Where insight becomes
transformation
– not just understanding.
RTT UTRECHT & ONLINE · PSYCHOLOGIST & RTT THERAPIST · TRAUMA-INFORMED SPECIALIST
Mind full of powerful stuff
– let’s make it work for you, not against you.
You’ve tried understanding it. You can explain it, trace it, name it perfectly. And it’s still there. My programs work differently –because understanding is not the same as change. I work where anxiety, fear and limiting beliefs actually live: beneath conscious thought, in the part of your mind that formed them. That’s where we go. That’s where it ends.
Where insight becomes transformation
– not just understanding.
“Thanks to RTT with Michalina, I was finally able to achieve goals that years of psychotherapy hadn’t helped me reach.”
MSc Psychology
CLINICAL DEPTH IN EVERY SESSION; RARE IN RTT PRACTICE
Insurance Recognized
DUTCH HEALTH INSURANCE
Post-session Support
BUILT INTO EVERY PROGRAM
Empowering Close
UNIQUE TO THIS PRACTICE
★★★★★
VERIFIED CLIENT REVIEWS
I SEE YOU CLEARLY
You already know why you’re anxious.
You’ve done the work. You’ve read the books, tried the therapy, filled the journals. You can trace your anxiety back to childhood, to a moment, to a person. You have insight. And insight, on its own, hasn’t been enough.
That’s not a failure of effort. It’s a clue about where the work still needs to happen – not in conscious understanding, but in the part of your mind that formed the fear before you had words for it.
You know it’s irrational. It still feels completely real.
You’ve had good periods – and watched anxiety creep back in.
Other therapies gave you tools. The anxiety stayed anyway.
You’re tired of managing. You want it gone.
Part of you wonders if this is just how you’re wired.
You want to stop explaining your anxiety and start not having it.
I work with people who are ready for real change – whether this is your first step toward help, or whether you’ve tried other approaches and found they didn’t go far enough. What my programs offer is change at the level where the issue was actually created.
Psychologist · Anxiety & Complex Trauma Clinician · RTT® Therapist · Trauma-Informed and Shame-informed Specialist · Somatic Therapist for Attachment Trauma · Mindfulness Coach
Utrecht & Online · English & Polish
“I had been struggling with panic attacks for 20 years and no form of therapy had offered me a lasting solution. Now, four weeks later, I can’t believe how much happier, lighter and more joyful I am – and how my anxiety has simply disappeared.”
TRUSTED BY
ANXIETY & RELATED CONCERNS
What I work with – and how
Each area below is something I work with regularly, with documented results. Tap any concern to read exactly how my specific combination of psychology and hypnotherapy addresses it – and what that has meant for clients who came to me after years of trying other approaches.
Each area below is something I work with regularly, with documented results. Tap any concern to read exactly how my specific combination of psychology and hypnotherapy addresses it – and what that has meant for clients who came to me after years of trying other approaches.
Each area below is something I work with regularly, with documented results. Tap any concern to read exactly how my specific combination of psychology and hypnotherapy addresses it – and what that has meant for clients who came to me after years of trying other approaches.
Generalized Anxiety & Constant Worry
zGeneralised anxiety is rarely about any one thing – it is a learned state of chronic alertness, formed when the mind concluded that the world required constant vigilance. Knowing this intellectually doesn’t switch it off. What can do so: going back, in hypnosis, to the specific moments where that conclusion was formed – and updating it. When the subconscious no longer perceives a need for constant protection, the anxiety simply stops having a reason to persist.
I hold specialist certification in Clinical Anxiety Treatment, which shapes how I approach exactly this pattern.
Panic Attacks
Panic attacks are not a malfunction. They are a very logical response to a perceived threat – one that was registered at a specific moment in the past and has been running on repeat ever since. The body cannot distinguish between then and now. In hypnosis, we go back to where that threat response was first installed and update the signal. The goal is not to keep managing it through sheer willpower, but for the response itself to genuinely change.
Trauma, PTSD & C-PTSD, Shame
Trauma lives in the subconscious – not in rational thought. That is why understanding what happened, or why it affected you, rarely produces relief on its own. As a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional Level 2 (CCTP-II) and Certified Shame-Informed Treatment Specialist, I bring both clinical rigour and genuine care to this work – because trauma and shame are rarely separate territories, and both deserve specialist clinical attention. I am also a Certified Somatic Therapy Foundations Practitioner, which brings an additional body-based lens to relational and early trauma work. In hypnosis, formative experiences can be revisited with safety and distance – not to relive them, but to review and change what they mean to your nervous system now.
Social Anxiety & Fear of Judgement
Social anxiety is almost always rooted in a belief formed early – that being seen is dangerous, that judgement is inevitable, that rejection is only a matter of time. These conclusions feel like facts because they were formed before the mind had the capacity to question them. In a session, we find the originating moment, understand what was decided then, and change that decision. The post-session integration period reinforces the new sense of self daily, until it becomes the default.
Performance Anxiety & Public Speaking
Performance anxiety is about evaluation – and somewhere in your history, being evaluated came to feel genuinely threatening. Whether it’s public speaking, an exam, a creative performance or simply speaking up in a meeting, the subconscious responds as if the danger is real. My programs trace that association to its origin and dissolve it, then use the integration period to consciously build a new relationship with being seen and assessed.
OCD & Intrusive Thoughts
OCD and intrusive thoughts are the mind’s attempt to control an underlying sense of threat. The compulsions and repetitions are not the problem – they are the symptom. The problem is the subconscious belief driving the perception of danger. My approach, informed by both psychological training and RTT hypnotherapy, addresses that belief directly rather than working around it on the surface. When the perceived threat shifts, the need for the compulsive response shifts with it.
Specific Fears & Phobias
A phobia was created at a specific moment – an experience the subconscious interpreted as evidence of danger, and filed permanently as a threat to avoid. Every subsequent encounter with the trigger confirms the verdict. In hypnosis, we return to that originating moment with the perspective and understanding of an adult, and we change the interpretation. The phobia does not fade gradually – it loses its foundation.
Anxiety-Driven Sleep Problems
When the mind cannot switch off at night, anxiety is almost always running quietly in the background. The moment activity stops, the thoughts surface. Poor sleep and anxiety are rarely two separate problems – they are often the same pattern expressing itself at the most unguarded moment of the day. My programs address the anxiety underneath, which is what makes the sleep disruption possible in the first place. The personalised recording you receive also serves as a nightly anchor, gradually retraining the nervous system toward genuine rest.
Health Anxiety
Health anxiety is not hypochondria in the dismissive sense that word is often used. It is a very real, very exhausting pattern – the symptom that might mean something, the result you can’t stop looking up, the reassurance that holds for a day and then stops holding. Underneath health anxiety is almost always a deeper fear: of loss of control, of vulnerability, of what happens if the worst is true. In a session we go to that fear directly – not to the symptom, but to what the symptom represents. When the underlying fear changes, the relationship with physical sensations changes with it.
Anxiety is where I do some of my deepest work – but it is far from the only territory.
SIX THINGS YOU WON’T FIND EVERYWHERE ELSE
Not just hypnotherapy.
A complete transformation system.
When you’re deciding where to invest your time and trust, these are the things worth knowing about how I work.
01 – A psychologist’s eye in every session
My educational background changes the entire texture of a session – how I read patterns, guide root cause work, respond to what surfaces, and write your recording. Trauma, anxiety, OCD, procrastination – each has a clinical architecture I understand from years of psychological training. Most RTT practitioners do not have this foundation. You will feel the difference.
02 – Trauma-informed, with specialist training
My trauma training goes beyond the trauma-informed label – I am clinically certified in (complex) trauma and shame therapy (CCTP-II, CSTS) and in somatic therapy, which changes how I hold the most sensitive work. For childhood trauma, complex trauma, this means the session is held with the clinical care that this material demands. You are never left alone with what surfaces. I’m also extending the expertise into body-based approaches to early relational trauma.
03 – Recognized by Dutch health insurance
My practice is one of the few RTT practices in the Netherlands that meets all requirements for health insurance reimbursement. Most supplemental plans (partially) reimburse sessions – no eigen risico applies. This is not standard across RTT providers – it reflects the professional registration requirements that relatively few hold.
04 – Post-session support as a core phase
The weeks after a session are where subconscious change becomes real life – new decisions, new reflexes, a different way of moving through the world. This integration phase is actively supported in every program, not left to chance. What you do between sessions determines what the sessions ultimately produce. During this time you have my support.
05 – The Empowering Close
Every program ends with a purpose-designed empowering hypnotic experience – a ceremonial close that consolidates your transformation, marks the passage, and installs genuine forward momentum. It is a distinct, meaningful ending unique to this practice.
06 – Your recording written for you alone
Every transformational recording is created using your specific words and your particular turning points. It is written entirely for you, and it will sound like it.
YOUR JOURNEY
What working together actually looks like
Step 1
Free Clarity Call
A real conversation – not a sales pitch. You share what’s been happening, I tell you honestly whether and how my programs can help. You leave with clarity about your path forward.
Step 2
Deep-Dive Intake
Before we go into hypnosis, I want to understand you fully – your history with this issue, what has and hasn’t worked, how this affects your daily life. Together we also explore your vision for the future: what you most want to step into. Your program is designed from this conversation, not from a template. You’ll also receive a special hypnotic recording from me to prepare you for what comes next.
Step 3
The hypnotic session(s)
In person at my RTT Utrecht practice or online, we go back to where and how the issue began – and we change what it means. The session lasts approximately 3 hours. After the RTT session, you receive a bespoke recording created specifically for you, to listen to daily in the weeks that follow.
Step 4
Integration & Empowering Close
Active post-session support – daily recording practice, regular check-ins with me, conscious habit-building. The program closes with a Review session and with specially crafted empowering hypnotic experience: a deliberate ending that seals your transformation and sends you forward with genuine momentum. Unique to this practice.
SIGNATURE ELEMENT · EVERY CYCLE
SIGNATURE ELEMENT
A note on the integration phase: Most of what you will notice – the spontaneous decisions, the shift in how you carry yourself, the moment you realize the anxiety simply wasn’t there – happens in the weeks after the session. The integration period is not aftercare, but a core part of how lasting change is made. I am present with you through all of it.
ALL AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Anxiety is my focus. Life is the territory.
Something brought you here. Maybe it’s anxiety that won’t quiet down, a fear that keeps shrinking your world, or a pattern you’ve tried to break more times than you can count. Maybe you simply know something needs to change – and you’re ready.
My programs work at the subconscious level – where these patterns were formed – producing lasting change in often as little as 1 to 3 cycles.
Below are the areas closest to my heart. If you don’t see your concern listed, get in touch – I’ll tell you honestly whether I can help.
Anxiety, Trauma, Fears & Phobias
Anxiety, panic attacks, fears, trauma, childhood trauma, attachment trauma, PTSD, C-PTSD, shame, self-blame, stress, dental phobia, social phobia, specific fears and phobias (including public speaking and flying), GAD, OCD, excessive worry, overthinking, relaxation, calmness
…these are patterns your subconscious learned, often long before you had words for them. What was learned can be unlearned. That is exactly what we do here.
Confidence, Success & Motivaton
Procrastination, self-sabotaging, imposter syndrome, performance blocks, money blocks, fear of failure, fear of success, confidence, motivation, achieving goals, career issues, interview skills, abundant mindset
…you already have what it takes. What’s in the way is a story your subconscious formed about what you’re capable of. We rewrite it.
Relationships & Setting Boundaries
Fear of intimacy, trust issues, attracting healthy relationships, fear of rejection, break-up recovery, boundaries, people pleasing, relationship with yourself, self-worth, self-expression, emotional blocks, love blocks, separation anxiety, commitment anxiety, lovability
…the patterns that show up in your relationships with others often began with the relationship you have with yourself. We change that at the source.
Emotional Eating & Self-Love
Emotional eating, binge eating, unhealthy relationship with food, weight loss, food addictions, insecurities, hypnotic gastric band, exercise, self-acceptance, self-worth, self-love
…no lasting change in this area has ever come from restriction, willpower or punishment. It comes from changing what’s underneath: the beliefs, the emotions and the unmet needs that food has been quietly answering. We go there first.
Depression, Grief & Life Purpose
Depression, low mood, finding your purpose and dream career, finding direction and joy, loss of meaning, grief, loss, bereavement, break-up, divorce, guilt, shame, anger, tension complaints, overwork, burnout, sadness
…sometimes the heaviest things we carry are the ones we’ve never been able to put down. And sometimes what looks like depression is a life waiting for direction. This work helps you find both the relief and the way forward.
Chronic Pain & Physical Issues
Pain management, psychosomatic complaints, PMDD, IBS, sleep, migraines, back pain, skin conditions, eczema, tinnitus, hair growth, smoking cessation, vaping, nail biting, immune system support
…the mind and body are not separate systems. Physical symptoms that persist despite treatment frequently have their roots in subconscious patterns, unresolved emotions or chronic stress. This is where that connection is addressed – at its source.
RTT UTRECHT & ONLINE
In English & Polish · In-person & worldwide online
THE PERSON BEHIND THE PROGRAMS
Why I do this work the way I do
I trained as a psychologist because I have always been drawn to the gap between what people know about themselves and what they can actually change. That gap fascinated me. It still does.
When I encountered RTT, it was the first methodology I had found that worked precisely in that gap – not asking the conscious mind to talk itself into change, but going directly to the subconscious where the patterns were formed. I trained in person with Marisa Peer, built my practice in Utrecht, and started doing with clients what I had read about but rarely seen: genuine, rapid, lasting change.
I also know this from the inside. I used RTT to work through my own limiting beliefs. That experience – sitting where my clients sit, feeling what they feel, noticing the specific quality of the shift – is something I carry into every session. I am not delivering a method at a clinical distance. I am sharing a road I have walked myself.
Some clients come to me after years of searching. Others come with no prior experience of therapy at all, simply knowing something needs to shift. Either way, what they find here is the same: a program built entirely around them, and support that stays with them through every step of the process.
✦ Psychologist, anxiety & trauma clinician & RTT therapist specialising in anxiety, fears and deep subconscious change. Based in Utrecht – working in person and online worldwide, in English and Polish.
✦ My programs combine clinical psychology with RTT hypnotherapy and structured integration support – producing lasting results where other approaches haven’t reached. Most clients notice meaningful change within 1–3 cycles.
✦ I work with people who are ready to stop managing their struggles and start living without them. If that’s you – start with a free Clarity Call.
RTT Utrecht – Long-lasting Transformations
“I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become”
Carl Gustav Jung
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
What clients say when they
come back to tell me
WHO THIS IS FOR
You’ve tried other things.
This is different.
- Whether this is your first step or your last resort
Some clients come to me having tried many approaches. Others arrive with no prior therapy at all. Both are welcome here. What matters is not your history – it’s your readiness to address what’s been holding you back at its actual source.
- You want results, not an indefinite process
My programs are structured, time-defined and goal-oriented. If you’re looking for open-ended weekly sessions with no clear direction, this probably isn’t the right fit. If you want meaningful, lasting change within a defined timeframe – you’re in the right place.
- You deserve clinical depth, not just a warm space
A psychologist’s training changes everything about how a session is conducted – what questions are asked, how deep the regression goes, what happens when something unexpected surfaces. You get both the clinical rigour and the genuine human warmth.
- You want to be truly seen, not just heard
Every program is built around your specific story – your words, your history, your turning points. Clients who have worked with other therapists consistently describe this as something different. Not just therapy, but a real reckoning with what’s been in the way.
- In-person in Utrecht or online worldwide
Sessions at my practice in central Utrecht or via secure video call – in English or Polish. Dutch health insurance (partially) reimburses sessions for those with supplemental package. No eigen risico applies.
RECOGNIZED & REIMBURSED
One of the few RTT practices recognized by Dutch health insurance.
Most supplemental health insurance plans (aanvullende verzekering) in the Netherlands partially reimburse sessions at this practice. No eigen risico applies. My practice meets all requirements for reimbursement – RBCZ registered (#220597T) and NBVH member (#2022029).
This is not standard across RTT providers in the Netherlands. Recognition requires meeting strict professional registration requirements that few RTT therapists hold.
Reimbursement conditions vary per insurer and plan. For general information visit zorgwijzer.nl, and please check directly with your own health insurance provider for the most accurate information about your specific coverage.
Credentials & Registration:
- MSc Psychology · University of Gdańsk
- RTT® Therapist · Trained in person by Marisa Peer
- RTT Professionals Register
- Clinical Hypnotherapist (CL.HYP)
- Certified Hypnotist (C.HYP)
- Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP) – includes training in CBT and ERP for anxiety, OCD and phobias
- Trauma-Informed Therapist
- Certified Clinical Trauma Professional Level 2 (CCTP-II) – Complex trauma & dissociation specialist
- Certified Clinical Trauma Professional Level 1 (CCTP)
- Certified Somatic Therapy Practitioner (CSTFP)
- Certified Mindfulness Informed Professional (CMIP) Certification
- Certified Shame-Informed Treatment Specialist (CSTS)
- NBVH member
- RBCZ registered
- SCAG member
- Member of International Association of Counselors and Therapists (IACT)
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