Hypnotherapy
There are times in life when you know something needs to shift, but talking about it over and over no longer feels like enough.
Hypnotherapy offers a deeper way forward.
What is hypnotherapy?
Hypnotherapy is a natural therapeutic approach that uses guided relaxation and focused attention to help you access the subconscious mind.
In this calm and receptive state, the conscious mind can soften, allowing space to explore and reframe the deeper patterns behind stress, anxiety, fears, unwanted habits, low confidence, or emotional overwhelm.
You are not asleep.
You are not out of control.
You are aware throughout the session.
You cannot get stuck in hypnosis.
Instead, most clients describe it as a deeply relaxed, peaceful state where positive change feels easier, more natural, and more deeply accepted.
Hypnotherapy can be especially helpful when you are ready for a gentler, more integrative approach that supports the whole person, mind, body, emotions, and spirit. It can be faciltated either in person or online.
Online Hypnotherapy
When you need to stay at home or you don’t have time to travel, the good news is hypnotherapy can be provided online. It’s convenient, easy to access and just as effective as working face to face.
This also means you do not need to be in the same area as me or even in the same country!
As people are becoming more and more familiar with online learning, Zoom, Skype meetings etc the demand for online Hypnosis, NLP Wellness Coaching and other modalities has increased. For many this can offer the support and the therapy needed without being face to face in person. Hypnosis and NLP Wellness Coaching work as well and are as effective as face to face sessions.
Orla’s approach
ORLA McKEOWN
Clinical Hynotherapist, NLP Practitioner & Wellness Coach
At Orla McKeown Wellness, hypnotherapy is designed to help you create positive change at the subconscious level, where habits, beliefs, emotional patterns, and protective responses are often stored. Through deep relaxation, focused guidance, and safe, supportive techniques, you can begin to release what no longer serves you and build new patterns that feel calmer, stronger, and more aligned.
You are safe here. You will be guided gently, confidentially, and without judgement.
Orla’s way of working is warm, intuitive, solution-focused, and grounded in emotional safety.
She creates a space where you can feel supported, heard, and gently guided without pressure. Her sessions are designed to be empowering and confidential, with a strong focus on rapport, trust, and therapeutic pacing.
Where appropriate, Orla works in a content-free way, which means you do not always have to talk through every detail of what you have been through in order to begin healing. This can feel especially supportive for clients who want meaningful change without becoming overwhelmed by retelling difficult experiences.
Her holistic philosophy recognises that true healing involves the whole person. When the mind, body, and emotions are brought back into balance, change becomes more sustainable and life can begin to feel lighter again.
ORLA McKEOWN
Clinical Hynotherapist, NLP Practitioner & Wellness Coach
Hypnotherapy may support you with:
- anxiety and panic
- stress and overwhelm
- poor sleep and insomnia
- fears and phobias
- performance anxiety
- confidence and self-belief
- smoking cessation
- weight management
- anger release and emotional regulation
- relationship challenges
- childhood anxiety
- support for tweens and teens
- resilience building
- pain management support
- healing after stress or trauma
Every session is tailored to your individual needs, goals, and readiness.
Hypnotherapy Services
General Hypnotherapy Session
A personalised session for emotional wellbeing, mindset shifts, and subconscious change
This one-to-one hypnotherapy session is tailored to your unique needs and intentions. It may support issues such as stress, anxiety, confidence, sleep difficulties, emotional blocks, fears, or unwanted habits.
Together, you will explore what is going on beneath the surface, identify the patterns that may be keeping you stuck, and begin the process of rewiring those responses in a calm and supportive way.
This is a beautiful place to begin if you are new to hypnotherapy and want a session centred fully around you.
This may help with:
- anxiety and overthinking
- confidence and self-esteem
- emotional overwhelm
- habits and behaviours
- sleep issues
- motivation and mindset
Smoking Cessation Hypnotherapy
Support to help you become smoke-free with clarity, commitment, and subconscious reinforcement
Stopping smoking is not only about willpower. It is also about changing the subconscious patterns, emotional associations, and habitual responses linked to smoking.
Orla’s smoking cessation sessions are designed to help you disconnect from the habit at a deeper level and strengthen your desire to choose health, freedom, and control.
These sessions support both the practical and emotional side of stopping, helping you feel mentally prepared and positively focused on your new direction.
This may help with:
- breaking the smoking habit
- reducing cravings
- changing triggers and associations
- creating a stronger non-smoker identity
Weight Management Hypnotherapy
Feel Good, Look Good Weight Management Programme
A deeper approach to weight management that begins in the mind
Weight management is rarely just about food. It can be connected to stress, emotional coping, self-worth, habits, beliefs, and the way the nervous system responds to daily life.
This programme is designed to support lasting change by helping you reprogramme subconscious behaviours, strengthen motivation, and build a healthier relationship with yourself and your choices.
Rather than focusing on restriction or shame, this work gently supports mindset, emotional regulation, confidence, and consistency.
Format: 6-session programme
This may help with:
- emotional eating patterns
- low motivation
- self-sabotage
- negative self-image
- difficulty staying consistent
- creating healthier habits from the inside out
Anxiety and Panic Support
Calm the mind, soothe the body, and retrain the subconscious response to stress
Anxiety can affect every part of life, your thoughts, sleep, body, relationships, confidence, and sense of safety.
Hypnotherapy can help reduce the intensity of anxious patterns by calming the nervous system, changing subconscious responses, and teaching the mind and body that it is safe to let go.
Orla offers gentle support for people experiencing anxiety, panic, overwhelm, racing thoughts, and chronic stress. Sessions are paced carefully and always held within a safe and compassionate space.
Investment: programmes and sessions vary depending on support level
This may help with:
- general anxiety
- panic responses
- social anxiety
- overthinking
- chronic stress
- nervous system dysregulation
Fears, Phobias and Performance Anxiety
Release fear-based patterns and create a greater sense of ease and confidence
Phobias and performance-related fears can feel intense, irrational, and difficult to control. Whether the fear is linked to flying, public speaking, driving, medical procedures, social situations, or another trigger, hypnotherapy can help you begin changing the subconscious response.
By working gently with the emotional and neurological pattern behind the fear, these sessions support a calmer internal response and help build resilience, confidence, and steadiness.
This may help with:
- specific phobias
- performance anxiety
- fear of failure
- social fears
- anticipatory anxiety
Anger Release and Emotional Regulation
Support for emotional balance, self-awareness, and healthier responses
Sometimes anger is the emotion that rises to the surface when stress, fear, frustration, or unprocessed emotions have been building underneath.
Hypnotherapy can help uncover and soften the deeper patterns driving intense emotional responses. Through relaxation, subconscious work, and practical regulation support, clients can begin to feel more in control, more grounded, and less reactive.
This work is approached with care, compassion, and emotional safety.
This may help with:
- irritability and frustration
- emotional triggers
- reactive behaviour
- inner tension
- difficulty self-regulating
Hypnotherapy Pre-Talk
Please click HERE to read the pre-talk document as preparation for your hypnotherapy experience.