Professional Online Hypnotherapy. with Andrew Wilding, C.Ht. Be the change you want to see.

My sessions are priced at $108 per hour, with your 2-hour First Session ($216) including a free Gold Membership worth $54. All packages include the Gold Membership and some also include complimentary Personal Affirmation Soundtracks (each worth $108). The more sessions in your package, the more complimentary features are included to support your transformation. Most people like to start by reading about single-hour sessions, or if you’d like to talk first, the 15-minute consultation is free with no obligation.

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If your hypnotherapist is a properly qualified professional with good reviews, it’s safe to leave danger in movies. You’re not paralyzed or incapacitated — that’s stage hypnosis. When you’re in hypnosis for well-being I don’t extract information from you, I give positive suggestions. Hypnotherapy is consensual: I can’t make you do or say anything you don’t want to, and you would reject any suggestion that goes against your beliefs — if I ever saw that, it would mean I’m bad at my job. A 2025 review of 20 studies involving 1,250 people confirmed that hypnosis significantly reduced anxiety with minimal adverse effects.

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That’s exactly the right question to ask before investing in something unfamiliar. A 2024 research review in Frontiers in Psychology examined 20 years of hypnotherapy research and found results comparable to established psychological interventions. A further review found the average person receiving hypnotherapy improved more than 76% of those who didn’t. When I bring clients out of hypnosis they’re usually smiling, feeling the pull of the solution that works for them. The honest answer is that nobody can tell you if it will work for you until you’ve tried it.

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Dr. Maxwell Maltz observed that it takes at least 21 days to create a new habit, while the Landmark Study from 2009 found it takes closer to 66 days for new behavior to become automatic. From what I’ve seen it depends on the complexity of the behavior, and the reason for your subconscious resistance to changing that behavior. With anxiety and insomnia, most of my clients notice improvement from the first session, and then steady progress after that. Smoking cessation is a 5-week program. With low self-esteem, depression, grief, or weight, the first signs that your hypnotherapy sessions are working could be closer to the 6 to 9 session range.

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At your appointment time you open the Doxy.me link in your welcome email and put on your headphones. The session has two parts. First, a conversation where we talk about your concerns, explore solutions, and develop affirmations. Second, the hypnosis section: I play a psychoacoustic soundtrack behind my voice, which helps you hold a relaxed state of mind, you close your eyes and enter a daydream state where you’re relaxed but aware, dreaming but not sleeping. We rehearse the solutions we discussed, so everything is familiar to you, just in a kind of training dream where you can try things out and see how they feel. I fade the soundtrack about 5 minutes before the end of your session and we talk for a few minutes to bring you back to your natural conscious state.

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I don’t ask you to communicate during hypnosis but you could at any time if you need to. You’re not paralyzed or incapacitated, just deeply relaxed and in a state similar to a daydream. Most people don’t feel the need to communicate when they’re in hypnosis because the session is a story about you resolving the concerns that we spoke about before going into hypnosis, using the solutions that we both agreed to explore. Most people don’t want to interrupt something so important, but if something didn’t feel right, you would be able to say so.

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Real hypnosis is more like a guided daydream than anything you’ve seen in movies. Your body relaxes more than usual — shoulders and chest feel lighter, breathing becomes deeper and slower. The soundtrack creates a world where you can imagine more clearly and vividly, with more emotional engagement than in a normal daydream. Most clients are surprised by how relaxed they feel — many describe feeling understood, and free from self-judgment, and emotional clarity. Most people come out of hypnosis feeling a little surprised at how real it seamed, calm, and more optimistic.

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It’s normal to drift in and out of sleep during hypnosis. If I give you a suggestion that your subconscious mind finds challenging or interesting, for example that you are valuable, it causes you to think about how you are valuable, and thinking about that takes you into your own dream which often means drifting into sleep. During a session, you take these dream detours all the time, to understand or correlate ideas and suggestions, and consider your affirmations. That’s your subconscious mind integrating your session, it means the hypnotherapy is working.

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No, you are able to bring yourself out of hypnosis if you don’t like the experience. You don’t lose control in hypnotherapy - you are invited to follow a story about yourself that we craft together before going into hypnosis, and that story actually gives you more control in your life. It’s a training program - a simulation - that includes components you may not have included in your own solutions before trying hypnotherapy, like acknowledging emotional states and working through them positively. This is ultimately a question of trust: you’re not losing control when you take an Uber or hire a personal trainer because you chose to do those things, but only because you trust the driver or the instructor.

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No, that’s movies. Hypnosis and hyper-suggestibility is a natural brain state that lasts only as long as the stimulus that creates that state. Hypnotherapists use an induction script to take you into hypnosis using suggestions for relaxation and rest, and a retrieval script to bring you out of hypnosis using suggestions for mental activity, feeling your awareness coming back into the room around you, brushing your thumb along your fingertips to stimulate physical sensation, and asking you questions about what you remember from the session to stimulate your brain back into your conscious state.

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If the connection dropped during your hypnosis session, you would most probably react to the sudden loss of audio in your headphones and it would occur to you that something went wrong and you need to wake up and figure out what to do, so your brain would go into that state of activity and naturally bring you back into consciousness the same way I would after your session, although this would be a little more sudden! If you were deep in a dream when the drop happened and you didnt notice, you would continue into sleep and wake up naturally.

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It’s possible for anyone to be hypnotized if they agree to be — it’s a natural brain state, not a special ability. Where people differ is in their suggestibility, which is the language ques that they need to hear in order to follow suggestions and affirmations instead of rejecting them. Studies show that about half of any population responds to direct suggestions, like in the movies: “You’re feeling so relaxed now.” The other half responds better to a more inferential and emotional approach: “There’s no reason you should hold any tension now.” A hypnotherapist needs to understand your suggestibility in your first hypnosis session.

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• A device with a camera and microphone — laptop, tablet, or phone
• Headphones* (essential — the hypnosis soundtrack streams through them directly)
• A reliable internet connection
• Doxy.me session link, sent in your confirmation email — no downloads or setup required

*The free consultation does not require headphones because there is no hypnosis soundtrack.

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Hypnotherapy works best for people who are managing daily life but struggling with patterns, behaviors, or emotional responses they want to change. If you’re experiencing severe symptoms — suicidal thoughts, inability to function, severe panic attacks, or psychosis — please seek immediate professional medical evaluation first. Hypnotherapy is not a substitute for psychiatric care. If you’re currently taking medication for a mental health condition, consult your doctor before starting. When in doubt, the free consultation is a good place to ask.

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Some concerns resolve in a few sessions — others reveal deeper patterns that need more time. For a specific confidence challenge or social situation, three to four sessions is usually enough. Anxiety, insomnia, and recent fears typically take four to nine sessions. Phobias, grief, depression, and long-standing low self-esteem can require nine or more. Smoking has a structured five-session program. The first session gives me enough to advise you more specifically.

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Your first session is two hours to give you time to unpack your concern without feeling rushed, and that also gives me time to understand your situation before we go into hypnosis. After that, most people are comfortable with a one hour session, which means 30-40 minutes developing solutions and affirmations followed by 20-30 minutes hypnosis. If you feel you need more like an hour of discussion and then hypnosis you can book 90 minute or even 2 hour sessions, my calendar offers 60, 90, or 120 minute bookings.

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Yes you can. Hypnotherapy is cumulative: each session builds on the progress of the previous one, but you don’t have to commit to a package to be committed to transformation. Sometimes things can resolve in one session - for example fear of driving. If you’d like to do just one session, the AW Psychoacoustic Experience is designed as a complete single-session with affirmations.

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Weekly is the standard recommendation. Having a standing session on the same day each week gives your subconscious mind a predictable routine — it makes you feel safe knowing that whatever happens during the week, you can talk about it in your session. Neuroplasticity needs repetition, and weekly consistency builds the momentum your brain needs to change. If you need more support, two sessions a week is available in packages or pay-as-you-go.

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Yes — a free 15-minute consultation is available with no obligation. Describe what you’re dealing with and get a sense of my approach, ask a question about hypnotherapy, and decide if we’re a good fit. If hypnotherapy isn’t ideally suited for your situation I will try to help you find the right approach.

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Psychoacoustics is the study of the effect that certain sound frequencies have on brain states. When your brainwaves synchronize with an audio frequency it’s called the frequency following response — or brainwave entrainment. I’ve been designing my own psychoacoustic soundtracks since 2010. They guide your brain from everyday Beta activity, through Alpha calm awareness, into Theta — the brainwave pattern that occurs naturally during deep meditation and just before sleep, where subconscious reprogramming is most effective. When you listen with headphones and close your eyes, the sound takes you into a different world.

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They work in two ways. During your session, the soundtrack makes your hypnotic state deeper and more effective — helping you focus and eliminating distractions. Between sessions, your Personal Affirmation Soundtrack uses the same psychoacoustic frequencies, so your brain associates the sound with the work we’ve done together and remembers your new healthy thought patterns every time you hear it. As neuroscientist Donald Hebb described it: neurons that fire together wire together. The session opens the door — the soundtrack lets you rehearse walking through it every day.

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We develop your personal affirmations together across your sessions. When they’re ready, I record and produce the track and send you the download link to your Personal Affirmation Soundtrack, usually the next day. What arrives in your inbox was built entirely from your sessions.

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Hypnosis is a natural brain state — heightened focus, deep relaxation, openness to suggestion. It happens naturally every day: in the moments just before sleep, during deep daydreaming, or when you’re completely absorbed in something. Hypnotherapy is the therapeutic application of that state — combining hypnosis with counseling, suggestion, and affirmation work toward a specific goal. Stage hypnosis uses this state for entertainment, hypnotherapy uses it for change.

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No. Both are practiced in similar brain states that occur naturally during deep relaxation, but what you do in those states is totally different.

In meditation you agree to rest from thinking. That creates a change in your perspective, so instead of thinking your thoughts like you normally do, you observe you are thinking, and that gives you the choice to continue thinking or to let go of thought. If you remember your agreement to rest in that moment, you let go, and this can develop into a spectacular experience of wholeness and oneness, or a very humble experience of stillness and detachment.

In hypnotherapy you agree to rehearse solutions to your concerns which you have discussed and planned before going into the hypnosis state. You like those solutions, and you want to learn how to implement them in your life. The similarity with meditation is: when you encounter a thought that resists the change you want to make, you can let go of that thought - The difference in hypnotherapy is: you then take that opportunity to rehearse your solution, free from self-doubt, misplaced guilt, or unfair judgment, and that work you do in your mind allows for a new habit to form.