{"id":2,"date":"2010-07-23T00:12:59","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T00:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hypnosinstitutet.com\/en\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-05-10T01:09:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T23:09:24","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hypnosinstitutet.com\/en\/about","title":{"rendered":"About Hypnosinstitutet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypnosinstitutet.com\/images\/hakan.png\" alt=\"H\u00e5kan K\u00e4llving\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You are probably not looking for information about a company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You are looking for someone you can trust. Someone who genuinely understands what you are carrying \u2014 and who has a proven ability to help you change it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is exactly why this page exists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>H\u00e5kan K\u00e4llving is Scandinavia\u2019s leading expert on Gil Boyne\u2019s Transforming Therapy&#x2122;<\/strong> \u2014 the most thoroughly developed and clinically proven method for deep, lasting change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That position is not self-appointed. It is the result of decades of work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The foundation \u2014 already among the best certified in the world<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the turn of the millennium, H\u00e5kan was fully clinically certified through <a href=\"https:\/\/hypnotistexaminers.org\/about-us\/a-tribute-to-our-founder\/\">A.C.H.E.<\/a>, the American Council of Hypnotist Examiners, founded by Gil Boyne in California, the organization that established clinical hypnotherapy as a professional standard with the highest training requirements in the United States and internationally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That was a solid foundation. But H\u00e5kan did not stop there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2000, he traveled to London to study directly under Gil Boyne. Ten years of deepening followed under Boyne\u2019s personal guidance \u2014 years of continuous training, supervision, and direct contact with the originator of the method.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is an experience very few therapists anywhere in the world can claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who was Gil Boyne \u2014 and why does it matter to you?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gil Boyne is recognized as one of the most influential figures in the history of hypnotherapy, alongside Milton Erickson and Dave Elman. Over 55 years, he trained more than 12,000 hypnotherapists worldwide and transformed the foundation of how the profession is practiced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But perhaps his most decisive contribution was something else entirely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the 1970s, the establishment fought hard to restrict hypnotherapy to licensed physicians and psychiatrists \u2014 arguing it did not even exist as a profession in its own right. Boyne refused to accept that. He traveled personally to Washington, D.C., and pursued three years of hearings with the U.S. Department of Labor. The result: the title of hypnotherapist was written into the federal Dictionary of Occupational Titles \u2014 as a profession entirely distinct from all other therapeutic fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was Gil Boyne who created the profession that H\u00e5kan today is Scandinavia\u2019s leading practitioner of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Boyne\u2019s importance did not stop there. He was also an extraordinary advocate and one of the profession\u2019s most committed defenders. He was not fighting for personal status. He was fighting for the future of hypnotherapy, for the client\u2019s right to choose a form of help freely, and for a profession built on openness, clarity, and responsibility rather than unnecessary restriction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His influence did not stop in the United States either. Gil Boyne also worked internationally to strengthen the profession&#8217;s standing and resist restrictive legislation, including in Australia. That is part of the professional tradition H\u00e5kan K\u00e4llving stands in today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Transforming Therapy&#x2122; is the method Boyne built over his entire career \u2014 deeply clinical, fast-acting, and focused on the cause rather than the symptoms. It works directly with the subconscious mind, where the real obstacles reside. Not by talking about the problem. By changing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Very often, it is not the present-day situation itself that keeps a problem alive, but the fixed subconscious ideas that were formed when the issue first took on emotional force. That is why real change does not come from endlessly circling the story, but from changing the underlying ideas at the level where the problem first gained a foothold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recognized as a leading voice in hypnosis and the subconscious mind<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypnosinstitutet.com\/images\/marleenmulder-hakankallving-randalchurchill.jpg\" alt=\"Marleen Mulder, H\u00e5kan K\u00e4llving and Randal Churchill\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the photo: Marleen Mulder, H\u00e5kan K\u00e4llving, and Randal Churchill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">H\u00e5kan\u2019s expertise has made him a sought-after voice among leading international companies and media outlets. He has collaborated with Philips on human behavior and the mind in product development, appeared in IKEA\u2019s nationally recognized campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypnosinstitutet.com\/en\/media#sverigestrottastetavling\">&#8220;Sveriges tr\u00f6ttaste t\u00e4vling&#8221;<\/a>, and was engaged by Offshore Film Production ApS in collaboration with Mikael Hylin in connection with the documentary &#8220;Jag s\u00e5g mordet p\u00e5 Palme&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He is regularly interviewed by companies, organizations, and journalists seeking a trusted authority on hypnosis and the subconscious mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He has further deepened his work through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypnotherapy.com\/\">Hypnotherapy Training Institute<\/a>, School of Analytical and Cognitive Hypnotherapy, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/hypnotherapyacademy.com\/\">Hypnotherapy Academy of America<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is not a coincidence. This is what deep, solid expertise looks like in practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why all of this matters \u2014 to you<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You do not need to be interested in the history of hypnosis to benefit from what you have just read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What you need to know is this: when you book a session at Hypnosinstitutet, you are working with someone who does not merely have a certificate on the wall. You are working with Scandinavia\u2019s leading specialist in the method Gil Boyne devoted his life to refining \u2014 a method built to reach where other approaches have not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whatever you want to change \u2014 fears, pain, blocks, habits, performance or something that is hard to even put into words \u2014 the way forward is here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many have walked that path here. Now it is your turn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypnosinstitutet.com\/en\/contact\">Contact Hypnosinstitutet \u2192<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And if you are curious about who else has turned to H\u00e5kan to understand the power of hypnosis \u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">H\u00e5kan K\u00e4llving in radio, TV, and the press<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypnosinstitutet.com\/images\/hakankallving-gilboyne-glendale2008.jpg\" alt=\"H\u00e5kan K\u00e4llving and Gil Boyne in Glendale 2008\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A selection of media appearances <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypnosinstitutet.com\/en\/media\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ur.se\/mb\/pdf\/sprak\/engelska\/livingroom\/livingroom_2004_3_handledning.pdf\">Livingroom 2004 \u2014 UR<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypnosinstitutet.com\/en\/media#fitnessmagazine\">Fitness Magazine<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Guest in IKEA\u2019s campaign &#8220;Sveriges tr\u00f6ttaste t\u00e4vling<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">,&#8221; where he demonstrated hypnosis and worked with\u00a0<strong>Josefin Crafoord<\/strong>\u00a0to explore<\/span> the nature of the mind. See the clip here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypnosinstitutet.com\/en\/media#sverigestrottastetavling\">Hypnosis \u2013 H\u00e5kan K\u00e4llving \u2013 Josefin Crafoord >>><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypnosinstitutet.com\/en\/media#erikochmackan\">Hypnotized Erik och Mackan<\/a> in the series &#8220;Snygga och sm\u00e4rta&#8221; and used hypnosis to improve athletic performance.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Engaged by OFP for Danish television to work with Mikael Hylin on insider witness Roger \u00d6stlund in relation to the murder of Olof Palme, as part of the documentary <em>&#8220;Jag s\u00e5g mordet p\u00e5 Palme&#8221;<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are probably not looking for information about a company. You are looking for someone you can trust. Someone who genuinely understands what you are carrying \u2014 and who has a proven ability to help you change it. That is exactly why this page exists. 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