Hypnotherapy, Family Constellations & Rapid Core Healing for PMDD: A Holistic View
Living with PMDD means navigating a cycle of emotional, physical, and energetic disruption. Many strategies help—nutritional support, lifestyle changes, psychological tools—but for many women, the deeper shifts occur when we work underneath the surface, in the unconscious, in the ancestral field, in the neural wiring that carries stress.
Hypnotherapy is one respected tool in that deeper terrain. But in my work with women with PMDD, I increasingly favour—or at least integrate—Family Constellations and Rapid Core Healing as superior or complementary modalities to conventional hypnotherapy. I want to show you why, how they differ, and how they can be woven together.
What Hypnotherapy Can Do (and Its Limitations) in PMDD
What it is (in brief). Hypnotherapy is the clinical use of hypnosis—an altered state of consciousness in which the subconscious mind becomes more accessible to suggestion, imagery, and inner work.
Evidence in PMDD / PMS.
A recent randomized clinical trial found that cognitive-suggestion hypnotherapy reduced pain intensity and psychological distress in women with PMDD.
Other reviews indicate hypnotherapy can reduce menstrual pain and affective distress.
Some hypnotherapists specialising in women’s health already include PMDD/PMS in their service offerings.
So, yes: hypnotherapy can help — especially with symptom relief, stress reduction, reframing negative thought loops, calming the nervous system, and shifting maladaptive inner narratives.
Its limitations (particularly in PMDD).
While useful, hypnotherapy often remains within the personal subconscious — it works with your own beliefs, memories, internal triggers, reprogramming internal scripts. But it doesn’t necessarily reach into:
Systemic or generational dynamics — unconscious patterns inherited from family lines
Unseen relational loyalties or field entanglements — for example, carrying emotional burdens, trauma, exclusions, betrayals from ancestors or family system
Integration of new neural pathways across relational systems — you may rewire internally, but remain “stuck” when entering relational terrain
Speed of deeper change — hypnotherapy can require many sessions, and many people still revisit similar themes
A metaphor: hypnotherapy is like re-plumbing your house’s internal wiring. But what if the foundation is shifting, or there’s a hidden crack in the earth underneath? That’s where systemic work comes in.
Why I View Family Constellations & Rapid Core Healing as Superior (or at Least More Integrative)
“Many clients find that working with both Family Constellations and Rapid Core Healing offers deeper and more sustainable results than either modality alone.”
I don’t say “superior” lightly, because each tool has its place. But in my clinical lens with PMDD, I see that FC + RCH often reach places conventional hypnotherapy cannot. Here’s how:
Family Constellations: Healing What Lies Beyond the Personal
What it is (at core). Family Constellations is a systemic-field modality (developed by Bert Hellinger) in which hidden loyalties, exclusions, unresolved ancestries, and relational entanglements are revealed experientially via representatives or symbolic mapping.
Its power lies in:
Surfacing invisible family field dynamics that still influence your psyche and biology
Allowing relational resolution (through orders of love, acknowledgment, inclusion, release)
Releasing loyalties to unseen trauma or exclusion
Restoring “right order” in the system, freeing you to occupy your place without carrying ancestral burdens
Because PMDD often feels like a rebellion inside your body (emotional storms, volatile mood swings), much of its energy is relational — internal conflict about belonging, suppression, carrying unspoken pain. Family Constellations can show you where some of that energy comes from, and help release it.
But FC by itself doesn’t always integrate deeply inside the nervous system. That’s why we need a bridge.
Rapid Core Healing: Bridging Inner & Systemic
Rapid Core Healing (RCH), developed by Yildiz Sethi, is explicitly structured to merge Emotional Mind Integration (EMI) (to heal personal trauma) with Family Constellations (to address systemic or generational roots).
In essence:
EMI: a neuro-trance psychotherapy modality working with disturbed emotional mind states, resolving personal trauma, blockages, and repressed emotional energy
FC (Systemic work): addresses relational, ancestral, generational patterns
Together in RCH, the work is two-pronged: you heal both your personal life narrative and the ancestral/field structures that tether you.
Why that is “superior” (in my view) for PMDD:
Deeper root work. RCH doesn’t just re-program your thoughts or calm your nervous system; it meets the source — personal and systemic — of emotional triggers, inner conflict, ancestral code.
Fewer sessions, faster shifts. RCH is designed to be rapid and efficient, addressing core states in fewer sessions rather than months or years of incremental progress.
Embodied integration. The shift is not only in your head, but in your felt system, your body, your relational field.
Sustainability. Because you’re freeing field burdens and rewiring your inner emotional structure, the change tends to hold more strongly.
Holistic alignment: PMDD is not just about hormones or neurotransmitters. It has psychoemotional, ancestral, relational dimensions. RCH meets that complexity more fully.
How These Modalities Can Be Combined in a PMDD Healing Pathway
Here’s how I might structure a healing pathway for a woman with PMDD, weaving all three modalities (hypnotherapy, FC, RCH) in a logical sequence:
Hypnotherapy (as foundation / support). Use gentle clinical hypnosis to begin calming the limbic system, reduce acute symptom distress, shift limiting beliefs, plant supportive imagery.
Family Constellations session(s). Hold a constellation to reveal and release system-level entanglements: unspoken family grief, exclusions, ancestral toxic burdens, loyalties, secrets.
Rapid Core Healing session(s). Use RCH to integrate the shift—resolve disturbed emotional mind states, lock in new neural pathways, rest deeper into the new field structure.
Maintenance / reinforcement. You may revisit hypnotherapy (for seasonal fluctuation or new stressors) or shorter constellations or EMI support sessions as needed.
In this way, each modality plays its strength:
Hypnotherapy helps calm you and prepare your internal terrain
Constellations show where hidden energy lives
RCH binds, integrates, re-wires
Over time, PMDD becomes less of a revolt and more a messenger: with fewer flares, less suffering, more freedom.
A Few Caveats & Ethical Notes
Hypnotherapy, FC, RCH are not substitutes for medical supervision. Especially in PMDD, hormonal imbalances or psychiatric comorbidities may need medical management.
Practitioner qualifications matter. Use only skilled, certified therapists in hypnotherapy, constellations, or Rapid Core Healing.
Contraindications. As with hypnotherapy or deep trauma work: psychotic disorders, unstable severe psychiatric illness, or certain vulnerabilities may contraindicate some approaches.
Client consent and pacing. Some people move more gently; others are ready for deep breakthroughs. Tailor to the woman’s pace.
Conclusion
Hypnotherapy has a rightful place in the therapeutic toolkit for women with PMDD. It can reduce distress, shift subconscious beliefs, and calm the nervous system. But its reach is limited: it works in the personal domain, often requiring numerous sessions and often not touching the rooted family dynamics we carry invisibly.
By contrast, Family Constellations and Rapid Core Healing reach deeper—they touch systemic roots, ancestral burdens, and core emotional mind states. They offer a more integrative, efficient, embodied transformation. In my clinical view, for women with PMDD who are ready to go beneath symptom management, the combination of Family Constellation + Rapid Core Healing is a more powerful pathway.
About the Author
Camilla Brinkworth is the founder of Camilla Clare Holistic Health and a leading PMDD naturopath, nutritionist, and trauma-informed emotional healing practitioner. Drawing on her expertise in Family Constellations, Rapid Core Healing, and evidence-based naturopathic medicine, Camilla helps women navigate PMDD through an integrative, compassionate approach that supports both hormonal balance and emotional wellbeing.
Having personally experienced PMDD, Camilla understands how isolating and overwhelming the condition can feel. Her work combines scientific insight with trauma-informed care to address the root causes of PMDD — from inflammation and hormonal sensitivity to unresolved emotional patterns.
Through one-to-one consultations, online programmes, and retreats, Camilla guides women toward nervous system repair, stable mood, and a renewed sense of calm and self-connection throughout the menstrual cycle.