Clinical Hypnotherapy in Orlando, FL and Online
At A Way Forward in Orlando, FL, clinical hypnotherapy helps you explore the subconscious patterns connected to stress, anxiety, grief, self-doubt, and habits. Our hypnotherapists, Shannon Rollins-Rodriguez and Jennifer Adams, offer personalized hypnosis sessions in person at our Orlando office near Lake Nona, serving Winter Park and Kissimmee, and online. Each session is guided with care, clarity, and respect for your goals.
Real talk about hypnosis, because stage hypnosis isn't clinical hypnotherapy
Stage hypnosis is entertainment. Clinical hypnotherapy is the opposite.
What we do is guide you into a deeply relaxed, focused state, similar to that slow drift just before sleep where your subconscious mind becomes accessible. In that state, the analytical layer that usually filters and resists new information quiets down. That's when real change becomes possible.
You are aware the entire time. You are in control the entire time. You simply have access to the part of your mind where your patterns actually live.
That's why people who've spent years in talk therapy sometimes experience profound shifts in just a few hypnotherapy sessions. Talking about a pattern keeps you in the analytical mind. Hypnotherapy brings you to the layer underneath, where the pattern was created, and where it can be changed.
What Can Clinical Hypnotherapy Help With?
People seek clinical hypnotherapy for stress and anxiety, grief and loss, confidence and self-worth, and major life transitions. Sessions are available in person in Orlando and through online hypnotherapy.
Because hypnosis works directly with the subconscious, it can often create lasting change more quickly than conscious effort alone.
What to Expect in a Hypnosis Session
Whether you meet with us in person in Orlando or through online hypnotherapy sessions, your hypnotherapist builds each session around your goals and history, so it is truly yours, not a script.
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A compassionate conversation to understand your goals and concerns
Guided relaxation through immersive audio (experienced with headphones) to enter a focused, receptive state of awareness
Release work with modalities tailored to your needs
Positive suggestion and imagery tailored to your needs
Most clients feel calm, lighter, and more centered immediately after a session, and notice shifts in thoughts, habits, or emotions over the days and weeks that follow.
The Experience
An Immersive Way to Go Inward
Every hypnosis session is guided through high quality, over ear headphones. It is a small detail that makes a meaningful difference, drawing your attention away from the room around you and toward the quiet space within.
With outside noise gently minimized, the work feels more private and contained. Your nervous system has room to settle, and your focus can soften inward with far less effort. Many clients notice they relax more quickly, feel more present, and reach a deeper state than they expected.
If you have ever listened to a guided meditation through headphones, this will feel familiar. Calm, close, and fully supported, from the first breath to the last.
Guided through professional headphones
Designed to deepen focus, presence, and immersion throughout your session.
Is Clinical Hypnosis Right for Me?
You may be a good fit if:
You’ve tried other methods but still feel stuck
You’re ready to address the root cause, not just the symptoms
You want a gentle, non-invasive approach to change
You’re open to exploring the mind-body connection
You don’t need experience with hypnosis or meditation. All you need is curiosity and an open heart.
Meet your hypnotherapists
You can work with either of our Clinical Hypnotherapists, in person in Orlando or online. Both use the same structured, nervous-system-informed approach, and both offer a free consultation first so you can start with a conversation.
Shannon Rollins-Rodriguez
Shannon is a Clinical Hypnotherapist and Somatic Breathwork Facilitator and Coach. She specializes in helping women and men with relationship issues, heartbreak, dating, loss, and major life transitions, helping clients feel safe in their bodies again when life or love has knocked them off center.
Shannon blends hypnotherapy, breathwork, and nervous system work so clients don't just understand their patterns, they feel the shift. Her sessions draw on parts work, IEMT, NLP, and hypnotic belief work, and as a QHHT® Level 2 Past Life Regression Practitioner, she also guides clients through past life sessions. She especially loves guiding women through her group program, Wired for Secure Love, where they rewire old attachment patterns and learn to attract love from a regulated, secure place. Shannon is the founder of A Way Forward.
Jennifer Adams
Jennifer is a Clinical Hypnotherapist who specializes in regression and root-cause work, helping clients understand what may be happening beneath the surface. She often works with confidence, self-esteem and self-worth, stress and overwhelm, self-sabotage, repeating patterns, and personal or professional blocks.
With a background in sales, entrepreneurship and real estate, Jennifer understands performance pressure firsthand. She offers a grounded, supportive space where clients can shift old patterns and give the subconscious mind a way forward.
"More effective than any therapy I have ever experienced. Three sessions and my life changed."
Learn more about our team, see session pricing, or read answers to common questions on our FAQ page.
Clinical Hypnotherapy FAQ
What is clinical hypnotherapy?
Clinical hypnotherapy is a guided, therapeutic use of hypnosis. Your hypnotherapist helps you settle into a deeply relaxed, focused state, similar to the drift just before sleep, where the subconscious patterns behind stress, anxiety, grief and habits become easier to reach and change. You stay aware and in control the entire time.
How is clinical hypnotherapy different from stage hypnosis?
Stage hypnosis is entertainment. Clinical hypnotherapy is a private, collaborative session built around your goals, and nothing happens without your consent. You remain aware throughout and can open your eyes and return to full alertness at any time.
What happens in a first hypnotherapy session?
Your first session lasts about two hours. It begins with a conversation about your goals and history, followed by guided relaxation through immersive audio on over ear headphones, release work tailored to you, and positive suggestion and imagery. Most clients leave feeling calm, lighter and more centered.
How much does hypnotherapy cost in Orlando?
At A Way Forward, the first session is two hours at $300. Follow up sessions are $150 for 60 minutes or $225 for 90 minutes. The 15 minute consultation call is free, and prepaid packages are available for returning clients.
How many hypnotherapy sessions will I need?
Many clients complete three to five sessions, although some notice a meaningful change after one. Patterns that have been present for many years may benefit from a longer series, and your hypnotherapist will talk through a plan with you after your first session.
Which hypnotherapist will I work with?
You can work with Shannon Rollins-Rodriguez or Jennifer Adams. Both are Clinical Hypnotherapists who share the same trauma-informed approach, and your free consultation is a good time to talk about which fit feels right. QHHT® and somatic breathwork are offered with Shannon.
Can I do clinical hypnotherapy online?
Yes. Online sessions use the same focused relaxation as in person sessions, over a secure video call. You will need a quiet, private room, a comfortable place to sit or lie down, and headphones if you have them. In person sessions take place at our office in Orlando, FL.
Will I lose control during hypnosis?
No. You stay aware throughout, you cannot be made to do anything against your values, and you can return to full alertness whenever you choose. Hypnosis is better understood as a skill you practice with guidance than as something done to you.
Is hypnotherapy a replacement for therapy or medication?
No. Hypnotherapy complements care from licensed mental health and medical providers. Please keep working with your prescribing provider and never change medication without their guidance. If you are in crisis, call or text 988.
Not sure if Hypnotherapy is right for you?
Book a free 15-minute consultation. We’ll figure it out together, no pressure and no script. If we’re not the Right Fit, we’ll tell you that too.
In this complimentary 15-minute call, you'll have space to share your goals, explore how hypnotherapy can support you, and experience Shannon Rollins-Rodriguez's heart-led, science-backed approach to lasting transformation. Available through online hypnotherapy sessions from anywhere, or in-person at our Orlando, FL office, this is your first step toward lasting change and inner peace.
When the way isn’t clear, we help you find peace, clarity, and a path forward.
Sessions are available both in-person and virtually to meet you where you are.