Matthew de Freitas
Accredited Clinical Hypnotherapist & Strategic Psychotherapist
As a former Assistant Vice President at Citi, I spent years operating in high-pressure corporate environments, and I know from the inside what performance anxiety and quiet disconnection from yourself actually feel like. My own battle with anxiety — and the structural change I found through Strategic Psychotherapy and Hypnotherapy — is the reason I retrained, rigorously, to offer that same change and profound transformation others.
Credentials
IAP Diploma of Strategic Psychotherapy & Clinical Hypnotherapy — trained directly by Gordon Young
Bachelor of Business, Monash University (Dean's Honours List, top 1%)
Former Assistant Vice President, Citi
Accredited with ISPA, IICT & IAP
Australian Financial Review Top 100 Future Leaders
My approach
Practical, collaborative, compassionate and results-focused. Strategic Psychotherapy helps identify and change the patterns driving your thoughts, emotions, and behaviour; hypnotherapy supports nervous system regulation so the change actually holds in everyday life. I believe everyone has their own unique journey and believe in holding a judgement-free space at all times.
A holistic lens
Alongside the clinical work, I bring a genuinely holistic view of the person. Years of meditation and qigong practice shape how I hold the work — with real respect for the body, breath, and nervous system as part of any lasting psychological change. Some clients want a strictly evidence-based conversation; others want space to explore meaning or the spiritual dimension of what they're going through. I take my cue from you — either way is welcome.
What sets us apart
Pivot to Peace is 100% online Hypnotherapy anytime — meaning sessions can be scheduled around your life, not the other way around, with availability 24/7.
- Clinical HypnotherapyClinical Hypnotherapy is the application of hypnotherapy in a clinical setting. A hypnotherapist guides their client through a process of deep relaxation to arrive in a trance-like state by using verbal repition and mental imagry. Hypnotherapy aims to reach subsoncious memories, beliefs, coping strategies and desires to provide insight for individuals who may suffer from pain or anxiety, or assist idividuals to gain control over undesired bahviours. A clinical hynotherapist combines hypnotherapy with counselling or psychotherapy techniques, and can support clients with mood disorders, phobias, sleep disorders, and other mental health or behavioural challenges. Note: Clinical Hypnotherapy is distinct from Hypnotherapy. Each has different study requirements.
- Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)studentCo-founded by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in the 1970’s, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) enables us to understand how our brain processes the words we use and how that can effect our programming and behaviour. Engaging various tools and techniques, practitioners support clients with re-programming their neurology, language and actions. Rather than allowing thoughts to be passive, NLP techniques help to look at thoughts, feelings and emotions as things that can be controlled. Techniques can include things such as Imagery Training, NLP Swish, Modelling, Mirroring, and Incantations.