It started like it does for many of us. Sarah, a 37-year-old marketing professional in Austin, has been in traditional talk therapy for years. She’d told all of her stories many times over, analyzed her behavior, and memorized coping strategies. Yet, she still woke up every morning with anxiety in her chest and a knot in her gut.
One day, staring at the floor of her therapist’s office and repeating the same story again, Sarah asked herself: “What if talk therapy just isn’t enough anymore?” Turns out, she was right.
For those like Sarah: highly sensitive, emotionally complex souls carrying deep emotional wounds, Paige Bartholomew brings a holistic, somatic and soul-aware lens to therapy, inviting change where mind and body meet the deeper self.
The Problem with Traditional Talk Therapy
Talk therapy can be incredibly effective. But many clients have reached a plateau. They’re self-aware yet still feel stuck. Paige explains:
“Most therapy treats symptoms. I track the whole system. Your pain. Your story. Your body. Your consciousness. We map it all. Because you’re not just a diagnosis. You’re a living system, asking to be seen in full.”
For clients like Sarah, whose deep pattern of wounding was living in her nervous system, Subconscious Integration Therapy was a game-changer. SIT is a unique synthesis of depth psychology, hypnotherapy trance work, somatic psychotherapy and Internal Family Systems (AKA “Parts Work”) Unlike cognitive behavioral methods that focus on cognitive insight, Paige’s. Approach goes beneath conscious thought into the deeper architecture of emotion and identity. The process is experiential, engaging, and often profoundly satisfying and uplifting.
What Makes Paige Bartholomew Different?
Paige Bartholomew is a licensed psychotherapist, certified hypnotherapist, and Sufi master teacher based in Austin, Texas. She offers therapy that integrates Internal Family Systems (“Parts Work”), somatic healing, spiritual hypnosis, and attachment theory. All held within a rare kind of therapeutic relationship. Here, being deeply seen isn’t just supportive; it’s part of the medicine itself.
“You’re not just your thoughts. You’re a whole being with a body, heart, and inner world.”
Her sessions aren’t just about managing emotions, they are about healing the deep-rooted patterns causing pain.
Experience You Can Trust (E-E-A-T Aligned)
Experience: Over 25 years of trauma healing work (this is ok, but I have not been a therapist for 25 years. I have been a hypnotherapist for 25 years, but a therapist for only 15. Please make that clear, or if in doubt, only use “Therapist for over 15 years, as that encompasses both.
Expertise: PTSD, C-PTSD, anxiety, depression, chronic illness (maybe use it if you think it will be good for seo, but it is very low priority I don’t work with it much), (low priority. I don’t work with this much), “grief, panic, loneliness, shame”
Authoritativeness: Highly recommended by long-term clients
Trustworthiness: Transparent methods, client-focused approach, and ethical referrals
Sarah’s Story: Healing at the Root
Step 1: The Free Consultation
Sarah discovered Paige online while searching for “Therapy or hypnotherapy for Anxiety in Austin”. (or your choice). The compassionate tone of the website drew her in.
“I felt like I was finally being seen, even before we spoke.”
In her 30-minute free phone consultation, Paige didn’t try to sell therapy. She listened deeply. Paige honored Sarah’s autonomy by offering paths forward, including options beyond their work together. That built trust immediately.
Step 2: Understanding the Parts
Sarah’s sessions began with Parts Work, an Internal Family Systems approach that helps identify different “selves” within us. For Sarah, this meant discovering the anxious 7-year-old inside who had been holding decades of fear and shame.
“These parts aren’t broken. They’re trying to protect you.”
In guided light trance states, Paige helped Sarah befriend these parts. Through symbolic imagery and body-based awareness, Sarah’s parts began to unburden themselves. Sarah started to feel tremendous relief of a new sort of lightness that she had not felt in years.
Step 3: Using Hypnotherapy to Access the Subconscious
Sarah was skeptical about hypnotherapy at first. But in Paige’s practice, hypnosis wasn’t about control or mind tricks. It was a gentle, guided, and meditative state.
“You’re awake the whole time. It’s like slipping into a soft blanket of truth.”
Through the trance, Sarah revisited old memories safely, re-scripted past events, and received messages from her own “Higher Self.”
Why Somatic Therapy Works When Words Fail
Whether large or small, emotional breaks aren’t just stored in the mind, they’re held deep within the nervous system.
“The body remembers what the mind forgets.”
Sarah realized that her chronic neck pain was linked to emotional trauma. By combining Somatic techniques like interoception (noticing body sensations) and Subconscious Integration work, Sarah learned to speak directly with her pain. It communicated its needs, and her body started to let it go.
“It wasn’t just in my head. And that truth finally gave me permission to heal.”
Practical Tips for Readers Feeling Stuck in Talk Therapy
- Listen to Your Body
Notice tightness, tension, or recurring pain. It might hold emotional clues.
- Track Your Triggers
Journal your emotional patterns. When do you feel most overwhelmed? These are entry points into deeper work.
- Explore Parts Work
Try this: Ask yourself, “What part of me is feeling this way right now?” Then imagine that feeling as a little character inside you. Let them tell you how they feel. Parts Work starts with listening to the one inside.
- Consider a Therapist Who Uses multidimensional approach like INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS, spirituality, hypnotherapy, Jungian Dream Work and Somatic Psychotherapy.
Plateaus in therapy are common, especially when the deeper layers of the nervous system and subconscious haven’t been reached. That’s where a multidimensional approach picks up where traditional methods have been left off.
- Book a Free Consultation
It costs nothing to find out if there’s a better way. Paige offers 30-minute phone consultations that could change the course of your healing.
How Spiritual Counseling Enhances Psychological Healing
Paige believes real healing comes from combining science with spirit.
Spiritual counseling might involve:
- Talking to your Higher Self
- Asking intuitive questions
- Exploring Divine energy or symbols in dreams
- Using quantum principles for deep transformation
“You don’t have to believe in any religion. Just be open to the possibility that you’re more than your wounds.”
The Takeaway: When You’re Ready for More Wholeness. Not just Less Pain.
Talk therapy is valuable, but it isn’t the final destination for everyone. If you’re an empath, an HSP, or someone carrying the invisible weight of past trauma, you deserve more than surface-level healing.
Sarah’s story is one of hundreds. Paige’s unique blend of clinical modalities combined with intuitive guidance offers a rare path toward authentic wholeness.
Ready to Take the First Step?
If this story resonates with you, here’s what to do next:
Visit Paige Bartholomew’s Website: https://www.paigebartholomew.com
Read more about how trauma really works in the brain
Schedule your Free Phone Consultation
Because you are not just your symptoms. You are a whole, sacred system ready to be seen, heard, and healed.
