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Who am I?

I’m Julien Szymanek, Certified Practitioner in Ericksonian Hypnotherapy

Originally from France and based in Berlin for over 10 years,
my work is shaped by a deep interest in the unconscious mind
and how lasting change unfolds beneath the surface.

My practice focuses on behavioural change, transformational work
and addiction management.

My own experience with hypnotherapy played a key role in that path.
The story behind it continues in the next chapter.

Background & Training

Certified Practitioner in
Ericksonian Hypnotherapy:
Trained in France with Xtrema (Josick Guermeur).

Certified NLP-Based Coaching: Integrated training for performance and personal development. Trained in Holland with Global NLP. 2025

Certified NLP Practitioner and Master Practitioner - certified by The Society of Neuro-Linguistic Programming

15 Years in Sales Leadership: I managed international teams across Europe, Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.

Master in Business Administration from Essec Business School in France. 2009

Additional hypnotherapy training modules:

  • Working with trauma and grief, with a focus on safety, stabilisation & integration

  • Addiction, habits and smoking, supporting sustainable behavioural change

  • Advanced change techniques, including work with perception, patterns and internal timelines

  • Specialised training in Ericksonian therapy
    with Betty Alice Erickson (daughter of Milton H. Erickson)

My Journey

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I've lived in many places, each move brought new challenges, new versions of myself to meet.

In my work, just as in my personal life, I’ve always been driven by a search for healthy growth. That meant continuous, honest,  and sometimes uncomfortable work.

Over time, I learned that change doesn’t happen in isolation.
It begins by reaching out, accepting help when it's offered, and choosing to work with it.

Along the way, people showed up for me. Therapists, mentors, strangers who became guides.
They didn't fix me, they helped me access what was already there.
That stayed with me.

After fifteen years building a career in international sales and leading teams across continents, I realised something else had been growing beneath it all. A pull toward a different kind of work: Not managing targets but helping people change from the inside out.

That’s why I trained, studied, and became a hypnotherapist.
Not because I figured everything out, but because I lived the kind of transformation I now support others in.

That's what I bring to this work. Not perfection. A path.