How RTT® and Personal Transformation Help You Overcome Trauma – An Interview with Coach Elizabeth Day
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A Therapist and Coach, Elizabeth Day works at the intersection of neuroscience, psychotherapy, and lived experience to help people create profound, lasting change. Using Rapid Transformational Therapy, she blends psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, neuro-linguistic programming, and cognitive behavioural therapy to help clients release limiting self-beliefs, break lifelong patterns of negative behaviour, overcome addictions, and resolve emotional roots of physical conditions such as autoimmune conditions and rehabilitation.
What sets her work apart is not only its depth, but its authenticity. After escaping a 30-year relationship marked by physical, emotional, and financial abuse, Elizabeth understands trauma from the inside out. This lived experience allows her to connect deeply with those seeking the strength to leave controlling relationships, as well as those navigating the complex aftermath – healing PTSD, rebuilding confidence, and reinventing their lives.
Alongside her private practice, she works extensively with corporate clients, drawing on over two decades of experience in the corporate world. She has seen firsthand how unresolved trauma, stress, and belief systems impact performance, leadership, and workplace culture. Through her work with companies, including with the award-winning collective Spark and Claudia Schwinghammer, she helps organisations build cohesive teams, retain engaged employees, and create emotionally healthy environments that drive productivity, performance, and profit.
Her work is about transformation – personal and professional – and empowering people to thrive, not just survive.
Elizabeth Day, RTT® Therapist & Coach
What inspired you to become a therapist and life transformation expert?
My inspiration to become a therapist and life transformation expert came directly from my own healing journey. Experiencing first-hand the power of this work showed me what is truly possible when trauma is addressed at its root. I saw how this kind of therapy could turn lives around – breaking the grip of lifelong trauma, dissolving limiting beliefs, and freeing people from repeating negative patterns in relationships and choices that once felt inescapable.
As I healed, I realised that what had once felt unchangeable could be transformed. I witnessed people – myself included – go on to achieve things they had believed were unattainable, reinventing their lives and stepping into joy, confidence, success, and a life that is limitless.
Training with Marisa Peer was a pivotal moment in that journey. She was my greatest inspiration and played a profound role in helping me rebuild myself after escaping an abusive relationship. Her work didn’t just change my thinking – it gave me the tools to reclaim my identity, my future, and my belief in what was possible.
I have always been deeply empathetic and driven by a genuine desire to help others. Becoming a therapist allowed me to turn a painful chapter of my life into something powerful and positive – to pass on what helped me heal and to support others in rewriting their own stories, not as survivors, but as thriving, empowered individuals.
What is Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT®) and how does it work?
Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT®) is a powerful, results-driven therapeutic approach that works by addressing the root cause of an issue rather than just managing the symptoms. It combines the most effective elements of psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to create rapid, deep, and lasting change.
RTT® works with the subconscious mind, where our beliefs, emotional responses, and behavioural patterns are formed – often in childhood or during significant life events. Through guided hypnosis, clients enter a deeply relaxed but aware state that allows them to safely access the origins of limiting beliefs, trauma, or patterns that are still influencing their lives today. Once these root causes are identified, the emotional charge around them can be reframed, released, and replaced with a new mindset.
What kinds of challenges or life patterns do you most often help clients overcome?
The challenges I most often help clients overcome are anxiety and depression, particularly when they are rooted in unresolved trauma or deeply held limiting beliefs. Many clients come to me feeling stuck in cycles of self-sabotage and procrastination – wanting to achieve their goals but repeatedly holding themselves back without understanding why.
I also work extensively with people who find themselves repeating negative patterns in relationships, whether that’s attracting controlling or emotionally unavailable partners, struggling with boundaries with family or friends, or reliving dynamics from earlier life experiences. Addictions, eating disorders, and issues around weight are also common, as these behaviours are often coping mechanisms linked to emotional pain rather than a lack of willpower.
PTSD is a significant focus of my work, alongside chronic physical conditions where the body has been holding unresolved emotional stress. I also support clients through pre- and post-operative rehabilitation, helping the mind and nervous system create the conditions for healing. In many cases, this work reduces symptoms to such an extent that planned medical interventions or surgeries are no longer necessary, or recovery times are dramatically improved.
Ultimately, the common thread across all of these challenges is the subconscious mind. By addressing the underlying emotional drivers rather than just the surface symptoms, clients are able to break free from long-standing patterns and move forward with greater health, confidence, and control over their lives.
How is RTT® different from traditional therapy or coaching?
RTT® differs from traditional therapy and coaching by working directly with the subconscious mind, where limiting beliefs and emotional patterns are formed. Rather than focusing on managing symptoms or analysing experiences over long periods of time, RTT® is designed to identify and eradicate the root cause of an issue. Then it replaces those limiting or damaging thoughts with new beliefs. It combines psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, NLP, and CBT to release the thoughts and beliefs we have related to past experiences and replace these negative thoughts and beliefs with empowering ones. This allows change to happen quickly and sustainably.
While coaching focuses on future goals, RTT® removes the subconscious blocks that can prevent progress, making change feel natural rather than forced. Many clients experience significant shifts or permanent resolution in just a few sessions, gaining clarity, confidence, and lasting transformation.
How does RTT® work, and what does this look like in terms of working with your clients?
RTT® works by understanding how the brain is designed to protect us. Our brains are essentially prehistoric – they haven’t had an operating system upgrade, even though the world we live in and the dangers we face are very different. The subconscious mind’s primary role is survival, and it does this by protecting us, prioritising us, and sometimes even punishing us.
Historically, survival depended on belonging to the tribe. Being accepted, loved, and connected was essential, while rejection could mean death. As a result, the brain seeks the familiar, even when it’s unsafe – such as repeating negative relationship patterns. In some cases, it may even create physical conditions to force someone to slow down, prioritise themselves, or receive care and attention. Punishment can also show up as anxiety, self-sabotage, or guilt, designed to prevent behaviours that once risked rejection.
In practical terms, the process begins with a free Discovery Call to explore what the client wants to change and to explain how we would work together. This is followed by a more in-depth pre-session call to drill down into the issue and clarify the desired outcome.
The RTT® session itself lasts around 90 minutes to two hours. Using hypnotherapy techniques, I guide the client into a deeply relaxed state – similar to daydreaming or being on autopilot – where the subconscious mind is more accessible. From there, we revisit key scenes from the past that relate directly to the issue being addressed. Once identified, I use a range of therapeutic tools to reframe, resolve, and eradicate the limiting beliefs formed at those moments.
The culmination of the session is a personalised recording containing new thoughts and visualisations to replace the old patterns. Clients listen to this daily for 21 consecutive days, ideally first thing in the morning or before sleep, when the subconscious is most receptive. The entire process is collaborative and client-led, empowering individuals to create lasting change.
What results do your clients often notice after working with you?
Clients often experience noticeable changes very quickly, with the presenting issue resolved in just one to three RTT® sessions. This can include long-standing physical conditions, addictions, or deep-rooted blocks around confidence, success, and trauma – many of which clients were previously told they would have to live with.
Once that initial shift happens, confidence grows, and clients naturally begin to think bigger. They set more ambitious goals and feel motivated to address other areas of their lives. That’s where the coaching element comes in. Together, we create a clear plan, refine goals as they evolve, and I support them throughout the process.
This approach is at the heart of my Limitless Life Programme – helping clients not just create change, but sustain it and step into a life that feels truly limitless.
What misconceptions do people have about emotional blocks and mindset change?
Many people believe that it’s not available to them or that it’s not sustainable. They think it’s just who they are. The reality is, it’s available to everyone. They just need to access the root cause.
What do you wish more people understood about healing and transformation?
I wish everyone knew that it is available to them, that there’s not much that isn’t insurmountable, and that includes physical conditions that they believe are genetic and inevitable. The reality is that almost 90% of physical illness is caused by emotional trauma that then manifests itself in the body. And once any of these presenting problems are resolved, people’s lives can be transformed and limitless. We just have to understand that.
Why should someone consider reaching out to you today?
Someone should consider reaching out to me today if they’re tired of managing symptoms and ready to create real change. If you’ve been living with anxiety, trauma, self-doubt, repeating relationship patterns, or even physical conditions that don’t seem to shift, this work offers a different way forward – one that addresses the root cause, not just the surface issue.
I combine powerful therapeutic tools with lived experience. Having rebuilt my own life after long-term abuse, I understand both the courage it takes to ask for help and what’s possible on the other side of healing. You don’t have to have all the answers or know exactly what you need – just a willingness to start.
Change doesn’t have to take years, and you don’t have to do it alone. If something in your life feels stuck, heavy, or no longer aligned with who you are, reaching out could be the first step toward clarity, confidence, and a life that feels lighter, freer, and truly your own.
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