Online pain management through the Source & Signal Protocol™ is conducted entirely via HIPAA-compliant telehealth. Sessions run 90 to 180 minutes and you take them from wherever you are most comfortable. The therapeutic work happens inside your nervous system, not inside an office. This means your living room, your bedroom, your favorite chair, wherever you are least guarded, is exactly where this belongs.
Online pain management raises a reasonable question. Can something this personal actually work through a screen?
You’ve probably sat in enough clinical offices to know what a real appointment feels like. The drive there. The waiting room. The 15 minutes with someone who already has their hand on the door. The drive home, still in pain, wondering what the point was.
The skepticism about a remote session is understandable. It just happens to be aimed at the wrong variable.
The thing that makes this work is access to your own nervous system. I speak. You listen. Your subconscious processes. Your brain receives new instructions and, with repetition, runs them. None of that requires me to be in the same room. It requires you to be relaxed, focused, and somewhere you feel safe.
Most people are more relaxed in their own home than anywhere else. That’s a clinical advantage, not a compromise.
When you have a pain level of 7 or 8, getting dressed, driving somewhere, finding parking, and sitting in a waiting room is its own event. You arrive already activated. Your nervous system has just run an obstacle course to get there. Then you are asked to relax.
A session that starts in your living room skips all of that. You are already there. You are already in the environment your body associates with rest. You can wear what you want, sit how you want, and when the session ends, you do not have to go anywhere. You can stay in the chair. You can close your eyes. You can let the work settle without a commute undoing it.
For nervous system work specifically, this matters. Hypnotherapy accesses the subconscious, and the subconscious responds more readily when the body is not braced against an unfamiliar environment. Your home removes that layer of resistance before the first word is spoken.
Sheryl’s first Source & Signal Protocol™ session happened through a screen. At the end of it, she could move around freely, without pain, and without a cane. She could walk well, and she was smiling. At her second session, again online, I didn’t recognize her. I didn’t believe she was the same person I had seen in the previous session. And to date, she’s only had 2 sessions.
Before your session
Once your physician referral is confirmed and your intake paperwork is complete, your session is scheduled and blocked on my calendar for three hours. You will receive a link to the HIPAA-compliant telehealth platform before the session date.
There is no special preparation required. You do not need to clear your mind or arrive in a particular mental state. You need a device with a camera, a stable internet connection, and a place where you will not be interrupted for up to three hours. Headphones help but are not required.
During your session
Online pain management through the Source & Signal Protocol™ starts with a conversation. I ask specific questions about your pain, your history, and what you’ve already tried. I’m not running through a checklist. I’m listening for what your nervous system has been doing and why it’s kept doing it.
From there, the session moves into the hypnotherapy work itself. You remain fully aware throughout. You can speak, stop, or ask questions at any moment. Most clients describe it as a state of deep focus, closer to the absorption of reading something that has your complete attention than to sleep.
Sessions are scheduled for three hours and typically run between 90 minutes and two hours of active work. There’s no clock driving me toward a stopping point. The session ends when the work is done, not when the hour is up.
After your session
You receive a personalized anchor before the session closes. An anchor is a specific signal, a word, a gesture, a breath, that your subconscious has been conditioned to associate with the state you were just in. You use it between sessions. It’s a direct line back to the nervous system state you just trained.
Because you are already home, you can rest immediately. There is no drive back to undo what just happened.
The platform is HIPAA-compliant telehealth software. That means the session is encrypted, private, and meets federal healthcare privacy standards. It is not a standard video call. Your intake documentation runs through the same HIPAA-compliant systems.
To participate you need a device with a working camera and microphone. A laptop, tablet, or desktop computer works best. A phone will work if that is what you have. A stable internet connection and a private space are the practical requirements.
Sessions are available to clients anywhere in the United States.
No recordings are made. Tim’s Code of Ethics covers session recording policy, confidentiality, and what happens to your information. Read the Code of Ethics.
Standard telehealth pain management sessions, like their in-person counterparts, run 50 to 60 minutes. At most, 30 of those minutes involve actual therapeutic work.
Source & Signal Protocol™ sessions are scheduled for three hours and typically run 90 minutes to two hours of active work. That is three to four times the therapeutic time per appointment.
Professional guidelines that specify how many sessions are needed to see results are based on the 50-minute format. Those benchmarks do not translate. A single Source & Signal Protocol™ session contains more therapeutic work than three or four conventional sessions combined.
The goal in every session is to do complete work. Additional sessions are scheduled based on what the results say is needed, not on a predetermined number.
Online pain management through the Source & Signal Protocol™ is for people with chronic pain, specifically people whose pain level is consistently 5 or higher and who have worked with a doctor or pain specialist without satisfactory results.
Conditions that respond well include CIPN (chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy), fibromyalgia, chronic back pain, diabetic neuropathy, neuropathy from any cause, chronic migraines, arthritis including rheumatoid arthritis, post-surgical chronic pain, and Complex Regional Pain Syndrome.
This is not for people with recent injuries or pain that has not yet been evaluated by a physician. The protocol requires a current diagnosis and a physician referral before we begin.
The mechanism of hypnotherapy for pain is neurological, not interpersonal. A 2021 meta-analysis published in the International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis analyzed 42 clinical studies involving 3,632 participants and found that the average person receiving hypnosis experienced less pain than 73% of people in the control group. Read the research
Those outcomes were produced because of what happened inside the participants’ brains, not because of what room they were sitting in.
Stanford’s Dr. David Spiegel has spent over 40 years studying how hypnosis changes the brain’s processing of pain. His research using functional MRI found that during hypnosis, activity drops in the brain’s salience network, the part that flags pain as a threat and amplifies it. That process is internal. It does not require a practitioner to be in the room. See the Stanford research
The screen between you and Tim is not a barrier to that process. It is just a screen.
I’m a Board Certified Hypnotherapist, certified through the International Board of Hypnosis in January 2025 and clinically trained through the Omni Hypnosis Training Center. I’m not a physician, a neurologist, or a pain management doctor.
I can’t diagnose your condition, prescribe medication, or change your prescriptions. Those decisions belong to your physician. The referral requirement exists because this work is designed to complement your medical care, not stand in for it.
What I can do is spend up to two hours working specifically on your nervous system’s relationship with pain, with no appointment clock, no other patients waiting, and no measure of success other than whether the work produced results.
I can’t guarantee outcomes. Anyone promising guaranteed pain relief isn’t being honest with you. What I can promise is a full, focused session using techniques that have produced meaningful results for every client who has completed this protocol.
I don’t accept insurance.
If you can make a video call, you can do this. I’ll walk you through the platform before the session begins. The technology isn’t complicated and you won’t need to figure it out on your own.
It happens. I’ll reach out immediately and we reconnect. A brief interruption does not undo the work. Once you are back in the session, you pick up where you left off. If we’re unable to reconnect, you’ll either emerge from hypnosis on your own or you’ll take a wonderfully restful nap. When we can reconnect, we’ll reschedule the appointment for a later date.
No. Hypnosis is a state you enter. I guide you there with my voice. The quality of that guidance is the same through a speaker as it is in a room. Many clients report that being in their own home made it easier, not harder, to let go.
It is strongly recommended that you have the space to yourself for the session. Privacy and the ability to focus without interruption are the practical requirements. What you share in a session is protected under HIPAA. Whoever is in the room with you is not covered by that protection.
You won’t. Hypnosis is a conversation, not sleep. You will be aware, present, and able to respond throughout. You’ll be both listener and speaker in the session. Clients consistently report being surprised by how aware they were during something that felt so deeply relaxing. I’ve never had someone fall asleep in session.
Online pain management through the Source & Signal Protocol™ does not ask you to travel to a clinical office. It comes to you, through a screen, and works on the part of your pain that no office visit was ever going to reach.
The first step is finding out whether you qualify.