About Connie & Michael Brannan, Neuro Linguistic Hypnotherapists & Licensed Trainers of NLP ®
WE CAN HELP YOU CHANGE YOUR LIFE!!
Mindworks Hypnosis is a family venture: Connie Brannan, Licensed Trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming®, CHt., Neuro-Linguistic Hypnotherapist, Design Human Engineer®, Persuasion Engineer®, and Professional Conversational Hypnotherapist.
Michael Brannan, Licensed Trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming®, CHt., Neuro-Linguistic Hypnotherapist, Design Human Engineer®, Persuasion Engineer®, and Professional Conversational Hypnotherapist.
Mindworks Hypnosis has been named “Best of Bellevue” numerous times. This recognition is awarded by the US Commerce Assn. Mindworks Hypnosis is celebrating 16 years in business, helping people in the Pacific Northwest. Mindworks Hypnosis has an A+ rating as a Better Business Bureau Accredited Business.
Connie Brannan is a Seattle native, grew up on Mercer Island and received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington. Her extensive traveling and living in other regions has deeply enriched her understanding of diversity and her ability to help others. Now, she is delighted to be home, and practicing out of Bellevue, Washington. She is a Licensed Trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming®, certified through Richard Bandler and the Society of Neuro-Linguistic Programming®. She co-instructs NLP & Hypnosis with husband, Michael, in their own licensed vocational school: Mindworks NLP http://www.seattlenlptraining.com . Her proven excellence has earned her certifications as:
* Licensed Trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming ®
* Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist
* Neuro-Linguistic Hypnotherapist ™
* Persuasion Engineer ®
* Design Human Engineer ®
* Neuro-Linguistic Life Coach
* Timeline Coach and Regression Specialist
* Usui Reiki Master/Teacher & Shamballa MDH Reiki Master/Teacher
* Matrix Energetics® Level 1 & 2
* Professional Conversational Hypnotherapist
Here is a photo of the “Dedicated to Excellence Wall” in our office, displaying some of Connie’s certifications and diplomas.
Connie is a member in good standing of several professional organizations including the NGH, the National Guild of Hypnotists, the Society of Neuro-Linguistic Programming®, and the IAPCH, International Association of Professional Conversational Hypnotherapists. Her continuing education includes specialized in-person training with Don Mottin, (VP of the NGH National), with Steve and Connirae Andreas (NLP), Andrew Austin (NLP), Steven Watson, (Hypnosis), The Geoffrey Ronning Group, OMNI Hypnosis courses, Richard Bandler (NLP), Igor Ledochowski (Conversational Hypnosis) Richard Bartlett (Matrix Energetics) as well as participation in a variety of international and local hypnosis and NLP seminars.
She is a published author, and creator of several self-help audio hypnosis PRODUCTS She presents a series of self-hypnosis workshops, and also teaches hypnosis at Bellevue College Continuing Education, as well as teaching and training NLP through her own institute, Mindworks NLP. http://www.seattlenlptraining.com
Visit us at our beautiful office space:
MINDWORKS HYPNOSIS
Connie Brannan/C. Michael Brannan
Mindworks Hypnosis & NLP
1808 Richards Road, Suite #104
Bellevue, WA 98005
Directions: https://goo.gl/maps/xv5RSn4VgguLYPjw9 The Building is called “The Bannerwood Building” and our parking is a driveway off of the same road leading to Bannerwood Park. This property features an eye care center (the owners). We are in Suite #104. Free parking underneath. You go up and in the main entrance.
Phone: (425) 564-8608 Email: Contact us
Call for an appointment today!
“My purpose is to help you get the good feelings and positive outcomes you want, using hypnosis, using NLP, Neuro-Linguistic Programming™, timeline work, and other healing tools. I’m excellent at what I do. Together we can succeed in achieving your goals and desired changes. Let’s get started!”
We are proud to be an Accredited Business with the Greater Seattle – Western Washington Better Business Bureau. We have achieved their highest rating: A+ and this is your guarantee of professionalism in business. It matters of the mind, you want ethical hypnotherapists, as well as talented ones.
Michael Brannan, CHt., is a Licensed Trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming®, and a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist. Michael has been hypnotizing people since the age of 13. He’s carried his interest in hypnosis forward to this day, as co-creator of Mindworks Hypnosis, with offices located in Bellevue, Washington and as co-trainer in his own company, Mindworks NLP, offering certification trainings in the Seattle area. http://www.seattlenlptraining.com . He is also former President of the National Guild of Hypnotists, Washington State Chapter.
He graduated from the University of Washington with degrees in Philosophy and Physics, and did his graduate work in Philosophy at Indiana University.
“My focus is to help you realize your ultimate dreams. Using NLP, hypnosis, and timeline work, I help you harness the most powerful resource of all: your own mind.”
* Licensed Trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming®
( Richard Bandler certified through the Society of
Neuro-Linguistic Programming™)
* Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist
* Neuro-Linguistic Hypnotherapist ™
* Persuasion Engineer ®
* Design Human Engineer ®
* Neuro-Linguistic Life Coach
* Timeline Coach and Regression Specialist
* Usui Reiki Master/Teacher & Shamballa MDH Reiki Master/Teacher
* Matrix Energetics® Level 1 & 2
* Professional Conversational Hypnotherapist
Michael is active with several professional organizations including the Washington Chapter of the National Guild of Hypnotists–where he served as President from 2009 through 2011. He is a member in good standing in the Society of Neuro-Linguistic Programming®. His continuing education includes specialized in-person hypnosis stage training with The Geoffrey Ronning Group, OMNI Hypnosis courses, trainings with Richard Bandler (NLP), and trainings in conversational hypnosis, and Advanced Mastery Training in NLP with Steve Andreas & Andrew Austin, with Don Mottin of the NGH, as well as participation in a variety of international and local hypnosis and NLP seminars.
You want the best! Call us:
MINDWORKS HYPNOSIS & NLP, Bellevue, WA
Phone: (425) 564-8608
Our services and success are so well-documented that we have been publicly endorsed by professionals and colleagues worldwide. Connie Brannan / Michael Brannan / Mindworks Hypnosis & NLP has been endorsed by:
Elsom Eldridge, Jr.
Convention Director at National Guild of Hypnotists, Winter Springs, FL
John Cerbone
Hypnotist — Entertainer – Speed Trance, Shows – Board Certified Clinical Hypnotist, Instructor – Author, Greater New York City Area
Jacob Bimblich
Convention Faculty Member at The National Guild of Hypnotists, Greater New York City Area
Barbara J. Stepp
Trainer Excellence Quest Training International, Greater Chicago Area
Michael Harris, PhD
Board Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, Dallas/Fort Worth Area
John O’Connor
Director at Dublin Therapy Centre, Ireland
Prof. A. K. Rathod
Hypnotherapist, Mind Programmer, healer, Indore Area, India
Dr. Andy Yates
Author and Presenter of C’ING IS BELIEVING, Phoenix, Arizona Area
Rosetta Bonavita
Clinical Hypnotherapist at HypnoRosie Clinical Hypnotherapy, San Francisco Bay Area
Ron Thompson
Advanced Clinical Hypnotherapist at Nanaimo Hypnotherapy Center, Canada
Deva Sukumari
Power of Exuberance Coaching, San Francisco Bay Area
Dr. Marcel F. Vilsaint
Alternative Healing, Pain, Anxiety, and Stress Management, Greater New York City Area
Brian Dean
Golf Instructor, Greater Seattle Area
Alexander Ivlev
Consulting Hypnotist, Greater New York City Area
OlgaMaria Carmen Sanchez
Alternative Medicine Professional, Greater Milwaukee Area
Dr. Harry Henshaw
Director at Enhanced Healing, Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area
Mark Gittos
Licensed Trainer of NLP, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Richard Howell, MM, CPC, ELI-MP
President of The Enrichment Group, Greater Los Angeles Area
Susan Bliss-Unander
Certified Hypnotherapist, Salt Lake City Area
Doreen Cohanim
Certified Hypnotherapist, Los Angeles Area
Dan Larosa
President at Best Life Hypnosis, Hartford, Connecticut
Rob Wilson
Clinical Hypnotherapist, NLP Practitioner, Las Vegas, Nevada
Raymond Zukowski
Professional Hypnotherapist, Tacoma, WA
Maureen V. Meehan
Professional Therapeutic Hypnotist, Baltimore, Maryland
Perhaps you wonder…How did I get started with Hypnosis and NLP? Here’s how!
Connie’s Story!
I “discovered” hypnosis quite by accident at the Puyallup Fair about 10 years ago. We were wandering around the fair eating onion burgers and scones and Michael saw an announcement for a stage hypnotist performance. It was a free entertainment, and we plopped ourselves down to enjoy it. I had no idea what to expect, but was surprised to find that the show was quite amusing, featured hypnotized subjects singing and dancing, hallucinating bugs and chairs with teeth, speaking foreign languages like “Martian,” x-ray “nudie” glasses, men having babies onstage, all manner of crazy antics. I was intrigued but yet thought, what IS this? I can’t believe this. Are they “stooges?” Is this real? What is happening here?
After the show, I went up to the hypnotist and spoke to him. He was selling some audio CD products, a blend of hypnosis and conversational NLP language patterns to effect personal change. I bought the weight loss CD. Some time later, I began listening to it. And…lo and behold, I started taking better care of myself and eating right and exercising. Several months later, I had lost close to 75 pounds!!! Doing what I wanted to do for myself. Not a struggle! I had shifted something inside. In a good way that was allowing me to move forward in my life in a more healthy, positive direction!
As I watched my habits and body transforming, I thought to myself: “There’s something going on here. Obviously!! And it’s something powerful. Something real! Something I need to know more about!” These techniques and language patterns and process called “hypnosis” had helped me achieve a goal I’d been wanting in my life for a long, long time. I NEEDED to learn more! I determined to learn more!
Thus began my research into hypnosis. I scoured the ‘net for hypnosis resources and references. I bought and read books galore, I read articles and scientific studies, I joined online forums frequented by Professional Hypnotists, Hypnotherapists, and NLP trainers. I asked questions, and day by day I was getting more and more excited. All the possibilities: personal enrichment and transformation, a new career doing something valuable, something that matters, helping people, changing the world person by person. My new hypno-friends encouraged me to take a live training as I really wanted to learn more and experience more of the power of Hypnosis for myself. I was initially hesitant to sign up, but then decided to GO FOR IT! So I did! I signed up for my first 3 month-long Hypnosis and NLP training. That was the best decision of my life!!! (Well, apart perhaps from choosing Michael, whom I’ve been married to now for 20-some years!) And, happily, the learning is a never-ending process. Over the years, I’ve had more and more live trainings all across the country with more and more experts, and the joy keeps growing as I delve deeper and deeper into my fascination with the mind and how it works. (That’s how I named my business “Mindworks.” It’s all about how the “mind works.”)
Discovering the power of hypnosis changed the course of my life! I soon realized that this work was more powerful and more important than anything I’d ever learned or done. I got my training and certifications. I quit my 9-to-5 job. I began my own exciting business as a hypnotherapist and NLP Master Practitioner, the business of helping. I opened an office in Bellevue in the Park Heights Building, and began changing lives—one at a time. For the better!
I love using these tools I’ve mastered for helping people let go of fears and anxieties, let go of unwanted habits like smoking and stuttering and fingernail biting, adopting better strategies for living, weight control, pain management, sleeping better. More and more and more cool life-improving things, helping people through hypnosis and NLP. Enhancing people’s sports games, increasing memory, increasing confidence and self esteem, increasing motivation, helping people let go of limiting beliefs and find the unconscious solutions to life’s dilemmas which they already have inside themselves. And you know what, I’m having more fun than I’d ever dreamed possible. I absolutely, without reservation, LOVE THIS WORK!! It’s amazing. It’s my passion, it’s my life!
Also exciting, Michael shares my passion. We’re moving forward together. As it turns out, his interest in all this precedes mine, he was hypnotizing his little schoolmates at age 13! But that’s Michael’s story, which he will share himself.
With more and more trainings under the belt, more and more experience in my office playing with these tools, I made another leap. This is something we can teach! We can touch more minds than just one at a time. Michael and I joined Richard Bandler (NLP’s originator) in Orlando, Florida for the ultimate NLP trainer’s training. We earned the King’s seal of approval, that we had mastered this methodology to the point that he was comfortable licensing us to teach it. We are also Licensed Trainers of Neuro-Linguistic Programming ™, and opened a Seattle based licensed vocational school to share the magic of NLP and Hypnosis with the world. I’m happier than I ever imagined now that I share these tools every day. Day by day, my life is becoming more rich and rewarding. You can join me in this wonderful adventure of transformation, either in my therapy office or in one of my classrooms. Do!
Learn more anytime about our services: http://www.mindworkshypnosis.net.
We service all of the Greater Seattle Metro area and beyond, including Bellevue, Everett, Renton, Kirkland, Redmond, Edmonds, Lynnwood, Bothell, Mountlake Terrace, Kenmore, Mukilteo, Issaquah, Sammamish, Mill Creek, Seattle, Mercer Island, Bainbridge Island, Tacoma, Kent, Auburn, Burien, and more.
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INDEX:
About Connie and Michael Brannan | How to Contact Us | Frequently Asked Questions | NLP™ Training Information | Products | Success stories
HYPNOTIC & NLP SERVICES:
Hypnosis for weight management | Kick the cigarette habit | Hypnosis for releasing fears | Stress relief through hypnosis | Hypnosis for an amazing memory | Hypnosis for improving study habits | An end to nail biting | Hypnosis for improving your sporting game | Hypnosis for unleashing the creative genius in you | Increase those sales quotas | Self hypnosis | Pump up your confidence and self esteem | Stop procrastinating | Manage physical discomfort | Hypnosis for sleep improvement | And more!
ARTICLES:
Confidence Building – Five Minutes to a New Confident You | Manifesting, How to Get What You Dream Of | Anchoring & Emotional State Management | Manifesting, Well Forming Your Outcome | Rapport and Mirroring and Sensory-Based Language | The Mind-Body Connection and Healing | Relaxation and Stress Release | Language of Influence – Embedded Commands | Possible Worlds – The “As If” Frame | Weight Management: Food Choice | Weight Management: When to Say When | Bad Habit Buster NLP Technique | Self Hypnosis Technique | Increase Motivation and Release Negative Emotions NLP Sound Technique | Zone State for Great Sports |
HYPNOSIS AUDIO CDs:
Weight Loss | Smoking Cessation | Stress Release | Confidence and Self-Esteem | Memory and Concentration | Control of Physical Discomfort | Sleep Improvement
A+ Accredited Business with the Better Business Bureau
We are fully Accredited with the Better Business Bureau, with an “A+” Ranking, your assurance of professionalism and ethical business practices.
Professional Affiliations:
Connie & Michael are proud members in good standing of the NGH (National Guild of Hypnotists)
The Society of Neuro Linguistic Programming
And the International Assn of Professional Conversational Hypno-therapists
Connie and Michael are registered with Washington State as Certified Hypnotherapists.
Did you know?
1. Hypnosis has been practiced for thousands of years. Even the ancient Egyptians had “sleep temples” where hypnosis was used to help the sick.
2. Hypnosis is completely safe. Millions have been hypnotized, safely and without harm.
3. You cannot get “stuck” in hypnosis. Even if the hypnotist were simply to leave, you would emerge from trance or just fall asleep and wake as you normally would.
4. Hypnosis has been used to control pain, even during severe surgical procedures, such as amputations.
5. Hypnosis is one of the most effective, direct and efficient ways to make positive, beneficial changes in your life.
For more information about how hypnosis can help you, contact Connie for a free consultation at (425) 564-8608.
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What is NLP? Connie explains in the two videos below:
“Hi! I’m Connie Brannan and I’m a hypnotherapist and a Licensed Trainer of NLP®. That’s neuro linguistic programming. A lot of people are not sure what that means. I’m going to tell you what I believe it means and how I use it in my company, Mindworks Hypnosis. And in my vocational school in Washington State, Mindworks NLP, to help people make changes in their lives.
Now, NLP! Here’s what it is.
It’s all really about what is real. What is reality? How do you know what’s real in your world?
Well, there’s different senses that we have. We have eyes. We can see out into the world. I see a car. I see a face. I see a doorknob. I see things with my eyes. That’s one sensory input. But then when I think about things and I remember things I have a visual memory. I can create a memory. My mother is no longer living but I can create a memory of her and see her in my mind’s eye. I see her face, I see her eyes.
I can hear her voice. A memory can have sound.
We also have sound out in the world. I can hear a dog barking. I can hear a car backfiring. I can also recreate sound in my imagination. I talk to myself in my imagination, we all do! It’s called self talk. That’s sound, that’s auditory.
We also have the ability of touch. Tactile sensation. Texture. What is this? This is smooth, this is a table. I am touching. That is an input of sensory information. Also, I can recreate in my mind memories of sensation. I can imagine the warmth of a summer day. Well, today’s February! But I can imagine and remember warmth of the sun on a beach. And the smell of the air. All of that. We can create in our imagination memories of touch.
And in addition to that, we have feelings in our body: anger, joy, happy! Different feelings inside. These representations, including smell, including taste, our senses, this is how we create reality.
Well, the premise of NLP is that these representations can be altered. And when we alter our internal representations of reality, we can change reality.
I had a client in here talking about a spider phobia, and she said “I am so afraid of spiders!!” and she showed me that in her mind’s eye there’s a picture of a spider this close to her face and a spider body this big. Hey, I’d be screaming, too. So would anyone.
This is a picture in her mind that’s creating a feeling called fear. We can alter the picture. We can push it away. Make that spider the size of a dot! Far, far, a football field away. From that distance, not so frightening.
We can adjust the pictures in our minds, the sound bites we play. Turn down that negative self talk and turn up something that sounds better!
I’m a fan of Smokey Robinson. He’s a singer. And he gave a story about when he hears his own voice and his own music on the radio and they said “Smokey, what do you do?” He said “Turn it up!” When you like something in your mind turn it up. If it’s not useful or doesn’t make you feel good, turn it down. We control the volume.
Yes, we control the representations in our mind. People don’t know this! We can change how we think, how we feel and what we do by manipulating the representations of our world. This is NLP. This is a way to take control of your experience of life. It’s amazing. It’s powerful. And when people have changes to make, this is the fastest thing on earth. And I love it.”
