📍 Oregon – Alaya Ketani, CPC, CHT, CFT – Ashland

Contact directly:

1651 Siskiyou Boulevard
Ashland, OR 97520

📞 541-292-2945
✉️ alchemizechange@gmail.com

Meet Alaya Ketani, CPC, CHT, CFT

Alchemize Change Hypnotherapy and Holistic Life Consultation

Are you looking for an experienced hypnotherapist and holistic life consultant in Ashland or Southern Oregon?

Biography:  Alaya Ketani is a Certified Hypnotherapist, Holistic Life Consultant, trainer, mediator, and change agent with more than 40 years of professional experience. She helps clients work with subconscious patterns, habits, stress responses, personal transitions, and performance goals while developing practical skills for greater self-awareness and emotional regulation.

Alaya offers in-person sessions at her Ashland office and live virtual sessions for clients throughout Oregon, across the United States, and internationally.

More Than Four Decades of Experience

Alaya’s professional approach has developed through more than four decades of client work, personal study, community service, professional training, and lived experience.

Her methods draw from six forms of hypnosis:

• Clinical hypnosis

• Complementary medical hypnosis

• Transpersonal hypnosis

• Alchemical hypnosis

• Conversational hypnosis

• Somatic hypnosis

Her broader framework may also incorporate:

• Neuroscience-informed education

• Neuro-Linguistic Programming

• Somatic mind-body practices

• Sensorimotor psychology principles

• Nervous-system regulation

• Guided imagery

• Mindfulness

• Energy-system traditions

• Intuitive consultation

• Conflict-resolution skills

• Personal and spiritual development

Sessions are personalized according to the client’s goals, circumstances, beliefs, and preferences.

Helping You Develop a Healthier Relationship with Your Mind

Many people feel controlled by overthinking, old beliefs, automatic emotional reactions, or habits they consciously want to change.

Alaya helps clients observe these patterns without being defined by them. Her goal is to help people develop a healthier relationship with their thoughts, recognize their choices more clearly, and respond to life with greater intention.

Clients may learn skills intended to help them:

• Notice automatic thoughts and reactions

• Interrupt unhelpful patterns

• Strengthen emotional awareness

• Use imagination more intentionally

• Develop internal calm

• Improve self-trust

• Recognize personal values and priorities

• Respond rather than react

• Make decisions with greater clarity

• Practice self-hypnosis and nervous-system regulation

Mind Mastery

A central element of Alaya’s work is teaching clients how to develop greater awareness and direction over their mental focus.

Mind mastery does not mean eliminating every unwanted thought or maintaining constant control. It means learning how to observe thoughts, question habitual interpretations, redirect attention, and choose responses that better reflect the person’s goals and values.

Hypnosis may help clients experience a quieter, more focused state in which alternative perspectives and new responses can be explored.

Nervous-System Regulation

Alaya teaches practices intended to help clients recognize stress responses and return more effectively to a calmer state.

Nervous-system education may include:

• Breath awareness

• Grounding

• Focused attention

• Guided imagery

• Somatic awareness

• Self-hypnosis

• Recognition of stress cues

• Relaxation practice

• Developing internal signals of safety

• Preparing for stressful situations

These practices may support everyday stress management. 

Areas of Focus

Clients may contact Alaya for help pursuing goals involving:

• Stress reduction

• Confidence and self-esteem

• Habit and behavior change

• Fears and phobias

• Sleep-related habits

• Personal empowerment

• Life transitions

• Motivation and focus

• Performance enhancement

• Public-speaking confidence

• Relationship patterns

• Boundary development

• Women’s personal development

• Recovery of purpose and direction

• Mindfulness and self-awareness

• Emotional resilience

• Pain-related coping

• Medical-procedure preparation

• Pregnancy and childbirth support

• Spiritual exploration

• Intuition and personal discernment

• Conflict resolution

• Living with greater intention

Hypnosis and holistic consultation may support personal development, coping, and behavior change. Individual experiences vary, and no particular outcome can be guaranteed.

A Holistic Approach to Personal Development

Alaya’s work brings together practical mind-body education, hypnotic methods, intuitive perspectives, and spiritual traditions.

Clients may choose a secular and goal-focused approach, a spiritually oriented process, or a combination that reflects their beliefs. All religions, spiritual paths, and secular worldviews are welcome.

Complementary Medical Hypnosis

Alaya has training in hypnosis used as complementary support for clients navigating medical concerns, procedures, pregnancy, fertility care, pain, or recovery.

Possible goals may include:

• Reducing stress before a procedure

• Practicing relaxation

• Improving coping during treatment

• Supporting physician-directed pain management

• Preparing mentally for surgery or childbirth

• Managing treatment-related worry

• Reinforcing health-supportive habits

Women’s Advocacy and Community Leadership

Alaya has a longstanding commitment to supporting the safety, equality, and self-actualization of women and girls.

In 2018, she founded Keeping All Women Safe, a nonprofit organization developed to increase awareness and promote safety through education, advocacy, community events, professional collaboration, and engagement with judicial and legislative systems.

Her current leadership roles include:

• Founder and Executive Director, Keeping All Women Safe

• Founding Director and Visionary, Beyond Limits Women’s Collective

• Host, We Are Our Hero podcast

Her hypnosis and consultation practice is separate from the nonprofit organization and its advocacy activities.

Conflict-Resolution Experience

Alaya is trained and experienced in conflict-resolution mediation. She has facilitated disputes in Southern Oregon’s Rogue Valley and helped participants work toward mutually acceptable agreements.

Professional and Community Experience

In addition to private practice, Alaya reports approximately 30 years of work with agencies serving vulnerable populations, including:

• Families experiencing poverty

• Parents and young children

• People facing significant employment barriers

• Seniors returning to the workforce

• Child-abuse prevention programs

• Community members navigating conflict

• Women seeking safety information and support

This background contributes to her understanding of how social conditions, family environments, workplace experiences, and personal history can affect a person’s choices and sense of possibility.

Professional Affiliations

Alaya’s affiliations and leadership roles include:

• Member, International Certification Board of Clinical Hypnotherapy

• Founder and Executive Director, Keeping All Women Safe

• Founding Director, Beyond Limits Women’s Collective

• Host, We Are Our Hero podcast

• Peer-support group facilitator

• Member, International Association of Professional Writers and Editors

• Member, Rogue Valley Networking Council

• Non-denominational minister and wedding officiant, Universal Life Church

Appointment Options

• In-person appointments in Ashland

• Live virtual sessions

• Hypnotherapy

• Holistic life consultation

• Nervous-system education

• Self-hypnosis instruction

• Personal-development programs

• Professional training

• Conflict-resolution services

• Intuitive or spiritual consultation when requested

• Complimentary initial consultation

Alaya may also arrange limited in-person appointments in other Oregon communities, including Grants Pass, Bandon, and Salem. Contact her directly to confirm current travel availability and fees.

Contact Alaya Ketani

Alaya Ketani, CPC, CHT, CFT
Hypnotherapist, Holistic Life Consultant, Trainer, and Change Agent

📍 1651 Siskiyou Boulevard
Ashland, OR 97520

📞 541-292-2945
✉️ alchemizechange@gmail.com
🌐 Why Choose Alaya

Contact Alaya to request a complimentary consultation and discuss whether her services may be appropriate for your goals.

Independent-Practice Disclosure

Alchemize Change is independently owned and operated. Alaya Ketani is not an employee, agent, partner, or representative of Healthy Life Centers.

Healthy Life Centers recommends and refers prospective clients to independent practitioners but does not supervise or control their credentials, services, fees, scheduling, client relationships, professional decisions, representations, or results.