Find Relief. Feel More Calm. Reconnect with Yourself.
When stress and anxiety become part of everyday life, it can be easy to get used to feeling overwhelmed, tense, worried or constantly “on.”
You may be busy managing work, family, relationships, and all those daily responsibilities, as well as tending to everyone else’s needs. Somewhere along the way, you start to notice that your own needs and well-being keep getting pushed further down your priority list.
Perhaps your mind won’t quiet down. You’re exhausted but have trouble sleeping. Little things frustrate you more than they used to. You find yourself overthinking, worrying, emotionally eating, losing motivation or simply wondering why everything feels so hard.
Stress may have become your “normal.”
But it doesn’t have to stay that way.
With the right support, you can begin to quiet the mental chatter, calm your nervous system, change the patterns that have been keeping you stuck, and create a greater sense of calm and connection within.
How Is Stress Showing Up for You?
Stress isn’t only something you feel emotionally. Ongoing stress and anxiety can affect your thoughts, your body, your behaviors, your relationships and how you move through your day.
Do you recognize yourself in any of these?
In your thoughts and emotions:
- Feeling overwhelmed or constantly worried
- Overthinking and having difficulty quieting your mind
- Feeling easily irritated or frustrated
- Having difficulty focusing or making decisions
- Feeling scattered or more forgetful
- Losing motivation or your sense of enjoyment
- Questioning yourself or your abilities
- Feeling resentful of all the demands being placed on you
In your body:
- Feeling tired, depleted or run down
- Difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep
- Muscle tension, particularly in your neck, shoulders, face or back
- Frequent headaches
- Clenching or grinding your teeth
- A racing heart, shakiness or sweaty palms
- Digestive discomfort
- Getting sick more frequently
In your everyday habits and relationships:
- Reaching for food when you’re stressed rather than physically hungry
- Experiencing changes in your weight
- Snapping at the people you care about—and regretting it later
- Procrastinating or avoiding things you know need your attention
- Withdrawing from other people
- Finding it harder to be productive
- Feeling as though there’s never enough time
- Putting your own needs at the bottom of the list
You don’t have to experience all of these to know something needs to change.
Sometimes it’s simply the realization that you’re tired of feeling this way.
Stress Is More Than What’s Happening Around You
Stress is a natural response designed to protect you. When your brain perceives something as threatening or overwhelming, your nervous system responds automatically—preparing you to deal with whatever it believes is happening.
That’s useful when you’re facing an actual danger.
It’s much less useful when the “danger” is an overflowing inbox, a difficult conversation, financial worries, family responsibilities, a packed schedule—or thoughts about something that hasn’t even happened.
When that stress response gets activated again and again, your mind and body can begin operating as though being on alert is simply the way life is.
And in its effort to protect you, your mind can create even more mental chatter—the anxious, stressful thoughts that keep looping around and just won’t quiet down.
This is where hypnotherapy mind coaching can help.
A Different Way to Create Change
I don’t believe stress and anxiety relief is simply about learning to “manage” stress better.
My approach helps you work with both your conscious and subconscious mind so you can begin changing the patterns, reactions and beliefs that may be contributing to how you’re feeling.
Through personalized hypnotherapy mind coaching, we’ll explore what’s happening for you and what you’d like to change. Then we’ll work together to help your mind and nervous system respond differently.
Depending on your individual needs, our work may include hypnotherapy, mindset coaching, calming and breathing techniques, visualization, education and practical tools you can use in your everyday life.
The goal isn’t simply to feel relaxed during a session.
It’s to help you create changes you can carry with you beyond our work together.
What It’s Like to Work Together
You don’t need to arrive at your first session knowing exactly why you feel the way you do—or how to fix it.
That’s what our work together is for.
We’ll begin by talking about what’s happening in your life, what feels most challenging and what you’d like to be different. Your sessions are personalized to you, so we’ll focus on what’s most important for you at that time.
This is also where the mind coaching begins. We’ll explore how your conscious and subconscious mind may be influencing what you’re experiencing, while introducing new perspectives, concepts and ways of thinking that can be difficult to see when you’re right in the middle of it. In a sense, we’re already beginning to coach both the conscious and subconscious mind—even before we move into the more focused, hypnotic part of our work.
Hypnosis itself is a natural state of focused relaxation. You remain aware and in control, and you can speak and interact with me throughout the process.
In this relaxed, focused state, we’re able to work with the subconscious mind—the part of the mind where many automatic patterns, beliefs, habits and responses are held.
We’ll also incorporate practical strategies you can use between sessions, so you’re not simply relying on our time together to feel better.
As you learn to quiet the noise, calm your nervous system and respond differently to life’s challenges, you may begin to notice something else, too:
More clarity.
More confidence in yourself and your choices.
More ability to respond rather than react.
And a greater sense of connection within.
What Could Feel Different?
Imagine having tools to calm yourself when stress begins to build instead of feeling swept away by it.
Imagine noticing an anxious thought without following it down the familiar rabbit hole.
Imagine responding to a difficult situation with greater calm and confidence.
Or waking up and realizing that something you used to worry about constantly hasn’t even crossed your mind.
Change can look different for everyone.
For you, it may mean:
- Feeling calmer and less overwhelmed
- Quieting anxious thoughts and mental chatter
- Responding instead of reacting
- Feeling more confident and assured in yourself
- Sleeping more peacefully
- Changing patterns around stress or emotional eating
- Creating healthier boundaries
- Feeling more focused and present
- Having practical tools you know how to use when stress arises
- Reconnecting with what matters to you
The goal isn’t a life without stress.
It’s having a different relationship with it—and knowing that stress and anxiety no longer have to be in charge.
What Clients Have Experienced
“I would encourage anyone who is dealing with stress or other issues to reach out to Jackie. My hypnotherapy sessions taught me how to calm myself down whenever I start to feel stress coming on. I learned how to address self-defeating thoughts that before brought on more and more stress. And, I’ve begun setting positive intentions as a way to start my day. It works! Most importantly, just knowing there is another way to deal with my stresses. I don’t need to wallow in the past, but I can make choices about my life from here.”
— D. Davis
“Jackie’s Healing Hypnotherapy is a wonderful way to gain deeper self-awareness and build skills to help improve your life in many ways. Jackie helped me to identify unhealthy thought patterns and perceptions, and helped me to create new ways of thinking and perceiving myself, my relationships and the world around me. This contributed to a greater sense of self, inner peace, overall improved health.”
— J. Tracy
“Through very meaningful work on a subconscious level, I feel that Jackie has helped me break through to a new way of looking at each moment with so much more grace and presence. I have become calm and confident in facing daily challenges now that before felt overwhelming and stressful. I can see success not just in my eating and healthy lifestyle choices but in so many other aspects of my self and attitude, as well as in my relationships with others. After just four sessions, I feel competent in guiding myself now towards the changes that I want to see within.”
— K. Canete
Ready to Find Relief?
You don’t have to wait until stress or anxiety becomes unbearable before deciding it’s time to make a change.
Maybe you’ve been coping for a long time.
Maybe something has recently changed and you’re realizing the strategies that used to work aren’t working anymore.
Or maybe you simply know you’re ready to feel more calm, confident and connected within.
Let’s talk about what’s happening, what you’d like to change, and whether working together feels like the right fit for you.
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