Strategic Changes is a one-practitioner hypnotherapy practice run by me, Tim Biden, BCHt. I am a Board Certified Hypnotherapist, trained through Omni Hypnosis. The Source & Signal Protocol™ is my clinical approach to chronic pain: a structured investigation into why your nervous system is still broadcasting pain, and a systematic retraining of that broadcast. Sessions run from 90 minutes to 3 hours, conducted online through HIPAA-compliant telehealth, available to anyone in the United States. A physician referral is required before the first session. Insurance is not accepted.
The Source & Signal Protocol™ isn’t generic hypnotherapy. It’s a specific clinical process built around two things that standard pain treatment almost never addresses.
The first is the Source. Chronic pain that has outlasted conventional treatment almost always has an origin, an unresolved emotional conflict, a biological stress response, a belief the subconscious is using to keep the signal active. Standard care treats what it can measure. It cannot reach what is running below that level.
The second is the Signal. Regardless of what started the pain, the nervous system learned to broadcast it. That broadcast became self-sustaining. The brain’s filtering system, the Reticular Activating System, learned to flag it as urgent and keep it there. The Source & Signal Protocol™ goes directly into the subconscious, where both the source and the signal are maintained, and retrains them.
This isn’t a relaxation exercise. It’s not meditation or mindfulness. It’s not a script that we read to everyone. It’s investigative clinical work, conducted in sessions that run long enough to actually find what is maintaining the pain and address it.
Daniel came in with chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy. For two years during his cancer treatment, he could not feel his feet. There was no natural touch sensation, just numbness and pain. He wrote that off as his new normal.
At the end of his first session, after emerging him from hypnosis, I noticed Daniel moving his feet on the carpet. I looked at his wife, not sure what I was seeing. She explained that he could feel the carpet. Normal feeling and sensation returned to his feet, in real time, during the session.
Since that session, I’ve worked with other clients and considered other clinical directions. But I haven’t found one that holds my attention and energy the way this does. The pain work is the work.
I am able to drive and ride my bike again. And I can feel the grass under my feet for the first time in two years. Thank you.
Sheryl had back pain that had taken much of her life away. She could not get in the pool with her son or and often couldn’t even get to his upstairs bedroom. She had stopped going on 4×4 trails with her husband. She had reorganized her life around what the pain would allow.
After completing 1 session, she went back to the pool with her son. She went back on the trails. She was able to stand for the entire worship service at church and later said she could not remember the last time that had been possible. She and her husband even started traveling again and visiting friends.
Yesterday at church I stood the entire time during worship. I don't remember when I was able to do that. Praise God.
These are their results. Yours may be different. Everyone’s nervous system is specific to them. But both Daniel and Sheryl had one thing in common before their first session: they had tried everything else first.
I managed my sciatica for approximately twenty years. I know the morning pain check, that moment before your eyes fully open when you assess how bad it is today and what it’ll let you do. I know what it costs to plan your life around a pain level. I wasn’t in a position to help myself the way I can now help clients, and that’s something I think about.
My self-directed study in hypnotherapy and pain neuroscience spans multiple schools of thought, including the work of Eva Clark, Igor Ledochowski, Gil Boyne, Richard Bandler, Dr. Bruce Eimer, Stephen Parkhill, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, and others. I started reading in 2021 and haven’t stopped. When something is genuinely better than what I’m currently doing, I implement it.
I’m a Christian. I open sessions with prayer for clients who want it. The form that prayer takes is always the client’s choice.
I get strong results with CIPN (chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy), chronic back and neck pain, fibromyalgia, neuropathy from any cause, and pain that has a clear emotional or trauma component. These are the situations where the Source & Signal Protocol™ consistently produces meaningful change.
Results are less predictable with sports injuries, acute pain from recent injuries, and post-surgical pain that’s still in early stages of healing. These situations aren’t necessarily wrong fits, but the protocol was built for chronic pain that has been present long enough to become a learned nervous system pattern, not for pain that’s still in the protective acute phase.
I can’t diagnose your condition, prescribe medication, or change your prescriptions. I can’t work with people in active litigation over their injuries, or with people whose disability claim depends on their current pain status. I require a physician referral before we begin — your diagnosis, current prescriptions, and your doctor’s written acknowledgment that hypnotherapy is recommended as part of your care. I provide the form.
I don’t guarantee outcomes. Anyone who does isn’t being honest with you. What I can say is that every client with a pain level of 5 or higher who has completed a session has experienced measurable pain reduction. That’s not a promise. It’s an observed pattern.
I’m not a physician. That boundary is firm, and it works in one specific direction that matters to you.
It means you’re not a chart number in a schedule of forty patients. You’re not getting a 15-minute appointment driven by billing codes. You’re getting a session scheduled for three hours, where the only measure of when it ends is whether the work is done. I’ve reviewed your intake, your physician’s referral, and your history before the session begins. The session is built around your specific nervous system, not a general protocol.
It also means no empty promises. My Code of Ethics is published publicly. It covers scope of practice, physician referral requirements, financial ethics, confidentiality, and the conditions under which I’ll stop accepting payment. You can read it before you decide.
Your pain is manageable with current treatment and does not significantly disrupt daily life. The Source & Signal Protocol™ is built for pain levels of 5 or higher that are controlling what you can do, where you go, and how you live.
You have not yet exhausted the options your doctor has offered. If your physician still has treatments, procedures, or specialists for you to try, go try them. I built this practice for people who have done all that and are still suffering.
You want something passive, a treatment done to you that requires no engagement on your part. Sessions last between 90 minutes and 3 hours and they require you to follow suggestions, stay present, and participate actively. The subconscious mind does the work, but it needs your engagement to do it.
You are not willing to get a physician referral. This is not negotiable. I cannot work with your pain signals without knowing your diagnosis, your current medications, and that your doctor is aware of and supports this approach.
Sessions are conducted online through HIPAA-compliant telehealth software. You take them from home, which is a clinical advantage — your nervous system is more receptive in a familiar environment than it is in a clinical office. No waiting room. No commute. When the session ends, you stay where you are.
I schedule three hours for every session. Most sessions run between 90 minutes and two hours of active work. The three-hour block exists so there’s no clock driving the session toward an artificial stopping point. The work ends when it’s complete.
I approach every session as a complete intervention. I don’t sell packages or assume a number of sessions in advance. You start with one. You see what it produces. You decide whether to continue based on what happened, not on a predetermined commitment.
The session fee is $350. Payment is due at booking. No payment plans, no insurance.
Three days after each session, I follow up. That window is when the nervous system is integrating what happened. It’s when I assess what shifted, whether the anchor is working, and what the next step should be.
There are two ways to begin, depending on where you are right now.
If you want to find out whether you qualify for a full session, the five-minute chronic pain assessment is the right starting point. It asks specific questions about your pain level, your history, and what you have already tried. It tells you whether you fit the profile and what happens next.
If you are not ready to commit to a qualification conversation but want to experience what this approach does before deciding, the free 20-minute MP3 is the other option. It uses the same neural retraining foundation as full sessions and produces temporary pain reduction for most people who listen with genuine focus. It does not install anything permanent. It shows you whether your nervous system responds. That is information worth having.
You already know your pain level. You already know what you have tried. The only question left is whether there is a direction worth exploring that you have not taken yet.
The assessment takes five minutes. It costs nothing. If the answer is that this isn’t the right fit, you’ll hear that directly. I won’t pursue a working relationship that isn’t appropriate for the situation.