The Tune-Up · single session

HYPNOTHERAPY
FOR ONE specific thing.

Smoking. Drinking. Anxiety. A fear you have quietly built your life around. One session, aimed at one problem, and you leave with a recording made for you.

Certified Hypnotherapist since 2008 · Lindsay A. Brady Institute of Hypnotherapy · Scottsdale, Arizona & Zoom

What I help with

Bring me the thing you are tired of.

Most people arrive with one clear problem. That is the ideal way to use a session. Here is where I work most often.

Habits & Addictions

The behavior that runs without your permission.

  • Smoking
  • Vaping
  • Alcohol
  • Other substances
  • Self-sabotage

Stress & Anxiety

A nervous system stuck in a posture it no longer needs.

  • Anxiety
  • Panic
  • Overwhelm
  • Racing mind
  • Sleep

Anger & Reactivity

The response that arrives before you do.

  • Anger
  • Irritability
  • Reactivity
  • Resentment
  • Road rage

Fears & Phobias

The thing you have organized your life to avoid.

  • Flying
  • Public speaking
  • Heights
  • Needles
  • Driving
  • Social situations

Weight & Eating

You already know what to do. Something else is steering.

  • Sticking to a plan
  • Emotional eating
  • Late-night eating
  • Sugar
  • Consistency

Motivation & Goals

The gap between intention and follow-through.

  • Procrastination
  • Focus
  • Confidence
  • Performance
  • Public speaking

Not listed? Ask. If it is a behavior, a reaction, or a way you see yourself, it is usually workable.

The short answer

Behavior follows self-perception.

Hypnosis is a state in which the mind takes suggestion easily. A suggestion is language that changes how you see yourself.

Here is the part that matters. You do not act on what you intend. You act on how you see yourself, and on how you see yourself responding to the people and circumstances around you. That is why willpower is such an exhausting tool. It fights the perception instead of changing it.

Change the self-perception and the behavior follows on its own, without the fight. That principle is the whole basis of the approach I was trained in, and it is why a single well-aimed session can do what months of effort could not.

How the session works

Three steps, however unique the problem.

In person in Scottsdale, or on Zoom from wherever you are. There is no stopwatch. Most sessions run sixty to ninety minutes.

Talk it through.

You tell me what you want to change and what it has been costing you. Conversational, not clinical. This part matters more than people expect, because it shapes everything that follows.

The hypnosis.

You relax into a calm, aware state while I deliver suggestions built around your goal, in your own language rather than a script off a shelf.

You take it with you.

The session is recorded and sent to you. I also build you a custom guided meditation from it, so the work keeps reinforcing itself after you go home.

WHAT YOU LEAVE WITH

A recording of your session and a custom guided meditation made from it, yours to keep. Most single-session work is designed to be complete in one sitting. If a second session would help, it is available, and I will tell you honestly if I think you need one.

Before you worry about it

What hypnosis is not.

You do not lose control.

You remain the pilot the entire time. Nobody can be made to do anything that violates their own values, in a session or on a stage.

You are not unconscious.

You are awake, aware, and participating. You will hear everything, and you will remember it afterward.

It is not sleep.

The relaxed state resembles the moment before sleep, but your attention is sharper, not duller.

You do not have to believe in it.

Skepticism is not an obstacle. You need to want the change and be willing to sit with it for an hour.

Who you would be sitting with

Ryan Today.

I have been a Certified Hypnotherapist since 2008, certified through the Lindsay A. Brady Institute of Hypnotherapy, and personally mentored by Brady himself, a pioneer in the field whose work reshaped how suggestion and perception are understood.

Alongside that, I have spent roughly twenty-five years in field research across somatic practice, breathwork, coordination, and human performance. That background is why I care less about scripts and more about the specific instrument in front of me.

You remain the pilot. I sit in the right seat.

Ryan Today laughing and playing a ukulele on a city rooftop at sunset

The Tune-Up is for one specific problem. If you are after something broader, the flight school trains the whole instrument over time. See the training.

Book a Tune-Up

One session. One specific thing.

Tell me what you want to change. I will confirm a time, and we will get it handled.

Single session$300In person or Zoom · 60–90 min
Recording & custom meditationIncludedYours to keep
Second session, if neededAskOnly if it would actually help
BOOKING REQUESTLIVE

No script. No required story. I reply personally, and we will find a time that works.