Hypno-Coaching consultations for your Personal Life
Between the life you're living and the one you want, there's rarely a shortage of ideas. There are projects that stall, decisions that drag on, "one day I'll…" getting older by the year — and, in France over the past few years, a real crisis of purpose running through open-plan offices everywhere. Our coaches, certified through recognized organizations including the ICF, work with you in person in Paris, Strasbourg, Saverne, Montpellier, Saint-Gilles, or by video anywhere in France. With our powerful approach: hypno-coaching, which combines the structure of coaching with hypnosis to lift the blocks willpower alone can't reach.
An honest sort first: coaching, therapy, or a skills assessment
Three approaches, three uses, and a market that isn't always clear.
- Coaching is for someone who's fundamentally doing fine but wants things to move: a direction, a transition, a project.
- Therapy treats suffering: a collapsed mood, overwhelming anxiety → a psychologist or doctor first, and we'll tell you so at the first meeting.
- A skills assessment, finally, is a structured, fundable process that maps your skills and career paths: it complements coaching. The assessment tells you what's possible; coaching (and hypnosis) clears away what's stopping you from getting there.
For the full breakdown and method, see our Life Coaching guide on solutionshypnose.com.
The real problem: you already know what to do

Sending that email, having that conversation, leaving that job, starting that project… You've known it for months, and you're not doing it.
That's the limit of classic coaching. The perfect plan breaks against blocks it can't see:
- Limiting beliefs ("not for me," "too late," "I've invested too much to change now").
- Fear of failure (and its quiet twin, fear of success).
- Invisible loyalties (surpassing your parents, disappointing whoever funded your studies, leaving "a good situation").
- An identity running behind the project.
Video available in French
When and how to use hypno-coaching?
These blocks don't respond to reasoning: they get worked on under hypnosis, while coaching structures the action. The plan PLUS the ground beneath it: that's hypno-coaching.
The projects we support most often in France
- Career change and the search for purpose. The defining shift of this decade: executives who can't stand "making slides" anymore, burned-out healthcare workers, thirty-somethings refusing the path laid out for them. The block is almost never the project itself — it's social judgment ("you have a good situation, why give it all up?"), the security you'd be leaving, and loyalty to the path already built. Coaching structures the transition; hypnosis defuses the real fears.
- Clarity and direction. "I don't know what I want" is the most common reason people come to coaching. Accessing your real values under hypnosis (not the ones handed to you) and what actually lights you up, beyond what the mind over-analyzes and personality tests already taken three times.
- Decisions that drag on. Leave or stay, the capital or the countryside, accept or refuse: when pros-and-cons lists have been going in circles for months… We decide differently: living out each option in imagination, listening to what the body already knows, unmasking fear disguised as caution.
- Taking action. The project endlessly postponed, the book never started, the small business waiting in the wings… Procrastination on big projects has its own mechanisms: perfectionism, a mountain that hasn't been broken into steps, an identity running behind.
- Balance and boundaries. Relearning to say no, no longer living someone else's schedule, making room for what matters before the body forces the issue (see also our Stress & Anxiety page).
How it works, and when it ends
A clear goal first: measurable, dated, within your control. The first session often turns something vague ("I want to change my life") into a real direction. Then four to eight spaced sessions, two to four weeks apart: the real work happens between sessions, in your actions. And a clear ending stated from the start: successful coaching makes the coach unnecessary, independence (self-hypnosis included) is the deliverable, and support with no end date should raise a flag, here as anywhere else.
Hypno-coaching: framework and limits
Our coaching ethics
"Life coach" isn't a protected title: anyone can call themselves one tomorrow morning, and promises of a "dream life in 21 days" flood social media. Our commitments, plainly:
- Trained and certified practitioners (ICF, the international reference, recognized hypnosis and NLP schools).
- No magical thinking: your results will come from your actions, our job is to make them possible.
- No engineered dependency: an end date planned from the start.
- An honest sort toward a psychologist or doctor when that's the right field.
Life coach or therapist: how do I decide?
Moving forward or healing: that's the question that decides. A direction to find, a transition, a stuck project → coaching. Real suffering (a collapsed mood, overwhelming anxiety, a difficult experience…) → a psychologist or doctor first. We'll tell you so plainly at the first meeting. The two also work very well one after the other.
Ready to go from "one day" to the first step?
In Office or Online Across France
Offices in Paris, Lille…
And if you live far away or elsewhere in the world, online sessions work very well. Evening slots available.
Frequently asked questions about life hypno-coaching
Often both, in either order. A skills assessment (a structured, fundable process) maps out what's possible. Coaching clears away what's stopping you from getting there: fear, other people's opinions, an identity running behind. Many of our clients arrive after a successful assessment that's been sitting in a drawer for a year — it's practically our textbook case.
No, but the question deserves more than a yes or no. The work in coaching separates what's a genuine aspiration (something to build) from a passing urge to escape (something to understand), then defuses the real block — which is rarely the project itself and almost always other people's opinions and loyalty to the path already built. The final decision is yours; it'll just finally be your own.
Exactly that. Your problem isn't a lack of information — it's a block (a limiting belief, fear of failure or success, an invisible loyalty…). These blocks don't respond to reasoning: they get worked on under hypnosis, while coaching turns "what" into "when and how." The breakthrough you're waiting for isn't in one more plan.
It's a practical toolbox: well-formed goals, reframing, anchoring — widely used in coaching, and some of its promoters have oversold its foundations. We use it for what it does well, without turning it into a religion: tools that serve your goal, never the other way around.
No, neither public health insurance nor private insurers cover life coaching, and we'd rather tell you that upfront. It's a defined personal investment: four to eight sessions with an end date planned from the start, and independence as the deliverable.
The life you want needs a plan — and the breakthrough that makes it possible. Contact the practice nearest you or book a video session.
Page written by Anne-Géraldine Lavielle
hypnotherapist and holistic coach
partner at Solutions Hypnose.
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