Biography

Welcome!

My journey into the mechanics of the mind started back in the fall of 1983 during a psychology course at Western Washington University. A single one-day module on hypnosis changed everything. When the professor called a volunteer to the front of the class for a demonstration, I was completely hooked.

As a voracious reader, I immediately invaded the campus library, devouring every single book on the shelf that so much as mentioned the word "hypnosis." From Ormond McGill’s classic stage techniques and John Kappas’s suggestibility models to Dave Elman’s rapid inductions and Milton Erickson’s indirect metaphors—I read them all. Naturally, my dorm neighbors became my very first (and very patient) test subjects. What started as an intriguing way to fascinate friends at weekend gatherings quickly turned into a lifelong obsession with human potential, suggestibility, and internal states.

Fast-forward to 2016: an unexpected opportunity granted me dedicated education funds, and I jumped at the chance to take my lifelong passion to the professional level. I enrolled in the Hypnosis Motivation Institute (HMI)—the premier nationally accredited college for hypnotherapy in the U.S.—and formally launched Hypnotechs while still working through my coursework. After graduating and securing state registration, what began in a college dorm officially became a dynamic, dedicated practice.

Today, Hypnotechs has grown into an expansive hub for clinical hypnotherapy, psychometrics, interactive self-discovery tools, and cognitive exploration. Whether you're here to test your own suggestibility, dive into psychometrics, or explore how the mind constructs reality, I’m thrilled to have you along for the ride.

Want to dive deeper into the formal background? Head over to the credentials page on Hypnotechs.com to check out the full details!