"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."
— Viktor E. Frankl, author of Man's Search for Meaning
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."
— Albert Schweitzer
Amanda Halia
Certified Hypnotherapist, Life Coach & Teen Coach
Hi, I'm Amanda Halia—a certified Hypnotherapist, Life Coach, and Teen Coach through the Southwest Institute of Healing Arts, with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Arizona State University. My work is rooted in a deep passion for holistic healing, emotional wellness, and empowering others to transform their lives.
With a unique blend of science-based psychology and heart-centered coaching, I support individuals of all ages—especially teens and women—on their journey to self-discovery, clarity, and personal growth. Whether through guided hypnotherapy sessions, personalized life coaching, or teen mentorship, I’m here to help you break through limiting beliefs, heal from within, and create a life that feels aligned and fulfilling.
What can Life Coaching do for you?
The Power of Life Coaching
Life coaching is a powerful, forward-focused partnership designed to help you unlock your fullest potential. Unlike therapy, which often focuses on healing past wounds and processing emotions, life coaching emphasizes where you are today and where you want to go. It's about creating clarity, building confidence, and taking strategic action toward your goals. Whether you’re navigating a career change, seeking deeper fulfillment, or overcoming personal obstacles, life coaching provides the tools, accountability, and encouragement needed to transform intention into lasting change.
Life Coaching vs. Therapy: Different Paths, Shared Purpose
Both therapy and life coaching are valuable, but they serve different purposes. Therapy often addresses mental health, emotional healing, and unresolved trauma. It looks inward and backward to bring understanding and healing. Life coaching, while empathetic and supportive, is future-driven — it focuses on growth, results, and tapping into your innate strengths. It’s about identifying where you are stuck and helping you build the mindset, habits, and strategies to move forward with purpose. Many people find that therapy and coaching can complement each other beautifully, working together to create a foundation for both healing and thriving.
How are sessions work
Each life coaching session is a personalized, empowering experience designed to meet you exactly where you are — and guide you toward where you want to be. We begin by identifying your goals, challenges, and hidden strengths, creating a clear and inspiring vision for your future. Through thoughtful conversation, strategic questioning, and practical action steps, I help you uncover blocks, reframe limiting beliefs, and build momentum toward real, lasting change. Sessions are collaborative, confidential, and supportive — offering not just accountability, but genuine partnership. Whether we meet weekly or bi-weekly, each session is an opportunity to reconnect with your purpose, gain clarity, and walk away with tangible steps to create the life you truly want.
Teen Coaching
Healing and Breakthroughs on the Ranch
There’s something deeply powerful about connecting with nature — something that no screen, classroom, or office can replicate. At our ranch, surrounded by wide open skies, fresh air, and the gentle presence of animals, breakthroughs happen naturally. Here, coaching doesn’t just happen in conversation — it happens while walking through fields, brushing a horse, feeding goats, or simply sitting quietly with a dog at your feet. Nature slows the mind, calms the nervous system, and creates space for true clarity to surface.
The Role of Animals in Emotional Growth
Animals have an incredible way of reaching places that words sometimes can’t. Their presence is grounding, honest, and judgment-free. When working with our animals — whether leading a horse, caring for goats, or bonding with our ranch dogs — clients experience trust, patience, empathy, and self-awareness in real time. These lessons often mirror the emotional challenges we face in daily life, offering new ways to approach fear, anxiety, and internal blocks. Animals reflect our energy back to us, making them powerful partners in the coaching journey.
A Ranch Experience Like No Other
Using the ranch as part of the coaching experience creates a unique and unforgettable path to transformation. It allows clients — especially teens — to get out of their heads and back into their hearts. It offers real connection, real emotion, and real growth. Whether it’s a quiet moment petting a horse or the simple act of learning to be fully present, the ranch reminds us that healing doesn’t have to be forced. Sometimes, the best breakthroughs happen when you’re simply willing to show up and let nature — and yourself — do the rest.
Camps and Clubs
Hands-On Camps for Life Skills and Personal Growth
At our ranch, we believe that true confidence is built not just through words, but through doing. That’s why we offer a variety of hands-on camps that combine skill-building with powerful life coaching principles. Our Gardening Club, Baking and Canning Workshops, Soap Making Classes, Hydroponics Projects, and Goat Milking Experiences aren’t just about learning a new craft — they’re about cultivating patience, responsibility, resilience, and self-trust. Each camp is designed to help participants connect with the earth, their creativity, and their own inner strength in a way that feels natural, rewarding, and fun.
Life Coaching Woven into Every Experience
As we plant seeds, bake bread, or milk goats, we’re also planting seeds of confidence, independence, and self-belief. Through guided coaching during these activities, participants learn to problem-solve, manage frustration, set goals, and celebrate progress — all while building skills that will serve them for life. These camps offer a powerful reminder that growth doesn’t always happen sitting still; it happens when we engage our hands, our hearts, and our minds together. Whether a teen learning responsibility through gardening or a young adult discovering pride in crafting their own soap, every experience on the ranch is a chance to grow stronger from the inside out.
Hypnotherapy
At Wellness on the Ranch, we believe true healing begins from within. That’s why we offer both hypnotherapy and guided meditation as gentle, yet powerful tools to help you reconnect with your mind, body, and spirit.
Hypnotherapy is a safe and deeply relaxing therapeutic technique that allows you to access your subconscious mind—the part of you that stores memories, patterns, and beliefs. Whether you're struggling with anxiety, self-doubt, limiting beliefs, past trauma, or even chronic pain, hypnotherapy can help uncover the root cause and guide you toward healing. It’s not about losing control—it's about regaining it, rewriting old scripts, and stepping into your highest self with clarity and confidence.
Guided meditation, on the other hand, offers a calming and restorative experience that brings your awareness to the present moment. Through soothing voice prompts and visualization, it helps release stress, quiet mental chatter, and invite in peace. It's ideal for emotional reset, spiritual grounding, better sleep, and overall well-being. For kids, teens, and adults alike, it’s a beautiful way to find stillness in a noisy world.
Whether you're navigating life changes, seeking emotional clarity, or simply wanting to deepen your self-awareness, these modalities are here to support your journey inward. We tailor each session with compassion and care, helping you discover your own inner wisdom and light.