HYPNOTHERAPIST

Welcome to High-Concept Retreats,

I am Liviu Tipurita, a qualified, accredited & registered British hypnotherapist.

In over twelve years of practicing professional hypnotherapy in Central London and internationally, I’ve helped clients overcome a wide range of emotional and personal problems including depression, anxiety & phobias to traumas, fears, confidence issues, OCD, or burn-out.

I use a mixture of advanced Ericksonian hypnotherapy, NLP, cognitive behaviour therapy and the latest psychological techniques, backed up by research in neuroscience.

My methods are individualised, empowering & cooperative. I provide my clients with the necessary tools for lasting change.

In 2022, I founded Retreats in Crete, offering personalised hypnotherapy retreats in Southern Crete—a sun-soaked paradise at the heart of one of the world's most beautiful islands.

My Clinical Work

I am particularly interested in complex and challenging cases, especially those with a long or complicated history, that have not been resolved under the care of previous therapists.

My clients included entrepreneurs, business creators, senior executives & managers, artists, filmmakers, writers, actors, performers, medical doctors, special forces operatives, sensitive teenagers, and military veterans.

Credentials

Directing Transformation

The Story of High-Concept Retreats

My journey to creating High-Concept Retreats began with an unexpected convergence of two worlds: filmmaking & therapy.

For over two decades, I was immersed in visual storytelling. I directed, produced and presented award-winning documentaries for the world's most prestigious channels—BBC, ITV, Channel 4, CNN, NBC and ARTE—alongside independent feature films. I learned to craft narratives that moved audiences emotionally, not just intellectually.

Then came a profound shift. I discovered hypnosis. Initially sceptical, I approached it with the distrust and rigour of a seasoned investigative reporter demanding evidence that would stand in court. What I uncovered fascinated me so deeply that I conceived a documentary series exploring its extraordinary applications.

As both director and presenter, I needed to be an authentic guide for viewers, which meant understanding hypnosis from the inside. Over several years, I studied with the world's leading hypnotherapists while continuing my filmmaking career, increasingly noticing the powerful parallels between directing films and directing the mind. I became so captivated by these discoveries that I trained professionally as a therapist myself. What began as research for a documentary evolved into a calling that transformed my career.

This new chapter led me to establish a clinical practice in Central London, where I spent twelve years specialising in anxiety, depression and relationship issues. Working with clients in traditional settings, I began to notice something crucial: the environment itself often limited the depth of transformation possible.

This realisation led me to Crete, where I founded my first personalised retreats. It was a way of testing my theory—that combining focused therapy with a complete change of environment could accelerate healing. The results exceeded my expectations. Running personalised retreats in Crete confirmed my intuition that immersion in beautiful natural surroundings can foster profound healing in ways that clinical rooms simply cannot.

Each retreat reinforced my belief that people's challenges are as unique as their fingerprints, requiring truly bespoke solutions.

My filmmaking background had taught me that lasting transformation happens through powerful experiences, not information. This became the foundation of every retreat I designed.

High-Concept Retreats evolved naturally from these discoveries. I began blending improvisational acting exercises, narrative techniques from filmmaking and psychological methodologies to create immersive therapeutic journeys. My artistic sensibility as director merged with my focused intention as therapist, creating spaces where clients could temporarily escape familiar patterns and connect the dots of their own healing story.

Just as I once crafted scenes to evoke emotion in viewers, I now incorporate elements of suspense, curiosity and compelling storytelling into therapeutic experiences. I discovered that the same states that foster creativity on a film set can also facilitate profound breakthroughs in therapy. This approach transforms traditional healing into something playful yet profound, where psychological experiments become plot twists in a client's journey and positive change feels like an adventure rather than treatment.

The outcome is extraordinary—a journey engaging all senses and activating deeper parts of the unconscious. Just as a well-crafted film changes how we see the world, these carefully designed experiences reshape how participants view themselves and their possibilities, generating spontaneous realisations that open new chapters in their lives.