I was born in France, where I lived for my first twenty years before beginning a life shaped by travel, exploration, and a deep curiosity about human nature. I later returned to France to complete a Bachelor’s degree in Clinical Psychology, then in my early thirties arrived in New Zealand, where I met my Kiwi husband. For the first time, I felt a profound sense of home, and it was there that my inner awakening truly began.
In 2017, while working full time on an orchard, I created my massage practice. Bodywork quickly became more than a profession; it became a language through which I could understand the deeper stories held in the body. In 2019, I began my journey with hypnotherapy, and very naturally, this world integrated into my work. The years that followed, including the pandemic period, deeply accelerated my learning and inner healing. Since early 2021, I have been practicing massage and hypnotherapy full time.
Lilly McKenzie
From a young age, I was highly sensitive and raised in an environment that valued spirituality and introspection. At the same time, my childhood was marked by family violence and experiences of abandonment, which profoundly shaped my inner world.
These early experiences created many limiting beliefs, fear, and anger, and made trust and emotional closeness particularly challenging for me, especially within family relationships. These patterns eventually led to depression in my teenage years. Like many, I learned how to survive emotionally long before I learned how to feel safe within myself.
It was later in life, through feeling supported and secure (with my husband), that I was able to begin a slow, honest, and deeply transformative process of healing. This personal journey taught me how experiences are stored not only in the mind, but also in the body, and how lasting change happens not by forcing or fixing, but by meeting what arises with awareness, compassion, and presence.
This lived experience is at the heart of my work today. I am deeply passionate about the connection between body and mind, and I often blend the two for deeper and more sustainable results. Over the years, I have trained in a variety of approaches and created my own evolving way of working, drawing from hypnotherapy, bodywork, somatic awareness, and mindset exploration.
My services continue to evolve as I do.
As I release my own limiting beliefs and deepen my understanding, the work naturally becomes more embodied, more precise, and more powerful. Learning remains essential to my practice, which is why I am currently completing a Diploma in Advanced Clinical Hypnotherapy, alongside ongoing personal and professional development.
Today, my work is expanding beyond one-to-one sessions into group experiences, identity- and mindset-focused offerings, and meaningful conversations around purpose and transformation. Through my podcast What Is Your Gift?, group sessions, and programs, I create spaces where people can reconnect with who they truly are beneath conditioning, fear, and old stories.
My vision is to support those who feel ready to encounter their own limitations, pain, and trauma, not to fix themselves, but to free themselves. I believe we are living in a powerful time of transition, an invitation to turn inward, rediscover creativity, and realign with what truly matters.
I practice daily meditation, continue learning, and share what I discover, so we can walk this path together and consciously build a more meaningful future. I once saw life through a lens of struggle and scarcity. Today, I see opportunities, depth, and meaning everywhere. This shift in perspective has changed everything, and I remain deeply grateful for the journey that continues to unfold.
My passion is to share this profound awareness with you, so you can experience the joy of feeling happy and fulfilled in everyday life.
May we all free from suffering!
Studies:
Bachelor's in clinical psychology (France), Raynor massage certificate and diploma, Beyond Quantum Healing Hypnosis, Introspective Hypnosis, Hypnofit, CranioSacral level 1, Touch for Health level 1 and 2, (Kinesiology), Simpson Protocol (Hypnosis), Forensic Healing, Counselling (career academy).
Diploma in Clinical and Advanced hypnosis (currently doing 2025).
