About the Author

Olzhas Seitov is the creator of the Painhunting methodology, researcher in psychology, and author of 3 books.

He came to psychology not through academia, but through 20 years of searching for solutions to his own psychological struggles — combined with the analytical mindset of a former financier and programmer. This combination allowed him to see what traditional methods had been missing.

His core disagreement with classical psychology was fundamental: trauma is not treated — it is worked around. That, he could not accept. What began as a personal tool to resolve his own internal conflicts gradually reached those around him, then complete strangers. A private search had evolved into an international system of care.

Over more than 10 years: 10,000+ clients, 500+ trained specialists, 50,000+ followers on Instagram. Today the method is undergoing clinical validation — a pilot RCT (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT07490691) has demonstrated exceptionally strong results in reducing depression.

Olzhas Seitov

What is Painhunting?

Painhunting is a psychological methodology that resolves emotional trauma at its root — not by managing it or working around it, but by eliminating it entirely. Unlike conventional approaches that intervene in how you think and feel, Painhunting works differently: we don't fix your mind, we strengthen it. Think of it like immunotherapy — not a drug that fights the infection for you, but a force that empowers your own system to defeat it.
At the heart of the method is the Opposite Incidents Method: the practitioner presents two opposing scenarios, and through each cycle your inner strength grows — until your subconscious overcomes the pain naturally, on its own terms. No pressure, no instructions, no one telling you how to live.

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Key Ideas of Painhunting

Subconscious beliefs

How automatic assumptions form beneath awareness and shape reactions.
Chain of incidents

How linked events reinforce patterns until the underlying driver is seen.
Root incidents

Finding the formative moment that set a long-running emotional script in motion.
Emotional pain resolution

Working with pain as signal—not noise—so resolution can be integrative.
Repeating life patterns

Why similar situations return until the subconscious structure behind them shifts.

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History of the Method

Painhunting emerged from years of client work and structured observation—iterating language, maps, and session protocols until the method could be taught consistently.

Today it continues to evolve alongside practitioner feedback and research collaborations.

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