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Art-Hypno
K9 Healing
Equine Companionship
NLP, Hypnosis & Time Line® Therapy
Let’s see if we are the right fit.
To begin, a discovery session will be scheduled to make sure we are a good fit and to find out how to best help you.
A discovery session is a 30 minute telephone call.
Fiona McKenzie, Certified Master Practitioner of NLP, Hypnosis & Time Line® Therapy.
Fiona (Fi) has intentionally created a life and environment aligned with her philosophy of healing — grounded in calm, space, authenticity, and nature. Located 45 minutes from South Grafton in a quiet farming community, her two-bedroom off-grid cabin sits on 1,000 acres along the Mann River. The setting removes social noise and restores perspective through open sky, river flow, birdsong, and stillness. Clients access an art and craft studio and a full band music setup for learning, songwriting, rehearsal, and recording. Here, expression extends beyond conversation — offering space to pause, reflect, recalibrate, and consciously reshape one’s path toward healing and happiness.
WHAT IS ART-HYPNO?
Art-Hypno is a practical hands-on expressive way guiding you to connection with self. Art-Hypno is centred on the process, not the finished product. It is not a measure of artistic skill, talent, or technique. The value lies in expression, exploration, and meaning-making — not aesthetics.
Clients do not need to be “artistic.” Stick figures, simple symbols, colour blocks, or abstract marks are entirely valid. What matters is what the image represents internally, not how it appears externally.
For those who do have a natural creative flair, Art Therapy can become an even deeper channel for self-connection within the TimeLine® process. It provides a structured yet flexible space to access emotions, unconscious material, and personal insight that may be difficult to articulate verbally.
In essence, Art-Hypno is a tool for self-discovery, regulation, and integration — regardless of artistic ability.
Clients design their own two-hour experience when attending weekly, fortnightly or monthly regular appointment. Or book a weekend once a month and enjoy 3 nights stay. Whether that involves art, music, canine connection, equine interaction, quiet relaxation with personalised hypnotherapy plan, or a blend of all modalities, the choice remains theirs.
K9 HEALING
Dogs are often described as being almost psychic. In reality, they are highly attuned to human energy, body language, tone, breathing patterns, and emotional shifts. They do not read minds, but they read subtle cues with extraordinary accuracy. A dog, in particular, will often respond to what you are feeling or thinking before you say a word, because your internal state is already expressed through physiology and behaviour.
This sensitivity is not something they can switch off. When you are anxious, unsettled, sad, hurt, or lacking confidence, those emotions alter your posture, muscle tension, scent, and vocal tone. Animals detect these changes immediately and often aim to comfort, absorbing our pain with their willingness to just be by our side. Likewise, when you are calm, grounded, and assertive, they respond with steadiness and trust, this is where true connection is formed and nurtured.
The Healing to Happiness pack follow the K9 Good Dog fundamentals — even if you do not own a dog, learning these fundamentals is a powerful discipline in self-regulation. Training therapy dogs requires clarity of thought, emotional control, consistency, and calm leadership.
It teaches you to focus your energy intentionally and communicate without chaos or contradiction. In that process, you are not just training a dog; you are refining your own presence, mindset, and emotional intelligence.
Yilla
(Labrador X)
Sushi
(Wolfhound X)
Patrick
(Staffy)
Each of the boys bring their own temperament, offering grounding, humour, and connection in different ways. All boys are well trained and able to teach humans how to better connect with all dogs.
Patrick specialises in teaching humans how to overcome their limited beliefs, build confidence and burst freely into regular spontaneous laughter.
EQUINE COMPANIONSHIP
Equine companionship (also called equine-assisted learning) delivers measurable psychological, neurological, and behavioural benefits because horses are large, prey-based, herd animals that respond immediately to human regulation and leadership.
Their feedback is honest and non-judgmental.
Emotional Regulation
Horses co-regulate with humans. Because they are highly sensitive to shifts in breathing, muscle tension, and energy, they respond to dysregulation (anxiety, anger, fear) by becoming unsettled or disengaged. When a participant slows their breathing and grounds themselves, the horse visibly relaxes.
Why Horses?
Unlike humans, horses:
• Do not judge
• Do not interpret your past
• Do not respond to words alone
• Respond only to authenticity and regulation
They require congruence.
That requirement creates rapid growth.
How will equine companionship help
• Reduced anxiety and hypervigilance
• Improved emotional awareness
• Increased ability to self-soothe
• Greater frustration tolerance
This is particularly effective for trauma recovery, PTSD, and complex developmental trauma.
Confidence & Self-Efficacy
Successfully leading, grooming and ground work training a 500kg animal builds mastery. The experience is somatic, not theoretical.
• Increased confidence
• Clearer boundary setting
• Assertive (not aggressive) communication
• Stronger sense of capability
Non-Verbal Communication Skills
Horses respond primarily to body language and intention. Incongruence is immediately exposed.
• Improved congruence between thoughts, emotions, and behaviour
• Stronger leadership presence
• Better interpersonal awareness
• Enhanced empathy
Trauma Processing (Somatic Integration)
Trauma is stored in the body. Working with horses involves movement, rhythm, balance, and sensory engagement.
• Nervous system regulation
• Reduced dissociation
• Increased body awareness
• Integration of traumatic memory through safe relational experiences
Mounted work (when appropriate) can stimulate bilateral movement similar to EMDR principles. Although Healing to Happiness do not offer mounted work, we collaborate with riding trainers local to the client.
Responsibility & Routine
Our homestay experience offer daily horse care involves structure and accountability.
• Development of routine
• Improved executive functioning
• Sense of purpose
• Delayed gratification
This is particularly beneficial for adolescents at risk or disengaged youth.
Social & Relational Skills
Horses function in herds with clear hierarchy and boundaries.
• Understanding healthy boundaries
• Recognition of dominant vs. assertive behaviour
• Improved teamwork
• Increased trust-building capacity
Participants learn relational dynamics experientially rather than intellectually.
Time Line® Therapy and the unconscious mind
Timeline® Therapy is a therapeutic approach rooted in neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) and developed by Tad James in the 1980s. It is designed to help individuals release negative emotions, limiting beliefs, and unresolved issues from their past, enabling them to achieve personal growth and mental clarity.
We talk to your unconscious mind – What does your unconscious mind do for you:
• Stores and organises all your memories
• Generates and maintains all your emotions
• Represses unresolved traumatic and painful memories that stick and create internal blocks
• Keeps your body functioning
• Filters and controls the huge amounts of information that comes in through the senses (sight, sound, touch, taste and smell)
• Generates and maintains habits and instincts *repeated habits become unconscious actions
• Preserves your body when faced with serious danger
• Takes direction from the conscious mind
Our body holds what our mind is unable to let go
IT’S A DO WITH PROCESS
As a practitioner trained and certified in Hypnotherapy and Time Line Therapy® at the Practitioner level, these techniques facilitated to you along with Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) provides an unconscious ‘defrag’. Our weekly meetings (approx. 12 max) may or may not be different from what you might anticipate as we will not actually spend too much time talking about the problem itself. Rather my role is to collect as much information about your point of view and often I’ll ask your thoughts on a number of topics and situations not related to the issue at hand. My goal is to download your strategy, or how you assemble the issue. Once we have your strategy we are able to focus on the issue disappearing very quickly.
WHY TIME LINE THERAPY?
Results can occur very quickly – rather than spend months and maybe even year going over and over past trauma, Time Line® Therapy can produce lasting, desired results in a very short amount of time. This quick process zeroes in on the root cause of the issues. Sessions often go for 2-3hours for approx. 12 weeks for complete BreakThrough as opposed to 1hr sessions for years with traditional therapy. Clients often experience significant results within just one or two session as the unconscious starts to shift and resolve negative memories to a place of inner peace.
Core Principles of Timeline Therapy:
1. Internal Timeline:
The therapy is based on the idea that people unconsciously organise their memories in a chronological “timeline” that affects how they perceive events, emotions, and beliefs.
2. Negative Emotions and Limiting Beliefs:
Unresolved emotions like anger, fear, sadness, guilt, or beliefs like “I’m not good enough” can negatively impact a person’s behaviour and decision-making in the present.
3. Releasing Emotional Baggage:
By revisiting and reinterpreting past experiences on the timeline, individuals can let go of these negative influences and programming, replacing them with more empowering beliefs and emotions.
4. Empowering the Future:
Once negative past experiences are unconsciously resolved, the therapy helps individuals visualise and create positive focused blueprint for their future.
Benefits of Timeline Therapy:
• Reduces stress, anxiety, and emotional triggers.
• Helps overcome limiting beliefs and self-doubt.
• Improves clarity and decision-making.
• Enhances personal development and goal-setting.
• Finally let go of the limiting beliefs that have been holding you back.
• Release once and for all, destructive or painful negative emotions
• Overcome bad habits
• Have a better understanding of past events that impacted your life
• Freedom from troubling, intrusive thoughts
• Have more fulfilling interpersonal relationships
• The ability to face the future with optimism and hope, rather than dread or anxiety
• Feel empowered rather than helpless
• Overcome the impact of past trauma
• Increase your self-confidence
• Overcome personality issues that have negatively impacted your life
LIFE COACHING – Stay on track
Once the breakthrough of past programming is completed, coaching our clients through the adjustment period of having this new founded clarity to life is where the grow begins.
Once you have gone through the experience of Timeline® Therapy the real healing begins with rapid acceptance of events and situations which would have normally triggered past wounds. Instead, a sense of clarity is present and therefore ‘out of character’ reactions are expressed. In the past you may have reacted with; Anger, Sadness, Hurt, Fear or Guilt
Once you have removed the built up limiting beliefs and reframed them, life changes; only as quickly as you rapidly accept it will … Our Life Couching pastoral care is affordable and effective in your support to your new way of life.
Our Clients:
Timeline Therapy is often used in personal development coaching, trauma healing, and resolving anxiety, phobias, or other emotional challenges. It is also a tool for people looking to align their thoughts and emotions with their goals.
Services
Art-Hypno
K9 Healing
Equine Companionship
NLP, Hypno & TimeLine® Therapy