Lizzie Allan Comedian Hilarapy Therapy

Lizzie

Allan

Welcome to my online home. I’m a comedy therapist who uses humor to help people move through fear and reconnect with their light.

My work includes live shows, workshops, courses, and retreats. I write, create, and build experiences that blend honesty, laughter, and real transformation.

You’ll find me on stage, in community spaces, and occasionally on Instagram, where I share humor, truth, and the moments in between, all rooted in love.

my 2026 tour dates are coming soon!

Comedy therapist
founder of hilarapy

Lizzie Allan and Hilarapy
Lizzie Allan and Lovolution at Heritage Playhouse with Maria Shriver
Lizzie Allan

Follow My journey

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  • Lizzie Allan comedy therapist, founder of Hilarapy
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Get to know ME!

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Meet Lizzie Allan

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Hilarapy on Thrive

Hilarapy

Healing with Humour

Because serious healing should be hilarious.

Play
Presence
Human Connection

Hilarapy and Lizzie Allan

Hilarapy is my personal formula of blending comedy and healing. It was born from my life’s purpose (to be a comedian) and my need to live a joyful life free from active addiction. Yes, Laughter is medicine, but so is deep transformational work, which can make you cry. When you bring the two together, you become an authentic powerhouse. You heard it here first.

Hilarapy is the art of doing comedy about your difficult lived experiences, from a place of wellness. It’s about connection. It’s about authentically shining your light for the audience and for the collective. The magic lies in combining deep peer support with experiential therapeutic and spiritual growth. Comedy becomes the by-product. Healing is the heart.

Hilarapy isn’t just about telling jokes about how tough your life was. It’s deeper, more intentional, and far more transformative.

Workshops

Lizzie Allan Comedian Hilarapy Therapy Coach

Healing with Humour
in-person Workshops

Healing with Humour is a gentle, four-hour, in-person workshop designed to help you reconnect with yourself, with others, and with something deeper than the everyday rush of life.

This is not about fixing yourself.
It’s about remembering who you are, together.

Through a carefully held blend of play, intentional connection, and a live performance, this experience invites you to soften, open, and feel more human in a room full of humans.

No pressure.
No performance.
Just a willingness to show up as you are.

What happens in the room

This workshop weaves together three core elements:

Play

Simple, accessible experiences that help your nervous system relax and your defenses soften. You don’t need to “be playful”—the structure does the work for you.

Intentional Connection

Guided connection practices that go deeper than small talk while remaining safe, grounded, and invitational. Sharing is always optional.

Live Performance

A live performance by Lizzie Allan, woven directly into the workshop. This isn’t entertainment separate from the experience—it’s part of the container, offering humor, vulnerability, and a shared emotional language.

Who this workshop is for

This workshop is for you if:

  • You’re curious about personal growth but don’t want anything intense or clinical

  • You value meaningful experiences that balance depth with lightness

  • You’re open to play, reflection, and authentic human connection

  • You want to feel more connected—without needing to “work on yourself.”

No prior experience is required.
You don’t need to be funny, spiritual, brave, or outgoing.

connection

Lizzie Allan performing at a Hilarapy show

People often
leave feeling:

  • More connected to themselves and their inner clarity

  • More at ease around others

  • More grounded, present, and alive

  • Lighter, softer, and more like themselves

  • Reminded of their inherent wholeness

You may laugh.
You may feel moved.
You may simply feel more you.
All of it is welcome.

What This Is
(and What It’s Not)

What to Expect

  • A warm, well-held container rooted in trust, consent, and respect

  • Playful experiences that help you arrive and settle into the room

  • Guided connection without pressure or forced sharing

  • A live performance integrated into the experience

  • Choice and agency at every stage—you decide how much you engage

What Not to Expect

  • This is not therapy, counseling, or crisis support

  • This is not a comedy or improv class

  • There is no pressure to share, perform, or “break through”

  • This workshop is not suitable for those in acute crisis or active addiction

While the experience is often light and enjoyable, you may be gently invited to step outside your comfort zone. The risk is simple—and meaningful: you might be seen. When that happens in small, supported ways, real connection becomes possible.

Join an upcoming Healing with Humour workshop or add your name to the waitlist to be the first to know when new dates are released.

DATES COMING SOON!

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how hilarapy was born

Lizzie Allan at Hilarapy

Hilarapy was born from my own struggles with addiction and mental illness, and my desire to be a comedian.

Long story short, I had a dream to do comedy from a young age, but my life was a mess, and when I got into recovery, the stand-up comedy scene didn’t feel safe. I felt my stories were too vulnerable for a drunk audience, and I WANTED TO GO DEEP. So I thought, f**k it — I’ll create my own shows and invite all the people I love into that space. Somewhere, people could laugh, cry, and heal together.

Over many years of trial and error, through many highs and lows, I’ve discovered a beautiful formula that has worked for me and many others. I teach people how to make friends with their shame, reframe it, and then authentically serve it to the world with humour from a place of wellness. For the last 12 years, I’ve guided extraordinary humans as they navigate their own shame, stories, and struggles.

And that’s how Hilarapy was born.

Watch my TED Talk
to learn more:

Lizzie Allan Comedian Hilarapy Therapy Ted Talk

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Hilarapy on Thrive

Becoming Your Own Partner

between here and there

An 8-Week ONLINE Guided Group for Life Transitions

Led by Lizzie Allan

Between Here and There is an intimate, 8-week online group for people navigating meaningful life transitions, chosen or unexpected.

This work is for the space in between: when an old life no longer fits, but the next one hasn’t fully revealed itself yet.

Rather than rushing clarity or fixing yourself, this group offers consistency, depth, and steady support. Over eight weeks, a small group of no more than 8 participants moves together through change, learning how to stay connected to themselves while identity, relationships, work, or inner worlds shift.

Led by Lizzie Allan, this experience blends lived storytelling, grounded psychology, spiritual insight, gentle humor, and relational presence. Humour may arise naturally, but nothing is forced. The emphasis is on being met where you are and learning how to stop abandoning yourself during transition.

This is not a drop-in workshop. It’s a relational journey that unfolds over time.

Throughout the 8 weeks, you’ll be guided through a gentle yet profound process of:

  • Rebuilding trust with yourself

  • Learning to stop abandoning your needs

  • Letting go of what no longer aligns

  • Making decisions from intuition rather than fear

  • Setting healthy boundaries

  • Calling in the next version of your life

  • Rebirth, reinvention, and integration

becoming your own partner

What This Is

  • A small, consistent group moving through transition together

  • A high-support, relational space (not a content-heavy course)

  • A place to slow down, reflect, and feel less alone in change

  • A guided arc that honors uncertainty and possibility

  • A space where insight unfolds gradually, not on demand

This values continuity, trust, and emotional safety.

who This is for

  • You’re in a life transition and don’t want to navigate it alone

  • You’re experiencing an ending, beginning, identity shift, reinvention, recovery, burnout, heartbreak, spiritual awakening, or “something has to change” moment

  • You value depth, continuity, and real human presence

  • You feel resourced enough to show up consistently for a small group

  • You’re open to listening inward, even when answers aren’t immediate

What This Is Not

  • This is not therapy, counseling, or crisis support

  • This is not a program to “fix” you or push outcomes

  • This is not a performance, accountability, or productivity group

  • This container is not suitable for those in acute crisis or active addiction

While many people experience the work as deeply therapeutic, it is a non-clinical, peer-supported group experience.

You don’t need to know where you’re going.

You just need to be willing to walk alongside

others and yourself for a while.

Lizzie’s current 8-week session is full. Join the waitlist, and we will contact you as soon as spots open.

Sign Up for the Waitlist

Add your name to the 8-Week Here and There Group Session Waitlist above and be the first to get notified as soon as a new session opens up. Sessions are limited to 8 participants. When spots open, we’ll invite people in the order they joined the waitlist. New sessions open throughout the year, so we’ll keep you updated as soon as the next one is scheduled.

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