Christine Goodwin sees her mission as helping people find the answers that lie inside their own minds.
“I just want to do something meaningful,” Goodwin said of the business she launched roughly a year ago with help from the Self-Employment Program in IWD’s Vocational Rehabilitation Services division. “I want to do something that will impact someone in a meaningful way.”
Quantum Hypnosis Soul Healing, which recently opened a new office in Urbandale, is part of Goodwin’s mission to spread the benefits of the Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique® (QHHT) created by Dolores Cannon. Founded by Arkansas-based Cannon in the late 1970s and early 1980s, QHHT uses deep hypnotic states to help clients access their subconscious minds to explore particular emotional or behavioral patterns, navigate relationships, deal with stress and anxiety, and answer life questions such as purpose and direction. Part of the process also involves exploring past lives.
According to Fortune Business Insights, QHHT represents one portion of a growing hypnotherapy industry that’s expected to top $28 billion in 2026. The official QHHT website includes a database of more than 10,000 officially certified practitioners across the world. Only 66 of those have reached the most advanced “Level 3” status – including a Des Moines woman whose website warns that her appointment schedule is currently booked through 2028.
Sessions with Goodwin, who is Level 2, cost $350 and can last for five or six hours or more. What starts as broad and detailed conversation about the client’s life eventually leads to induction of a hypnotic state. Once the client has reached a deep trance, Goodwin says, she begins to take them through past lives. Then, she converses with the subconscious to probe for answers to client-provided questions that usually focus on health, relationships, or broader issues such as their purpose in life.
“Clients are very aware during a session, but not awake,” Goodwin said. “This is why they are able to talk to me and answer questions.”
After the session is complete, she emails them a recording (minus the part that induces the trance).
“People want to get to know an aspect of themselves that’s actually been there the whole time, but we’ve become accustomed to ignoring it,” Goodwin said. “I kind of liken it to a mediative state because the answers are there, and they flow out very easily… Everything is organic. It comes from within.”
Goodwin already had obtained Level 1 QHHT certification when she first sought assistance from the self-employment counselors at Vocational Rehabilitation. The program helped her obtain Level 2 training, find her first office and get connected with technical assistance, such as finding a bookkeeper and establishing a professional website.
Self-employment counselor Yvette Clausen said the program is designed to help people impacted by physical or mental/emotional disabilities become productive parts of the workforce without requiring that they conform to a traditional 9-to-5 job.
“They come to us with a goal of being an entrepreneur, but they also come to us with a history of maybe they tried to be a business owner without being successful,” Clausen said. “I think what we do as rehabilitation counselors, we’re really looking at people as a whole person and all of the aspects of what could impact your ability to succeed.”
Goodwin describes her business as currently “in my growth phase.” The two sessions per week she averages is not enough to meet her goal of leaving her Social Security disability benefits behind. But she’s becoming increasingly visible through her role at various holistic wellness events in the Des Moines area, and it feels like awareness is growing. Goodwin wrote a book last year, and she’s getting good Google reviews.
“I do see there is a demand for this, because people are wanting answers,” she said. “The people at Voc Rehab have been absolutely amazing. I feel very fortunate.”
For more information on assistance for entrepreneurs with disabilities, visit the web page for IWD’s Self-Employment Program.
For more information on Quantum Hypnosis Soul Healing, visit www.christinegoodwinqhht.com.