Symone Tucker joins our speaker line-up for the first time this year. Symone will present “When Healing Feels Unsafe – Working With Clients Who Fear Getting Better.”
The Presentation:
Many clients arrive wanting change, yet something unseen holds them back. Sessions stall, symptoms resurface, or progress feels fragile not because the client is resistant, but because healing itself can feel threatening. For some nervous systems, staying the same once meant staying safe.
This talk explores the often unspoken fear of getting better. Drawing on trauma-informed hypnosis, attachment theory, and somatic awareness, it examines how improvement can challenge identity, relational roles, and long-held survival strategies. Rather than framing this as sabotage, the session reframes ambivalence as intelligence, a protective response asking to be met, not pushed.
Attendees will learn how to recognise subtle cues that healing feels unsafe, how hypnotic language and pacing can either activate fear or deepen trust, and how to work with ambivalence in a way that preserves dignity and choice. Emphasis is placed on consent-led practice, ethical suggestion, and creating safety before change.
A brief experiential practice will be offered, allowing participants to feel how safety and curiosity can coexist without urgency. This session supports practitioners to work with greater confidence, compassion, and depth, especially when clients fear not the work itself, but who they might become.
Full bio for Symone as well as details of the schedule and tickets can be found here at this website (see main toolbar for 2026 event).