Alaya Ketani Cht Cft Cpc
Acclaimed Change Agent .
Nationally Board Certified Hypnotherapist.
Holistic Coach. Counselor.
Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) – Neuroscience Practitioner.
Behavioral, Personal, Relational, Nervous System and Mindset Transformation.
For Adults & Children Globally 40+ Years.
Alaya M. Ketani
Empowering those seeking to overcome challenges and lead a life of well-being and success is a life-long passion for Hypnotherapist Alaya Ketani. She listens and responds to each patient’s unique situation, helping her clients gain the skills, awareness and empowerment to excel in many facets of life. Alaya has worked extensively with clients of all ages and challenges as both a social worker for agencies and in private practice.

Ms. Ketani is a practitioner with a rare blend of expertise combined with insights gained through her own inspirational life story. Alaya places strong emphasis on sensitively tuning into each client as a unique individual and teaching the skills and understanding that activate a new way of connected living for each—enhancing the capacity for a life of happiness, peace, and success. She fine tunes her work and unique connection with her clients because she knows firsthand how important this is having experienced tremendous obstacles in her life.
Alaya provides personalized solutions for each client. She is an expert in four schools and multiple advanced applications of Hypnotherapy including Medical, Clinical, Alchemical, and Transpersonal. She combines this expertise with a passion for Neuroscience, and is certified as both an NLP Meta States and Personal Genius Practitioner.
Alaya brings her expertise as a HeartMath Biofeedback Specialist, Somatic Emotion and Trauma Release Practitioner, Timeline Therapist, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and Havening Guide, as well as instruction in Meditation, Mindfulness and Self-HypnosisMind Mastery, Self-Hypnosis Trainer and Meditation Instructor, and Certified Professional Life Coach with a specialty as a Peak Experience Coach. She leads with a rare and vast expertise enhanced through through Alaya’s extraordinary experience, heart and intuition. Read the Client Testimonials on this website and hear how life-changing and even life saving Alaya’s work has been for her clients.
Alaya also served as Co-Chair of the Jackson County Council Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. In this position, Alaya initiated and activated awareness, training and action to help ensure the safety and empowerment of the most vulnerable sectors of our population. She is also former Co-Chair of the Jackson County Council Against Domestic and Sexual Violence.
Alaya is presently Founder and Chair of K.A.W.S., Keeping Ashland Women Safe Task Force. K.A.W.S. is a task force comprised of concerned citizens who have come together in response to the realty of violence and threats of violence against Women in Ashland. The mission of K.A.W.S. is to provide a platform for ongoing community awareness and action to ensure Women's safety in Ashland. This is accomplished through social media, safety prevention and empowerment training, and active culture change. This group is founded and chaired by Alaya Ketani, career Social Worker now solely in private practice working to help clients become empowered, successful and to live meaningful lives. The task force works in collaboration with Jackson County Sexual Assault Awareness Team, Community Work Advocacy Team, Ashland Police Department, Peace House, and other organizations. The Vision of K.A.W.S. is the following: We see Ashland as a place where Women (and all people) are safe and empowered to participate in the town's activities and lifestyle without fear or concern for their well-being.
K.A.W.S. welcomes all levels of participation and collaboration. Tax deductible donations can be made to K.A.W.S. Please contact Alaya for more information or email: KeepingAshlandWomenSafe@gmail.com. Please “Like” the facebook page: www.facebook.com/KeepingAshlandWomenSafe/
A Personal Touch
Alaya Ketani brings far more than just extensive training and 40 years of working with people seeking change. She speaks from personal experience, bringing skills and insights gained through her inspirational life journey. Alaya has faced and overcome catastrophic circumstances including natural disasters, childhood trauma, a critical car crash and total disability twice, a corporate shootout, several family members with cancer, and being close to death three times. She began as a young child seeking a better understanding of life and how to navigate it with skill and understanding. She intimately understands how challenging life can be and will teach you methods to come through your difficulties with strength and success.
In order to triumph through her own life hardships, she dove deeply into both ancient wisdom teachings and modern trainings to find her answers and success. She knows she would not have survived many life-threatening chapters if she were not fully dedicated to clarity, insight and tremendous skill building, nor without the talented practitioners who helped her in a very personal way. She therefore understands the tremendous value in being a guide who uniquely designs her sessions for each client bringing her hard earned mastery.
As a result, she sees the complexity of each client like an intricate puzzle, listening intently and asking focused questions while discerning the particular blend of skills and experience from the vast storehouse of her successes that will be most valuable for each client’s optimum advancement. Clients travel nationwide to experience her rare potent work and experience life changing success. She is living proof that there is always hope, and an opportunity for a new empowered beginning.
And More
Clients report that they experience the beginnings of healing and confidence as soon as they enter Ms. Ketani’s presence. Alaya has studied formal methods of energy transmission and healing, including but not limited to being a Reiki Master, and a Matrix Blueprint Practitioner. Alaya inter-weaves many modalities providing a potent and unique combination rarely found, enabling her clients to see and transform their present state sustainably and in real-time.
As a Peak Experience Coach and Mind Mastery Trainer, Ms. Ketani brings out the best in athletes and those seeking to succeed in their chosen performance fields. Alaya especially loves working with the mental game of golf and collaborates with PGA certified instructors as well as other athletic trainers to help clients find their authentic inner genius and flow so that their mindset is one that enhances rather than hinders their success.
Alaya also offers her wide range of skills as a Mentor to new practitioners seeking to further refine their skills and develop their entrepreneurial aptitude. She is a patient and insight guide who enjoys consulting with individuals and organizations.
Ms. Ketani’s specialized certifications include the following areas: Complementary Medical Hypnotherapy, Hypno-Oncology (Hypnotherapy for Cancer), Pain Management, Anxiety Relief, Pre- and Post- Surgery, Hypnodontics (Hypnotherapy for Dentistry), Healing Phobias, Enhanced Sports and Athletic Conditioning, Improved Sleep, Performance, Public Speaking, HypnoFertility Therapy, and a specialized form of Birthing that is distinct from others because of her multi-modality expertise. She is also certified in Accelerated Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) Meta-States. She teaches Self-Hypnosis, Stress Management techniques and Meditation, present-centered awareness known as Mindfulness as well as Neuroscience and Mental Mastery skills.
Three Locations in Southern Oregon
Alaya Ketani sees clients in her Ashland, Grants Pass and Bandon Oregon offices. She also sees clients on site in organizations, hospitals, rehabilitation centers, golf courses, tennis courts, lecture halls, spas and retreat centers in and around the Rogue Valley and throughout Southern Oregon. She travels to other counties and states for pre-arranged series of sessions. She is available for informational talks and classes for schools, organizations, companies, and medical clinics and groups. She offers group sessions for those who organize their own groups, as well as groups that she assembles. She is open to groups centered on topics of client interest. Feel free to contact Alayawith your ideas.
Southern Oregon Affiliations
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Alaya served as Co~Chair for the Jackson County Council Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. Also she formed a special committee to address the increased violence and threats against Women in her home town, Ashland.
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She is a member of Ashland Association of University Women (AAUW), which is significantly involved in key issues affecting Women in all segments of our population.
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Alaya is currently a member of Jackson County Elks, an organization that supports several philanthropic pursuits including specialized hearing equipment and free testing for low income children.
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She is also a member of Women Entrepreneurs of Southern Oregon (WESO).
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In 2005 Alaya formed the Natural Birthing Healers Network in the Rogue Valley of Southern Oregon a matrix of ten birthing professionals, which has since evolved into a new large organization known as the Southern Oregon Birth Connection that is serving the community in several ways.
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As a Senior Mediator, she holds several specialized certifications including Community Mediation, Family, Relationship, Multigenerational, Bi-racial, Incarceration, and more.She has facilitated numerous meditations and has been praised for her successful facilitation of especially difficult conflicts to mutual resolution. She has also served as a Training Coach for the organizations providing education and experience for new mediators.
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Alaya has worked extensively with several nonprofit organizations serving to assist the most challenged segments of our population including in the areas of Domestic Violence, Child Abuse and Prevention, those individuals classified as the least rehirable, in Senior Employment and Training Programs, and with Families in Poverty.
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She has enjoyed being one of the music hosts for Jefferson Public Radio, a large radio station received in Southern Oregon and Northern California. She has also appeared as one of the lead actors in a play in Ashland’s Black Swan Theatre.
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Alaya’s training continues. Her passion for Neuroscience expands and deepens her skill set consistently, as well as advanced training in Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and Faster EFT. She has also been engaged in studies for her PhD in EcoPsychology, which introduces nature as the model for balance and sustainable relationships with all life, awakening latent senses and supporting the emergence of healthy natural attractions.
Alaya offers free telephone consultations, and can be reached by phone at (541) 292-2945, or with the contact form on this site. Give yourself the gift of empowerment and create a new life. Alaya welcomes your contact.
Empowering Hypnotherapy
and Much More
Four Branches of Certified Hypnotherapy
Neuroscience and Mind Mastery
Somatic Trauma and Emotion Release
HeartMath Biofeedback
Certified Professional Life Coaching
Advanced Conflict Resolution Mediation
Wedding Officiation and Counsel

Alaya M. Ketani - CHT CPC CFT
541.292.2945
Why Alaya
Alaya works to assist and empower individuals seeking to overcome challenge to achieve the significant change that they need within themself and their life, the change they long to make in order to live a life of well-being and success. She holds a lifelong passion for helping people, working for over forty years with several different therapeutic and coaching modalities to alchemize change for all segments of our population.
Alaya deeply listens and responds to each patient’s unique situation and individual complexities, teaching her clients the skills they need to increase their awareness of themselves and their world, and both to demonstrate to them and assist them in experiencing within themself the clarity and the progressive development they need. Working in session with Alaya, clients are able to gain perspective from the place of nonattachment and nonresistance, thereby gaining the personal experience of a peaceful stillness often for the first time. By tuning into the aspects of their mind that are not cluttered by the static and chaos of the thoughts, choices, priorities, perspectives changes and therefore their lives change in significant ways. Alaya works extensively with clients around the globe of all ages, beginning at nine years of age, women and men, with a wide range of challenges, and need for personal and life change. People often come to Alaya seeking their miracle, and often find them.

Health and Wellbeing
We know that pain, stress, and sleep disturbance are common with health challenges and injury. Alaya's expertise is a rare blend of training, experience, and insights gained through her own inspirational life story having revived several times in this life from serious injury and disabling illness. As a result, she is able to teach the skills and understanding needed to thrive through challenge in order to activate a new way of connected living, enhancing her clients' capacity for a life of happiness, peace, and success. Alaya is able to bring such potent work to her clients because of having successfully overcome tremendous obstacles in her life and brought herself to a place of peace, health, and meaningful achievement. She has specialized training to teach her clients skills to manage and relieve Pain, reduce Stress, and gain quality Sleep. She also has advanced training in aspects specific women's health and wellbeing including Infertility, Pregnancy, HypnoOncology, and Autoimmune Disorders. With less attachment to what has been or is presently, and less resistance to new ways of behavior and life, Alaya's clients have more success with their healing protocols. Doctors note that their patients heal faster and that their lives change in wonderful ways.
Alaya is an expert in four schools of Hypnotherapy and multiple advanced certifications and applications including Medical, Clinical, Alchemical, and Transpersonal. She combines this expertise with a passion for Neuroscience and Quantum Physics. She is certified as both an NLP Meta States and Personal Genius Practitioner. Alaya continues to train with the four most thorough groundbreaking trauma research and education organizations and individuals in the world. Alaya teaches skills for Mind Mastery and Nervous System Regulation.
Additional Alaya is a Certified Professional Life Coach, and her expertise also includes as a HeartMath Biofeedback Specialist, Somatic Emotion and Trauma Release Practitioner, Timeline Therapist, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and Havening Guide, as well as instruction in Meditation, Mindfulness, and Self-Hypnosis. She specializes in Peak Performance, and is endorsed by Professional Golf Association (PGA) teaching professionals.
When you read the testimonials on this website from Alaya's clients, you will hear how working with Alaya is life-changing.
For Women
Alaya's focus on helping women to gain clarity, wellbeing, and empowerment is evidenced by a lifetime of work in this area in her private practice, as a career Social Worker for agencies, as the former Co-Chair of the Jackson County Council Against Domestic and Sexual Violence in Oregon, and in the last four years through the nonprofit she founded and directs.
Alaya is presently Founder and Executive Director of the 501(c)3 Nonprofit Organization: K.A.W.S., Keeping All Women Safe. K.A.W.S. Presently based in North Idaho, K.A.W.S. works both locally and worldwide for the increased safety and equality of women and girls. K.A.W.S. partners with other aligned organizations to unite in this mission. Alaya's special passion for this cause is reflected in her very caring and deep work with women and girls' in her private practice. She has also worked with many men who are experiencing challenges and need for change.
See the website and facebook page for K.A.W.S.: KeepingAllWomenSafe@gmail.com
Facebook page: www.facebook.com/KeepingAllWomenSafe/
Peak Performance
As a Peak Experience Coach, Alaya brings out the best in her clients through both the skills- based approach with mindset, and the personal experience of the body becoming one with the movement needed. Alaya especially loves working with the golfers and basketball players, and collaborates with PGA teaching professionals as well as other athletic trainers to help clients find their authentic inner genius. Her clients report having the highest scores of their life upon working with Alaya in conjunction with their professional trainer, and enjoying the game much more as well.
A Personal Touch
Alaya Ketani brings far more than just extensive training and 40 years of working with people seeking change. She speaks from personal experience, bringing skills and insights gained through her inspirational life journey. Alaya has faced and overcome catastrophic circumstances including natural disasters, childhood trauma, a critical car crash and total disability twice, a corporate shootout, several family members with cancer, and being close to death three times. She began as a young child seeking a better understanding of life and how to navigate it with skill and understanding. She intimately understands how challenging life can be and will teach you methods to come through your difficulties with strength and success.
In order to triumph through her own life hardships, she dove deeply into both ancient wisdom teachings and modern trainings to find her answers and success. She therefore understands the tremendous value in being a guide who uniquely designs her sessions for each client bringing her hard earned mastery.
As a result, she sees the complexity of each client like an intricate puzzle, listening intently and asking focused questions while discerning the particular blend of skills and experience from the vast storehouse of her successes that will be most valuable for each client’s optimum advancement. Clients travel nationwide to experience her rare potent work, and to experience life changing success. She is living proof that there is always hope, and an opportunity for a new empowered beginning.
Mentor And Guide
Alaya also offers her wide range of skills as a Mentor to new practitioners seeking to further refine their skills and develop their entrepreneurial aptitude. She is also a patient and insight guide to other Women, both professionally and personally. Alaya enjoys consulting with individuals and organizations, and is available for public talks and presentations.
Ms. Ketani’s specialized certifications include the following areas:
Complementary Medical Hypnotherapy, Hypno-Oncology (Hypnotherapy for Cancer), Pain Management, Anxiety Relief, Pre- and Post- Surgery, Hypnodontics (Hypnotherapy for Dentistry), Healing Phobias, Peak Performance, Improved Sleep, HypnoFertility Therapy, and challenged Pregnancies. She is also certified in Accelerated Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) Meta-States. She teaches Self-Hypnosis, Stress Management techniques and Meditation, present-centered awareness known as Mindfulness, as well as Mind Mastery and Nervous System Regulation.
Alaya's services do not include the practice of medicine. The services provided are non-diagnostic and do not treat diagnosed mental illnesses per the DSM. Please consult with your medical specialist in regard to medical conditions. Appointments for children under the age of 18 require written permission from parent or guardian.
Global Clientele
Alaya Ketani is presently based in North Idaho, Coeur d'Alene area. Prior to her move to Idaho, she saw clients in her three office locations in wellness centers and doctor's offices in Southern Oregon: Ashland, Grants Pass, and Bandon. She continues to see clients very successfully virtually over Zoom in all locations around the United States and the world. She also sees clients on site in organizations, hospitals, rehabilitation centers, golf courses, tennis and basketball courts, in lecture halls, spas and retreat centers. She travels to other counties and states for pre-arranged series of sessions. She is available for informational and educational talks and classes for schools, organizations, companies, and medical clinics and groups. She offers group sessions for those who organize their own groups, as well as groups that she assembles. She is open to groups centered on topics of client interest. Feel free to contact Alaya with your ideas.
Affiliations
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Alaya is an active member of BNI: Business Network International, and is open to be a guest in chapters meeting virtually everywhere.
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In 2021, Alaya joined the Polka Dot Powerhouse national Women's organization that works for the unity and support of Women's talents to be their most empowered self.
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In December 2017, Alaya formed a 510c3 Nonprofit Charitable Organization called K.A.W.S., Keeping All Women Safe. It continue to fulfill it' mission to this day.
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Former Co~Chair for the Jackson County Council Against Domestic and Sexual Violence.
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Alaya has hosted three radio shows, and appears as a guest on podcasts often.
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She was a member of Ashland Association of University Women (AAUW), which is significantly involved in key issues affecting Women in all segments of our population.
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Alaya is currently a member of Elks Organization, which supports several philanthropic pursuits including specialized hearing equipment and free testing for low income children.
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She was also a member of Women Entrepreneurs of Southern Oregon (WESO).
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In 2005 Alaya formed the Natural Birthing Healers Network in the Rogue Valley of Southern Oregon a matrix of ten birthing professionals, which has since evolved into a new large organization known as the Southern Oregon Birth Connection that is serving the community in several ways.
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As a Senior Mediator, she holds several specialized certifications including Community Mediation, Family, Relationship, Multigenerational, Biracial, Incarceration, and more. She has facilitated numerous meditations and has been praised for her successful facilitation of especially difficult conflicts to mutual resolution. She has also served as a Training Coach for the organizations providing education and experience for new mediators.
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Alaya has worked extensively with several nonprofit organizations serving to assist the most challenged segments of our population including in the areas of Domestic Violence, Child Abuse and Prevention, those individuals classified as the least rehirable, in Senior Employment and Training Programs, and with Families in Poverty.
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She has also appeared as one of the lead actors in a play in Ashland’s Black Swan Theatre.
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Alaya’s training continues. Her passion for Neuroscience and the most Groundbreaking Trauma research informs her work with clients and deepens her skill set consistently. She has also been engaged in studies for her PhD in EcoPsychology, which introduces nature as the model for balance and sustainable relationships with all life, awakening latent senses and supporting the emergence of healthy natural attractions.
Alaya offers free telephone consultations to every new client before scheduling. Alaya can be reached by phone at (541) 292-2945, or with the contact form on this site.
Give yourself the gift of lasting change, and experience the empowerment. Create a new life with a new mindset, and new valuable skills. Alaya welcomes your contact.