It depends on your goals and how you like to work: Coaching is best if you want structure, accountability, and practical strategies for achieving goals, building new habits, or navigating transitions. Hypnotherapy works well if you’re looking to access your subconscious mind, shift limiting beliefs, release stress, or work through deeper patterns that feel “stuck.” Many clients find a blend of both approaches works best—you don’t have to choose one forever. We can start with whichever feels most comfortable and adapt as your needs evolve.

Coaching is a collaborative, forward-focused process that helps you clarify what you want, identify obstacles, and create a realistic plan to move forward. As your coach, I don’t give you all the answers, I guide you to discover your own insights, strengths, and strategies. Together, we set goals, build accountability, and develop tools that empower you to make sustainable changes in your life.

The term “hypnosis” comes from the Greek word, hypnos, meaning sleep.” Hypnotherapists use inductions that bring about deep relaxation and an altered state of consciousness, also known as a hypnotic trance. A person in a deeply focused state is unusually receptive to an idea, suggestion or image; but this does not mean that a hypnotherapist can control the person’s mind and free will. On the contrary, hypnosis can actually teach people how to master their own states of awareness. By doing so they can affect significant changes within their own body and psychological responses.

EFT stands for Emotional Freedom Technique, a form of Meridian tapping. EFT is a somatic (mind-body) and energy-based healing technique. EFT involves tapping on acupuncture/acupressure points while verbally reciting the emotions or thoughts related to the issue or trauma. The combination of identifying the issue and releasing the energy behind the issue through these meridians has proved extremely effective in the treatment of physical, emotional and psychological problems. EFT has demonstrated to be successful in treating pain, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), fears and phobias, allergies, insomnia, cravings and addictions, etc. EFT can be quickly and easily taught for self-therapy.

NLP stands for neuro-linguistic programming. It explores the relationships between how we think (neuro), how we communicate (linguistic) and our patterns of behavior and emotion (programs). Lucy uses it in conjunction with hypnotherapy. NLP techniques are especially helpful for collapsing (ie. removing) negative responses or states, and allowing in the positive.