In a world filled with constant demands, it’s easy to lose sight of ourselves—trapped in cycles of old habits, societal expectations, and emotional confusion. For Lisbeth Lysdal, a Hypnotherapist and Coach with a wealth of therapeutic and spiritual expertise, the journey toward healing begins with one essential ingredient: trust. Lisbeth’s approach is as unique as the individuals she helps. Whether you’re guided by logic or spirituality, she tailors her methods to meet you exactly where you are. Her mission? To help you rediscover your true self—free from the narratives you’ve been told and the patterns that no longer serve you. In this Mystic Mag‘s interview, Lisbeth shares her insights into the art of transformation, the power of trust, and how she guides clients to uncover their true potential.
You emphasize that trust is essential for successful change. How do you build trust with your clients, and how does it impact the therapeutic process?
Trust is the most important aspect of successful change, and of a successful session or journey. There are different ways to build trust.
One of the most important aspects is to listen, to understand and not assume to have the answers. To have confidence and be vulnerable enough to the degree needed for change, you must feel that trust. If you feel that you must take the perspective of the other or please them, you will not be able to be truthful and honest with yourself in the session. To feel and experience trust it is important to feel seen, heard, understood and even felt.
When I know where they are on their journey in self-development or spirituality, then I adjust and meet them where they are and support them in a way that is right for them. That means meeting their perspective and their perception.
In a practical way that comes down to listening, asking the questions that clarify their answers. It is about tone of voice, body language and the metaphors used to explain concepts and methodologies to them.
Another important aspect in building trust is to know that they are not broken. They are whole and everything that is going on for them is a natural reaction or old strategies that no longer serve them
Your approach tailors therapy to where the client is in life, whether they lean toward logic or spirituality. How do you determine the best approach for each individual?
Actually, that is part of gaining trust. Most of the clients I see are open to both approaches. To really know how and what they think. How they relate to spirituality or self-development. The easiest and fastest way is to ask. Often, they will tell you exactly what their perception is and then you go from there.
Someone who leans toward logic will often benefit from explanations of what is going on, why I choose a certain approach for their issues and how it works. That helps them to lean in and follow what is going on.
The client that has a more spiritual approach will need different explanations, and for them it is possible to use a whole different toolset.
Most of my clients are somewhere in the middle between logic and spirituality. For them I do both. The way they react and answer my questions tells me how to adjust to a more practical logical approach or a more intuitive one.
What type of services do you offer?
All my sessions are based on the knowledge that the individual client has the answers they need. They are the ones that know most about their life and circumstances and what steps are the best to take and in which order. My sessions aim to help them find those answers and observe, understand and embody from a different perspective.
My services are based on that. It can be healing conversation, coaching, hypnotherapy or guided meditative journeys to past lives, life between lives, Quantum or Universal Consciousness.
Many people struggle with old patterns and emotional confusion. What strategies do you use to help clients identify and break free from these barriers?
First, I help them to understand that they are not broken. Any emotion or strategy they have is a result of the experiences they have had, and a need to cope. The strategies and coping mechanisms are usually the result of the resources and the understanding they had at the time. Those strategies become patterns or habits; they are the easiest to go to in stressful situations.
From that understanding different modalities can be used. Breathwork, helping the inner child to heal or feel seen and understood. Reestablishing healthy boundaries, connecting to other versions of self are just some of the ways to break the old patterns or release emotions.
What is important for me is that they have a new understanding and a few tools to continue the process by themselves.
You focus not only on solving immediate issues but also on creating a new foundation for life. Can you share an example of how this long-term approach has transformed a client’s life?
I can think of several examples. One of the cases that comes to mind is one of a woman, who had lost her husband just after she had recovered from a serious illness. She did not only need to deal with the grief of her loss but also redefine her identity.
She transformed the will to live that helped her recover from the illness into the strength she needed to explore her new life as a widow.
What are some practical ways you help clients release the weight of others’ expectations and begin setting their own life agenda?
The practical approach that will release the weight of others’ expectations will vary depending on the client and what their individual situation is. Sometimes trauma needs to be released, and other perspectives understood. Deeply understanding the choices they made, and the experience it brought them is one approach. Visiting different versions of themselves and how those different choices would affect them is often a first step. Helping them breathe into and accepting the discomfort in the present until it releases is another.
There are so many ways to help that release and what will work for one, and clients will often know what method will resonate most with who they are.
