Mary Beth Svatek, M.A., Certified Hypnotherapist, says that people have far more control over their lives than they realize. “Too often, we are the ones who create the circumstances and results that we experience. We get what we look for! We create the outcomes through our minds. People give us what we expect. We become what we think. It’s that basic,” she says.

Svatek believes we live in a culture that encourages people to identify as victims and focus on pain and trauma. This keeps one in a low vibrational state. “As a hypnotherapist and life coach, I teach people to tap into their strengths. Lives quickly transform when people renew their mind. It’s all in the lens we view the world and how we respond to it,” she says. “Ask yourself: ‘Am I going after what I want or focusing on what I don’t want?’ We manifest what we put our energy and beliefs into.”

Svatek developed her own therapy model, The Energy Model of Therapeutic Change (EMTC) in the late 1990s. She will be presenting the EMTC program for other therapists and speaking at the International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association conference in May, presenting Releasing Pain by Releasing Trauma.

“By coaching clients to identify their gifts, take initiative for their healing, thought processes, habits and behaviors and get in touch with nutritional needs, they achieve desired results with minimal emotional and physical pain,” says Svatek.