About me

My values:

freedom, safety, trust, curiosity, equality

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Experience and education

Hypnosis helped me overcome post-surgical pain and health complications caused by medical errors. After being bedridden for 6 months, using painkillers for 13 months, and undergoing four surgeries, I discovered hypnosis by chance before my fourth surgery. Interestingly, the hypnosis I encountered was stage hypnosis performed by Derren Brown, which I first saw on YouTube—not therapeutic hypnosis. I had never heard of stage or medical hypnosis before because I grew up in a strict Christian community. Hypnosis intrigued me, and I soon came across articles by famous American psychiatrist and psychologist Milton Erickson, which captured my attention. I personally experimented with self-hypnosis and walked out of the hospital without post-operative pain. I used hypnosis audio recordings for 30 days to see whether my tissues would heal without forming scar tissue, which had been causing cramps and pain. Everything healed properly.

I celebrated my victory by traveling to Greece and climbing the hills of Athens, Corinth, and Epidaurus. Perhaps that’s why I named my therapy practice Mount Hypnos – a place of healing, rising up, and personal victory.

Initially, my interest in hypnotherapy was purely research-based. I started by reading books and articles. Eventually, this curiosity led me to enroll in a hypnotherapy school, with no intention of becoming a therapist. Then I enrolled in another one, almost simultaneously. To be honest, I discovered my own religious bias against hypnosis, and it felt uncomfortable. Halfway through the course, I wanted to quit, but as I learned more, my bias and discomfort faded. I decided that if there could be any benefit from my multiple degrees, I would prefer to use my knowledge and skills to help real people find healing within their own life resources and experience freedom and personal “resurrection.”

If I can help you feel better, healthier, and more alive, we can celebrate your victories together! That’s my plan.

 

WHERE I STARTED

My family wanted me to become a lawyer and a politician and sent me to study law at the Police Academy.
For several years, I worked as a civil servant in the Ministry of Children and Family Affairs, and later in the Ministry of
Culture.
My career in government involved coordinating European Union policies and international, specifically bilateral
agreements. This was a valuable and interesting work experience, which included international business trips and
representation.

Faith, Scriptures, beliefs, convictions, religious practices, and spirituality have been a central part of my life since
childhood, and my passion for theology led to many years of study, often alongside part-time jobs.
I am convinced that you already have everything you need—whether you call it the subconscious, the unconscious, the
cognitive mind, or simply the brain that regulates all the processes in your body and mind. You can recognize that you are a
spirit who has a soul and lives in a body. That’s exactly what I mean: you live in the body, and you still have a soul with vast
abilities to sense, experience, transcend, suffer, or heal through imagination.
These resources have been placed within you by the Creator, giving you the ability to begin, direct, and fulfill your goals.
Therefore, I believe in you!
I work online using Zoom, making sessions more accessible and convenient.
I have learned and apply Ericksonian, neo-Ericksonian hypnosis, as well as cognitive-behavioral hypnotherapy, and NLP.
I am a member of the National Council for Hypnotherapy in the United Kingdom.

 

PORTFOLIO

  • Hypnotherapist in Practice Diploma (HPD) from the National Council for Hypnotherapy and externally assessed by
    the NCFE, 2025
  • Clinical hypnotherapy Diploma (Dip. Hyp. And NLP Pract., Anglo European College of Therapeutic Hypnosis ),
    2024
  • Professional Hypnotherapy Diploma (Jacquin Hypnosis Academy, UK), 2024
  • Doctor of Theology (University of Zurich), 2023
  • MAS [Master of Advanced Studies] in Theology and Religious Studies (KU Leuven, Belgium), 2015
  • MA in Theology and Religious Studies (University in Latvia), 2012
  • Livets Ord Seminary, Pastoral direction (Livets Ord, Uppsala, Sweden, unfinished), 2010
  • Bible college (Livets Ord, Uppsala, Sweden), 2009
  • B. A. in Pulbic Law (Police Academy of Latvia), 2001

 

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