ABOUT
Healing Minds Academy
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Healing Minds Academy was created to make powerful, evidence-informed tools for change more accessible.
Founded by Barb Davies, Registered Social Worker and Psychotherapist (RSW), Clinical Hypnotherapist, Certified Hypnosis Instructor, and Transformational Coach, Healing Minds Academy provides practical, neuroscience-informed education, programs, and trainings designed to help people better understand themselves, regulate their nervous system, shift subconscious patterns, and create real, sustainable change.
At Healing Minds Academy, we believe change happens through repetition, awareness, and learning how to work with the mind and nervous system more effectively. Rather than relying on temporary motivation or surface-level strategies, our programs are designed to help people build the skills, confidence, and internal capacity needed to create meaningful improvements in how they think, feel, and show up in life and business.
Whether you are looking to reduce stress and overwhelm, build confidence, strengthen mindset, improve performance, deepen relationships, or move into your next level personally or professionally, our goal is to provide practical tools you can actually use in everyday life.
Healing Minds Academy offers self-guided programs, workshops, live trainings, group coaching experiences, professional hypnosis certification, and transformational learning opportunities designed to support both personal and professional growth.
Our Approach
Our work integrates elements of:
- Neuroscience-informed change work
- Clinical and evidence-informed hypnotherapy
- Nervous system regulation and mind-body approaches
- Subconscious reconditioning and mindset work
- Practical psychology and behaviour change strategies
- Mindfulness, meditation, and self-hypnosis
We believe people can change when they understand how their mind, nervous system, habits, and subconscious patterns work, and are given practical tools to support that process.
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Barb Davies
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Barb Davies is a Registered Social Worker and Psychotherapist (RSW), Clinical Hypnotherapist, Certified Hypnosis Instructor, and Transformational Coach with over 20 years of experience in counselling, mental health, behaviour change, and personal development.
She holds an Honours Bachelor of Social Work and Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and has completed extensive additional training in Clinical Hypnotherapy, Scientific Hypnotherapy, Mindfulness, Meditation & Self-Hypnosis, Sports Performance Mind Coaching, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Breathwork, Hypnobirthing, coaching, and the Advanced BLAST TechniqueĀ® Practitioner approach, a bilateral stimulation method similar to EMDR used for trauma, grief, fears, phobias, and emotionally distressing experiences.
Barb is passionate about helping people understand how the mind, nervous system, and subconscious patterns influence behaviour, confidence, stress, performance, and personal growth. Through Healing Minds Academy, she combines neuroscience-informed education, practical tools, and subconscious change approaches to help people create real change in their lives and businesses.
Barb Davies Hypnotherapy & Counselling was the recipient of the 2025 CommunityVotes Thunder Bay awards for Professional Coaching (Platinum), Psychology Clinic (Platinum), Therapy and Counselling (Gold) and Weight Loss and Nutrition (Gold),one of the top three Psychology & Counselling providers in the 2024 Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal Readerā€™s Choice awards, and one of the Three Best Rated Hypnotherapists in Thunder Bay since 2019.Ā
In addition to leading programs and trainings through Healing Minds Academy, Barb offers a limited number of private coaching and transformational sessions for entrepreneurs, high achievers, and individuals seeking more personalized support.
Explore Private CoachingThe Subconscious Mind
You have goals, good intentions, and a vision for the life or business you want, yet sometimes it feels like something keeps getting in the way.
You know what to do, but struggle to follow through. You overthink, procrastinate, second-guess yourself, repeat familiar patterns, or feel stuck in stress, fear, or self-doubt despite wanting something different.
This is often because much of how we think, feel, and respond happens automatically.
Over time, the brain and nervous system develop patterns based on past experiences, repetition, learning, conditioning, and emotional experiences. These patterns influence beliefs, behaviours, habits, confidence, stress responses, relationships, and even how safe or possible change feels.
The good news is that the brain and nervous system are capable of change. Through neuroplasticity, repetition, and intentional practice, new patterns can be created.
Hypnosis, self-hypnosis, and hypnotherapy are evidence-informed approaches grounded in psychology and neuroscience that can help people work more effectively with the subconscious mind, reduce internal resistance, and create change more intentionally.
Whether your goal is confidence, emotional regulation, performance, relationships, mindset, habits, or personal growth, learning how to work with your mind instead of against it can be a powerful place to start.
Want to learn more about the science of hypnosis? Youā€™re in the right place.
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