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I Know What It Feels Like to Have Everything and Still Feel Stuck

At 17, I was accepted into the top dental school in my country — one of just 300 students chosen out of a nation of nearly 20 million. I should have felt unstoppable. Instead, the first week nearly broke me. I opened my anatomy textbook, and none of it made sense. I went home and cried, certain I couldn’t do it — even though I had already proven I belonged there.

My mother — then 25 years into her career as a clinical psychologist and hypnotherapist — sat me down. Whatever shifted in me that day didn’t make me smarter. It turned me into a learning machine — I went from panic to one of the youngest graduates in my class.

Years later, I watched it happen again, this time to a colleague. She knew the material cold — she’d studied it for years — but she failed the U.S. National Dental Board exam again and again. Not from lack of knowledge. From an internal block that no amount of preparation could fix. One session with my mother, and she finally passed — after ten years of trying.

That’s when it became undeniable to me: talent and effort aren’t always the problem. The block is internal, and it’s fixable.

Today, my mother has 60 years of practice behind her, and I’ve spent the last 6+ years continuing that legacy — 300+ clients, working with high achievers who have already proven they have what it takes, but feel something holding them back from the success, expression, or connection they know they deserve.

At seventeen, one hypnosis session with my mother changed how I learned and shaped where my work led.

DR. LILIA TOME | CERTIFIED HYPNOTHERAPIST

Helping Ability Show Up

I want capable professionals to feel that pressure does not have to define their performance. My own experience taught me that knowing the material and accessing it under stress can feel very different. Through hypnosis and hypnotherapy, I help clients explore the patterns interfering with focus and confidence, so they can approach important exams, career milestones, and personal goals with a clearer, more useful mental response each time.

Addressing Blocks At Source

I focus on identifying the subconscious beliefs and learned responses that may sit beneath a repeated mental block. I trained directly under Marisa Peer in Rapid Transformational Therapy, building on lessons from my mother, a clinical psychologist with sixty years in hypnosis. That background shapes how I work today: direct, focused sessions that help you understand the pattern, update the response, and support stronger performance under real pressure.

Building Stronger Performance Patterns

My goal is to help you move from knowing what you should do to feeling more able to do it under pressure. I work with professionals who may be prepared but still feel blocked by fear, doubt, or poor focus. By addressing those patterns directly, I help you build responses that better support learning, recall, confidence, and performance across the situations that matter most to you each day.

MY APPROACH

Focused Work With Clear Purpose

My approach connects personal experience, professional training, and root-focused hypnotherapy so each session stays centered on your goals.