Sviatlana Starr is a Nationally Accredited Life Coach, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Gut-directed Hypnotherapist and Psychotherapist. She founded Light Your Star in 2006 and since then she’s been professionally helping people from different walks of life to overcome their hurdles in life, including: low self-esteem and lack of confidence, anxiety, phobias, depression, insomnia, smoking, being overweight and functional gut disorders.

In her late teens and early 20s, Sviatlana had low self-esteem, social anxiety and was depressed for a period of time. She was also overweight for many years and experienced personally the vicious cycles of dieting followed by binge eating.

To help herself overcome these and some other issues, Sviatlana started to learn NLP, positive psychology and self-hypnosis. Over several years with the help of the learned techniques and through determination, Sviatlana developed a healthy self-esteem, eliminated her social anxiety, built her confidence around people, achieved and maintained over the last 15 years a consistent healthy body weight and reached other vital goals that she set for herself.

This inspired her to become qualified as a Hypnotherapist, Psychotherapist and Life Coach to help others who struggle to overcome their hurdles.

Apart from working in her own private practice, Sviatlana has years of experience in working at the Alfred Hospital as a gut-directed hypnotherapist, helping clients with IBS and other functional gut disorders, as well as with anxiety and depression.

Being a Professional Clinical Member of the Australian Association of Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy means that Sviatlana Starr is continually engaged in professional self-development and complies with the high professional standards established by this professional association.