Tim
Saenen

How I practise

I came to hypnosis the way a lot of people come to their life's work — sideways, through curiosity, and with no idea where it would lead.

My first exposure was through the performance tradition. Mark Cunningham and the Renegade Hypnotist community taught me the mechanics — rapid induction, suggestion architecture, the technical craft of working with the subconscious mind. I was fascinated by the precision of it — by how reliably the mind could be guided when you understood its structure.

It was during that period that I met Damien Delhaye, who would become my partner in founding Free Mind. We met through an online group, discovered we were both Belgian, and decided to meet in Brussels over drinks. That conversation became a collaboration, and that collaboration became this practice.

But as I spent more time in the craft, a question kept surfacing: is this what hypnosis is actually for? The tools were powerful, but they felt aimed at the wrong destination. I wasn't interested in making things happen to people. I was interested in helping people come home to themselves.

That shift led me to the work of David Marius, whose approach to hypnosis is fundamentally different — slower, more integrated, more wholesome. Marius taught me that the practitioner's role isn't to install change but to create the conditions in which a person's own system remembers what it already knew. This idea — containment over influence, return over transformation — is the foundation of everything I do now.

What I work with

My practice today reflects the integration of both traditions: the technical precision of performance hypnosis held inside the slower, more compassionate frame of the Marius approach.

I work with anxiety and emotional overwhelm, habits and patterns, somatic trauma held in the body, relationships and attachment dynamics, intimacy and sexual wholeness, and integration for people who don't need fixing — just space to become more of who they already are.

I believe that meeting the whole person means meeting all of them — including the parts that most therapies walk around. That's why Free Mind openly addresses the somatic, the intimate, and the shadow dimensions of human experience. Not with shock value, but with the same professionalism and respect we bring to every other area of our work.

Training & lineage

My training lineage runs through Mark Cunningham (Renegade Hypnotist), Rory Z (clinical hypnotherapy certification), and David Marius (integrated healing methodology). I continue to study and refine my approach, because the work is never finished — it evolves as I evolve.

Outside the practice

I'm based in Antwerp. When I'm not working with clients, I'm likely behind a camera — photography is the other way I make sense of the world.