Summit Hypnosis promotes and provides professional hypnotherapy with a commitment to be the practice most trusted by the Northwest’s medical community. Our values are based on compassionate care, creative solutions, and above all, kindness. All of our sessions are completely confidential.
Meet Our Hypnotists
Meet Deane
Deane Benninghoven, founder of Summit Hypnosis
Certified Hypnotist
Certified Instructor (NGH)
Hypnosis changed my life. Let me show you how it can change yours.
Ever since I was a small child I wanted to be an artist. Creating things was my singular passion. I pursued this goal relentlessly as I grew into an adult, and began working as a professional artist. That was until I was involved in a serious car accident that left me with chronic debilitating neck pain.
I did everything I was told to do, and at the end of my treatments, I was still left feeling trapped by my pain, unable to work, and desperate for any solution beyond prescription opioids. It was then, quite by accident, that I stumbled on therapeutic hypnosis. For me, when everything else I had tried failed, hypnosis worked! Over a period of just a few weeks, I got my life back, and left the pills behind. It is because of this very personal experience that I have found a new passion. To help anyone who is struggling with challenges or behaviors that keep them from being the very best version of themselves, with understanding, compassion, and above all kindness.
I use hypnosis every day to control pain, create positive change in my own life, and feel more connected to the amazing world around us. Hypnosis is fascinating because it is rooted in our subconscious mind and involves all of the complexities of how we think and behave. The field of hypnosis is constantly changing, and I work daily to stay on top of the latest trends and techniques in the field.
I enjoy speaking, and teaching classes on: hypnosis, stress relief, healthy sleep, relaxation, hypnotic meditation, motivation, living with gratitude, and using hypnosis in art.
Meet Steve
Steve Bakker
Certified Professional Hypnotist
Hypnosis can help profoundly. It can ease your way forward.
I sought out hypnosis after my life became inexplicably consumed with terror, triggered by the sight–or even the thought–of commonplace textures, such as foliage in trees or surfaces pitted with holes. My first few sessions with a hypnotist taught me some unexpected skills of mind on the way to resolving my all-consuming crisis. In an early session, I was taught how to quiet the pain of my stress-related muscle tension. In another, I was guided into a more relaxed state than I had ever remembered feeling before and taught how to recall that relief throughout my daily life.
My run of hypnosis sessions ended a few weeks later when the hypnotist guided me through an exercise where I fully imagined reconciling with a part of myself responsible for my "phobia." The hypnotist suggested open-ended questions for me to ask it. The answers of the "part" came entirely from me, and in the state of hypnosis they were enough to set me free. When I stepped out of the office, the patterns on walls and textures in trees stayed harmlessly in place.
What I find so amazing about hypnosis is not only how profoundly it can work, but also how immediately it "awakens" simple skills for shifting one's mindset in other areas of life. The skills I learned took root immediately and then, like any other skill, grew stronger with use. I continue to draw on them to take creative and practical strides in life that had seemed just out of reach before, and the occasional sight of an off-putting texture has been manageable ever since.
I decided to train as a hypnotist so I could share the tools that have so improved my life with others–to summon their own state of ease, lighten their own lives, and choose their own direction more freely going forward. I am trained and certified to practice hypnosis using up-to-date, evidence-based techniques by the International Certification Board of Clinical Hypnotists.
