About

Get to Know Me, Dr. John Souglides Ph.D

Certified: Hypnotist, Holistic Life Coach, Mentor, Therapist & NLP

One can feel overwhelmed when embarking on a journey of self-discovery and going through the process of healing. You may feel nervous when it comes to opening up and allowing someone to get to know you, your fears, regrets, worries, hopes, dreams and desires. I understand completely where you are at, where you wish to go as it is personal business, you want the peace of mind where you know you will be safe and secure through this process.

I offer you my decades of experience, knowledge and most importantly wisdom through my expertise and services. It is important when seeking one who you are entrusting to assist you achieve your goals of success in your life, to select a hypnotherapist, life coach, mentor, counsellor with whom you feel comfortable. Here at Dr John’s Systems & Solutions, my priority for you to achieve your goals, make the positive changes you are yearning for, therefor I place great emphasis on making sure you understand our goals, you always feel welcome, never judged, heard, understood and have your best interests at heart.

You can be reassured we are working at the highest professional level i am known for, in a safe place for you to unwind, speak freely, set your goals, know you are not judged, to express yourself and feel sincerely. Besides my practice culture, you rest assured that you are being taken care of by a certified professional and specialist with ample experience in the field.

My experience and expertise carries over 35 years experience working with people, groups and international corporations from all walks of life to help them overcome their individual personal and professional obstacles through my tried-and-tested systems and solutions, you can rest assured that you will be cared for, supported and heard. The most common areas I have helped with include unwanted phobias, habits, depression, procrastination, addiction, weight issues, phobias, fears, and anxiety.

See more about my licenses, certifications and memberships below or book an appointment if you’re ready.

Professional Credentials

I am a member of several international affiliations and lifetime affiliations, some of these include National Guild of Hypnotist, American Hypnosis Association, General Hypnotherapy Association, International Metaphysical Ministry. As a pioneer and specialist, throughout the decades I have created systems and solutions in elevating health and wellness with my groundbreaking systems and solutions. With my expertise and being a speciality course instructor, my courses have been registered, accredited and recognised internationally by the International Association of Counselors & Therapists.

Licences & Certifications

As well as having studied with the University of Sedona, I hold four doctorates in the fields of self-development and self-empowerment fields, including:

Memberships & Affiliations

I am a member of several international affiliations and lifetime affiliations, including:

Professional Services

With the use of hypnotherapy and basic practices, you can achieve a balanced lifestyle through positive, healthy changes. I am here to help you achieve these results with time-tested hypnosis systems and solutions.

Individual Services

As a professional, I am dedicated to providing my clients with bespoke personal hypnotherapy options so that they can experience positive change in their lives.

Individual Services

As a professional, I am dedicated to providing my clients with bespoke personal hypnotherapy options so that they can experience positive change in their lives.

Corporate Wellness

Using sessions and workshops, I empower corporate clients to overcome their concerns and tap into their full potential. They can reduce stress, anxiety, phobias, depression, addictions to food, work, substances, and lack of confidence.

Corporate Wellness

Using sessions and workshops, I empower corporate clients to overcome their concerns and tap into their full potential. They can reduce stress, anxiety, phobias, depression, addictions to food, work, substances, and lack of confidence.

Mentorship

Besides transferring knowledge, training also contributes to improving knowledge and skills.

Mentorship

Besides transferring knowledge, training also contributes to improving knowledge and skills.

Training / Coaching

Besides transferring knowledge, training also contributes to improving knowledge and skills.

Training / Coaching

Besides transferring knowledge, training also contributes to improving knowledge and skills.

Team Building/Retreats

Improving coping skills within the work and home environment, stress release techniques, breath work, neutralising negative triggers and replacing them with positive triggers, learning techniques to achieve health of body-mind.

Team Building/Retreats

Improving coping skills within the work and home environment, stress release techniques, breath work, neutralising negative triggers and replacing them with positive triggers, learning techniques to achieve health of body-mind.

Professional Services

The unconscious can be very receptive to new ideas, making the changes you long for, shifting outdated behaviours and diffuse limiting belief systems. It has the know-how and utilises its potential in accessing its inherent wisdom resources of creativity and insight achieved through hypnosis. Hypnotherapy serves to open the pathways in bringing to the fore and assist you achieve the thoughts, insight, feelings, actions, behaviours and goals you desire, whether your goals are to increase your performance, reduce anxiety, or break bad habits. With my professional services i am reachable from all areas of the globe, nothing is preventing you in living the life you’ve always wanted to.
Dr. John Souglides

How To Get Started With Dr John’s Systems & Solutions

How the process works

We begin with an assessment consultation that is required for me to understand the issues. Here we will discuss and get to know more about you and your situation, your goals, and what are you wishing to achieve for your career, life, relationships. It is here where I will identify the core issues and concerns.

Thereafter, I will discuss with you my recommendations and plan going forward, this will allow the opportunity to provide you with insight and detail of an achievement / success plan.

These plans are also related to the treatment plan related to your specific situation and circumstances and will vary from person to person or group to group.

To book your initial assessment, please contact me here or book a consultation now. 

You Could Change Your Life Through Hypnotherapy & NLP

Through hypnosis, the unconscious can be receptive to new ideas and behaviours as well as access resources of creativity and insight. Hypnosis serves to bring out the best in everyone. Hypnosis can help you achieve the thoughts, feelings, and behaviours you desire, whether you are looking to achieve the best performance, reduce anxiety, or break bad habits. With hypnotherapy in Sandton, Johannesburg, you can live the life you’ve always wanted to.

Frequently Asked Questions

Let me help you reframe your limiting beliefs, support you through your challenges, and uplift you as you transform your life.
Is Hypnosis dangerous, can I be made to do something against my wish?
Not at all – One is in control at all times – The Therapist merely guides one
That is not possible. One always awakens from the state of Hypnosis
Only if you so wish. One cannot be Hypnotised against one’s will or wish
It is required to do five sessions initially, from there we will discuss if further sessions are required.

The Conscious mind, when faced with something “good or bad, fun or tragic”, goes to the Subconscious for a memory that will give a clue how to respond. The Subconscious mind sends that memory to the Conscious mind. ​Our “Critical faculty” filters what is sent to the Conscious mind and does not allow the cause of the true “hurtful memories” to surface. This means that the person reacts to the memory stored in the Subconscious without understanding why. The result: an “uncalled for” reaction to a certain issue in their life.​Through Hypnosis, we bypass the “Critical faculty” and have access to the Subconscious mind.  Once the real problem or the “Cause” has been uncovered and healed, the Subconscious is positively  re-programmed and the memory sent to the Conscious mind is therefore based on the new positive programming, causing a person to behave in a new positive manner.

People usually fear being hypnotised as they are clueless to what hypnosis is really all about. If they knew that everyone self hypnotises 15-20 times a day they would understand it is a natural process we all experience in our lives. People believe hypnosis makes them dominated, they lose control, surrender their will, become gullible or weak. This is far from the truth, in hypnosis you are in control, you decided if you wish to accept a suggestion for your own positive growth and positive outcomes.​

Unfortunately Hollywood etc has painted a bleak picture on what hypnosis is all about, religion has also through fear made it out to be not normal to human behaviour. Ignorance is what feeds fear and slowing down or even halting the healing process. Stage hypnosis is another one that suggests people become fearful of hypnosis or hypnosis is only for fooling around. Stage hypnosis create a myth that discourages people from seeking legitimate hypnotherapy.

​The perception people have of hypnosis makes them fearful, irrational and misinformed. Hypnosis is misunderstood and believed to be an authoritarian, manipulative technique, nourished particularly by misinforming people of the difference of hypnosis and stage hypnosis. Unfortunately stage hypnosis shows, represents the greatest barrier to the (re)integration of hypnosis into medical treatment.​

A small percentage of people will not remember the session, meanwhile the majority of people remember everything that occurs under hypnosis. The benefits of this is that what we wish to achieve is attained within light to medium hypnotic depth states.​

In hypnosis, the patient is under no means under the control of the hypnotist. Hypnosis does not impose itself or through the therapist onto you or your life. The person facilitating the session, the hypnotist is guiding you to achieve your success.

The four causes of hypnosis. Aristotle’s model of comprehension involves the description of a phenomenon and identification of its efficient causes (triggers), material cause (substrate), formal cause (models of structure), and final cause(function).
Hypnosis is a state of human consciousness involving focused attention, reduced peripheral awareness, and an enhanced capacity to respond to suggestion. The term may also refer to an art, skill, or act of inducing hypnosis. Theories explaining what occurs during hypnosis fall into two groups.
Hypnosis dates back thousands of years. Western scientists first became involved in hypnosis around 1770, Franz Mesmer (1734–1815), a physician from Austria, started investigating an effect he called “animal magnetism” or “mesmerism” (the latter name still remaining popular today). The ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Yogi’s used hypnosis in Sleep Temples, dating back to over 5000 years old.
On average each person usually goes into self-hypnosis 15 – 20 times a day, Hypnosis is something we all do in our lives each and every day. For therapy it is best to undergo a few sessions to enter into a deep state of hypnosis. To be in a wonderful state of Hypnosis means one has entered a deep state of trance state, known as Hypnotic Trance State/deep hypnosis. Being in a deep state of hypnosis does in no way circumvent our normal sense of values. As we all undergo various levels of hypnosis during our awakened and sleep states we simply pass through what is referred to as states that are similar to hypnosis.

Scientific studies reveals specific areas of the brain positively affected by hypnosis. These techniques could be a tool for exploring what happens in the brain when we suddenly forget or when we are able to recall past life experiences. Memory and Hypnosis. … Forgotten or repressed memories can be unlocked by hypnosis. People can recall past lives under hypnosis. New evidence is revealing that regression when conducted correctly may reveal past lives and history related to them.

Varies in degree to achieve specific outcomes. A hypnotic suggestion is made when the person is in the hypnotic state, it has a specific purpose to action in a general or specific way to be performed after awakening, usually this often is in to response to a cue. Patients are diverse when they are during and after session as they usually still carry out post-hypnotic suggestions even if they remember being given them during their session for the purposes of therapy. This positively results as the suggested behaviors are usually positive and beneficial nature, the suggestion from within the session creates the platform for them to feel compelled to carry out the suggestion, resulting in successful of desired outcomes. A suggestion during a state of hypnotic trance / session specifies an action to be performed after awakening, often in response to a cue i.e. action.

The typical feeling described to stay calm and relaxed as there is nothing to fear only fear itself. Focus only on what you are busy with / there for in the session. You achieve higher states of awareness, the truth is always revealed to you by the subconscious mind. It is an amazing feeling and very empowering to know that you are able to change your life for positive outcomes.

Coming out of a hypnotic state may reveal the following :

  • a person reorienting themselves to their body
  • the waking state are
    • wetting the lips,
    • shifting their posture,
    • opening eyes normally or wider at first,
    • blinking,
    • feeling restless to move about,
    • yawning,
    • and stretching.

When one meditates they enter the Hypnotic Zone, this is caused through relaxation, trance and meditation.

Hypnosis when conducted by a trained professional therapist or health care professional is considered a safe, complementary, powerful and alternative medical treatment. If a person has severe mental illness to seek professional advise before commencing with sessions. It is rare to have an adverse reaction to hypnosis, it may include a headache.

What My Clients Have To Say

Some of my clients like to remain anonymous, here are some of their stories.
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M F
16:32 19 Dec 23
Dr John is absolutely amazing. He goes above and beyond what you would expect in order to help you achieve your goals. It has been an absolute privilege to be able to work with him. Highly recommend his services.
Gabrielle Dos Santos
05:41 02 Aug 23
Dr John is awesome- great way to take a step back and see life with a new perspective. In the sessions Dr John makes the sessions very comfortable. Highly recommendable
Alicia Bornman
07:24 25 Jul 23
Thank you for giving me my life back and for always listening when i thought no one did.If you are going through anything please make use of Dr John , you won't regret it . I will continue my journey but i feel so much better already when i thought there was no Hope this gave me my hope back in life!
Millicent Gaetsosiwe
19:14 13 Jul 23
Dr John's methods are unique and I saw an improvement and growth in myself from the 1st session. It has been an extremely enlightening experience
Ceri Grenfell
05:55 05 Jul 23
Dr Souglides is one of the best therapist I have been to, his knowledge and compassion are by far the best I have experienced. I have been to many Dr’s and the approach of Hypnotherapy was my last resort and by far the best resort I took. Thank you to Dr Souglides for all my sessions and for getting me on the right track in my life and the happiest I have ever been.
Dr GC Macintosh
06:43 28 Jun 23
Dr. John Souglides is a phenomenal hypnosis practitioner. I am fortunate to know him for over 20 years. He is a highly skilled and qualified hypnotherapist, life coach and mentor.His skills, knowledge and application within each therapy session is unique and specific to every individual client. He is kind, compassionate and caring with all clients. He works with the utmost integrity, honour and love for his work and his clients. I whole-hearted recommend him to anyone seeking help physically, mentally and spiritually. Thank you for all the wonderful work you do for everyone.
Cheryl Redelinghuys
18:29 25 Jun 23
I have been very fortunate to have known Dr John for a good number of years and have had the privilege of benefitting from his incredible expertise in his field when it was required, with great results!I recently went back to him with a matter that seemed to be insurmountable to me and after only one session, this was broken down in simple terms to something quite manageable, with the correct mindset and tools, which Dr John willingly equips one with.I have been back for clarity in certain areas which Dr John unselfishly and patiently gave in detail, so that I feel empowered to move on in a positive manner independentlyI have recommended Dr John to others, without hesitation, who could benefit from time with himIt really is quite remarkable how Dr John can empathise with any individual on all levels and with his perception break down any problem one would feel overwhelmed byHighly recommended for self empowerment, peace as well as clarity of mind in order to move forward in a positive manner
Kelisha Naidoo
07:27 10 Jul 21
Dr. John is simply incredible! He is so thorough, his sessions are personalized and you leave every session feeling a new zest for life. His work is truly remarkable and such a blessing! Thank you for giving me a new and fresh start in life.I feel free from my past traumas and stresses and a sense of determination and confidence that I lacked for most of my life, before this. I feel and see the difference in the way I interact with others and how I face life's challenges with a new sense of courage.The healing and growth that comes from his hypnotherapy is amazing! Thank you thank you Dr. John!
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