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Helping people create change from the inside out
I'm Lilly McKenzie, a Hypnotic Coach, Clinical Hypnotherapist and the founder of Body Mind Care in Central Otago, New Zealand.
For many years, my work has centred around one question: what helps a person genuinely change?
My interest in the mind began long before I became a hypnotherapist. I studied Clinical Psychology in France before moving to New Zealand, and over the years my path has taken me through psychology, bodywork, hypnotherapy, coaching and many different approaches to personal transformation.
Since starting Body Mind Care in 2017..
I have had the privilege of supporting hundreds of people from different backgrounds, ages and parts of the world.
I began working with hypnotherapy in 2019 and have continued to expand my training in advanced clinical hypnotherapy, hypnotic coaching, the Simpson Protocol, Ericksonian hypnosis, NLP-based approaches and other methods of working with the conscious and unconscious mind.
But experience has taught me something equally important: people often have far more answers within them than they realise.
Sometimes we don't need someone to tell us what to do. We need the right space, the right questions and the opportunity to move beyond the thoughts, fears and patterns that have been limiting what we believe is possible.
That understanding is what drew me increasingly towards Hypnotic Coaching.
Why Hypnotic Coaching?
I love coaching because it is fundamentally about possibility.
Rather than focusing primarily on what has happened in the past, we can begin with a different question:
Where do you want to go from here?
We explore what you want to create, who you want to become and what may currently be standing between you and that future.
Coaching gives us the opportunity to clarify the direction and create practical steps forward. Hypnosis gives us another powerful tool to work with the deeper patterns, beliefs and automatic responses that can sometimes make change difficult, even when consciously we know exactly what we want.
For me, bringing those two approaches together makes enormous sense.
I understand what it means to create a new chapter
I am also an entrepreneur.
I started Body Mind Care in 2017 and have experienced the uncertainty, experimentation, successes, mistakes and constant evolution that come with building something of your own.
My work today looks very different from the business I originally created, because I have changed too.
That experience has given me a particular interest in working with people who find themselves at a turning point. You may be reconsidering your career, growing a business, experiencing changes in a relationship or personal life, questioning an old definition of success, rediscovering your confidence, or simply sensing that the person you have been no longer completely represents the person you are becoming.
You don't necessarily need to know exactly what comes next.
Sometimes that is precisely where the work begins.
My approach
I don't believe coaching is about giving you my answers.
My role is to listen deeply, notice patterns, ask questions that open new possibilities and help you access your own insight and inner resources.
Together, we clarify where you want to go. We explore what may be getting in the way. We use coaching and hypnotic tools where appropriate to create an internal shift, and then translate that shift into meaningful action in your everyday life.
Some changes happen quickly. Others unfold through a series of conversations, insights, experiments and small decisions that gradually create something much bigger.
Every coaching journey is different because every person is different.
And that is exactly how I believe it should be
Your next chapter
I am especially drawn to working with people who know that something in their life, career, business, relationship or sense of direction is ready to evolve.
You may already know exactly what you want.
You may simply know that what you have now no longer feels quite right.
Either is enough.
You don't need to have all the answers before you begin. You only need to be willing to explore what might be possible.
