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Welcome!
I’m Adrianna Carlesimo - a Clinical Hypnotherapist based in Brooklyn, NY (although I work with clients all over!).
If you've found this page - you've likely done a lot of the work already...the reading, the journaling, the years of talk therapy, perhaps even some coaching. And you can probably explain your anxiety, your self-doubt, your relationship patterns in perfect detail.
But understanding it hasn't made it stop. You still brace before you walk into the room. You still re-wrote the text 20x before you send it. You still feel revert to your childhood self the second you're with that family member.
That's the gap I work in.
My intention with every client is to help you come home to who you are underneath the fear, the programming, the armor - not just to connect with that person, but to actually feel like them again.
Grounded. Steady in your own body. Able to sit in silence with someone and not need to fill it.
Through our work together, we rewire the patterns at the root — not just manage them from the surface — so you can move through your life, your relationships, your own mind, without the constant low hum of not-enough-ness underneath it.
I believe deeply in as within, so without: when you heal at the root, that healing doesn't stay contained to you. It ripples outward, into every relationship and room you enter. That's what drives this work.
My Story
For years, I could tell you exactly why I had social anxiety.
I had the insight. I had the language.
What I didn't have was relief.
I'd walk into a room and my body would go into panic mode - heart racing, already scanning for the exit, already rehearsing how to appear fine. CBT helped me manage it from the outside. It gave me tools, and understanding. What it never gave me was the shift - the actual, felt sense of safety in my own skin.
That came from hypnotherapy. Not because I suddenly understood myself better - yet because something at the root actually changed.
For the first time, I felt at peace being me, not just managing the anxiety from a safe distance.
That's the work I do now, and it's the only reason I trust it as much as I do.
Before this, I spent 11 years in nonprofit and tech — good experience, never the right fit. When the world paused during COVID, I finally listened to the pull I'd been ignoring for years. I left tech, trained in clinical hypnotherapy, EFT, trauma recovery, inner child work, and energy healing, and built the practice I have now.
This is the work I've become known for: helping women who've already done "the work" - who can explain their patterns perfectly and still feel stuck inside them - find the shift that talking alone couldn't get them to.
If you want to hear this in other people's words instead of mine, the testimonials page has more.
And if you're ready to see whether this is a fit for you - no pressure, no pitch, just a real conversation - you can grab a free consultation below.