Haile Michaelson

Dr. Haile Michaelson, ND Integrative Mind-Body Therapy, Hypnotherapy & Trauma-Informed Healing In my professional journey, I have dedicated my work to supporting people who are seeking deeper healing beyond surface-level symptom management. Many of the individuals I work with are navigating trauma, identity, nervous system dysregulation, chronic stress, grief, relational wounds, body disconnection, burnout, or patterns that feel difficult to shift through insight alone. My primary intention is to provide a safe, inclusive, and deeply respectful space where you can explore the parts of yourself that may feel overwhelmed, conflicted, protective, ashamed, disconnected, or unseen. With warmth, presence, intuitive depth, and grounded compassion, I support clients in moving toward greater self-understanding, emotional safety, embodiment, and inner trust. My work is especially informed by trauma healing, parts therapy, subconscious studies, hypnotherapy, somatic awareness, and mind-body medicine. I am interested in the places where the nervous system, body, memory, identity, and subconscious patterns intersect. Often, what appears as anxiety, shutdown, over-functioning, people-pleasing, emotional eating, dissociation, perfectionism, or self-sabotage may be understood as an intelligent adaptation that once helped you survive. I work with clients navigating trauma, PTSD, identity exploration, LGBTQ+ experiences, body-based distress, eating disorder patterns, relational wounds, attachment injuries, shame, burnout, and emotional dysregulation. As a member of the LGBTQ+ community myself, I bring both lived understanding and clinical humility to the work. I do not assume shared experience, but I deeply value creating a space where identity, sexuality, difference, belonging, and self-expression can be explored without pathologizing or minimizing. My therapeutic approach is integrative. I draw from parts work, hypnotherapy, somatic and nervous system-informed practices, subconscious re-patterning, attachment-focused therapy, trauma-informed care, and transpersonal psychology. I am also completing my Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology, which continues to deepen my work through a biopsychosocial, culturally responsive, and socially just lens. A central part of my work is parts therapy, which honours the reality that we are not one single, simple self. We often carry many inner parts: protective parts, wounded parts, high-performing parts, ashamed parts, young parts, angry parts, spiritual parts, and parts that learned to keep us safe through control, avoidance, achievement, caretaking, or disconnection. Rather than trying to remove or silence these parts, we approach them with curiosity and compassion, helping them become understood, integrated, and less burdened by old survival roles. I also specialize in the subconscious layers of healing. Many people come to therapy after years of understanding their patterns intellectually but still feeling stuck in the same body responses, emotional loops, or relational dynamics. Hypnotherapy and subconscious work can help access deeper layers of memory, meaning, emotion, and identity, allowing healing to happen beneath the level of cognitive insight alone. In addition to my client work, I teach and mentor practitioners in integrative hypnotherapy, parts therapy, regression-based approaches, somatic scripts, and trauma-informed subconscious work. This teaching role reflects one of my deepest passions: helping practitioners move beyond technique alone and into a more attuned, embodied, ethical, and transformative way of working with clients. My work is also informed by the body. As a naturopathic doctor with a background in psychology, nutrition, functional medicine, meditation, and mind-body healing, I understand that trauma and emotional distress are not only “in the mind.” They live through the nervous system, hormones, immune system, digestion, sleep, posture, breath, and the felt sense of safety in the body. In our work together, we may gently explore the body’s signals, not as problems to override, but as meaningful expressions of your lived experience. I aim to build therapeutic relationships through consistency, attunement, consent, and respect. For many people, healing requires a relationship that feels steady enough to explore what was once too painful, confusing, or unsafe to feel alone. My role is not to force insight or push you into catharsis, but to support a process that is paced, collaborative, and rooted in your own readiness. Beyond my formal training, my work is shaped by my own lived experience as a queer woman, my long-standing interest in consciousness and contemplative practice, and my commitment to trauma-informed, identity-affirming, and culturally humble care. I believe healing is not about becoming someone else. It is about recovering the parts of you that had to hide, adapt, perform, protect, or disconnect, and helping them return to a greater sense of dignity, wholeness, and belonging.