Hi, I'm Ruby, a hypnotherapist and coach in Humboldt County.
Not a therapist. Not a guru. A trained hypnotist, pattern-tracker and co-conspirator in your change. I help people change what they thought couldn't be changed, in person in Humboldt and online.
It all began deep in the wilds.
I graduated with a psych degree from Sonoma State and quickly realized I didn't want to sit in an office all day. I wanted to help people heal by getting them outside.
For twenty years, I mentored children, teens and adults in nature. Tracking patterns. Listening to the language of living systems. Learning how a single root shift can change an entire ecology.
That same skill lives in my work now: reading the subtle cues of a nervous system, and finding the place where everything quietly turns.
For a long time, I believed something was wrong with me.
Years ago, I was the person who looked like she had it together. I ran a well-known nature-based nonprofit. We bought our home. We traveled. From the outside, it was a beautiful life.
Inside, I was a wreck. My relationship was volatile, love and rage in equal measure, and I'd regularly end up crying on the kitchen floor, wondering why everything felt so insane when it looked so good on paper.
Therapists told me I was fine. I was working 60+ hours a week and running on fumes. I knew I wasn't fine. I wasn't even okay. My nervous system was running a survival program so old it didn't care how many vision boards or affirmations I made. It just knew how to keep me safe, even when “safe” felt miserable.
Miserable looked like: reactivity, people-pleasing, playing small, putting myself last, over-giving, and proving my worth through performance. A lot of self-judgment. A lot of shame.
Then came adrenal fatigue and hormone crashes. I spent over $25,000 on self-help, functional medicine, labs, coaching and therapy. Most of it moved the needle microscopically. Some of it made things worse.
Then I found the work that reached underneath the story.
Neuroscience-based practices changed everything for me. Then deep nervous-system work. Then hypnosis.
One of my biggest aha moments was realizing the volatility in my relationship was the same pattern I'd watched my parents play out. It wasn't even me. It wasn't a choice. It was an unconscious habit my nervous system knew by heart.
I wasn't permanently f***ed up. I didn't need to be perfect to deserve love. Nothing was wrong with me.
I went from outwardly successful and inwardly wrecked to a grounded, intimate, wildly loving relationship, with the same man. From survival to a life I can actually feel in my body.
That's why this work isn't theory for me. It's lived.
What fully alive looks like for me.
These days you'll find me on the beach, in the forest, with our pups, or cooking up a brilliant mess in the kitchen. I live on the Humboldt coast, I spend as much time outdoors as I can, and I call my own shots.
One of my favorite clients told me she chose me because I'm where she sees herself in ten years. That's the best compliment I've ever gotten, and it's the whole point. You get to feel this way too.
Part conversation, part hypnosis, all you.
We almost always begin with one question: what do you want to change today?
From there, we might talk through what's happening, take apart a trigger right where it shows up, then drop into hypnosis. It's a dance between conversation and trance.
I'll ask questions that cut through the noise. I'll point out the patterns you don't always see. And I'll give you tools you can use in real life, when you're stressed, triggered or doubting yourself.
Sometimes we laugh, sometimes it's quiet, sometimes it's messy. That range is part of the work. Clients often say it feels both safe and stretching, like they can go deeper than they expected without being overwhelmed.
Grounded, client-centered, no guru stuff.
- You keep your own authority. Integrative Hypnosis is client-centered. You lead, and that builds trust in our work and in yourself.
- You stay in control. This isn't stage hypnosis. It's discovering how much influence you already have.
- No rehashing. You don't have to relive the past to heal. If we go there, we go resourced and safe.
- It's practical. Every session leaves you with tools for daily life and an experience that shifts things below thinking.
- Women and men. In person in Humboldt and online.
Where I trained.
- Certified in Integrative Hypnosis by Melissa Tiers
- Certified by the Ethical Coaching Collective
- Certified by IACT (International Association of Counselors & Therapists)
- Psychology degree, Sonoma State University
- 20 years mentoring children, teens and adults in nature
- Known forThe deep rewrite
- Weekend plansMountains & sea
- Known to splurge onThe farmers market
- On the lookout forHidden portals
- Always order me anEspresso
- Entirely underratedWild knowing
“Ruby's work is incredibly powerful… each time we went under she guided me deeper and deeper into a state where I experienced more of my true power and potentiality.”Miria Lovlin