For counselors
Working hypnosystemically: practice, look things up, review your own session
A practice and working environment for Stefan Hammel's methods. For everyone who counsels hypnosystemically — and for everyone still learning how.
- Free to use
- An email address is enough, no password
- Processed in Frankfurt
Increase happiness, diminish suffering, build the strength for what remains to be carried.
What it is good for
The time between appointments
Practicing usually takes another person, looking something up takes the right book, and your own session only gets discussed four weeks from now. Here, all three are there right away.
Practice whenever you have time
Practice clients who are ready at any hour. You lead the conversation; alongside it, a panel shows what is working and what you have missed.
Look things up without leafing through
Questions about terms, techniques, and boundaries — answered from the work, with the source under every answer.
Talk through your own session
Upload a real recording. It gets anonymized, and out of it come a summary for the file and a supervision of your work.
This replaces no training, no supervision, and no treatment. It fills the time in between.
What's possible here
Four ways in — they differ in who counsels whom
If you're carrying something around
Hypnosystemic Counselor
You talk — the counselor counsels you
A conversation about your own concern, the way a session would run. Experiencing a session from the client's side teaches more than any description could.
Start conversationIf you want to learn something about the method
Hypnosystemic Expert
You ask — the expert explains
Not a conversation about you, but about the method itself: terms, techniques, stances, boundaries. Under every answer are the passages in the work it draws on.
Ask a questionIf you want to take the lead yourself
Hypnosystemic Trainer
You counsel — the system plays the client
The roles are swapped: you choose a practice client and lead the conversation. Alongside it, you can open a panel that shows what is working.
Choose a clientIf you bring a session of your own
Hypnosystemic Supervisor
You did the counseling — here the session gets discussed
Upload a recording or a transcript. It gets anonymized; then two documents are there: a summary for the file and a supervision of your work.
Bring a sessionScope and cost
Free of charge — with a limit that can be raised
All you need to use it is an email address. No password, no payment details, no further information.
What a free account holds
- Topics per week
- 1
- A topic is a conversation you start.
- Contributions per topic
- 30
- How many contributions of your own fit into one conversation. After that, start a new one for any further matter.
- Supervisions per month
- 1
- A real session, uploaded and discussed.
More to start with: for the first 30 days after signing up, it is 4 topics per week.
If you need more
For a training course, for your own practice, for a group: just ask. The request goes to a person who answers — nothing is unlocked automatically and nothing is charged. Seminars and training groups also hand out vouchers that raise the limit for a while.
Request more usageWhat holds all of this up: you allow Stefan Hammel to write to you occasionally — at most a few times a year, when there's a seminar date, a book, or a training course. That's the exchange for using this at no cost. Say the word, and it stops; your access stays unaffected.
Your data
What happens to your conversations is up to you
Processed in Frankfurt
The application and database run in Frankfurt am Main, and the language model through the EU endpoint in European data centers. Your messages are not stored there and are not used for training.
No reading along, no tracking
No advertising networks, no analytics services, no tracking pixels — not even in the emails. Two technically necessary cookies, nothing more. That's why there's no cookie consent banner here either.
Easy to resume
A conversation doesn't end when you close the window. You can come back later, reread it, keep working on it — for as long as you want, and no longer.
You choose the retention period
When your conversations get deleted
Four levels, changeable anytime. Shortening the period also removes older conversations — a nightly run enforces it. There is no “forever” level.
- Only for this conversationAfter that, it's gone.
- Seven daysTime for one more look.
- Thirty daysThe default.
- One yearFor the longer learning journey.
Who's behind this
Stefan Hammel
Dr. phil. Stefan Hammel, born in 1967 in Ludwigshafen, is a systemic therapist, hypnotherapist, and author. He studied Protestant theology in Heidelberg, Leipzig, Tübingen, and Aberdeen, spent eight years as a parish minister, and has since worked part-time as a hospital and psychiatric chaplain.
He completed his therapeutic training at the International Society for Systemic Therapy and at the Helm Stierlin Institute in Heidelberg, as well as at the Milton Erickson Institute Rottweil, with a focus on hypnotherapy for children and adolescents. He directs the Institute for Hypnosystemic Counseling in Kaiserslautern.
This combination of pastoral care and clinical-systemic work shapes his method: he understands counseling as “a conversation at eye level,” with as little power difference as possible.
- Over 20
- Books since 2006, plus translations into English and Romanian
- 24
- Training days across twelve weekends
- Since 2016
- International Festival of Therapeutic Storytelling
The foundation
Where the answers come from
The body of methods behind this application comes from his professional books, from the handouts, worksheets, and practice sheets of his trainings, from case examples, and from verbatim transcripts of real counseling sessions.
- Hypnosystemische TherapieKlett-Cotta · 2022
- Lebensmöglichkeiten entdeckenKlett-Cotta · 2019
- Therapie zwischen den ZeilenKlett-Cotta · 2014
- Handbuch der therapeutischen UtilisationKlett-Cotta · 2011
- Handbuch des therapeutischen ErzählensKlett-Cotta · 2009
- Grüßen Sie Ihre Seele!Klett-Cotta · 2018
- Ängste entzaubernKlett-Cotta · 2020
- Der Grashalm in der WüsteImpress · 2006
Added to that, his dissertation “Wer Ohren hat, der höre! Hypnosystemische Seelsorge und Tinnitus” [“Those who have ears, let them hear! Hypnosystemic pastoral care and tinnitus”] (University of Paderborn), and the animal-story book series with Katharina Lamprecht, Adrian Hürzeler, and Martin Niedermann, published by Ernst Reinhardt.
The structure
Three pillars, taught in this order
Hammel's training runs through three blocks over twelve weekends. They build on each other: first trance, then story, then space.
- Oktober bis Januar
Therapeutische Hypnose
Tranceinduktion nach Erickson, Anamnese und Utilisation, Körpersprache und Mehrebenen-Kommunikation, Probleme trennen.
- Februar bis Mai
Therapeutisches Erzählen
Geschichten spontan entwickeln, Erzählstrukturen, Landkarten und Landschaften, therapeutische Grüße, Deals und Ordeals.
- Juni bis September
Therapeutisches Modellieren
Arbeit mit Symbolfiguren, Fragmentieren und Transformieren, transgenerationale Perspektive, Paare, Familien, Teams.
You can start right away
Enter your address, tap the link in the email, get going. That is all it takes.
What this application is not
You are not speaking with Stefan Hammel here, but with a language model that works from his texts. It can be wrong, and it can miss his stance. Check what you take from it, and when in doubt, go to the source — it appears under every answer.
In the counseling conversation, it's about your own concern — that's intentional, because experiencing a session from the client's side teaches more than any description could. It is still not a treatment, not a therapy, and not a diagnosis, and no person is answering. If you're not doing well, turn to a person: your doctor, a psychotherapist, the on-call medical service, or the nearest emergency room — and in an acute crisis, call 112, available around the clock and free of charge.