Methods
Take some time to read through the various Methods that I offer. I work with children, teens, adults, and elders, as well as people in relationships of all configurations. Each and every session, with each and every client, is personally tailored to their specific circumstances.
I can promise that you will find me to be very open, affable, loving and compassionate. I am patient and very clear of the fact that you are perfectly able and capable. I will respect your time and your humanity and, given the ethics of my profession as a Confidante, I promise absolute discretion and confidentiality, at all times, with regard to whatever we discuss.
Relational Life Therapy (RLT)
At the heart of every relationship is a longing to feel safe, seen, and deeply connected. Yet even the most loving partners can find themselves responding to one another in ways that create distance, misunderstanding, and quiet despair. When the relationship you care about most becomes a source of pain, it can bring out ways of being with each other that neither of you intended.
Relational Life Therapy, created by internationally recognized family therapist and bestselling author Terry Real, is an impactful, hands-on approach to couples work that goes far beyond talking about problems. It’s designed to help you move out of automatic reactions, unhelpful power dynamics, and long-standing patterns that quietly sabotage intimacy and, instead, return you to the shared ground of “us” - a place of mutual respect, accountability, compassion, and real connection.
As a RLT Certified Relational Coach, and unlike many traditional approaches, I don’t take a neutral stance. I don’t sit silently as your behavioral patterns reveal and repeat themselves. I work with you in a deeply relational way, with honesty and warmth, taking the side of the relationship itself. For me, that means paying close attention to what happens between you, and to what each of you is doing that moves you toward, or away from, the relationship you want. When I see a behavior or pattern that is getting in the way of closeness, I’ll name it with love and care. I can be direct about what I see without shaming you, staying connected to you even when what I have to say may be difficult to hear.
Long before we enter an adult relationship, as children, we learned ways of protecting ourselves when we felt hurt, rejected, criticized, unseen, or unloved. We carry those early responses with us into adulthood and our closest relationships, where they can surface as withdrawing, pleasing, controlling, defending ourselves, or pushing harder to be heard. In the heat of the moment, these familiar responses can take over the steering wheel, pulling us away from the connection we want. What was adaptive then, is maladaptive now. RLT helps you recognize these patterns, understand where they came from, and discover that an automatic response doesn’t have to determine what you do next.
Our work together unfolds through three distinct phases, each building on the one before it. First, we look closely at what is happening between you - what each of you does, what that brings out in the other, and how, together, those responses can become a familiar pattern that keeps repeating.
Then we explore the deeper roots of these patterns - how you learned to protect yourself, how those strategies became part of the way you navigate relationships, and how those same strategies can still shape the way you respond to your partner today. This work is done with the partner present, giving them the opportunity to see beyond the behavior itself and understand not only what you do, but something of why you learned to do it - opening the possibility for greater empathy and understanding between you.
Finally, you’ll learn unique, practical RLT tools and skills that offer a different way of communicating, repairing, and cherishing your relationship, appreciating what’s good between you and actively nurturing your connection. Intimacy becomes a lived practice, not a distant ideal.
What makes RLT so effective is that it treats your relationship not as a battleground of competing needs, but as a living system that can be restored. You’ll learn how to shift from relating as two separate individuals, and move toward a genuine sense of “us” where both of you matter, and so does the relationship between you. It’s a way of relating where responsibility replaces blame, curiosity replaces defensiveness, love becomes an active choice rather than a fragile feeling.
Many couples arrive feeling hopeless, exhausted, or on the brink of giving up, and I understand how vulnerable it is to ask for help. In our work together, my role is to create a space where both of you are deeply respected, truth is spoken with compassion, and real change becomes possible. Together, we’ll work to understand what has come between you, and we'll explore what a more honest, more alive, more connected, and more loving relationship can look like for you.
Emotional Resolution
We know that childhood experiences, and the decisions that we made about those experiences, have a profound effect on the way we view ourselves, our world, and our lives. Not only is there an emotional and psychological aspect to those decisions we made, but there's also a physical aspect - sensations that are associated to the memories that we had as a child - i.e., tightness of the chest, increased breathing rate, increased heart rate, tension in the body etc.
Very often, what happens for us as children is that we don't have the adequate wisdom or connection to our body to understand those symptoms. Nor do we have a means of allowing us to process those sensations, resolve them, and clear them through the body. Our body retains a 'somatic recording' of all our past experiences. When exposed to a situation that in any way reminds us of a past experience, the viscero-somatic memory of that event is reactivated, and triggers a disruptive emotional response.
Emotional Resolution helps the body recognize that the perceived 'past danger' is now obsolete. It's a process that allows the body to integrate dated information and update this to tune-in to our current reality, as distinct from reacting to a past memory. It is a process designed to safely guide individuals to reconnect with their intrinsic capacity for emotional resilience, enabling them to integrate and resolve hurtful or debilitating emotional reactions such as anxiety, anger, lack of self-confidence, post-traumatic stress, etc.
Emotional Resolution also works beautifully with children and teens, allowing them to cultivate a sensorial awareness of their bodies, leaving them feeling more confident, less reactive, and capable of moving through their feelings.
I’m a 37 year old man that just went through a divorce after 10 years of marriage. Hunter has helped me understand and reframe many things that my mind has created that haven’t served me or my happiness. She has a unique ability to connect with her clients at a deep level that makes you know you’re in good hands. She truly cares and comes from a beautiful perspective. Hunter has a great understanding of Emotional Resolution and a skill set that removes limiting beliefs and patterns. I highly recommend her! – Shawn Wilson
I have been a client of Hunter’s for several years. She has always been my 'safe space' to dive into tough emotions. She is kind in her guidance, and thoughtful in her methods. Hunter is easy to make a connection with, allowing for vulnerability without the fear of judgment. Working with her on Emotional Resolution has helped me disconnect negative emotions with memories. This release has relieved me from the fears, anxieties and anger related to the past. I would highly recommend Hunter to anyone that has the courage or desire to dig deeper on the path to healing. – Renee B.
I was abused by an authority figure as a teenager, and found myself repeating those patterns in abusive relationships as an adult. When I met Hunter, I was so haunted by the trauma of this abuse that I was not even sure if I was safe today. Hunter untangled triggers, body sensations, flash backs, behavior patterns, perspectives, and emotions so that I could start engaging in life without being sucked into old nightmares. She has also taught me how to set healthy boundaries in a way that has people happy to respect them! Hunter has changed my life and brought me so much healing, confidence, and joy in a short period of time. – (Name withheld for confidentiality)
Conversational Trance-formation
Conversational Trance-formation is a gentle, free-flowing approach to change that works through natural conversation rather than formal hypnosis. In a deeply-attuned and relaxed dialogue, you are supported to access unconscious patterns that shape your beliefs, feelings, attitudes, and behaviors.
Through this process, long-held beliefs, emotional patterns, and internal narratives can begin to loosen and reorganize. This allows deep-rooted, multi-layered mental and emotional blocks to release, creating space for meaningful and lasting shifts to occur organically. By bringing awareness to the subtle, often hidden patterns that keep you stuck, Conversational Trance-formation supports you in moving beyond fear, self-doubt, and internal pressure — and reconnect with who you truly are beneath it all.
I was really struggling with so many aspects of my life. I truly felt lost. The work we did was like a year worth of therapy in a few hours. I didn’t even realize how my childhood with my dad and sister was affecting my current relationship with my husband and children. I am still literally daily amazed at how different my relationship with my dad and sister are now, let alone how it has changed my current life with my family. I’m no longer tormented. It’s such a new life. I recommend her to everyone I see. She truly is an amazing, beautiful human being. Thank you Hunter. – Julie Montgomery
Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT)
We've all known, for many decades, that our childhood experiences affect us deeply - sometimes in obvious ways, and sometimes in ways that are more hidden. We know that, as children, we make decisions about our experiences that, almost always, include negative interpretations about ourselves and our world. At the time, these decisions and interpretations seemed absolutely real and valid. As such, over time, they form the basis of our entire belief system, and become a fixed 'lens' through which we see the world. Left unchecked, that lens continues to operate beyond childhood, into adulthood, and profoundly determines how we react and respond to ourselves, others, our world, and our lives.
The brilliance of RTT is its mastery in combining hypnosis and prevalent behavioral disciplines, resulting in an approach that allows people to uniquely reframe the root causes of their unwanted behaviors, thought-patterns, and beliefs. It is an approach that more quickly, easily and effectively allows us to update the 'childhood lens' in such a way as to reflect the wisdom and perspective of the Adult-Self.
RTT was created by world-renowned therapist, Marisa Peer. I am an Advanced RTT Practitioner, personally trained by Marisa Peer. I am also an RTT School Trainer where I educate, mentor and support RTT Practitioners.
Working with Hunter helped me rescue my life. Before our time together, I found myself riddled with turmoil, stuck in an abusive relationship, and desperate for a way out. I came to her deeply troubled and was met with utter compassion. She helped me look deep within myself and sever all ties to the abuse I was accepting in my life. I’ve held onto our first session's Transformation Recordings like they were the Holy Grail, and I listen to them every time I need to feel empowered or reminded of how far I’ve come. Thank you Hunter! – Amber
In my session with Hunter I felt completely safe, held, supported and heard. She was able to go deep into my past and touch on some major blockages I had been holding onto. These were blocks that I had established all the way back in my early childhood, and had created an unhealthy pattern of dissociation with. We were able to tap into my subconscious with RTT and create a new story...one that left me empowered rather than a victim. Since our session I have finally been able to have control over my disassociation. I can feel my body experiencing this new story and choosing to stay present. This is the first time, since I was a young girl, that I have been able to go throughout my days without involuntarily disassociating. I feel FREE to experience a whole new spectrum of emotions because I am able to energetically remain present in my body. – Rogue McCurdy