Meet Allison Blaisdell

Helping people change deeply rooted patterns through hypnosis, nervous system work, and integrative mind-body care.

Meet Your Hypnotist

Welcome

Throughout my career, I've helped people overcome pain, anxiety, unwanted habits, trauma, and other challenges by working with the powerful connection between the mind and body.

My goal isn't simply to help you feel better - it's to help you create lasting change.

Experience You Can Trust

Decades of Clinical Experience

For more than 20 years, I've dedicated my career to helping people overcome challenges that affect both the mind and body. From anxiety, fears, and unwanted habits to chronic pain, stress, insomnia, and performance, I've had the privilege of helping thousands of people create meaningful, lasting change.

My experience spans private practice, hospital-based integrative medicine, higher education, and professional leadership - giving me a unique perspective on how lasting transformation happens and how to tailor treatment to each individual.

✓ More than 20 years of clinical experience helping people create lasting change

✓ Former Director of Integrative Therapies, Massachusetts General Hospital / Benson Henry Institute

✓ Clinical experience at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital

✓ Multiple award-winning clinician, educator, and author

✓ Former President, Acupuncture Society of Massachusetts

✓ Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences & New England School of Acupuncture

✓ Author of Transformational Communication: 25 Patterns of Subconscious Influence

✓ Published in Acupuncture Today - Hypnopuncture: A Neurophysiological Model for Integrating Hypnosis Into Acupuncture Practice

✓ Certified Clinical Hypnotist & Hypnosis Instructor (ICBCH & NGH)

20 Years' Experience of Clinical Change

I've had a passion and a long career focused on helping people transform their lives. This means that...

Former Director of Integrative Therapies at Massachusetts General Hospital / Benson Henry Institute

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Clinical experience at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital

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Why Some People Change...and Others Stay Stuck

After working with thousands of clients over the course of my career, one lesson has become impossible to ignore: lasting change rarely happens through willpower alone.

Whether someone came to me for anxiety, chronic pain, unwanted habits, insomnia, or a desire to perform at a higher level, I saw the same pattern. Most people weren't lacking motivation, they were trying to solve subconscious problems with conscious effort.

Your Hypnotist

The subconscious mind is incredibly powerful. It stores the automatic patterns, beliefs, habits, and emotional responses that shape much of how we think, feel, and behave. Over time, those patterns can become so familiar that they begin to feel like part of our identity. People start saying things like, "I'm just an anxious person," "I've always been this way," or "I just can't quit." The challenge is no longer just changing a behavior - it's changing the underlying subconscious beliefs about who we are and what's possible for us

That's why my work focuses on helping people change the patterns beneath the surface. When the subconscious mind begins responding differently - when belief and identity shift - change becomes more natural, more sustainable, and often far easier than people expected.

Working With the Mind Instead of Against It 

Ever since I began helping people create meaningful change, I've been fascinated by one question: Why do some people transform while others remain stuck despite wanting it just as badly?

Over the years, I've explored many different approaches to helping people create lasting change. While each has its place, I kept coming back to one simple truth: lasting transformation happens when we work with the subconscious mind, not against it.

Most people already know what they should do. They know they should stop smoking, lose weight, feel more confident, manage stress, or stop overthinking. They genuinely want to heal and let go of the things that no longer serve them. The challenge usually isn't a lack of knowledge. It's that deeply ingrained subconscious patterns are quietly pulling them in a different direction.

The subconscious mind is NOT trying to sabotage you!

In fact, it's usually trying to protect you based on what it has learned over time. The problem is that those protective patterns can eventually become outdated, limiting, or no longer serve the life you want to live. Hypnosis helps update those patterns allowing your subconscious mind to support your goals instead of unconsciously working against them.

Clinical hypnosis works by communicating with the part of the mind where those automatic thoughts, habits, beliefs, and emotional responses are formed. As those patterns begin to change, new ways of thinking, feeling, and responding become more natural and sustainable.
Real change doesn't happen because someone tells you to think differently. It happens when your inner patterns begin supporting your conscious goals instead of working against them.

Helping People Rewrite Their Story

Every person has a story shaped by life experiences, relationships, successes, setbacks, and the beliefs they've developed along the way. While we can't change the past, we can change the meaning we assign to it, and the story we tell ourselves about who we are and what's possible.

My passion is helping people move beyond limiting beliefs, outdated patterns, and identities that no longer serve them. Whether you're overcoming anxiety, breaking an unwanted habit, building confidence, or striving for personal growth, my goal is to help you create a new chapter grounded in hope, resilience, and possibility.

Because your past may explain where you've been…but it doesn't have to determine where you're going.

Imagine What's Possible...

The life you're hoping for may be closer than you think. Lasting change starts with understanding where you are today and where you want to go.

Schedule your Initial Intake & Introductory Session now to get started.

I Help People Rewrite Their Story.

Every person has a story shaped by their life experiences... up until now.

What have you been through? The relationships, successes, setbacks, and the beliefs in your life have only just developed along the way.

While we can't change the past, we can change the meaning we assign to the past, and the story we tell ourselves about who we are and what's possible.

Whether you're overcoming anxiety, breaking an unwanted habit, building confidence, or striving for personal growth, my goal is to help you create a new chapter grounded in hope, resilience, and possibility.

My passion is helping people move beyond limiting beliefs, outdated patterns, and identities that no longer serve them.

Your past may ONLY explain where you've been...

Your past does NOT have to determine where you're going.

This process begins with you.

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617-792-2913

allison@discoverhypnosisnow.com

DISCLAIMER:

Results may vary from person to person. We guarantee the very best service using current information and appropriate techniques for your situation. Hypnosis and hypnotherapy are not meant to diagnose or treat any disease, but rather it is intended to provide information, education, and motivation that will help you live to your best potential and guide you toward being more effective in helping yourself.

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