\" height=\"864\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 data-rm-block-id=\"block-21\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_Regression_Therapy_Can_Help_You_Heal\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What Regression Therapy Can Help You Heal\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-22\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regression therapy can help find the deep-rooted causes of anxiety and phobias. These conditions can develop from a childhood situation that may have triggered a fear of abandonment or embarrassment, but by addressing the event you can overcome the fear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-23\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you are experiencing chronic relationship pattern problems. Regression therapy can lead you into your subconscious mind to find what is in your memories, maybe a toxic cycle you haven\u2019t processed or a codependency issue you buried inside.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-24\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you are feeling a low self-worth or are self-sabotaging, regression therapy can help you find the part you buried because you didn\u2019t want to process the pain at the time, but now you\u2019re carrying the effects with you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-25\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2924\" src=\"http:\/\/themarymcconnell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Subconscious-honesty.png\" alt=\"Woman reflecting in a mirror.\" width=\"1184\" height=\"864\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-26\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When in regression therapy you can solve unexplained fears and emotional blocks. When you were a child, you didn\u2019t know how to deal with emotions. Now that you are older the emotions you didn\u2019t deal with are resurfacing and need to be addressed at the root cause.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-27\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Psychosomatic Pain or Chronic Illness can be brought on by unresolved emotional issues. With regression therapy you are able to reframe past memories and heal from your childhood trauma that is leading to your experiences with this pain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-28\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Addiction and Compulsion Behaviors can be brought on from your past experiences. With regression therapy you can return to when you made the changes and almost reanalyze your decision to establish a new behavior that is more in line with your beliefs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-28\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can even experience spiritual confusion that regression therapy can help you to revisit the origins of this confusion and help guide you into the path that aligns with your beliefs and well-being.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-29\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2925\" src=\"http:\/\/themarymcconnell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Memory-vs-details.png\" alt=\"Open notebook on wooden table\" width=\"1184\" height=\"864\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 data-rm-block-id=\"block-31\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_to_Expect_in_a_Regression_Therapy_Session\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What to Expect in a Regression Therapy Session\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-32\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every session is different depending on the therapist. Most sessions start with getting to know you and what you would like to accomplish, they will explain their process to you step by step. If you have questions this is the time to ask.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-33\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The setting may be on zoom or in an office, either way is effective and therapists are usually trained in both techniques. The results though you see in 3 weeks or so rather than 3 years or so with traditional talk therapy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-34\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During your induction the therapist will help guide you into a relaxing state allowing you to access your subconscious, as you enter a relaxed state you become receptive to guidance to be able to reach the root of your issue you are addressing<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-35\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The therapist will then guide you into accessing the memories and observing them. Not reliving the experience that hurt you but seeing it from an overview perspective, and allowing you to recall why you felt the feelings you felt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-36\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As you see why you felt the feeling it gives you the ability to reprocess this memory and resolve emotions or beliefs you are holding to update them to your updated internal emotions that can serve you better as you continue on your life\u2019s journey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-37\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the session, you will receive a recording to listen to usually for 3 weeks. The session itself is the integration of this new emotional balance and the recordings serve as the grounding after your session to anchor the new emotions and beliefs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-38\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A normal treatment for a single issue can be as little as one session and a recording to listen to with a follow up call. A more intense issue or multiple issues may take repeated sessions, usually with a maximum of 3 sessions or 9 weeks\u00a0 for one issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 data-rm-block-id=\"block-39\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Is_Regression_Therapy_Safe_Myths_and_Misconceptions\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is Regression Therapy Safe? Myths and Misconceptions\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-40\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Common fears are that you can get stuck in your past or you will make something up. In reality you are more likely to have that experience being conscious rather than being hypnotized.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-41\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you are in a subconscious state you are naturally honest, and like you are in a dream so you know you always wake up from a dream you will wake up from hypnosis as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-42\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At all times the client leads the conversation and topics, we as hypnotherapists guide you through the scenes in your life so you can process them with guidance in a healthy fashion and then move on from them, you lead the way and are fully aware and conscious of what\u2019s going on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-43\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Details are not always what is important, the memory we discuss will be your memory, so it can only be accurate to how you experienced it. The facts you recall are where the therapeutic value is not every little detail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-44\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are still certain conditions that may prevent hypnotherapy as an option. Certain psychosis, treated or non-tread, or certain levels of trauma or abuse that is above a therapist&#8217;s training or experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 data-rm-block-id=\"block-45\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Who_Should_Consider_Regression_Therapy\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who Should Consider Regression Therapy?<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-46\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regression therapy is not for everyone, and you should make sure you align with your therapist. For most people regression therapy is a one time fix, but it can take multiple sessions. But certain people it does just work better for.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-47\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regression therapy is a great option for several people stuck in a repeating pattern or habit. These are developed in the subconscious mind and can be redirected from current behaviors by working through what triggers these behaviors.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Someone who has tried traditional talk therapy and sees results but wants to see them on a more rapid trajectory, or has not achieved long lasting change or results, yet each time does have success.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And in all honesty, really any individual is open to deep inner work. Someone who isn\u2019t interested in inner work most likely isn\u2019t trying to find help either. If inner work is what you are seeking to accomplish, regression therapy is a huge help in your journey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-48\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regression therapy though is not just there for someone looking for a quick fix, yes it is faster usually than traditional talk therapy, but if you are expecting to just be healed and not have to do some of the work. This isn\u2019t a good path for you.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You also have to be willing to revisit emotionally uncomfortable situations. Notice I say revisist, not relive. You do not need to have the same feelings you did before, but you have to be willing to be guided through the discomfort if it presents itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 data-rm-block-id=\"block-49\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Final_Thoughts\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Final Thoughts<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-50\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regression therapy is a powerful path to healing if you are willing to do the inner work. You have to be willing to face what hurt you and caused your fear or habit. Knowing the answer though lets you heal and relook at how one moment can affect you for so long in ways you would have never thought.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-51\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By exploring and resolving the issues under the surface it allows you to grow and grow with others in new and healthier ways. Knowing this kind of information can allow you to truly find and be your authentic self.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-52\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You\u2019re not broken or too much, your mind is protecting you from repeated pain and therapy can help you move forward and start to understand and heal from not only the pain now but from the root cause of what deep down is causing the pain.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-53\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you\u2019re noticing signs of narcissistic abuse or you feel stuck in a narcissistic relationship, you\u2019re not alone \u2014 and it\u2019s not your fault. What you\u2019re experiencing is real, and healing is possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-54\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more support, visit<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themarymcconnell.com\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.themarymcconnell.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for free educational resources, recovery tools, and guidance to help you recognize toxic patterns, rebuild your self-trust, and move forward safely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-55\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you need immediate help, support is available 24\/7: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National Domestic Violence Hotline<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehotline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.thehotline.org\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (1-800-799-7233), <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Crisis Text Line<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Text HOME to 741741), and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">988<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Suicide &amp; Crisis Lifeline).<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-56\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have you dealt with a narcissist or recovered from narcissistic abuse? If you feel safe, share your experience in the comments \u2014 your story might be the moment someone else realizes they\u2019re not \u201ccrazy,\u201d they\u2019re being harmed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-rm-block-id=\"block-57\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Looking for more guidance on narcissism and recovery? 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