I am Ellen R. Coleman, a former university professor and a certified clinical hypnotherapist. I am currently in private practice at my office in Santa Monica, California.

My study of the mind began long before I trained at the Hypnosis Motivation Institute, the first nationally accredited hypnosis program, located in Tarzana, California. It was at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where I attained a B.A. with honors in Philosophy. My honors thesis focused on wants as motivators of human behavior.

After earning an M.A. in Philosophy at Cornell University, I lectured there while working on my Ph.D. dissertation on Mental Causation and the Explanation of Human Action. I went on to teach Philosophical Psychology and Philosophy of Mind at such institutions as Stanford, San Francisco State, and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

After leaving academia, I became a computer documentation consultant in Silicon Valley and experienced the high pressure and demands of the business world, where the therapeutic tools clinical hypnosis offers are extremely valuable.

This eclectic career as a teacher, researcher, writer, consultant, and hypnotherapist has given me diverse opportunities for studying the mind and learning how to motivate constructive action for positive change. I would feel honored if you decide to work with me.