Meet Ami
Amethysta Herrick, Ph.D.
Identity Guide & Certified Professional Hypnotist
When we face chronic trauma, our only course of action is to reclaim our agency.
I’m Amethysta Herrick, Ph.D. - scientist, storyteller, and professional overthinker of all things identity. Also, I happen to be a transgender woman.
Throughout my life, I've been driven by an insatiable desire to understand why the universe works the way it does. My academic journey led me through molecular biology to a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry. For years, I applied this scientific mindset as a software engineer and executive, believing my analytical skills were my primary contribution to the world.
Then, in 2022, everything changed.
My sense of belonging shifted in the most profound way when I transitioned gender to align the person I always knew I was on the inside with my external presentation. This wasn't just a physical transformation—for the first time in my life, I truly felt emotions with a depth and richness I never knew was possible.
Today, I work primarily with the Queer community, because hypnosis offers particular benefit for the type of trauma we face. Instead of major incidents of trauma sprinkled through childhood, the Queer community faces trauma on a daily basis.
We know every human experiences trauma simply by growing up in the world. And whether we realize it or not, whether we believe what happened to us was traumatic or not, each of us carries around deep-seated patterns developed in childhood.
We did not choose the values represented by these patterns - they were imposed upon us as children. But more importantly, we cannot choose against these patterns easily. Once they are set in our developing consciousness, they become the bedrock of adult behavior.
With hypnosis, I can help you mitigate your behavior directly, without reliving or even remembering the trauma. As a result, you'll gain tools to take back your agency from a world that wants to strip you of it.