Habit
Strategic hypnotherapy for behavioural change — smoking, alcohol, food, screens. For people who are done losing to willpower.
Strategic hypnotherapy, trauma-aware psychotherapy, and practical tools for the things willpower can't fix. Online across Australia, or in person near Ipswich.
Maybe you've seen a GP. Maybe a psychologist. Maybe you've done the apps, the courses, the podcasts. And yet the same thing keeps happening — the chest-tight meeting, the drink after work, the 3am spiral, the exhaustion that rest doesn't fix.
Empowered Minds Co is not a bigger willpower. It's a different method.
We work at the layer underneath the conscious mind — where habits live, where old patterns hold on, where the nervous system learned what to do a long time ago. We do it at a pace you can handle, with a method that fits the problem, for as many sessions as the work actually takes. No more. No fewer.
Australians facing workplace burnout · Beyond Blue
The pattern is rarely the crisis. The pattern is what prevents the crisis from being named.
For people working at capacity — in careers that reward being on, holding through, figuring it out — the things that help at first become the things that have to be managed later. Sleep. Alcohol. Stimulants. A mind that can't switch off. Anxiety dressed as ambition. Burnout dressed as stamina. The work is the same, regardless of where it started: find the pattern, interrupt it carefully, give the nervous system something better to learn.
You'll know the session count before you start. Three for a habit. Six to eight for anxiety. Eight to sixteen for trauma work.
A fifth pathway, Concordia, runs alongside these for clients who need complete discretion — off-platform, after-hours, referral-only. Read more on its own page.
Strategic hypnotherapy for behavioural change — smoking, alcohol, food, screens. For people who are done losing to willpower.
ACT-aligned practice, clinical hypnosis, and nervous-system work for chronic worry, panic, and the 3am spiral.
Gentle, paced work with single or complex trauma. Alongside existing supports, never replacing them. The pace is always yours.
Identity, values, capacity. For people exhausted by work, home, or both.
“You are capable of things you could never imagine.”
Carla Simpson · Empowered Minds Co
One clinician. One relationship. One method that adjusts to who's in the room.
Carla Simpson is a clinical hypnotherapist and Gordian psychotherapist based in Lowood, Queensland. She works with people on habit change, anxiety, burnout, and — at a careful pace — trauma.
Her approach blends strategic hypnosis with evidence-informed psychotherapy and ACT-aligned practice. What she brings to a session depends on who's sitting in the room.
She is an HCA-accredited hypnotherapist, a member of the IICT and the Strategic Hypnotherapists Association, and continues her training in trauma-informed practice. Sessions are available online across Australia and in person near Ipswich.
No charge, no pitch. We talk about what's happening and whether the work we'd do together is the right shape.
Three for a habit. Six to eight for anxiety. Eight to sixteen if we're doing trauma work. You'll know the commitment before you commit.
In session, we use what fits — hypnosis, psychotherapy, ACT practice, nervous-system work. The method adjusts; the pace is always yours.
No. Hypnotherapy and Gordian psychotherapy sit outside Medicare — no referral, no session cap, no waitlist. You can book directly.
Clinical hypnosis is a mode of focused attention with robust research behind it for habit change, pain, anxiety, and phobia work. It's one tool in a bigger kit, and I'll only use it when it fits. Many sessions don't use hypnosis at all.
We use a secure AU-based telehealth platform. You need a private, quiet space, a stable internet connection, and about an hour. Online works well for most pathways — including trauma-informed work.
Please contact 13YARN (13 92 76), Lifeline (13 11 14), or your nearest emergency department. The work we do together is not crisis intervention. I'm happy to follow up once you're stable and can benefit from paced work.
It can be part of trauma-informed work — particularly for grounding, resourcing, and working with specific triggers. But trauma work is always paced, always consented, and always alongside other supports. I won't rush you.
A$165 per session (inc GST). Packages bring the per-session rate down. The 20-minute intro call is free. You can see the package prices in the Pathways section above.
Yes. Each pathway has a recommended package with a 10% saving vs booking sessions individually. You can pay up front or across the first three sessions.
Online across Australia. One day a week in person at a practitioner room near Ipswich / Somerset, QLD. Exact address shared on booking.
For senior professionals, founders, and partner-track lawyers navigating stimulant, alcohol, or prescription patterns that began as a tool and ended as a tether. Off-platform notes. After-hours sessions. Signed confidentiality before the first session.
The simplest first step. We talk about what's going on, and whether the work we'd do together is the right shape for what you need.
Full online booking goes live once the Lume platform onboarding completes. Email is fastest in the meantime.