CEO Bio:
Founder Joanne Davies (she/her), is a queer, ambiamorous, AuDHD 43 year old hypnotherapist.
Originally from West Wales, she moved to Birmingham, UK for college. She graduated law school in 2007 and worked in the field of disability discrimination. Facing burnout from this high-pressure job, Joanne sought refuge in martial arts, meditation and nutrition therapy. While delivering workplace wellbeing training in 2010 she discovered hypnosis and decided to return to college and study clinical psychology and therapeutic hypnosis to better integrate this life changing practice into her work. In grad school Joanne received her ADHD diagnosis.
In 2011 Joanne studied for her post graduate degree while working for the NHS as part of a community mental health team. She successfully gained her PgCert with distinction in Clinical Hypnotherapy from the University of West London in 2013.
By 2014 Joanne had also built a successful private practice incorporating psychotherapeutic counselling, hypnosis, mindfulness based practices like ACT, somatics, medical qigong and breathwork.
In July 2018 Joanne moved to New York City and JQ Hypnosis LLC was formed in September 2018. In 2020 Joanne deepened her studies into Autism Spectrum Disorders & PDA as the field of understanding advanced rapidly. In doing so, she found so much that resonated that with her, that she was evaluated and received her formal diagnosis for Autism in 2021.
In 2025 Joanne Davies began her Psychedelic Somatic Integration training with a view to offering trauma informed, neurodivergent affirming psychedelic hypnotherapy in the near future.
Joanne has just started studying acting and Spanish.
Where is JQ Hypnosis located?
You can find us at 41 Union Square W, #720, New York, NY 10003. It’s a central location yet surprisingly peaceful with lots of light and a great view.
14th Street Union Square is served by most of New York City subway lines. We are walkable in 10 minutes from Lower East Side, SoHo/NoHo and Chelsea. Many of our clients take a short L train ride from Williamsburg or make the trek on the Q from Park Slope. If coming from out of town, it’s about a 10 minute walk from the PATH train from NJ and a 5 minute ride on the 4 from Grand Central Terminal. Feel free to get in touch if you need directions or accessible route-finding.
Joanne Davies and JQ Hypnosis are fully accredited board certified and insured as providers of Certified Hypnosis in the US with the National Guild of Hypnotists and Certified Clinical Hypnotherapy with the British Society of Clinical Hypnosis. Unfortunately New York State does not license hypnosis/ hypnotherapy: following New York State guidelines we do not diagnosis or treat mental health conditions.
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