Helen Hanslow Hypnotherapy

Helen Hanslow Hypnotherapy Master Clinical Hypnotherapist & Mind Trainer with 17+ years' experience. Clinics in Goonellabah & Ballina. Free 15-min consultation.

https://helen.net.au | 0403 740 054 Helen is available at Goonellabah Medical Centre on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays. Ballina Riverside Health Studio on Wednesdays. Helen utilises all the latest knowledge and techniques, including hypnosis, to assist people to make rapid and lasting change in any aspect of their lives. Although Helen is an Anxiety Specialist, he happily assists people with many other issues including to quit smoking and weight loss.

14/06/2026

You know that little shock you get when you take a step and the ground is just a bit higher or lower than you thought it was going to be?

Your whole body goes, "Woah." Just for a split second.

And then you keep walking.

Here's the thing though. In that moment, your brain just got caught out predicting something you didn't even know you were predicting. Your brain wasn't waiting to see where the ground was. It had already decided. It was so sure, it didn't even bother telling you about it.

That's your brain in a nutshell. It's a prediction machine. It's constantly running ahead of you, making calls about what's about to happen based on everything you've ever experienced.

Most of the time, this is brilliant. You'd never get out the door in the morning if you had to consciously process every single thing.

But this is also exactly what's behind a lot of anxiety.

Because your nervous system doesn't just predict where the ground is. It also predicts whether you're safe.

So if somewhere along the way it learned that a certain situation, a certain feeling, a certain type of person or place means danger, it'll predict that every single time. In a fraction of a second. Long before your conscious mind is even aware anything is happening.

That's why by the time you're trying to breathe through it or talk yourself down, the fight-or-flight response has already fired. You're not doing it wrong. You're just trying to override something that was already in motion.

The approach I take isn't about teaching you better ways to manage the response. It's about changing the prediction underneath it. When the unconscious expectation updates, the automatic response updates with it. No prediction of danger, no automatic anxiety response. You just find yourself doing the thing, having the conversation, going to the place, and you realise afterwards that you didn't think twice about it.

I'm a Clinical Hypnotherapist and Master NLP Practitioner, and I'm also currently studying neuroscience. I've been fascinated by this stuff for a long time. Honestly, the more I understand about how the brain works, the more it makes sense why the approaches I use work as well as they do.

If you're curious about whether this might be the thing that actually shifts your anxiety rather than just managing it, come and have a chat with me. It's free, it's 15 minutes, and you'll leave knowing a lot more about what's actually going on for you.

📅 Book your free 15-minute chat here: https://helen.net.au/book-appointments/

“I’ll just v**e instead, it’s not as bad”That’s the little story a lot of brains are running right now. Then suddenly it...
08/05/2026

“I’ll just v**e instead, it’s not as bad”

That’s the little story a lot of brains are running right now. Then suddenly it’s:
• First thing in the morning
• All through work
• In the car
• Before bed

Va**ng lights up the same “feel better now” circuits in your brain that smoking does. Your unconscious mind doesn’t care whether it’s a cigarette or a mango‑ice cloud, it just knows... “This changes how I feel.”

In a quit va**ng session we unpack the *real* job your brain is trying to do with that device (calm, focus, reward, escape…), then we give it better tools and put va**ng on your internal NO list. Most people are surprised by how calm they feel without it.

If you’re sick of planning your day around your v**e, send me a DM with the word “VAPE” or book a free 15 minute chat and I’ll explain how my process works.

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If your “willpower” mysteriously disappears after 8 pm, this is for youYou are not weak. You are tired. And tired brains...
06/05/2026

If your “willpower” mysteriously disappears after 8 pm, this is for you

You are not weak. You are tired. And tired brains don’t make calm food decisions.

By the time you’re standing in front of the pantry at night, your unconscious mind has usually decided food =
• Comfort
• Reward
• Soothing from the day

In sessions we work out what your mind is *actually* trying to do for you at 8:30 pm, then give it better ways to do that job so you don’t have to keep wrestling with the biscuits. No moralising, no food shame, just new automatic responses.

If you recognise yourself in the “evening pantry pilgrimage”, you’re very, very normal and it’s absolutely changeable. Comment “PANTRY”, send a DM or book a free 15 minute chat via the link in my bio and we can talk about your patterns.

Here is what I help people with every week in the Northern Rivers• Anxiety, panic and phobias• Smoking and va**ng• Stres...
05/05/2026

Here is what I help people with every week in the Northern Rivers

• Anxiety, panic and phobias
• Smoking and va**ng
• Stress and sleep
• Weight and emotional eating

Most people see me for three to four sessions for a specific issue. You do not need years of therapy, you need the right few hours working at the level your patterns actually live.

I am in Goonellabah and Ballina and also online for clients around Australia. If you are not sure whether your “thing” is something I work with, send me a message and ask, or book a free 15 minute chat via the link in my bio.

What if your anxiety was trying to help you and just doing it badlyWhen you see it that way, you can stop fighting yours...
05/05/2026

What if your anxiety was trying to help you and just doing it badly

When you see it that way, you can stop fighting yourself and start retraining that part of your mind. You are not broken. Your “factory” is just running an outdated program.

In our first session I map out exactly how your mind is running the anxiety pattern, then we change it using modern hypnotherapy and NLP. You leave with tools you can use yourself, not just a nice chat.

If you are ready to feel different instead of just coping better, send me a DM with the word “CALM” or tap the link in my bio to book a free 15 minute chat.

Hypnotherapy is not mind controlI am not in the business of making people cluck like chickens. I am in the business of t...
04/05/2026

Hypnotherapy is not mind control

I am not in the business of making people cluck like chickens. I am in the business of teaching your mind new ways to think, feel and respond so you can stop doing the things that are making you miserable.

You stay awake. You stay in control. You can hear everything I say and your own thoughts about it. We simply use a natural state of focused attention to talk to the part of your mind that actually runs your habits and emotional reactions.

If you have questions about what happens in a session, comment below or send me a message and I will answer them in upcoming posts.

Still smoking even though you are sick of the smell, the cost and the way you feel about itYou are not the only one. Mos...
02/05/2026

Still smoking even though you are sick of the smell, the cost and the way you feel about it

You are not the only one. Most of my quit smoking clients are smart, capable people who are completely over it and still find themselves lighting up.

In a quit session we unpack the pattern underneath the habit, show your mind what it is really trying to do for you, and then give it better options. Most people stop in one intensive session, with follow up available if we need to untangle a few extra things.

I see clients in Ballina and Goonellabah and online for people in other parts of Australia. If you are ready to be a non‑smoker, call 0403 740 054 or visit helen.net.au to book.

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Do you feel like there is a version of you who eats perfectly and another one who raids the pantry at 10 pmI call these ...
01/05/2026

Do you feel like there is a version of you who eats perfectly and another one who raids the pantry at 10 pm

I call these your bus drivers. Healthy You is on the bus. Tired You is on the bus. Reward Me Now You is definitely on the bus. Whoever is driving in that moment decides what happens with the biscuits.

In sessions we work out who has been driving your food decisions and why. Then we teach your mind to put a different version of you in charge when you are near the fridge. No diet charts, no shame, just new automatic responses.

Swipe through for a quick rundown of the main “drivers” I see in emotional eating.

One tiny anxiety trick you can steal todayNext time your brain starts catastrophising (“What if this goes wrong?” “What ...
30/04/2026

One tiny anxiety trick you can steal today

Next time your brain starts catastrophising (“What if this goes wrong?” “What if I stuff it up?”), give the story a silly Netflix title.

Instead of “I’m a mess”, it becomes:
Season 4, Episode 3 – Helen Imagines Everyone Hates Her Emails.

The second you name it, you’ve stepped out of it. You’re no longer *inside* the drama, you’re watching it from the couch with snacks. From there, it’s a lot easier to change the channel.

This is one of the simple cognitive tricks I give clients alongside the deeper hypnotherapy work. You need both, the quick tools and the pattern change underneath, for real, lasting relief.

Try this today and tell me in the comments what your brain’s series would be called.

"I have not laughed that much in years"That was a client walking out of a session where we had just rewired a pattern th...
30/04/2026

"I have not laughed that much in years"

That was a client walking out of a session where we had just rewired a pattern that had been running her life for a decade. People are often surprised that the work is light and even funny at times. We are doing serious things, but your unconscious mind actually responds better when you are not miserable.

Whether it is anxiety, smoking, food or something else completely, my aim is always the same. Help you understand what your mind has been doing, change it at the unconscious level, and give you tools so you can keep programming yourself long after you leave my office.

If you read this and thought "𝘐 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘢 𝘣𝘪𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘣𝘪𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨", you can book a free 15 minute chat through the link in my bio.

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Goonellabah Medical Centre, 616 Ballina Road
Goonellabah, NSW
2480

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 2:30pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 8:30am - 5:30pm

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