Hypnosis works at the level where anxiety starts, helping your mind build new responses so you can think clearly, sleep soundly, and move through your day without anxiety running the show.
Scheduling your sessions begins with a free consultation call. We'll talk through your goals, answer your questions, and determine the hypnosis program that best supports the changes you want to make.
Does This Sound Familiar?
Racing Thoughts
Your mind won't slow down. It replays conversations, runs through worst-case scenarios, and jumps from one worry to the next.
Physical Tension
Tight shoulders, shallow breathing, a stomach that stays in knots. Your body is holding onto something your mind can't seem to let go of.
Avoiding Life
You find yourself saying no to things you used to enjoy, or putting off decisions because anxiety makes everything feel like too much.
Sleep Disruption
Your mind doesn't quiet down at bedtime. You lie there replaying the day or dreading tomorrow, and wake up already tired.
Feeling Stuck
You've tried things. But the anxiety keeps coming back and you're starting to wonder if this is just how it is.
Always On Edge
Something always feels like it's about to go wrong. You're exhausted from being on alert all the time, even when there's nothing to be on alert about.
You Don't Have to Keep It
Anxiety can end up feeling like it’s a part of you. Like something you were born with, or something that happened to you, or just the way your mind works. It isn't.
Anxiety is a response. Your mind learned it, the same way it learns everything else, through experience. It kept running that response because it was trying to protect you. And it will keep running it until it has something better to work with.
Coping strategies, breathing techniques, and talking it through can help in the moment. But they work at the surface. The response driving the anxiety is running much deeper than that.
Hypnosis works at that deeper level. It gives the subconscious mind the information it needs to update the response. Not manage it. Update it. The moment it has a better way of doing something, it uses it.
You can live without anxiety. Hypnosis can help.
If you're ready to do more than just manage anxiety, let's talk.
How Hypnosis Works for Anxiety
Your brain is constantly running pattern-recognition software. It takes in information, compares it to what it already knows, and decides how to respond. Most of the time, that happens faster than conscious thought.
With anxiety, the brain learned at some point that certain situations, sensations, or thoughts felt dangerous. It built a response designed to alert, brace, and protect. That response runs automatically now, even when the danger isn't there anymore.
The part of your brain responsible for logic and reasoning knows on some level that the reaction is out of proportion. But the anxiety response is coming from a deeper layer, one that doesn't respond to reason and logic very well. That's why you can know, intellectually, that you're safe, and still feel like you aren't.
Hypnosis works by using the same language as the brain's operating system. In a normal waking state, the analytical mind is active and filtering. In hypnosis, you're fully aware and in control. But the brain shifts into a state where it becomes more receptive to new ideas, more able to take in new information at that deeper level where the pattern actually comes from. That's what makes hypnosis different from approaches that work at the conscious level.
In a session, you're relaxed but present. You can hear everything, respond if you need to, and you remember much of what happens. The work we do together uses hypnotic language patterns, imagination, and suggestion to help the subconscious let go of the old fear patterns and give it new information that better matches where you want to be. So you have different ways of interpreting situations, and a different response available when those old triggers show up.
What Changes
Your Nervous System Stops Overreacting
Your body stops treating ordinary moments like emergencies. You stop bracing for something to go wrong. And you start to notice a steadiness and a sense of calm and security that wasn't there before.
Your Mind Stops Overthinking
Thoughts still come, but they don't grab the way they used to. You're able to notice a worry and choose if it's worth paying attention to. It doesn't automatically spiral anymore.
Situations That Used to Trigger You Start to Feel Different
The things that used to send your nervous system into overdrive may still happen, but the way you respond to them changes. You find yourself calmer and more relaxed when confronted by those old triggers.
Sleep Comes Easier
Your mind quiets down at night more easily and you wake up feeling rested and refreshed.
You Stop Avoiding
You're not so overwhelmed by having to navigate the anxiety, so decisions come easier and feel more manageable. The stress response isn't running 24/7, so you have more energy for the things you want to do.
You Trust Yourself More
This one surprises a lot of people. There is a mental conflict that comes with anxiety between how your mind is responding and how you know you could feel instead. This creates a lot of second-guessing. When anxiety isn't running the show, that conflict disappears and you find out how capable you actually are. You start making decisions from a clearer, more confident place.
The next step towards living without anxiety is a free consultation call.
We'll talk about what you've been experiencing, how you want to feel, and put together a personalized plan to get you there.
The Types of Anxiety I Work With
Anxiety doesn't look the same for everyone. If you recognize yourself in any of these, you're in the right place.
Generalized Anxiety
A persistent undercurrent of worry that doesn't attach to any one thing. You're anxious about everything and nothing in particular, and it's exhausting.
Anticipatory Anxiety
The dread that shows up before the event, sometimes days or weeks ahead. By the time you get there, you're already worn out.
Work Performance Anxiety
Persistent worry about making mistakes, being evaluated, or not being good enough. It follows you home.
Travel Anxiety
Overwhelming worry about flying, unfamiliar places, or being far from home that makes planning a trip feel like a battle.
Somatic Expressions of Anxiety
Teeth grinding, hair pulling, skin picking. Physical habits the body develops when anxiety has nowhere else to go.
Panic Attacks
Sudden, intense waves of fear that can feel physical and completely out of your control. Whether they happen often or occasionally, they change how you move through your day.
Social Anxiety
Fear of being judged, watched, or saying the wrong thing. It makes ordinary interactions feel high-stakes and draining.
Health Anxiety
Driving Anxiety
Fear or panic that shows up behind the wheel, or just thinking about driving. It shrinks where you're willing to go.
Separation Anxiety in Adults
Fear or distress around being away from people or places that feel safe, that can make even ordinary separations feel overwhelming.
What to Expect
Every new client starts with a free consultation call.
In our call you'll have time to describe what you've been experiencing, how long it's been happening, and what you want to be different. I'll listen, ask questions, and make sure I understand what's going on before we talk about anything else.
From there I'll describe what it will be like working together. I’ll explain what we'll work on and how, and give you a clear picture of the process. Most people come to that first call with questions. That's exactly what it's for. I’ll answer any questions you have, and when you’re ready we can schedule your sessions right in the call.
I work with most clients in a series of five weekly sessions, each about an hour long, held in a secure and private video call online. Each session is designed to build on the last, combining traditional and conversational hypnosis, reframing, and strategy work to create the momentum of your success. Between sessions, you’ll also receive recorded hypnosis sessions and other tools, techniques, and strategies that support and complement the work we do together.
The content of each session is built around you. What we work on, the language we use, and the specific issues we address are all based on where you are in the process of change. This isn't a scripted protocol. It's tailored to what you're actually experiencing.
Because all sessions are held remotely, I am able to work with clients across the U.S. Hypnosis is a conversation, and it is equally as effective online as it is in person. And there's another benefit to working together in remote sessions: when you’re experiencing these positive changes in your own environment everything around you becomes a reinforcement for the positive changes you’re creating.
What My Clients Have Said
"Karen was amazing! I have dealing with anxiety attacks for several years and immediately before seeing Karen they had gotten worse. Karen's ability to link my mind and body interactions, her calm and caring demeanor and her hypnotic skills have been amazing."
“The experience was beneficial, and I particularly liked it because I saw results immediately, which I had not had in other methods I have tried.”
“I have tried traditional psychotherapy, a variety of medications, and self-help books in the past to manage my anxiety, with limited success. Hypnosis has offered me the most profound and lasting change to date.”
"I was in desperate need to get a handle on my anxiety flying, because after the pandemic, I hadn't flown in several years and was feeling pretty anxious about an up coming trip. Karen helped me so much. The results were Very immediate as opposed to talk therapy that takes a really long time to work thru the issues."
"I was in a very anxious, defensive space when we began, knowing nothing about hypnosis or where the process might lead. Karen seemed to know just how to reach me and I immediately trusted her and surprised myself by what I was willing to define and share. Her guidance, and reflections, in addition to the actual hypnosis felt like a buoy, one I looked forward to reaching for every week."
"My time at Green Mountain Hypnosis has been incredible. After my very first session, I began having more positive dreams without terrorizing nightmares. After a few sessions, I began interrupting patterns that were holding me back and contributing to a way of thinking that no longer served me. Now that I've completed my sessions, I feel more hopeful and more equipped to address whatever old patterns come up. I feel more encouraged, relaxed, and calm, and I have access to so many resources that can help me continue my healing journey."
"I owe this new me to Karen, from Green Mountain Hypnosis! I arrived to our first sessions filled with anxiety, destructive behavioral patterns that kept bringing me down, stopping me from living my life to the fullest, stopping me from being at the moment. Always worried, always punishing myself. Since the first/free consultation I felt that something had clicked inside of me, that I was able to understand more the why, and trusting that "I have all the resources I need" to be happy, to live in the present, and control or at least understand my anxiety, and its repercussions, to be in peace."
About Karen Gray
Certified Clinical Hypnotist | Certified Hypnosis Instructor | Retired Registered Nurse
I founded Green Mountain Hypnosis in 2016 and have been working with anxiety clients ever since. Before that I spent more than a decade as a registered nurse, where I saw firsthand what sustained anxiety does to the mind and body over time. That clinical background shapes how I work with clients today.
Anxiety is one of the most common things people come to me for, and it’s one of the most rewarding to work with. When the underlying pattern is resolved rather than managed, the changes are often profound and lasting.
I work with clients in personalized online sessions, so we can work together from wherever you are in the US.
