Clinical Hypnosis & Strategic Psychotherapy
Stop Waiting for Anxiety,
Self-Doubt or Overwhelm
To Fix Themselves
Clinical hypnosis and strategic psychotherapy, delivered online across Australia.
We work with the underlying patterns that keep anxiety, low self-esteem and stress repeating, so you can think, feel and respond differently. Five one-hour sessions.
Includes a personal hypnosis recording between sessions.
Real Results
In their own words
Gemma understood my needs without me having to spend weeks trying to explain things I didn't fully understand myself.
Mary B
Mental Health & Youth Worker, WA
Gemma made me feel completely understood and comfortable from our very first session.
Rachel B
High School Teacher, VIC
Her calm presence, thoughtful approach and genuine care helped me feel comfortable throughout the session.
Angela N
Project Manager, NSW
Online Across Australia
Accessible online via video call for your convenience.
Free Discovery Call
A no-obligation 20-minute conversation to begin.
5-Session Plan
A focused, structured treatment plan, not open-ended.
Yours to Keep
Personalised hypnosis recordings to reinforce change.
Who We Work With
Capable, self-aware, and still running on autopilot.
The people who get the most from this work are often holding it together on the outside, managing work, relationships and responsibilities, while the same old patterns quietly run underneath.
They've read the books. They can name the pattern. What they haven't been able to do is reach the place where it actually lives. If that sounds familiar, you're exactly who this is for.
Not sure it's you? That's exactly what the free call is for.
This might be you if…
You understand your patterns intellectually, and still, they run.
You have tried talk therapy, apps or willpower, and plateaued.
You are high-functioning on the outside, running on autopilot inside.
You want a structured plan with a clear end, not open-ended sessions.
You are curious about hypnotherapy and want it done properly.
You are ready to change the process, not just talk about it.
The Source of Change
Change at the source, not the symptom.
You understand it. You've talked about it. You can name the pattern, trace its origin, explain it to a therapist, and still, it runs. That's because the patterns holding you back don't live in the conscious mind where talk therapy reaches.
They live in the unconscious; the pattern beneath awareness, running the old programs long after they stopped serving you. Strategic psychotherapy and Ericksonian hypnosis work precisely here: gently, permissively, without scripts, meeting your unconscious in its own language.
We're not adding more insight. We're updating the software.
The Approach
Most approaches teach you to manage anxiety.
This one stops it being created.
Anxiety isn't just about what's happening around you; it's about how your mind is assessing risk. If you're anxious, your brain is seeing risk where others don't. Strategic Hypnotherapy changes that filter. When you stop generating anxiety, you can assess a situation accurately and choose how you respond, with clarity, naturally.
A structured strategic interview maps the specific unconscious process running beneath your experience. Not the symptoms you can already name, but the mechanism generating them. Many recognise it the moment it is described; you can’t change a pattern you can’t see.
Using clinical hypnosis and NLP, we work directly with the unconscious mind to adjust how risk is assessed and interrupt the old program at the level it actually runs. No willpower, no white-knuckling. The pattern is updated where it is stored, not where you are trying to manage it.
You leave each session with a personalised hypnosis recording that reinforces the new pattern between visits. As the filter shifts, the same situations begin registering differently, and that carries across every area where that one pattern was running.
The Founder
Gemma Russo
Gemma trained under Gordon Young at the Institute of Applied Psychology, one of the foremost authorities in strategic psychotherapy and Ericksonian hypnosis. This is not a credential collected; it is a lineage of practice, doing what works precisely where change actually occurs.
Her approach is permissive, strategic, and entirely without scripts. Every session is built around you: your pattern, your language, your goals. Because the patterns that keep you stuck were never generic, and the way out isn't either.
"You don't have to understand the pattern to release it. You just have to reach the place where it lives."
This is what clinical hypnotherapy actually is.
Most people picture a swinging watch or a stage act. What happens in a clinical setting is something else entirely: a focused, purposeful process that works with the part of your mind where patterns actually live.
Learn more about the approach →You are calm, focused, and fully aware. Hypnosis is a state of directed attention, not sleep, not unconsciousness. Most people describe it as deeply relaxed but completely present. You are in control throughout.
The session is structured and goal-directed. We use gentle language, metaphor and your own internal resources to change the way your mind is processing experience, not to relax you, but to retrain you.
Most people can be hypnotised. With a permissive, modern approach, resistance dissolves, because we work with your mind, not against it.
It works where willpower doesn’t. Hypnotherapy accesses the unconscious level where habits and patterns actually live. Insight and effort alone can’t reach that level. This approach can.
Questions you might have
Most people describe it as deeply relaxed but completely aware, similar to that dreamy state just before sleep. You can hear everything, respond if you choose to, and you are in full control throughout. It's calm, safe, and often surprisingly comfortable.
The Easiest First Step
Prefer to just talk? Book a free 20-minute call.
- No preparation needed
- 20 minutes, no obligation
- We simply see if it's a fit