My name is Willow Gibbons (she/they) 

I am certified in Hypnosis by The National Guild of Hypnotists, and received my Hypnosis training in 2021 from the Divine Feminine School of Hypnosis. The school was founded by Shauna Cummins, a certified Clinical Hypnosis Practitioner, author, and multidisciplinary artist. I also received training and mentorship in HNLP & Hypnotic Coaching by John Overdurf, Integrative Coaching by Melissa Tiers, and Breathwork Facilitation.

*Additional trainings are listed at the bottom of this page.

More About Me

It’s interesting to contemplate what I want to communicate about myself!  I want to share what will be useful to you and how what I’ve experienced in my life has brought me here to you, and why it matters. 

What I offer, in session, is directly connected to my own healing and empowerment,  which I came to, through my own experiences of excess suffering, depression and disempowerment. I was very young when I began to struggle, but before I did, I experienced myself as a soul, as radiant energy. This is what I lost contact with and was obscured from me, in American culture, at the time I was a child. The longing voice in me said  “I just want to be myself” and the cultural phenomena said “ that’s not what we do here.”  So, I held my breath, for a very long time.

I want to note, for any of you struggling, I was chronically depressed for 20 years. I want to say this because so many people believe that they are broken and that this is an unchangeable state. I came out of severe depression, over time, by following my intuition and taking acting classes, which I was afraid to do. My teacher’s approach was therapeutic, pattern-breaking and he deeply cared about his students. The important part is not that I took acting classes, it’s that through certain techniques and guidance I began to feel again, emotionally, sensually, energetically, and I began making contact with the guidance of my soul’s energy again.  I learned how to experience just BEING.

Around the same time I was learning more about chakras and energy healing, I began to notice a common thread running through all these different techniques and modalities.  I continued to explore many other types of healing and creative practices, and my life continued to transform for the better, until a period of time I began to experience a layer of healing I just couldn’t touch. 

I experienced this as an echo chamber of my past experiences, beliefs, and conditioning. I knew I was ready to experience something new and different in my life, but it felt like my worst fears kept coming true and I didn’t know how to stop my own participation. 

When I found Hypnosis I discovered what had been missing.  Through Hypnosis, I began changing the distorted meanings and associations I had made when I had been in highly vulnerable situations, lacking the support I had needed.  It’s like I had found a set of keys to begin unlocking doors I never knew I could, but I had been longing for.

Acting was the catalyst, followed by continuous and varied explorations, leading to the “keys” of Hypnosis, teaching me to embody and experience myself as my own radiant energy, once again and creating PillowPillow to help others unlock and come back to life.  To experience yourself as you really are.

(You do not have to be spiritually oriented for us to work together, or for it to be affective, we can find whatever language that works best for you!)

A Few Notes About PillowPillow 

The name holds playfulness, softness, and irreverence for me, it also connects me to a feeling that lifts and unburdens me, like feeling buoyed. Within this container I’ve created a synthesized map (of sorts) for healing clients' multi-dimensionally and multi-sensorially. A place where the magic of childhood becomes the salve that allows for growth, maturity and wisdom to flourish. A place to cultivate the “softest places within” to reveal the truths of joy, grief and the messy human experience. We are a part of everything.

Additional Trainings

Ongoing ~ Internal Family Systems, through the IFS Institute

2018 + 2019 Meredith Monk Ensemble Workshops

2018 Meredith Monk: Voice as Practice 

2018 Anodea Judith ~ Chakras, In-Person and online

2018 Kirtan ~ through the Bhakti Center, NY

2017 Additional Nada Yoga training/ Free your voice w/ Silvia Nakkach

2016 Breathwork w/ David Elliott

2016 Reiki Levels 1 & 2 through Maharose

2016 Yoga of Sound ~ Nada Yoga at Ananda Ashram

2010-2014 Bova Actor’s Workshop