About Me

When I was young I was a complete book worm. I read everything I could get my hands on, anywhere, anytime and that was what got me into trouble more than anything else. I often referred to myself as a ‘dataholic’ because I could not deal with being somewhere and having nothing to read. It was because of this and some other influences that at the ripe old age of 12 I got my hands on a book by Leslie M. LeCron entitled “Self Hypnotism: The technique and its use in daily living”.

I had obtained the book because I had recently heard a discussion on a radio show about hypnosis. Having absolutely no knowledge on the subject I was unable to follow the discussion. I went in search of more information to feed my ‘addiction’. That was when I found the book by LeCron. I read it several times and attempted several times to use the techniques in the book on myself. I found that they didn’t work very well for me, but that I could use them on other people and do some rather amazing things. In the years to follow, along with all the other things I was reading and studying, I went through a number of other books on this topic.

Being the kind of person I am I chose to play with this information with all my friends, in all sorts of situations, and found I could make people feel better, make them laugh, and help them deal with all kinds of situations in their life in a better way.

As silly as it sounds, through all those years it never occurred to me that people would actually pay for this. I could understand stage hypnotists being paid to put on a show. But for some reason it just never occurred to me that people would pay a hypnotist to make changes in their lives. Having done hypnosis many years, it was quite an amazing discovery for me around the year 2000 to find that many people made a living using hypnosis to get people off cigarettes, off alcohol, off drugs, to help them lose weight, and even improve their golf games. I had done all of these kinds of things for years, I just hadn’t been paid for it.

I spoke to my doctor about hypnosis and about how I had done it for many years. He told me that he would be willing to send me clients, but felt that I should get some sort of certification. I went to an 8-week NGH course (1 day per week) and received my certification. I didn’t learn anything I hadn’t already done in the past, but now I had a pretty piece of paper saying I knew how to do it.

Don’t get me wrong I’m not saying you shouldn’t get certified, and I definitely believe in the value and importance in live training. Just be sure that the person who trains you can actually do what they are training you to do. And that actually doing hypnosis is a part of the training. When I train my students, they are typically DOING hypnosis by the second hour of class. I use hypnosis to teach hypnosis.

Now, here I am in the present, many clients later, over 3 and a half years of teaching hypnosis, and loving it more than I ever have in my whole life. I simply don’t understand how someone could ever get tired of doing this amazing thing we call hypnosis.

I use hypnosis to help people. I also use it to entertain and amuse people, and quite often its the same people because This is just so much fun. I stand by the statement (which I have ‘borrowed’ from a brilliant hypnotist in the UK, Jon Chase), “I do hypnosis because I enjoy it. If I ever stop enjoying it I will stop doing it.”

In the last year I have trained students from all across the united states and from a number of countries around the world. I have taught experienced hypnotherapists to complete newbies. I have taught doctors who want to do more for their patients, and people who just wanted to learn to entertain their friends at parties. And at all times I take what I do seriously. I believe hypnosis has a real place in the field of health care today. And it excites me that so many others are finding the same thing.

I consider it an honor every time someone decides to allow me to become their Personal Hypnosis Mentor.