A client walked into a session with a very specific expectation. She’d read practically everything Dolores Cannon had written. She knew what a “wave of volunteers” was. She’d absorbed the language, the concepts, the cosmology. And she came to me hoping I’d help her confirm what she already believed: that she was one of these beings from another planet, here to help humanity through this pivotal time.
It’s a seductive narrative. And I could have given it to her.
In fact, I think if we’d gone into that session with a clear agenda-let’s find evidence that you’re a starseed-we probably would have found it. Because here’s something I’ve learned after years of this work: when you give the unconscious mind permission, and you’re in a relaxed state, and you’re looking for something, you’ll generally find it. Whether it’s real, imagined, or wishful thinking becomes almost impossible to untangle. The mind is remarkably cooperative that way.
But we didn’t do that. And I want to tell you why.
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
First, let me be clear about something: Dolores Cannon did extraordinary work. She pioneered a methodology that opened doors for hundreds of thousands of people. She brought rigour to regression work at a time when it was treated as fringe spirituality. Her contribution is real, and I have genuine respect for what she built.
The QHHT protocol-Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique-is structured, repeatable, and it works. It’s helped people. It’s helped me understand how to work with clients in altered states.
But here’s the thing about protocols: they’re designed to manage complexity. They give practitioners a map to follow. And that’s useful. Right up until the moment it becomes a cage.
The Assumption Problem
The QHHT framework makes an assumption that I’ve come to fundamentally disagree with. It assumes that one path works for everyone. That the best approach is to take a client into a past life, move them through that life, bring them to death or transition, and then-and only then-connect them with their higher self. Linear. Predictable. Safe.
It assumes that after one past life experience, the client is ready to jump directly to higher self connection.
That’s naïve.
Sometimes, yes-a single past life will give you everything you need. The pattern becomes clear. The connection happens. The integration is straightforward.
But other times? You need to go deeper. You might need to explore multiple past lives, watching how a particular pattern or wound repeats across different lifetimes. You might need to move through several experiences before the dots start connecting. The unconscious mind doesn’t always hand you the answer on the first pass. And insisting on a rigid sequence-one life, then the higher self, then we’re done-can actually interrupt the process rather than serve it.
What Happened With the Starseeds
Back to my client. The one who wanted confirmation she was a wave of volunteer.
When I sat down with her, I made a different choice. Instead of following the script-past life, please-I asked her unconscious mind to take her exactly where she needed to go. No agenda. No expectation. Just: Show me what needs to be understood.
And you know what happened? She didn’t go to a glamorous lifetime on another planet. She went to her childhood. She went to the places where she’d been told she was different, where she’d never quite fitted in, where she’d absorbed the message that she was somehow “other.” She went to genuine wounding.
That work-the hard, unglamorous, foundational work-that had to happen first. Before we could meaningfully explore anything more spiritual, anything more cosmic, we had to tend to the child who was still carrying the belief that she didn’t belong.
Could we have skipped that? Could we have gone straight to finding evidence of her starseed nature? Absolutely. And I suspect we would have found it-because that’s what she was primed to experience.
But it would have been spiritual bypass dressed up as spiritual experience. And that’s not what I do.
The protocol, followed rigidly, would have missed that entirely.
The Flexibility Principle
Here’s what I’ve learned about the client’s unconscious mind: it’s far smarter than any protocol.
In different sessions, different clients need different things. Some go directly to their higher self without a past life at all-they don’t need the intermediate step. Some go to a healing temple, or the Akashic Records. Some need to explore multiple past lives before a pattern becomes visible. Some go into lives within the womb, or soul contracts, or encounters with guides. Some need to revisit the same past life from a different emotional angle because the first pass didn’t land what they needed.
The moment you say, “This is the protocol. This is the map. This is what happens in a session,” you’ve just told the client’s unconscious mind: “Ignore what you actually need. Follow this structure instead.”
I don’t do that anymore.
Instead, I do this: I invite the client into a deeply relaxed state, I help them settle into their own internal landscape, and then I step back. I follow their lead. I watch where they go, and I ask the questions that serve that journey, not some predetermined sequence.
Sometimes that means going off the script entirely. Sometimes it means we’re not finished after one past life-we need another, or three more, before the real revelation arrives. Sometimes it means we spend an hour exploring something that isn’t in the QHHT manual at all, because that’s what this person needs right now.
The script would say: “This isn’t part of the protocol. Move on.”
Mastery says: “This is exactly what they need. Let’s go deeper.”
A Practical Benefit: The Online Surprise
Now, I want to touch on something practical that illustrates how abandoning rigid constraints can actually serve clients better.
Dolores Cannon was adamant about in-person work. She had a bed in her office. You came to her house, you lay down on her bed, you went into the experience. This was the way it was done. And that made sense in the 1980s and 90s. It was grounding. It was safe. It was what people expected.
But it’s also an enormous barrier for a lot of people.
I had a client in Liverpool-close enough that she was thrilled to work with someone local. But life kept interfering. Her car broke down. Bad weather. Transport delays. These aren’t small obstacles when you’re trying to drive across the city in November torrential rain just to lie on someone’s bed for a session.
So I suggested we work online instead.
She was hesitant. But she was also desperate. And when we did the session remotely, something surprising happened: it worked beautifully. And more than that-she was relieved. She didn’t have to faff about with travel. She could be in her own space, comfortable, without the logistical stress hanging over the experience. And the session itself? Just as deep. Just as transformative. Just as real.
The protocol would have said: “This must be in person.”
Reality said: “This works better online for this person, in this moment.”
The Renegade Position
This is where I land: I respect what Dolores Cannon built. I genuinely do. But I refuse to be limited by it.
I did the QHHT training. I studied the protocol. I understand why it’s structured the way it is. And then I made a conscious choice: I’m going to take the best of this, blend it with other modalities that work, and build something more responsive to the actual human being in front of me.
That’s not rebellion for rebellion’s sake. That’s evolution.
It’s the difference between following a map and understanding the terrain. Once you understand the terrain-once you’ve done thousands of hours of this work and you’ve learned to read what a client’s unconscious mind is asking for-the map becomes a suggestion rather than a mandate.
Some practitioners will read this and think I’m being irresponsible. That I’m losing the container, losing the safety, losing the structure.
I’d argue the opposite. The real safety is in trusting your client’s wisdom more than you trust a protocol. The real container is created by your presence and attunement, not by a script. And the real mastery shows up in flexibility, not rigidity.
What This Means For You
If you come to me looking for a “QHHT session,” you’re not going to get a cookie-cutter experience. You’re going to get something tailored to exactly what your unconscious mind needs right now. Maybe that’s a past life. Maybe it’s multiple past lives. Maybe it’s something else entirely. Maybe we work in person, or maybe we work online because that actually serves you better.
What you will get is someone who respects your internal wisdom enough to follow it, rather than impose a predetermined structure.
And honestly? That’s where the real transformation happens.
So if you’re considering regression work, ask yourself this: do you want a practitioner who follows a script, or one who follows you? Because those are fundamentally different experiences. And the second one tends to change lives.
If you’re ready to explore what that might look like, let’s talk.
