Service Details & Professional Background

Heather Keys — Integration Practitioner, Hypnotherapist & Coach

Heather Keys is an integration practitioner, hypnotherapist, coach, hypnosis educator, writer, speaker, and host of Proof of Mind. Integration is the thread that connects her work: helping people bring insight, inner transformation, and what they imagine into everyday choices, relationships, work, and real-world results.

Based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Heather works online with clients and practitioners internationally. She previously practiced as Heather Rodriguez, and many former clients know her professionally as Hypno Heather. Her practice has been fully online since 2020.

2011

Practicing hypnosis since

2014

Teaching and certifying practitioners since

9,000+

Client sessions

300+

Practitioners trained

2020

Online practice since

Calgary, Alberta

Based in · working online internationally

Core Approach

Individually tailored work, centred on integration.

Heather's work is individually tailored. Depending on what a person brings, sessions may draw on hypnotherapy, coaching, emotional and somatic processing, spiritual inquiry, and integration — combined around the individual rather than delivered as a fixed method.

Much of this work involves recurring patterns, significant life transitions, shifts in identity, and possibilities people feel called to bring into their lives — the changes people understand intellectually but have not yet fully lived.

The approach respects each person's beliefs, preferences, lived experience, and inner authority. Spiritual exploration can be part of the work when it is appropriate to the person, and it is always optional.

People do not need to select a method before reaching out. A consultation helps determine the appropriate starting point, and the work unfolds from there. However change arrives, the measure is not what you understand but how your life begins to reflect it. Your life is the proof.

Certifications, Professional Training & Mentorship

Formal training behind the work.

Heather\u2019s approach draws on formal certifications, advanced hypnosis training, spiritual exploration, and ongoing coaching and mentorship.

Certifications

Hypnosis certification

Advanced Hypnosis Calgary, 2011

Certified Hypnotherapist

National Guild of Hypnotists (NGH), 2011

Instructor of Hypnotism

National Guild of Hypnotists (NGH), 2014

Certified Instructor

International Certification Board of Clinical Hypnotherapy (ICBCH), 2020

HypnoBirthing Fertility Consultant Certification Program

HypnoBirthing Institute

The HypnoBirthing Institute program is in fertility consulting. It is not a childbirth-education certification, and Heather does not hold a separate HypnoBirthing childbirth-educator certification.

Professional Training

Simpson Protocol training and advanced training

The Way of the Shaman

Foundation for Shamanic Studies, 2024

Harner Shamanic Counselling training

Certificate of Completion

Three Principles coaching training with Wally Mueller

Regression and past-life regression training

Mentorship & Continued Development

Participation in coaching and mentorship groups with Michael Neill

Beginning in 2020

Private coaching mentorship with Kai Jordan

Beginning in late 2018

Mentorships describe Heather\u2019s own continued professional development. They are not certifications, and listing one here does not imply it is necessarily ongoing today.

Online Hypnotherapy & Hypnosis

Hypnotherapy for the patterns beneath the surface.

Hypnotherapy — the therapeutic use of hypnosis — is at the centre of Heather's client work. In a hypnotherapy session, hypnosis is used to engage attention, imagination, suggestion, and the subconscious associations that shape familiar emotional and behavioural responses, supporting change at the level where those responses actually live.

People often arrive understanding exactly what they want to change, yet finding themselves responding in the same familiar ways. Hypnosis offers a way to work with the associations, emotions, and identity patterns that conscious effort alone has not reached.

Online hypnosis and online hypnotherapy sessions are available to clients internationally, and many people find the comfort of their own space supports the work.

What people bring

Weight loss and eating

  • Hypnosis for weight loss and healthier eating
  • Emotional eating, cravings, and compulsive eating patterns
  • Evening eating and habitual snacking
  • The relationship with food and with the body
  • Beliefs, identity, and emotional patterns connected to sustainable change

Smoking and habits

  • Quitting smoking and smoking cessation
  • Changing unwanted habits
  • Repetitive or compulsive behaviours
  • Patterns that persist despite conscious effort

Emotional experiences

  • Stress and anxiety
  • Fears and phobias
  • Confidence, self-esteem, and self-worth
  • Grief and loss
  • Difficult past experiences and trauma-related patterns
  • Persistent emotional reactions

Everyday life and performance

  • Sleep difficulties and difficulty switching off
  • Procrastination and follow-through
  • Performance and fear of being seen
  • Relationship patterns and boundaries
  • Life transitions and shifts in identity
  • Direction, purpose, and self-trust

How the work is done

Depending on the person and what emerges in a session, the work may draw on regression, ideomotor processes, inner-child work, and superconscious-led approaches. Methods are selected around the person rather than prescribed universally.

Ongoing sessions and integration

While a single session can be meaningful, many people value ongoing sessions as the change settles into everyday life. Integration — noticing what is different, what is still emerging, and what the next layer of the work is — is part of how insight becomes lived.

Spiritual hypnosis

For some people, the work also includes spiritual hypnosis: individually tailored sessions exploring consciousness, inner wisdom, purpose, and the deeper questions that can arise through change. Depending on your interests, this may include superconscious hypnosis, past-life exploration (understood as a subjective experience rather than a verified historical account), life-purpose inquiry, or support integrating spiritual insights and experiences into everyday life. Spiritual exploration is always optional and respects each person's beliefs and preferences.

Spiritual hypnosis is distinct from Harner Shamanic Counselling, which is a separate, structured five-session path for direct spiritual exploration through core shamanism and shamanic journeying.

Hypnotherapy supports change; it is not a substitute for medical diagnosis or necessary healthcare. Heather is a hypnotherapist, not a physician, psychologist, or regulated mental-health professional, and the areas of support described above are not guarantees of treatment results. If you are under medical care, continuing that care alongside this work is encouraged.

You can also read the dedicated hypnotherapy service page, written in Heather's own words.

Coaching

Coaching for what you feel called to build.

Heather's coaching is for entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, independent creators, business owners, and people navigating personal or spiritual transitions. Whether it is described as life coaching, transformational coaching, mindset coaching, or coaching for entrepreneurs, the work is the same at heart: supporting the person behind the business or vision.

  • Putting their work into the world
  • Fear of visibility
  • Overthinking and second-guessing
  • Procrastination and familiar habits that pull them back
  • Self-trust and making decisions
  • Taking meaningful risks
  • Consistency and following through
  • Navigating uncertainty
  • Moving toward a more meaningful direction
  • Responding to a calling or a possibility beyond their current life

The work supports fresh insight, clarity, and action — so what matters to you keeps moving from idea into lived reality.

Heather is not a technical business consultant and does not provide investment advice; the coaching focuses on the beliefs, patterns, and decisions of the person doing the building.

Advanced Hypnotherapy & Practitioner Mentoring

Mentoring for hypnotherapists and hypnotists.

Since 2014, Heather has taught and certified hypnosis practitioners, and mentoring is where that experience is offered one-to-one. Hypnotherapy mentoring for practicing hypnotists and hypnotherapists has two connected aspects, and most people draw on both.

1. Developing skills as a hypnotherapist or hypnotist

  • Advancing beyond foundational hypnosis training
  • Deepening practitioner confidence and presence
  • Working with analytical clients
  • Adapting when a session does not unfold as expected
  • Exploring regression, ideomotor, and superconscious approaches within Heather’s experience
  • Integrating methods around the individual client
  • Reflecting on challenging client work while respecting confidentiality
  • Professional identity and boundaries

2. Building a sustainable, profitable practice

  • Clarifying services and communicating their value
  • Developing offers that reflect the practitioner’s skills and approach
  • Becoming visible and speaking about their work confidently
  • Beliefs and habits affecting business decisions
  • Consistency, follow-through, and self-trust
  • Creating a practice that supports clients and the practitioner’s livelihood

This is individually tailored mentoring shaped around the practitioner — not accredited clinical supervision, not a new qualification, and not a guarantee of income. Advanced hypnotherapy skills and business mentoring for hypnotherapists are woven together according to what each practitioner needs.

Hypnosis Training & Continuing Education

Hypnosis certification and practitioner training.

Heather has taught and certified hypnosis practitioners since 2014 and has trained more than 300 practitioners. Training with Heather covers foundational hypnosis certification, hypnotist and hypnotherapy training, advanced hypnosis learning, and continuing practitioner development — with opportunities for returning students to come back and deepen their skills.

An eight-week certification course, taught live and online, is planned for early 2027. Registration is not currently open. The interest list is the place to hear when registration opens, get first access to available spots, and receive early pricing.

Former students interested in advanced hypnosis learning or continuing education are also welcome to join the interest list, which shares those opportunities as they become available.

Core Shamanism & Harner Shamanic Counselling

Harner Shamanic Counselling.

Alongside hypnotherapy, Heather's work includes core shamanism — the near-universal foundations of shamanic practice, including shamanic journeying — as a path of spiritual exploration and spiritual integration.

Harner Shamanic Counselling is a structured five-session online process that supports your own direct journey experience and your relationship with your spiritual guidance. Heather trained in Harner Shamanic Counselling through the Foundation for Shamanic Studies and facilitates the process without interpreting the journeys for you; the meaning that emerges is yours.

Reasons people explore this work

  • Questions of purpose and direction
  • Significant transitions
  • Spiritual curiosity
  • Developing a relationship with one’s own spiritual guidance
  • Exploring meaning through direct experience
  • Integrating spiritual insights into everyday life

This is guiding and facilitative work. Heather is a shamanic practitioner and counsellor, and does not use the title "shaman" or promise particular healing outcomes. People looking for a spiritual practitioner, guide, or healer can expect a structured process that supports their own direct experience — and nothing imposed upon it.

Bitcoin Founders, Entrepreneurs & Teams

Coaching for Bitcoin founders, entrepreneurs, and teams.

Heather's connection to Bitcoin runs through her larger work: sovereignty — personal responsibility, inner authority, and the human side of building. Bitcoin-aware coaching and coaching for Bitcoin entrepreneurs apply the same attention to the inner patterns of the people building in this space.

  • Self-trust and uncertainty
  • Changing roles and identity
  • Visibility and communicating meaningful work
  • Decisions and follow-through
  • Familiar patterns that interfere with building
  • Staying connected to purpose as a business evolves
  • Inner sovereignty and personal responsibility

Sovereign builders — founders, startups, independent businesses, and teams — can inquire about coaching, speaking, and facilitated conversations around these themes. These are ways to explore working together; Heather does not offer a packaged startup program, and this work is not technical advisory.

Bitcoin payments

Heather accepts Bitcoin for her services. If you would like to arrange Bitcoin payment, simply raise it when discussing working together — no checkout links or payment details are needed at the inquiry stage.

Speaking, Conferences & Podcast Invitations

Invitations for talks, panels, and podcasts.

Heather is available for Bitcoin conferences and community events, entrepreneurship and business events, hypnosis conferences and practitioner education, panels and facilitated conversations, podcast interviews, and invitations from teams and organizations.

Her central speaking theme is Proof of Mind — how inner transformation becomes real-world results through what we create, how we build, the decisions we make, and how we live.

Additional themes

  • Bitcoin and the psychology of sovereignty
  • Consciousness, identity, and personal transformation
  • Inner authority, responsibility, and self-trust
  • Beliefs around money, value, visibility, and success
  • Moving from awareness and insight into practice and lived change
  • The human side of entrepreneurship
  • Building a transformational practice

Recent speaking includes a talk at the Canadian Bitcoin Conference (2025), moderating panels at Bitcoin Rodeo in Calgary (2025) and Sovereign Minds (2024), and a panel at Bitcoin 2026 in Las Vegas. Heather has also been a guest on Bitcoin-focused podcasts, including The Bitcoin Edge, The Bitcoin Broadcast, and The Bitcoin Nova Podcast. Full details, including event pages and episodes, are preserved on the Media page.

To invite Heather to speak on a podcast, panel, stage, or interview, reach out through the contact page.

Proof of Mind & Ways to Explore

Proof of Mind and related ways to explore.

Proof of Mind is Heather's broader body of work: an exploration of the relationship between inner transformation and real-world results. It is where her hypnotherapy, coaching, and writing meet her long-standing inquiry into consciousness, beliefs, and sovereignty.

The Proof of Mind podcast is a show for sovereign builders exploring these questions through the lens of Bitcoin — conversations about the beliefs, habits, and perspectives shaping how we live, create, and build.

Experience the Work is Heather's ongoing email list: reflections, questions, stories, practices, and invitations to explore more deeply — and to grow with her as the work unfolds.

Related offerings

Two related offerings live outside this site. Daily Somatics offers hemp-infused body care and everyday rituals, and Fertile Fields is a collaborative offering from the same team.

Practical Questions & Next Steps

Practical questions and next steps.

Who does Heather work with?

Adults seeking change through hypnotherapy, coaching, shamanic counselling, mentoring, or hypnosis training — including clients, practitioners, entrepreneurs, and teams.

Where is Heather based?

Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Are sessions online?

Yes. Heather’s practice has been fully online since 2020, and sessions take place over video.

Can international clients inquire?

Yes. Online sessions are available to clients internationally.

Is this the same Heather previously known as Heather Rodriguez or Hypno Heather?

Yes. Heather previously practiced as Heather Rodriguez and is also known professionally as Hypno Heather.

What can people bring to hypnotherapy?

Common areas include eating patterns and weight loss, quitting smoking, stress and anxiety, fears and phobias, confidence, grief, sleep, procrastination, relationship patterns, and life transitions.

Does Heather offer weight-loss and smoking-cessation hypnosis?

Yes. Hypnosis for weight loss and for quitting smoking are among the most requested areas of her work.

Do I need to choose a method before reaching out?

No. A consultation helps determine the appropriate starting point, and methods are selected around the person.

Does Heather’s work include a spiritual aspect?

Yes. Heather offers spiritual hypnosis and individually tailored work exploring consciousness, inner wisdom, purpose, and the deeper questions that can arise through change. Depending on the person’s interests, this may include superconscious hypnosis, past-life exploration, life-purpose inquiry, or support integrating spiritual insights and experiences into everyday life. Spiritual exploration is optional, and Heather respects each person’s beliefs and preferences. Harner Shamanic Counselling provides a separate, structured path for direct spiritual exploration through core shamanism and shamanic journeying.

What is Harner Shamanic Counselling?

A structured five-session online process supporting your own direct journey experience and relationship with your spiritual guidance. Heather facilitates the process without interpreting your journeys for you.

Can experienced practitioners receive advanced mentoring?

Yes. Mentoring for practicing hypnotherapists and hypnotists is individually tailored, covering both advanced skills and practice-building.

Can mentoring include building a profitable practice?

Yes, practice development is part of mentoring. It is individually tailored guidance, not accredited clinical supervision, and no income is guaranteed.

How do I hear about hypnosis training?

Join the training interest list at heatherkeys.kit.com/hypnosis-training to hear when registration opens for the planned early-2027 live online certification.

What does Heather speak about?

Her central theme is Proof of Mind — how inner transformation becomes real-world results — along with sovereignty, consciousness, beliefs, and the human side of entrepreneurship.

Does Heather accept Bitcoin?

Yes. Heather accepts Bitcoin for her services; ask about arranging it when discussing working together.

How do I inquire?

Apply for a private consultation, explore the Work With Me page, or reach Heather through the contact page.