Ballina & Goonellabah (Lismore) — plus online Australia-wide

Stop managing it.
Actually fix it.

Most people come to me because something in their mind just keeps doing a thing they don’t want it to do anymore. Anxiety, a habit they can’t shake, a fear that makes no sense, something they’ve been carrying for years. We find it, we change it, and then I teach you how to keep it changed.

ASCH Registered
Health Fund Rebates Available
Two clinics on the Far North Coast
Helen Hanslow, Clinical Hypnotherapist and NLP Practitioner, Far North Coast NSW
Now accepting new clients
In-person in Ballina & Lismore, or online
17+ Years practising from medical centres alongside GPs
1,500+ Clients helped
3–4 Sessions for most issues
Helen Hanslow in her consulting room

You don’t just want to cope. You want it gone.

There’s a big difference between managing something and actually changing it. Most approaches teach you to manage. I’m interested in the other thing.

Change happens fast

Most issues clear in 3 to 4 sessions. Phobias often in the first. This isn’t years of talking about it. It’s targeted change at the level where the problem actually lives, which is the unconscious mind, not the conscious one.

You leave with skills, not just solutions

Every session teaches you something about how your mind works. So the changes stick, and you can apply the same tools to anything else you want to shift. The goal is for you not to need me, which is a pretty good goal for a therapist to have.

Based inside medical centres

Helen has practised alongside GPs since 2009. That says something about the standard of care. GPs refer patients to her because they trust the work.

How it works

Three things happen that most therapists don’t do. Together, they’re why the results last.

Before your session

You get access to a short video course explaining how your unconscious mind actually works. How habits form, why willpower alone doesn’t cut it, and what’s really going on when you keep doing the thing you don’t want to do. You walk in already understanding the playing field. Most people say this alone shifts something.

Mind Mastery Pre-Session Course

In the session

We use a combination of NLP, hypnotherapy, conversational techniques, metaphor and visualisation. Whatever fits you and the problem. You’re always wide awake and completely in control. Helen works quickly and practically. No lying on a couch counting backwards from ten.

In-person or via Telehealth

After your session

Within 24 hours, your personalised resources appear in your private portal. Audio tracks, brain training recordings, technique reminders, practical guides, all built around what we worked on in your session. They’re yours to keep and use for life. This is how the change compounds over time.

Lifetime access to your resource portal

What I help with

All of these are unconscious patterns. Which means all of them can be changed.

Anxiety & Panic

Overthinking, panic attacks, constant worry, social anxiety, performance anxiety. Anxiety is an unconscious behaviour. It can be stopped, not just managed.

Typically 3-4 sessions
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Phobias & Fears

Fear of flying, spiders, needles, heights, driving, public speaking. Phobias are usually the easiest thing to fix. Often cleared in the very first session.

Often 1-2 sessions
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Quit Smoking or Vaping

Most people quit after the first session. Helen also makes sure the reasons you smoked have been dealt with, so you don’t just swap one habit for another.

Usually 1 session + 1 follow-up
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Weight & Food

Emotional eating, food addiction, overeating, binge cycles. Helen has written an entire book on the seven things that drive weight issues. It’s not willpower. It never was.

Typically 4 sessions
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Stress & Burnout

Chronic stress, work overwhelm, sleep issues, that feeling of never being able to switch off. Your biochemist (the one in your head, trained 100,000 years ago) thinks it’s a tiger. It isn’t. We let them know.

Typically 3-4 sessions
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Confidence & Performance

Public speaking, exam nerves, sports performance, interview anxiety, leadership presence. We find the version of you that already knows how to do this, and put them in the driver’s seat.

Typically 2-4 sessions
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Depression & Low Mood

Persistent low mood, lack of motivation, feeling stuck. Addressed alongside the anxiety or lifestyle patterns that often feed it. You don’t have to feel like this and it’s not who you are.

Typically 4-6 sessions
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Children & Teenagers

Helen has worked with young people her entire career. Anxiety, fears, habits, confidence, school performance. Parent involvement is part of the process, because the changes a young person makes need support at home too.

Under 12s: $140 per hour (first session)

Alcohol & Drinking

Reduce or quit drinking by changing the unconscious habit pattern behind alcohol. Most people find the urge to drink simply loses its hold after hypnotherapy and NLP.

Typically 2-4 sessions
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Monthly Mind Coaching

Some people come once a month not because something is wrong, but because having a thinking partner for work, life and relationships is genuinely useful. We look at where your unconscious programming could use a tune-up.

Ongoing monthly sessions

Two clinics on the Far North Coast

Both clinics are inside medical centres, which means you’re seen in a proper clinical setting alongside GPs. Sessions are also available online via Telehealth for anyone who can’t make it in person.

Ballina

8/48 Tamar Street, Ballina NSW 2478

Far North Coast NSW

Goonellabah (Lismore)

Goonellabah Medical Centre, Lismore NSW 2480

Northern Rivers NSW

Online via Telehealth

Secure online sessions available Australia-wide. Works just as well as face-to-face for most issues.

Australia-wide
Helen Hanslow in her consulting room

30 years of working with people. 17 years changing minds.

I didn’t come to this work through a brochure. I came through 30 years of being in rooms with people who were struggling. Young people at risk, families in crisis, kids in care. Helping people was how I was raised and it’s never really stopped being what I do.

I first experienced NLP when I was working in a rural town with a group of teenage boys who were about to be excluded from the only high school in the area. A colleague did an NLP technique on me in ten minutes that resolved something I’d been carrying my whole life. I thought: if this works that fast, why on earth are we spending years in counselling? That question led me here.

I never finished the counselling course. I’m now studying neuroscience at university so I can keep understanding the brain behind the work I do every day. Honestly, I find it all fascinating. The unconscious mind is extraordinary once you start understanding it.

Master Hypnotherapist Master NLP Practitioner ASCH Registered Advanced Ericksonian Hypnotherapy Life Coach IICT Executive Member Master of Neuroscience (studying) WWC Check (NSW) & Blue Card (QLD)

Real people, real results

“I’d had a fear of flying for fifteen years. I saw Helen once and flew to Sydney the following week. I genuinely couldn’t believe it. It felt too easy.”

Sarah M.
Fear of flying, Ballina

“I smoked for 22 years. One session with Helen and I haven’t touched one since. What I love is she explained exactly why I smoked and what was happening. It all made sense.”

Mark T.
Quit smoking, Lismore

“What surprised me most was coming out of my sessions feeling like I’d been given tools I can use for the rest of my life. It wasn’t just about the anxiety. It was bigger than that.”

Jess R.
Anxiety, online session

Start with a free 15-minute chat

Not sure if this is right for you? That’s what the free consult is for. We’ll talk about what’s going on, what you want instead, and whether working together makes sense. No pressure. No sales pitch. Just a conversation with someone who actually knows a lot about this stuff.

In-person, Ballina
In-person, Goonellabah
Online via Telehealth
Via phone

Things people want to know

Yes, completely. You won’t be spilling secrets, I can’t make you do anything you don’t want to do, and you’re fully aware throughout. You can bring yourself out of any trance state any time you choose. It’s nothing like stage hypnosis or what you see in movies. The state we’re working with is closer to being absorbed in a really good book than anything else.
Most people see me 3 to 4 times. Phobias are usually cleared in 1 to 2 sessions, often the first one does most of the work. Quitting smoking is usually 1 session plus a follow-up. Weight and emotional eating typically takes around 4 sessions. I’ll give you an honest idea of what to expect for your specific situation in the free consult.
Possibly. Helen is a Professional Registered Member of the Australian Society of Clinical Hypnotherapists (ASCH), which means many private health funds will cover sessions under extras, particularly if your policy includes natural therapies. Worth a quick call to your fund to check.
Yes, and it’s something I genuinely love. I’ve worked with young people my entire career. For children under 12, the first session is 1 hour and $140, and I work with parents as part of the process. The changes a child makes at home need understanding and support from the people around them. Helen holds a current Working With Children Check in NSW and Blue Card in QLD.
Absolutely. Online sessions via Telehealth work just as well as in-person for most issues. If you’re not local to Ballina or Lismore, or you simply prefer the convenience of being in your own space, Telehealth is a great option. A lot of Helen’s clients who live locally actually prefer it.
Within 24 hours of your session, personalised resources appear in your private online portal. Audio tracks, brain training recordings, technique reminders and practical guides built specifically around what we worked on. Yours to keep and use for life. The idea is that the work continues between sessions, and doesn’t stop when our work together does.
Anxiety is an unconscious behaviour. Your mind has learned to fire off a stress response in situations where it doesn’t need to. That’s actually really good news, because unconscious behaviours can be changed. My aim with anxiety isn’t to give you strategies to manage it. It’s to stop you doing it in the first place.
That’s one of the most common things I hear, and it makes complete sense. Most approaches work at the conscious level. They try to think or talk you out of the problem. But the problem lives in the unconscious. That’s why the same issues keep coming back. Working at the level where the pattern actually exists is a completely different thing to anything most people have tried before.

Ready to actually change something?

Start with a free 15-minute chat. We’ll figure out together whether working with me is the right move for you.

Call 0403 740 054

Free 15-min consult: in-person in Ballina or Goonellabah, via Telehealth, or by phone

Ballina & Goonellabah, NSW
Online Australia-wide