About me, my background, and the work we do together

I'm Derrick Ivey, a board certified clinical hypnotherapist and nervous system specialist supporting people through addiction recovery, trauma, illness, and major life transitions.

You did not land here by accident, something in you (the part that has survived the trauma, enmeshment, addiction, and the quiet internal collapse) recognized something familiar in me.

Maybe it is a frequency, a deeper knowing, a sense of safety. Yes, I very much get it, because I have been exactly where you are right now.

I grew up in a family system that I always thought was normal growing up, but it was very slowly draining my entire sense of safety. Survival mode became my identity.

I didn't even realize what was going on, I could sense on some level that my soul was screaming for something more, but I didn't know what I didn't know at the time.

By 16, I discovered alcohol and drugs, I used it as a coping mechanism. That was not weakness or failure, it was just that my nervous system had never felt safe.

Through my recovery taking me into new inner worlds, and my outer worlds shifting as a result, I began to feel more and more myself. One by one, I began to step away from every enmeshed, suffocating system that I had ever known: my biological family, my ex-stepfamilies, toxic work environments, and all of the patterns that had kept me small.

I became vibrationally allergic to contorting myself to fit into someone else's unhealthy box. That is why I never fit in corporate or conventional systems, my soul craved growth that was far too expansive for them.

How I became a practitioner:

I did not start this path academically, my path was very spiritual, bodily, and experiential at first. Hypnotherapy showed me my first real sense of calm and safety for the first time.

From there, I studied transpersonal and alchemical hypnotherapy, which led me to deep trance states where I began to understand energy. That took me into reiki, bioenergetic work, nervous system repair, and ancestral healing. I learned how to hold the deep, dark, complicated parts of people that many avoid.

This is far more than just what I do for work, this is who I am,. Helping people out of addiction, toxic systems, and lifelong self abandonment is my lineage, my soul contract, and my reason for being in this body on this planet at this time.

Why people work with me

You're here because something in your life or energy field is shifting, collapsing, or breaking wide open. You are tired of living in survival mode, chaos, over functioning, and people pleasing.

You've tried seeing therapists, healers, reading books, numbing out, coping mechanisms... but nothing has fully shifted the patterns.

You need someone who:

Holds your nervous system
Sees your blind spots
Works on the identity, body, energy, and psyche simultaneously
Calls you forward while holding you where you're at

That is why people choose to work with me, and my philosophy is very simple.

Healing is more than just a one off one time event or experience. It is a relationship, nervous system experience, a coming home to self.

My clients actually get to go deep into an ongoing connection where I become a stable, loving, unshakable fixture and force of good in their life, and I am someone that they can turn to when it feels like everything in life is falling apart or when it feels like everything is going right.

This work is about:

Having someone in your pocket who actually understands your nervous system.
Rewiring patterns that were created from toxic family systems and old ways of being.
Softening survival instincts that kept you alive at one point, but are keeping you stuck now.
Creating emotional, physical, and spiritual safety.
Becoming the version of you that your old world would never have allowed.
Building a life that you don't have to escape from.
Finally being supported instead of drained and messed with.
Never having to do it alone again.

This is exactly why I created my support retainers. Some people begin with just a single session. Others know that they need consistent support. We decide together.

How I work (and why this feels different)

Trauma informed
Nervous system led
Subconscious and somatic
Energetic, but grounded
Long term healing over one off fixes

What we work on together

We heal your whole ecosystem:

Trauma patterns
Childhood wiring
Nervous system
Psyche
Identity
Energy field
Physical health
Relationships
Purpose
Spiritual connection
Actual lived life

That is why my work is priceless. It feels like coming home to yourself and pinching yourself because you find yourself one day just living the life that you always had hoped was possible for you, and you always knew deep down that you could create. I fully believe in you, and I am here to help you do just that.

My credentials, certifications, and areas of study:

Certified Hypnotist
Certified Transpersonal Hypnotherapist
Certified Alchemical Hypnotherapist
Registered Psychotherapist State of Colorado (LIC#NLC.0110583)
Quantum Regression/Integration Therapist I
Quantum Regression/Integration Therapist II
Board Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist
Reiki Shoden Practitioner
Reiki Okuden Practitioner
Reiki Shinpiden Practitioner
Reiki Teacher
Recovering from Sexual Abuse With Hypnotherapy Certified
Neuro Linguistic Programming Practitioner
Neuro Linguistic Programming Teacher
Energy Healing Instructor
Hypnotherapy Instructor
Certified Medical Support Hypnotherapist
Intuitive/Clairvoyant Reader/Healer
Intuitive Skills for Life
Intuitive Skills for Relationships
Intuitive Skills for Creating What You Want
Addiction Counseling Skills
Certified Trauma Informed and Working with Survivors of Abuse
Psychology Studies
Life Coach
Business Consultant
Bioenergetic Trauma Release
Nervous System Restoration and Regulation
Somatic Trauma Release Method
Addiction/Recovery Peer Support Studies
Decades of lived experience overcoming addiction, trauma, and enmeshed systems

If you are here, you are ready. I am here to walk this with you.

You are not:

too complicated

too broken

"too much"

behind

or lost.

What is happening is you are now at the point, where, you are transitioning fully out of systems and patterns that taught you to shrink and you are stepping into a life that your old world was never capable of holding anyway.

I am absolutely not here to fix you in any way, shape, or form, because you were never broken. I am simply here to deeply support you as you become the you who you always have been deep down underneath all of the bs.

This is DEEP, LIFE CHANGING work. You do not have to do this alone anymore. If any of this resonates, you can start with a single session or step into a retainer (recommended) to get deep, ongoing support.

My work is a synthesis of formal training, lived experience, and thousands of hours supporting people healing from toxic systems, addictions, and deep emotional trauma.

When you work with me, you have access to any and all modalities, skills, gifts, and areas of studies that I work with.

I PERSONALLY use all of the techniques and modalities that I use with clients, and I am constantly involved with continuing education and personal practice to be the best that I can be for you.

A little bit about me...

Outside of sessions, I live a quiet, contemplative lifestyle. I walk several miles per day to stay deeply connected to my body, the world, and something bigger than myself. I spend a lot of time in my personal meditation practice, I absolutely love the adventure of life and what I get to do in life and business.

I love reading, coffee, hiking trails in Fort Collins where I live, making artwork in the form of realism drawings, spending time with my partner, our chosen family, and our cat Kameko who is the real guardian of this healing space.

I strive to just stay curious about whatever spirit or intuition guides me to in life.

I live this work fully and bring a grounded, human presence into every single session. When you work with me, you are so deeply supported: seen, heard, celebrated, held, and guided into becoming the person you always knew that you were meant to be.

If you are feeling the pull, the safest way to begin is with a private intensive session. From there, we will know what level of support makes sense.

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