Benedikte Brantsæter is educated in law with a specialisation in conflict resolution and negotiation law, where she also mediates in conflicts.

In addition to her education in social anthropology, mental training, and hypnosis, she is a certified yoga, breathwork and meditation teacher, as well as a grief therapist specializing in complicated grief.

With an interdisciplinary approach, Benedikte helps clients rebuild their identity after being exposed to narcissistic relationships, as well as process complex traumas and losses.

She also offers mental training tools and hypnosis techniques for individuals facing legal challenges or stressful life situations.

Benedikte is an experienced international speaker and conducts courses and workshops on grief, personal growth, and resilience in the face of adversity. Her mission is to inspire people to find their inner strength and achieve lasting, positive changes in their lives.

“Enhancing Performance and Resilience in High-Stakes Situations – The Power of Mental Training and Hypnosis”

1. Understanding High-Stakes Pressure

How legal conflicts, power struggles, and interaction with manipulative individuals (e.g. narcissistic personalities) trigger survival responses that hinder clarity, confidence, and performance.

2. Mental Training for Inner Stability

How specific mental techniques (including visualisation, focus anchoring, and cognitive rehearsal) can help individuals stay calm, focused and empowered under extreme psychological pressure.

3. The Role of Hypnosis in Resilience Building

How hypnosis can rewire automatic responses, enhance emotional control, and create internal safety – even when facing external chaos or intimidation.

4. Helping Clients Deal with Narcissists and High-Conflict Personalities

How to support clients through toxic relationships, smear campaigns, custody battles, or gaslighting – without getting overwhelmed or losing self-trust.

5. Therapist Resilience and Role Clarity

 Tools for therapists and coaches to maintain their own clarity and emotional balance when working with clients in volatile, legally sensitive or trauma-loaded situations.

In this talk, I will demonstrate how mental training and hypnosis can strengthen performance, emotional regulation and resilience in high-stakes situations — especially when individuals are faced with manipulative personalities, legal conflicts, or ongoing psychological stress. Drawing from real-life cases and professional experience, I’ll share insights into how clients can stay grounded, focused, and self-assured when confronting difficult individuals – including those with narcissistic or antisocial traits – during mediation, custody battles, or court proceedings.

This session explores how to equip clients (and therapists themselves) with tools to handle psychological pressure, distorted narratives, and attempts at emotional destabilisation – all while maintaining clarity, agency and inner strength. Attendees will gain practical methods to help clients navigate “impossible” people and power struggles, using mental techniques that support both short-term survival and long-term integrity.