What Is PSYCH-K® and Can It Change Your Subconscious Beliefs?

It was during the COVID lockdowns that I discovered PSYCH-K®. Quarantine gave me the dedicated time to do deep inner work, and what PSYCH-K® helped me with more than anything was my mind — finally shifting my thoughts, stopping repeating patterns, and calming a busy mind.

What is the subconscious, and how does PSYCH-K® work?

Your subconscious mind is hugely involved in your life — in the thoughts you have and the words you say. Among other things, it holds all your past traumas, emotions, and experiences, which is why it is so vast.

Your life is both conscious and unconscious, and in many ways it plays out as a series of roles. If you want to be more conscious — more present, more in the now — you first need to allow everything held in the subconscious to be balanced.

PSYCH-K® was first introduced as a set of whole-brain techniques: ways to balance the mind and, in a sense, a method to meet your higher self. One by one, a stress, a memory, or a belief held by the subconscious is balanced, giving you the option to become more conscious.

Why do we keep repeating patterns even when we want to change?

Your life is made up of actions — but the thoughts and words held by your subconscious are what quietly shape them. So when life isn't working out the way you'd like, it's often because the mind is out of balance, and trauma is usually what tips it there.

When you can hold a balanced mind, your ability to make a positive shift emerges. In that balanced, conscious state, you naturally work for your own best and highest good.

So why do we repeat patterns?

Take, for example, how you show up as a parent. When you're balanced and mindful, your conscious and subconscious minds cooperate, and your parenting comes from a strong place. When you're out of balance — stressed, overwhelmed, tired, and still living in old traumas — your subconscious takes over, driving most of the thoughts in your head and the words coming out of your mouth. We've all had that experience.

In parenting, those patterns can look like withdrawing love when you're angry, yelling, or repeating the very words your own parents used. They can also be behaviours: your mother did a certain thing when you were in trouble, so you do the same; or you echo the way your father did — or didn't — communicate.

To stop the patterns, your conscious mind needs to be in charge. That's willpower. But the moment you're stressed or triggered, the subconscious takes back over.

Willpower and positive affirmations do work — but most people carry too many mini or even major traumas around a given topic for willpower alone to hold. Talk therapy is also valuable, using the conscious mind to bring past emotions and trauma up from the subconscious. Yet if those old emotions aren't cleared energetically and the old beliefs rebalanced, the subconscious will simply take charge again the next time you're triggered.

This is where PSYCH-K® can help. I've worked with many people, using my psychic skills and psychic counselling to take them back to key memories, helping them clear the charge with energy healing and Emotion Code, and then using PSYCH-K® whole-brain techniques to rebalance the beliefs underneath.

What exactly is PSYCH-K®?

PSYCH-K® is a modality developed by Rob Williams in 1988 — a toolbox of whole-brain integration techniques used to identify and rewrite limiting subconscious beliefs.

From a neuroscience point of view, creating a whole-brain (balanced) state helps make the subconscious more positive, removing the emotions, stress, and triggers stored within it.

The process works by first identifying a limiting belief — something like 'I am not lovable' or 'I don't deserve to be treated well' — and then helping to re-wire the mind. The limiting belief is cleared, and muscle testing is used to confirm that you now hold the positive belief instead, for example 'I am lovable.'

What kinds of trauma create negative subconscious beliefs?

Almost any major trauma can lead the subconscious to create multiple limiting beliefs. It's simply how the subconscious learns what to protect you from — and those beliefs then influence your actions.

For example, one client held the belief that they 'deserved to be treated badly,' which drew a series of abusive partners toward them. Another believed that 'only they could provide themselves with love,' and as a result never entered a relationship.

Major traumas can include birth trauma, sexual abuse, the loss of a loved one, physical abuse, relationship break-ups, a parent's divorce, accidents, injuries, and hospital stays. But mini traumas throughout life — especially in childhood — can create limiting beliefs too: a teacher disagreeing with you, feeling embarrassed in a group, a first pet dying, being punished by a parent, or a sibling being born.

What belief topics does PSYCH-K® commonly address?

• Self-Esteem. Do you trust yourself? Accept and support yourself? Feel self-assured?
• Self-Worth. Do you view yourself kindly? Do you expect and want the best?
• Self-Love. Are you your own best friend? Do you love yourself unconditionally?
• Change. Do you feel equipped for change? Do you hold a positive outlook?
• Relationships. Do you feel like your true self in a relationship? Do you feel worthy of a loving one?
• Grief and Loss. Can you accept when things end? Are you still worthy of love when something is over?
• Resiliency. Can you recover? Can you see the gift in adversity?
• Parenting. Are you a natural parent? Can you see yourself as a great one?
• Spirituality. Are you of the divine? Can you openly surrender to the flow?
• Personal Power. Do you believe in yourself? Do you hold all your personal power?
• Health and the Physical Body. Do you enjoy looking after yourself? Do you hold a positive association with your body?
• Pain. Do you learn from pain? Are you willing to look for answers?
• Sense of Safety. Do you feel safe? Do you hold a sense of security?
• Boundaries. Do you hold positive boundaries? Can you set one?
• Wealth and Prosperity. Do you trust yourself with money? Do you feel deserving?

Can PSYCH-K® deprogram words?

Yes. People can hold negative responses to specific words, and those responses can cause real issues. If a teacher repeatedly said a word in a harsh voice, for instance, that word gets stored in your subconscious — and each time you hear or say it, a response is drawn straight from that stored memory. PSYCH-K® can help your subconscious deprogram those words.

Why do I incorporate PSYCH-K® into my work?

As an intuitive energy healer, PSYCH-K® gives me a foundation — something to steer the session by. Clients feel more comfortable with both the energy clearing and the conscious/subconscious mind work when there's a clear framework holding it together.

Many clients arrive consciously wanting to address a specific issue. What working with hundreds of people has taught me is that energy healing alone isn't enough, and talk therapy alone doesn't quite get there either. The subconscious beliefs have to be identified — and PSYCH-K® is what does that.

How did I find PSYCH-K®?

Helping people live a healthy, happy life has always been my passion. I was previously a health coach specialising in natural health and gut health, and PSYCH-K® became another layer on top of that work.

When I discovered it, there was an intuitive calling. Something inside me said to message a friend, and what she offered was a remote healing as an introduction, via messages. Online sessions followed. PSYCH-K® finds you.

If you're looking to change a pattern or behaviour and haven't yet found anything that works, I'd invite you to consider a PSYCH-K® Healing Session. Every session is individualised to you, following your higher self's direction — because subconscious mind and belief work is a real way to finally shift.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is PSYCH-K® the same as hypnosis?
No. Hypnosis works by guiding you into a trance-like state, whereas PSYCH-K® uses whole-brain techniques and muscle testing to identify and rebalance beliefs while you stay fully aware and in control the whole time.

How is PSYCH-K® different from positive affirmations or willpower?
Affirmations and willpower work through the conscious mind, which is why they often fall away the moment you're stressed or triggered and the subconscious takes over. PSYCH-K® works at the subconscious level itself, so the new belief is held where your automatic responses actually come from.

Do I have to relive my trauma for it to work?
Not in the way you might fear. Rather than reliving painful experiences in detail, the focus is on gently clearing the emotional charge around a memory and then rebalancing the belief attached to it, so the pattern can lose its grip.

How many sessions will I need?
Every session is individualised, and it depends on what you're working with. Some beliefs shift in a single session, while more layered or long-standing patterns often benefit from working through several, one belief at a time.

Can PSYCH-K® be done online?
Yes. My own introduction to PSYCH-K® began remotely, and online sessions can be just as effective as being in the same room — making this work accessible wherever you are.