Change becomes easier when we stop fighting ourselves.
I’m Shelley Murphy, a clinical hypnotherapist and former Registered Dietitian.
I offer support in shifting the deeper patterns behind food struggles, emotional eating, sleep challenges, and nervous system overwhelm.
This realization changed the direction of my work.
For many years, I worked in the nutrition field helping people improve their relationship with food and health behaviours.
Again and again, I met thoughtful, intelligent people who already knew what they “should” be doing, and yet were still finding themselves stuck in painful, repetitive patterns.
Emotional eating
Constant food thoughts
Restrictive cycles
Self-blame
Feeling out of control in certain moments
What became increasingly clear was this:
knowledge alone wasn’t the issue.
The deeper patterns driving these experiences often lived beneath conscious thought, held in the nervous system, tied to emotional associations, learned in coping responses, and the ways people adapt over time.
Hypnotherapy offered a way to work with change more gently and more deeply.
Rather than focusing only on conscious effort or willpower, this work helps create space for awareness, nervous system regulation, and new responses to emerge over time.
I’m especially drawn to approaches that feel supportive rather than forceful.
No harshness.
No shame.
No trying to “fix” yourself.
Just a different way of relating to the patterns that have been carrying important roles for a long time.
What I believe
Lasting change rarely comes from pressure, criticism, or trying harder.
It grows through awareness, safety, repetition, and learning to respond to yourself differently over time.
My work is designed to support that process gently and with care. Through my self-guided tools, guided hypnosis, and thoughtful education, I aim to provide an experience that respects both your mind and your nervous system.
Background & Training
With a foundation in nutrition, behaviour change, and emotional well-being, I bring more than 25 years of experience helping people navigate patterns related to food, stress, self-trust, and health behaviours.
Originally trained as a Registered Dietitian, my work gradually evolved toward deeper mind-body approaches, leading me to become certified in clinical hypnotherapy.
My background includes extensive training in counselling and coaching approaches, motivational interviewing, and trauma-informed care.
I integrate hypnotherapy, mindfulness-informed practices, nervous system awareness, and compassionate behaviour change support in my resources and services. I am currently continuing advanced studies in integrative psychotherapy and clinical hypnosis.