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An integrated hypnotherapy and coaching method, taught in order.
Most of us were trained in pieces. A weekend in hypnotherapy. A different weekend in NLP. A coaching course that never mentioned either one. Then somebody sits down in front of you on a Tuesday morning and you have to choose. This page explains how coaching, language and patterns, hypnotherapy, repetition and epigenetics become one five-session structure.
Who is writing this
I wrote this method myself, from my own room.
I am Catalina A. Oprea, CHt. I am a clinical hypnotherapist and Rapid Transformational Therapist, a professor at Hermes University Rome, and an epigenetic coach. I help clients create lasting change by combining subconscious work, evidence-informed insight, and compassionate guidance.
My background includes studies in genetics, neuroscience, child psychology, and transformational modalities that explore how beliefs, experiences, and patterns shape the way we live.
My path began not only through academic curiosity but through personal experience. As the mother of a special needs child, I was driven to seek deeper answers. That search led me to study genetics at Harvard and to explore how biology, environment, and experience shape our lives.
Through this work I began to see the connection between genetics, epigenetics, and hypnotherapy. Genetics may provide the blueprint, but our beliefs, emotional patterns, and life experiences influence how that blueprint is expressed. Integrating these disciplines became The KURE Method®.
Qualifications and memberships
- Genetics degree from Harvard University (HMX Pro Genetics)
- Neuroscience coach · child psychology
- Member of The Royal Society of Medicine
- Member of The International Alliance of Counselors and Therapists
- Member of The American Psychological Association — certified in Gender & Sexuality, Positive Psychology, and Psychological Influences on Decision Making
- International Certified Hypnotherapist, Instituto Hipnosis Chile
- Clinical Hypnotherapist & Rapid Transformational Therapist
- Epigenetic Coach
- Professor at Hermes University Rome
Founded and taught by Prof. Catalina A. Oprea. My appointment at Hermes University Rome is documented by decree Rep. n. 155 of 17.08.2026.
Six principles I teach
These principles decide what belongs in a session, what waits and what stays out of the room.
One sequence, not a shelf of techniques
A technique gives you an option. A sequence tells you which option belongs now. The method exists to make that decision easier under real pressure, with a real person in the room.
The client's own words come first
I do not translate a person's problem into professional language before they have described it themselves. Their sentence is the working material for everything that follows.
Count what can be counted
Calmer and stronger are real, but they are hard to check. Three countable markers make progress visible and protect both people from wishful memory.
Consent is structural, not a formality
Assessment is the first session because agreement, suitability and referral are part of the method, not paperwork attached to it.
Plain language is a professional skill
If I cannot explain a step in words a fifteen-year-old would follow, I do not understand it well enough to use it on somebody else.
Say the honest thing, even when it costs a sale
The method names its limits. It is education and practice structure. It is not medicine, diagnosis or a licence to treat.
How the principles become a session
Phase 1
Assessment
Suitability, consent and scope, the pattern named in the client's own words, and three countable markers.
Phase 2
Cause
How the pattern actually runs: the trigger, the sequence, and the function it once served.
Phase 3
Detachment
Working distance, so the response can be observed as it starts instead of lived from inside.
Phase 4
Change
A new response built from the client's own material, tested and rehearsed until it holds.
Phase 5
Consolidation
Cues, a short daily practice, the markers re-counted, and a client who can carry on alone.
Four questions practitioners ask me
Coaching, language and hypnotherapy in one session structure
Each discipline answers a different question. Coaching asks where the client is going. NLP asks how the pattern runs. Hypnotherapy asks how a person gets enough distance to change it. Repetition asks what makes the change hold. Taught separately, you hold five opinions. Taught in order, you hold one plan.
How to structure a session when you were trained in pieces
A structure is not a script. Assessment, Cause, Detachment, Change and Consolidation tell you which question belongs now. You can still use the technique you like best — inside the session where it does its work.
Why an integrated method is easier to remember
Disconnected training fades because nothing holds it. Five sessions in a fixed order give every technique a place, so you recall it under pressure instead of improvising.
Choosing a practitioner training: what to ask
Ask what the sequence is. Ask what is measured. Ask what the training does not authorize you to do. If a school cannot answer those three in plain words, the certificate will not help you on a Tuesday morning.
What I claim, and what I do not
I do claim
The sequence is teachable, observable and easy to explain to a client. It draws on studied ideas: focused attention and suggestion, habit cues, rehearsal and specific markers.
I do not claim
That it cures, heals or treats any condition, that a clinical trial of the method exists, or that the training authorizes medical, psychological or psychotherapy practice.
Read further in the journal
Each article takes one part of this philosophy further, with sources named.
If this way of working sounds like yours
The certification teaches this philosophy as a working sequence, assessed by one final quiz. You can see the dates and tuition, book your place and pay today.