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About

Hypno Coach
Youssef

I work with people who have been carrying anxiety, trauma, emotional overload, or repeating patterns for too long. I use a clinical, direct, and human approach. My goal is not to mystify the process. My goal is to create a clear working space where you understand what is happening, what keeps repeating, and how deeper regulation can become possible.

How I Work

My Method

I combine several forms of clinical hypnosis, CBT, trauma-informed work, regulation-based tools, and my clinical background in speech-language practice and behavioral support. I do not use a one-size-fits-all technique. I adapt the work to your story, your nervous system, your inner language, and the concrete result you are looking for.

01

Demystify

Remove mystique from the process. You will understand exactly what is happening and why.

02

Explain

Map the pattern, its origin, and what keeps it running in your nervous system.

03

Transform

Access the subconscious source of emotional charge and create conditions for genuine release.

My Story

What the Waiting Room
Taught Me

I didn't stumble into hypnotherapy. I was trained for something else first.

2014

ENP Rabat — Speech-Language Pathology

Completed Speech-Language Pathology studies. Thesis focused on guiding parents through the moment their child receives a diagnosis.

2014

Trainer of Trainers (TOT)

Certification at the Canadian Center for Human Development. Developed structured frameworks for transmitting behavioral and clinical skills.

2018

HandiMaroc — Applied Behavioral Analysis

Worked with behavioral analysis in practice. Learned to treat symptoms — but kept hitting a wall: the emotional charge behind them.

2018–2020

CBT, EFT & Kinetic Shift

Completed CBT practice, remote delivery certification, Kinetic Shift, and EFT. Insight: the body stores what the mind cannot process.

2021

UK Hypnosis Academy

Practitioner certification. Developed the C.O.R.E. Method — a structured clinical process for accessing and releasing retained emotional charge.

2024

NGH & NBCCH Certifications

Certified by the National Guild of Hypnotists and the National Board for Certified Clinical Hypnotherapists. Founded Sdiddi Counseling Center.

The Method

C.O.R.E.
Clearing Overwhelming Retained Experiences

A structured clinical process developed by Youssef Sdiddi that treats emotional overload as a regulatory problem. Rather than suppressing or reframing experience, it accesses the subconscious source of emotional charge and creates conditions for genuine release. The method operates through a Nervous System Threshold Model with four levels of allostatic load — from Functional Tension through to System Breakdown — and intervenes precisely where the body is storing what the mind could not process.

C

Clearing

Actively releasing stored emotional charge — not suppressing or reframing it. The body discharges what it has been holding; the mind follows the body's release.

O

Overwhelming

Targeting experiences that exceeded the nervous system's capacity to integrate. These incomplete biological processes accumulate like sediment in the body.

R

Retained

Accessing what the conscious mind could not hold — stored in the subconscious and the body. The system builds compensations around these stores.

E

Experiences

Working with real events, real patterns, and real emotional residue — not abstractions. The data is what the system has actually lived.

Philosophy

The Somatic
Emptying Mechanism

Most therapeutic models assume the problem is in the mind — wrong thoughts, limiting beliefs, maladaptive patterns. This method inverts that: the mind is reacting to something already stored in the body. The body holds incomplete experiences (trauma, suppressed emotion, chronic stress responses) that never got to process through to completion.

The intervention isn't to "reframe" or "cognitively restructure." It's to create conditions where the body can discharge what it has been holding. The mind follows the body's release — not the other way around.

The Root-Cause
Architecture

Event Something overwhelming occurs
Incompletion The body doesn't finish its response (fight/flight/freeze)
Storage Incomplete response stored somatically Locate the stored charge
Compensation System builds workarounds (anxiety, addiction, insomnia) Don't treat the compensation
Trigger Present events reactivate stored charge Track to the source, not the trigger
Release Empty the storage; compensation becomes unnecessary
Core Principles

The Homeostasis Principle

The endpoint isn't "cured" or "fixed." It's natural function restored. You're not being given tools to manage a condition — the condition's fuel source is removed. Success looks like the client forgetting they had a problem because it's no longer generating signal.

The Non-Diagnostic Stance

Symptoms are information, not pathology. "Anxiety" is the signal that something unprocessed is active — it's the fire alarm, not the fire. This model rejects the medical model's authority structure and the symptom-management economy, offering a path to resolution rather than management.

Integration Intelligence

The method doesn't apply techniques. It reads the system and matches the intervention to what the system needs in that moment — clinical hypnosis, Kinetic Shift, CBT, EFT, or coaching structure. The common thread is the ability to sense what layer of the system is ready to move.

How This Differentiates

Approach Assumption Method Endpoint
Psychiatry Chemical imbalance Medication Symptom suppression
CBT (pure) Maladaptive thoughts Cognitive restructuring Better thinking
Traditional therapy Unconscious conflicts Insight, talk Understanding
Somatic experiencing Stored survival energy Titrated release Nervous system regulation
C.O.R.E. Method Accumulated somatic experiences Creative, integrated emptying Natural body function restored
Qualifications

International Credentials

NBCCH

National Board for Certified Clinical Hypnotherapists

Clinical hypnotherapy board certification

NGH

National Guild of Hypnotists

International hypnosis practitioner certification

UKHA

UK Hypnosis Academy

Practitioner Certification — foundational clinical hypnosis training

ENP

ENP Rabat

Speech-Language Pathology — 2014–2017 clinical training and thesis

TOT

TOT Canada

Trainer of Trainers — Canadian Center for Human Development

SCC

Sdiddi Counseling Center

Founded 2024 — clinical practice

Begin Your Journey

Ready to
make a
change?

Your transformation starts with one conversation. Sessions available in-person in Morocco and online worldwide.

Response within 2 hours

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