Hi! I am Michelle O’Connell, and
I'm the founder of Ashes to
Ascension Hypnotherapy

I am a proud California native, a mother to three incredible boys, and a Certified Hypnotherapist passionate about helping people unlock the power of their own minds.​

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I did not come to this work through theory alone. I came to it through life.

I know what it feels like to carry pain that no one else can see. I know what it feels like to survive experiences that change the way you trust, love, protect yourself, and move through the world. I know what it feels like to grow up with wounds that follow you into adulthood, to repeat patterns you do not fully understand, to question your worth, to silence your needs, and to wonder why healing can feel so hard even when you are doing your best.

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My path has included deep personal healing from childhood wounds, unhealthy relationship dynamics, abuse, trauma, addiction, self-abandonment, and the painful patterns that can keep a person feeling stuck, unseen, or disconnected from who they truly are.

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But I do not share that because I identify with the pain.

I share it because I understand the courage it takes to face it.

My work is rooted in compassion, lived experience, spiritual growth, subconscious healing, and the belief that no one is too broken to begin again. I know firsthand that healing is not always linear. Sometimes it is messy. Sometimes it is emotional. Sometimes it asks you to grieve the person you had to become to survive.

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But I also know that transformation is possible.

Hypnotherapy changed my life so deeply that I became a hypnotherapist myself. Through this work, I found a way to access the subconscious mind, release old beliefs, reconnect with the wounded parts of myself, and begin to create a life from a place of power rather than pain.

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Now, I help others do the same.

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At Ashes to Ascension Hypnotherapy, I support clients who are ready to heal from emotional pain, inner child wounds, toxic relationship patterns, self-worth struggles, limiting beliefs, anxiety, fear, shame, and the old stories that have kept them from feeling free.

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This is a safe, supportive space for deep inner work.

You do not have to have all the right words.
You do not have to explain every detail of what happened.
You do not have to prove your pain.
You only have to be willing to begin.

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My approach is gentle, intuitive, honest, and deeply transformational. I believe healing happens when we stop judging the parts of ourselves that were only trying to survive and begin giving those parts the love, safety, truth, and support they needed all along.

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You are not your past.
You are not your trauma.
You are not your coping mechanisms.
You are not the version of you that had to survive.

You are allowed to rise.

And I would be honored to walk beside you as you do.

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