Mariamawit Girma Gobezie
I am a Certified Hypnotherapist, holding a Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy with Honors from the Nationally Accredited Hypnosis Motivation Institute. My expertise in the arts and sciences of Hypnotherapy for both Vocational and Avocational Self-Improvement creates a distinctive connection between contemporary neuroscience, precise therapeutic techniques, and a deep exploration of the subconscious mind. My structured approach also serves as an aid to a wide variety of healing practices under the referral of a licensed Physician, Psychologist, or Psychiatrist.
HYPNOTHERAPIST



As someone who values rigor, integrity, and evidence-based practice, I anchor my work in both scientific research and lived clinical experience. From the healing temples of ancient Egypt around 3,000 BCE where trance rituals were used for renewal and relief to modern clinical settings, hypnosis has always been a bridge between mind and body, a timeless pathway to restoration and balance.
⚠️Disclaimer: Research findings highlight general trends but do not guarantee individual outcomes. Hypnotherapy is not a replacement for medical or psychiatric treatment. Results depend on many factors, including the nature of the issue, its duration, underlying trauma, and your personal engagement in the process.
Effective practice is built on the wisdom of history and strengthened by the evidence of modern science. Hypnosis is not new. For thousands of years, cultures have used trance states for renewal and transformation. In ancient Egypt, priests of the healing temples guided individuals into altered states of awareness, rituals that closely resemble what we now call hypnotherapy. These practices were seen as a bridge between mind, body, and spirit, restoring balance at the deepest levels.
Modern science has since built on this timeless wisdom. One of the earliest large-scale reviews, conducted in 1970 by psychologist Dr. Alfred A. Barrios, analyzed over 1,000 hypnosis studies. His findings suggested:
• Hypnotherapy achieved an average 93% success rate in ~6 sessions.
• Behavioral therapy showed 72% success in ~22 sessions.
• Psychoanalysis showed 38% success in ~600+ sessions.
While groundbreaking, these results reflect the methodologies of that era. Today, more precise research has confirmed hypnotherapy’s effectiveness in key areas, particularly:
• Pain management (acute, chronic, and surgical)
• Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
• Post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSD)
• Anxiety, sleep, and performance enhancement
Clinical Findings:
• Hypnosis shows medium-to-large treatment effects across systematic reviews.
• Outcomes are often comparable to other established psychological therapies.
• Adverse effects are rare.
• Hypnotherapy is now recognized by leading medical and psychological institutions as a credible complementary intervention.
Hypnotherapy bridges ancient practice and modern science. It is both timeless and clinically validated, honoring history while serving the needs of today.
Scientific Evidence Behind Hypnotherapy
Education, Credentials & Specialties
I am a multidisciplinary professional dedicated to holistic personal transformation, wellness, and creative expression, combining expertise in clinical hypnotherapy, mind-body practices, and creative design. My training equips me to guide clients toward balance, empowerment, and lasting personal growth.
As a Certified Hypnotherapist, I bring together advanced clinical expertise, neuroscience-informed methods, and a compassionate, client-centered approach. My work is guided by The Four Aptitude Hypnotherapy Methods™, an integrative framework that blends subconscious reprogramming, nervous system regulation, symbolic imagery, and identity realignment to foster lasting transformation.
Through this trauma-informed approach, I support a full spectrum of issues, tailoring every session to the unique needs of each client while remaining firmly within the ethical scope of hypnotherapy.

Education
Diploma in Fashion Design, France
Earned with distinction in a country renowned for its tradition of excellence and innovation in couture and design.
• Developed artistry, creative vision, and technical precision, fostering advanced skills in observation, pattern recognition, and innovative problem-solving.
• These design-thinking abilities directly enrich hypnotherapy practice by bringing creativity, flexibility, and intuitive insight to client sessions.
• Supports helping clients unlock creativity, confidence, and authentic self-expression, key dimensions of personal transformation.
Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy with Honors, USA
• Earned with distinction from The Hypnosis Motivation Institute, the nation’s first nationally accredited hypnotherapy institute
• Recognized and endorsed by the American Hypnosis Association, reflecting advanced competency in clinical hypnotherapy techniques.
• Accredited by the Accrediting Council for Continuing Education and Training (ACCET), ensuring rigorous academic and professional standards.
• Equipped to guide clients through transformative hypnotherapy experiences that promote lasting personal growth and change.

Credentials & Specialties

✧ American Hypnosis Association Specialty Certifications
• Certified Master Hypnotist (CMHt)
Signifies comprehensive mastery across all certified hypnotherapy domains, reflecting advanced expertise and clinical proficiency to address a wide spectrum of emotional, behavioral, health, performance, and personal growth concerns. This designation represents the highest professional standard in the field, requiring extensive education, supervised clinical practice, and demonstrated skill in advanced modalities including neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), dream therapy, therapeutic imagery, emotional freedom technique (EFT), parts therapy, therapeutic hypnosis, subconscious transformation methods, and applied mind–body practices. By integrating these advanced approaches, ensures clients receive deeply supportive, personalized care, empowering them to overcome challenges, achieve lasting transformation, and unlock their fullest potential. You are seen not just as symptoms, but as a whole being, capable of renewal and expansion.
• Certified Specialist: Hypnosis for Clients with Cancer
Navigate treatment with greater steadiness and hope. This passage enhances psychological well-being, supports treatment adherence, and fosters emotional resilience throughout care and recovery. Even in uncertainty, you can anchor calm and courage within yourself.
• Certified Specialist: Pre and Post Surgery Hypnosis
Calm the mind before surgery and strengthen your body’s natural rhythms of recovery afterward. This bridge reduces procedural anxiety, supports optimal preparation, and helps accelerate post-operative restoration. You can enter this process with trust and emerge with strength renewed.
• Certified Specialist: Advanced Handwriting Analysis/Graphologist
Discover the hidden map within your handwriting. This lens offers deep insights into subconscious traits, strengths, and behavioral patterns, fostering greater self-awareness and clarity. The story of who you are is already written within you, waiting to be seen clearly.
• Certified Specialist: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a psychotherapy approach with a strong empirical foundation and proven effectiveness. It invites you to examine thought patterns and build bridges between conscious choice and subconscious release. This compass reflects the wisdom that your mind can be trained to see with greater clarity, while your deeper self discovers freedom in new responses.
At its foundation, CBT works with distorted thoughts and cognitions that shape mood and behavior. By engaging this process, your neocortex is strengthened, sending balanced information back into the emotional centers of the brain. You are invited to see differently, think differently, and live with greater clarity.
• Certified Specialist: Healing the Inner Child
Reconnect with the younger self within you, the part that longs for safety, love, and belonging. This sanctuary anchors in trauma-informed hypnotherapy for emotional release, self-compassion, and gentle integrative psychological restoration. Every part of you is welcome. You are whole, you are safe, you are loved.
• Certified Specialist: Hypnosis and Smoking/Vaping Cessation
Reclaim freedom from habits that once felt unshakable. This release addresses subconscious loops, facilitates sustainable behavior change, strengthens motivation, and supports long-term addiction management. You are free to breathe fully, free to choose differently.
• Certified Specialist: Driving Anxiety and Social Phobias
Restore confidence in real-life moments where fear once held you back. This horizon uses targeted methods to ease phobias, manage panic, and rebuild trust in yourself. You are capable, safe, and confident in motion and connection.
✧ Scope of Practice & Disclaimer
The services I provide as a Certified Hypnotherapist are supportive, complementary techniques for personal growth, emotional resilience, and mind-body balance. They are not a replacement for licensed medical, psychological, or psychiatric care.
• A physician’s referral or clearance is required when symptoms are medically significant (including but not limited to: cancer, neurological conditions, autoimmune disorders, major psychiatric diagnoses, or active medical treatment).
• When appropriate, I collaborate with and refer clients to licensed healthcare professionals to ensure comprehensive, ethical, and responsible care.
• Hypnotherapy outcomes vary for each individual. No specific results are guaranteed.
• Services are not intended for crisis intervention. If urgent help is required, clients should contact emergency services immediately.

The Four Aptitude Hypnotherapy Methods™
Subconscious Change ✧ Nervous System Balance ✧ Identity Realignment
My Approach

✧ Neuro-Linguistic Subconscious Repatterning Hypnotherapy™
Focused on thought patterns, beliefs, language loops, and subconscious behavior conditioning, this method shifts the underlying mental scripts that shape habits, self-talk, emotional reactions, and behavioral outcomes. Using targeted hypnotic language and cognitive-somatic suggestion, clients experience belief flexibility and a deeper sense of identity congruence.
Neuroplastic Insight: Hypnosis opens a Neuroplastic state in which cortical and subcortical circuits involved in belief, habit, and language can be more easily rewired. Repetition and suggestion during this state help consolidate new synaptic patterns that promote lasting behavioral change. Effective for smoking, bruxism, procrastination, inner criticism, overthinking, self-doubt, IBS, and behavior-linked emotional cycles. Referral is suggested for clinical OCD or active psychiatric disorders.

✧ Symbolic Imagery & Metaphor Activation Hypnotherapy™
This method works with the brain’s natural symbolic language to resolve emotional tension, unlock suppressed emotions, and activate insight. Through metaphoric trance journeys and imaginal techniques, clients engage with subconscious symbols, archetypes, and imagery in ways that allow emotional resolution without regression or over-analysis.
Neuroplastic Insight: Imagination and metaphor stimulate sensorimotor and emotional brain regions, building flexible new associations in perception and meaning. Symbolic re-encoding helps re-pattern subconscious narratives and resolve non-verbal stress responses. Effective for body image concerns, intimacy fears, vaginismus, fertility mindset, psychogenic nausea, emotional blocks, somaticized trauma, and symbolic stress patterns. Referral is suggested for flashbacks or dissociative symptoms.

✧ Somatic Awareness & Emotional Recalibration Hypnotherapy™
Focusing on body-based emotional awareness, nervous system regulation, and stress physiology, this method works directly with the autonomic nervous system to release chronic stress, tension, and psychosomatic symptoms. Through breath-work, guided attention, and hypnotic pacing, clients can safely resolve emotional patterns without regression, fostering a sense of physiological and emotional balance.
Neuroplastic Insight: Repeated somatic attunement under hypnosis supports adaptive changes in the insular cortex and vagal regulation circuits. Key areas for body awareness and emotional resilience. This approach is effective for IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome), migraines, fibromyalgia, functional nausea, chronic fatigue, hypertension, PTSD symptoms, and vagus nerve dysregulation. A medical referral is required for autoimmune or neurological conditions under care.

✧ Identity Alignment & Functional Future Integration Hypnotherapy™
True transformation occurs when identity evolves to match conscious goals and values. This method helps clients align subconscious self-concept with desired future outcomes, using purpose-anchoring, values mapping, and visionary future-self work to create lasting change. The process encourages clients to embody the version of themselves they are becoming, both mentally and emotionally.
Neuroplastic Insight: Identity-focused visualization within hypnosis activates prefrontal and limbic pathways tied to goal setting, reward expectancy, and memory encoding. When repeated in hypnotic states, this process strengthens self-concept and motivation. Effective for performance anxiety, self-sabotage, leadership blocks, fertility confidence, surgery readiness, cancer journey mindset, motivation, future pacing, and long-term habit change.
⚪ Referral Encouraged: For untreated trauma, depressive identity collapse, or clients currently undergoing active cancer treatment (to ensure medical and psychological care is coordinated).

In Their Own Words
A glimpse through a window into the personal journeys of those who have explored hypnotherapy, a process of inner exploration and transformation, uniquely unfolding for each individual.

“I struggled with anxiety and constant overthinking for years. Hypnotherapy provided a space to calm my mind and gently release fears that had held me back. I now feel a deeper sense of peace and clarity in my daily life.”~ S.M.
“Before my surgery, fear and uncertainty consumed me. Hypnotherapy helped me center and find calm within the process. I approached the procedure with a sense of grounded presence, and recovery felt more manageable than I imagined.”~L.K.
“I had tried everything to quit smoking, but nothing truly shifted. Through hypnotherapy, I discovered a way to let go of old patterns and reconnect with my inner resolve. It wasn’t about forcing change, it was about allowing it to emerge.”~J.R.
“Facing cancer treatments left me feeling vulnerable and overwhelmed. Hypnotherapy became a refuge, allowing me to release tension and reclaim a sense of agency. It didn’t change the diagnosis, but it transformed how I experienced the journey.”~M.T.

“Chronic pain had dictated the rhythm of my life. Hypnotherapy offered a way to step back from the intensity and find moments of ease. For the first time, I felt I could manage the pain rather than be controlled by it.”~K.L.
“I had struggled with insomnia for years. Hypnotherapy guided me to quiet my mind and let go of the tension that kept me awake. I finally experience restful nights and wake with renewed energy.”~D.P.
“Arthritis made everyday movement exhausting. Hypnotherapy helped me release tension and approach my body with patience and awareness. While the condition remains, I feel greater comfort and freedom in daily life.”~R.D.
“Exams and presentations would overwhelm me with anxiety. Through hypnotherapy, I cultivated focus and confidence, transforming how I approach challenges. I now step into high-pressure situations with clarity and calm.”~E.S.

“For years, I struggled with IBS flare-ups that made me feel like my body was working against me. These sessions gave me more than just techniques, they helped me feel safe in my own body again. The connection between my mind and gut feels calmer, and I finally have space to live instead of just manage symptoms.”~T.R.
“I used to shrink in relationships, afraid of rejection. These sessions helped me find my voice and rebuild my sense of worth. Now I approach connections with authenticity and courage. It feels like I finally belong in my own life.” ~L.V.
“I had carried shame and fear into every intimate relationship. Hypnotherapy helped me release those old stories and step into closeness with trust. What felt impossible now feels natural, I feel more open, connected, and confident than I ever thought I could.”~M.C.
“I didn’t believe recovery from my past was possible. The memories felt like they owned me. These sessions gave me a safe space to finally breathe, to feel without being overwhelmed. Slowly, the weight I carried began to lift. I’m not defined by what happened to me anymore. I feel whole again, lighter and free.”~K.K.
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