I'm Stef, and maybe you want to know how did I end up here as a hypnotherapist?

I honestly became a hypnotherapist to help sort out my own life. I had experienced it in the past to help myself through sleep disturbance, childhood trauma and stress and found it fascinating, but it wasn't until about 8 years later where I had done some other personal development training and work where I landed on the thought of getting trained in it.

Struggling from a life of anxiety, confidence issues and recovering from multiple burn outs, I decided to take a certification in in NLP & hypnotherapy to help myself out everyday. The truth was, I was already running two successful businesses as a wedding photographer and a personal branding coach, so this was completely for me. Once I got certified, I was blown away by how much it was helping my everyday life and business move forward. So much that the skills I learned started breathing their way into my businesses and making them stronger. Especially the coaching but you'd be surprised how much it helped my wedding photography business as well.

I later wanted to dive deeper into the hypnotherapy world and I got master certified in NLP and Hypnosis. Primarily loving the time line work that the program provided for both past life regressions, working through your own history and working towards the future you desire. This certification blew my mind open further than I could ever imagine, changing my life almost instantly. In the level of confidence, stress management and overall perception of the world. I brought these skills into my life absolutely every day and brought them into every client interaction I had in my coaching and photography.

Then in 2025 I moved to Vancouver Island, where things seemed to shift again and I realized I was being pulled to really bring the hypnotherapy part of my business out more strongly. In true virgo, knowledge loving fashion, I took another course in hypnotherapy based around conversations in Dec 2025. This yet again blew my mind open in how I easily could help people solve their own problems and find inner peace every day.

After a couple more months of working with hypnotherapy more regularly, in March 2026, my excitement around these sessions grew to be one of my biggest passions, so I launched Long Dog Hypnotherapy as a standalone brand to focus specifically on hypnotherapy sessions. I still run my Personal Branding Coaching business which incorporates some hypnotherapy pieces, but this brand itself is where I entirely focus on this modality.

Today I help people with their own self confidence and working through the things that bring them stress and anxiety and bring them closer to the life that brings them peace and joy.

Thanks for reading my journey!