About
There is a story behind the way we think, feel and behave.
I'm Svitlana Riabokin, founder of Inner Change Therapy. I work online with adults who know what they want to change and are ready to understand what has been holding them back.
Why I do this work
A question I kept returning to.
My interest in personal transformation grew out of my own life, and out of a long-standing curiosity about how our experiences, emotions and beliefs quietly shape the lives we create. Discovering hypnotherapy and Rapid Transformational Therapy brought those two threads together: a way of working that is both deeply human and genuinely practical.
Why can we consciously know exactly what we want, yet still find ourselves repeating something completely different?
That question sits at the centre of my work. The answer is rarely a lack of willpower or discipline. More often, a belief formed through an earlier experience is still doing its job in the background, long after it stopped being useful.
Curiosity, not judgement
I'm interested in why the pattern is there.
I don't believe in judging people by the patterns they struggle with. What did your mind learn? What belief is driving the response? What might the pattern once have been trying to provide, or protect you from?
When we understand the story beneath a pattern, we have somewhere meaningful to begin. The work becomes less about fighting yourself and more about updating something that no longer fits.
How I work
Sessions are online, one to one, and shaped entirely around you. We begin with a consultation so I can understand what you are experiencing and what you would like instead. The hypnotherapy session itself is calm and collaborative: you remain aware throughout, and we explore together. Afterwards, a personalised recording helps the new perspective settle.
My approach is warm, curious and deeply individual. You are more than the pattern you're experiencing. You are a person with experiences that shaped you — and with the capacity to create something new.
What you can expect from me
- Honesty about whether I'm the right person to help, and a straightforward answer if I think another kind of support would serve you better.
- Sessions in which you stay aware and in control, and we go at your pace.
- Confidentiality, and care with anything you choose to share.
- No pressure, ever, to book more than feels right.
Training
Hypnotherapy, with Rapid Transformational Therapy at its heart.
Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) is a method developed by Marisa Peer. It combines hypnotherapy with techniques drawn from several established talking therapies, and is built around understanding where a belief began so that it can be updated from your adult perspective.
I keep my practice focused on this one way of working. I do not offer coaching, counselling or other modalities, and I will always say so if I think a different kind of support would serve you better.
Svitlana Riabokin
Founder, Inner Change Therapy
- Online hypnotherapy incorporating Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT)
- RTT Practitioner certification: pending award — do not publish until confirmed (set CERTIFIED = True in build.py)
- Based in Oxfordshire · sessions held online across the UK
- Professional insurance / membership details to be added by Svitlana
You don't have to become someone else. Sometimes the deepest transformation is reconnecting with who you really are.