I am a proud father of six children. I like to play sports and am a pretty good artist (the painting behind me in this picture shows a painting I did on the back wall in my yard.) I have always liked helping people which led me to become a physical therapist. I graduated in 2010 with my Doctorate in Physical Therapy and have helped many people since then get out of pain. I am a good therapist and am always learning new and better techniques to get people better faster.
Over the years I noticed at work, home, and church there were many people suffering and struggling with life because of emotions or past trauma. I started studying about emotions, trauma, psychology, neuroplasticity, and self-improvement to see if I could find some ways to better help these people. I ended up finding a lot of information and summarized it on a website I created so that I could help more people.
During my research I came across Marisa Peer's work. The more I learned, the more impressed I became. Using her Rapid Transformation Technique she was able to help people in ways I didn't know were even possible. I took her training and here we are. As you can see, I founded Illuminate Hypnosis in 2026, but this has been developing for decades.
I look forward to helping you find the freedom and relief you have been searching for.
Sam Bair, PT, DPT, RTTP, Cert Hyp
RTT® is a powerful, award-winning therapeutic approach developed over her 30+ years of clinical experience by world-renowned therapist Marisa Peer. It combines some of the most effective evidence-based techniques and principles drawn and perfected from areas of traditional psychotherapy such as gestalt, solution-focused and cognitive behavioral therapy, neuro-linguistic programming, hypnotherapy and mindfulness.
The goal of RTT® is to help people overcome a variety of physical, mental, and emotional limitations and make positive changes in their life. This is accomplished most effectively in a state of hypnosis using a variety of tools that help to identify the root cause of a client’s mental, physical, or emotional issue. The therapist then uses these tools to help the client reframe any negative beliefs, values, habits and emotions – many of which they have carried with them since childhood. Often, these have been so deeply buried in their subconscious that they are unaware of the past issues affecting them.
Because RTT® works directly with the subconscious mind the effects are faster, farther reaching, and longer lasting than other approaches. This saves the client time, money, and suffering.
Other talk therapies mainly focus on the issue or challenge and try to find strategies to deal with them. There is a lot of useful information and these therapies have helped many people. RTT® on the other hand, helps the client discover the origin of the beliefs and behaviors that led to their issue instead of just helping people cope with and manage their issues or challenges. By investigating when and how the beliefs related to the issue were created, RTT® helps clients bring about change by uncovering what they don’t know rather than working with what they already know. The subconscious mind holds the key. RTT® helps clients unlock those secrets and empowers the client to make real, long-lasting change. Many of the tools use in RTT® are similar to those used in other therapies but are faster and more effective while in a relaxed and safe state of hypnosis. The difference could be compared to just pulling or cutting the top off of a weed and having it keep growing back versus pulling up the root and having it gone for good.
Traditional hypnotherapy relies mainly on positive reinforcement and suggesting new behaviors and beliefs. Hypnosis and their generic recordings have helped many people overcome many challenges. RTT® is different from standard hypnotherapy because it uses hypnosis to find the root cause of the client’s issue. Once clients understand how and when negative beliefs and behaviors were formed, they feel empowered to make real change. This awareness and knowledge means that change can happen more quickly than with standard hypnotherapy, as the client does not need convincing that change is possible – they know it. It’s the ultimate empowering experience. RTT® embraces many of the positive aspects of hypnosis and hypnotherapy that are known to produce transformative effects on clients.
RTT® goes beyond traditional hypnotherapy and focuses on identifying how, where and when unhelpful beliefs and behaviors were formed. It then utilizes the leading scientific principles of neuroplasticity to enable the creation of new neural pathways in the mind. Using a unique set of tools and techniques, RTT® supports the individual client in transforming their current issue and moving forward with a new set of more beneficial and positive beliefs.
The tools and techniques which form the RTT® method are not purely theoretical. They were developed by renowned therapist and bestselling author Marisa Peer over the course of her 30-year career. Through hands-on experience, Marisa was able to refine these good techniques into amazing ones based on what created real change, with real clients, in real sessions.
Your RTT® professional will start by meeting with you in a free discovery call. This allows them the opportunity to answer your questions and concerns. It also allows them to start gathering a little background information on you and on the problem that you want to work on. When you wish to proceed, you will schedule a time for the hypnosis session.
For your hypnosis session, your RTT® professional will start by reviewing the background information you have provided and will gather some more information to ensure as complete of resolution of your symptoms as possible. They will also have you identify how you want your life to be different after the session because the suggestions work best when they are in your own words.
Your RTT® professional will then help guide you into a relaxed state of hypnosis to enable you to find the root cause of your issue. This is a perfectly natural state we all go into multiple times a day. You will basically just be having a conversation with your therapist. The goal is to converse with your subconscious where the truth will be found. As the client, you will work alongside your RTT® professional to uncover the meaning and interpretation you created at the time and the beliefs you formed as a result. It is this understanding that is so powerful. All RTT® professionals are equipped with an array of techniques and tools that are crucial in communicating with the subconscious mind and accessing and addressing whatever blocks there may be. From there, the mind can be reprogrammed for success.
Once you have gained this understanding, your RTT® professional will help you reframe these beliefs and will help you to create new, positive beliefs. This will be reinforced with a personalized audio for you to listen to for 21-30 days to establish beneficial change going forward.
Breakthroughs are achieved by understanding the root cause rather than just addressing the symptoms of the presenting issue. This is why RTT® has such a significant impact; it addresses issues from the core for life-changing benefits.
Because RTT® is a complete, solution-based approach, it can be used in many different ways. RTT® offers a comprehensive range of transformational techniques, including ways to access the body’s innate ability to heal and restore itself to wellness from a cellular level. Science has proved that we can rewire our minds through neuroplasticity – this is why the mind has the most powerful potential on the planet.
For these reasons and many more, RTT® has achieved phenomenal success in helping people overcome all kinds of physical, mental, and emotional challenges. Issues including physical health issues, infertility, depression, anxiety, fears and phobias, and weight management. See our more complete list on our home page.
Rapid Transformational Therapy® Training programs are accredited by: General Hypnotherapy Register (GHR) International Association of Counsellors and Therapists (IACT) International Institute for Complementary Therapists (IICT) International Hypnosis Federation (IHF) Accredited Counsellors, Coaches, Psychotherapists and Hypnotherapists (ACCPH)