I work at thresholds.

The places people arrive at when something is asking to change but the path forward isn't yet visible. Sometimes the threshold is loud, a loss, a rupture, a decision that can't be postponed any longer. More often it is quiet, a drift in attention, a frustration that has no clear object but will not leave, a sense that the life being lived is not quite the one intended.

I trained as a hypnotherapist because I wanted a way of working that takes the body seriously, that does not treat insight as the goal, and that trusts the person in front of me to already know more than they think they do. Hypnotherapy, as I practice it, is a careful loosening of the conditions that keep a person from hearing themselves. Imagination is central to this work as the faculty through which the psyche speaks most directly, in image, sensation, and story. Depth is not reached by analysis alone. It is reached by letting the imagination move freely enough that what has been buried can be seen and felt.

My approach is trauma-informed in every part of how a session moves, pace, consent, what is asked and what is left alone. I do not press into material before the nervous system is ready, or interpret what you have not named. The work moves at the speed your body can sustain, and nothing is left open at the end.

What I am most interested in is the kind of change that holds, the slower shift that becomes lived. I think of change as having an arc, a preparation, a process, and an integration, and I think most of us were never taught how to honour any of these phases, particularly the last one. Much of what people call procrastination is actually a body refusing to enter something it has not been resourced for. That is not a failure of discipline, it is intelligence asking for ceremony.

I work with people who are willing to meet themselves with that kind of devotion. Who are ready to treat their own attention as a sacred resource rather than something endlessly available to be spent. Who suspect there is something underneath the pattern they keep running, and want to find out what.

Sessions are 90 minutes, on Zoom. The first conversation is free, 30 minutes, no expectation. From there we decide together whether the work is right.

Juno Welsh is a hypnotherapist trained through ARCH Canada, practicing in a trauma-informed framework rooted in the SAMHSA principles. Her practice is voluntarily held in ongoing clinical and ethical accountability with a PhD counsellor. She lives and works in Alberta.