Is this hypnosis training accredited, and how many hours is it?

The training is ICF-aligned continuing education and is accredited by the American Council of Hypnotist Examiners (ACHE). The certification runs eleven weeks: a 90-minute orientation, a self-study week, nine consecutive 3-hour live classes, and an individual final exam with Dr. Lisa Leit.

Human Systems Architecture™ Series · Inner-System Track

HWH® Hypnotic Coach Certification

Q: What is the optional 40-hour practicum?

After the certification you can add an optional 40-hour HWH supervised practicum that converts protocol training into supervised client practice. It builds the documented hypnosis and coaching hours that count toward the ACHE Hypnotic Coach certification path.

Q: What hypnosis tradition is this based on?

The 8-protocol sequence is grounded in the Alchemical Hypnosis tradition of David Quigley, for which Happy Whole Human holds formal licensing, integrated with the Human Systems Architecture framework and ICF-aligned coaching.

Reach where change actually happens. Integrate hypnosis into ICF-aligned coaching — ethically, structurally, and measurably.

The conscious mind sets the goal. The subconscious decides whether it holds.

Available exclusively to members of the HWH® Coach Club.

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protocol sequence — cellular clearing through Future Self visioning

live 3-hour practice classes + orientation + final exam

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optional supervised practicum toward ACHE certification

ACHE

accredited by the American Council of Hypnotist Examiners

A Personal Welcome

Welcome to Your Hypnotic Coach Certification Journey

Before you read another word, hear it from Dr. Lisa Leit. In three minutes she walks you through what this certification is, who it's for, and how the work reaches the level where change actually holds.

Why It Matters

Talk therapy talks to the part that already agrees with you.

Your clients know what they should do. They set the goal, make the plan — and then something older and faster overrides it. That something is the subconscious, and ordinary coaching rarely reaches it. Hypnotic coaching does — which is why the change finally holds.

The gap

Insight isn't change

A client can understand their pattern perfectly and still repeat it on Monday. Understanding lives in the conscious mind. The pattern lives somewhere else — and that's where the work has to go.

The opportunity

The work almost no coach is trained to do

Ethical, structured subconscious change work is rare, valuable, and in demand — and it lets you charge premium fees for transformation clients can feel, not just discuss.

The method

Structure, not stagecraft

This isn't stage hypnosis or mystique. It's a repeatable, ethical 8-protocol sequence held inside ICF-aligned coaching — grounded in a licensed tradition and a validated model.

You cannot coach a client out of a pattern their subconscious is committed to keeping. You can help their own system release it — and that is a learnable skill.

The Frame

The psyche is a system. Coach it like one.

This certification is the Inner Systems Architecture™ track — the inner-world application of Human Systems Architecture™, which treats the psyche as a complex adaptive system of sub-personalities: parts, each doing a job, each formed at a moment in time. The work is not to fight them. It's to lead them, from a self that is Calm, Curious, Compassionate, and Clear.

You will learn how to facilitate inner-system coherence — resolving the inner tensions within individual clients so that coherence translates into clarity, alignment, and measurable improvements in how they think, feel, and act, as captured by the Holistogram™, and in how they show up in their lives and relationships.

The HWH® Formula™ — Self and Other meeting at the intersection

Clear the system. Then map it. Then lead it.

Learn how to conduct a cellular block clearing and Adult Self activation to set the stage for coaching the Happy Whole Human.

Every session follows a logic: you clear before you map, because a reactive system can't receive the work. You activate the Adult Self — the client's own calm, capable center — and anchor it. Only then do you meet the committee of parts, resolve their conflicts, and re-role them with the whole system's consent.

It's grounded in the Alchemical Hypnosis tradition of David Quigley — for which HWH holds formal licensing — and in Ecopsychology, integrated with ICF-aligned coaching so it fits inside a real engagement, ethically.

The Adult Self is the mediator. The parts are the system. Presence is the doorway. Integrity is the ground.

The Developmental Backbone

The HWH® 8-Protocol Sequence

The protocols run in order for a reason — each prepares the system for the next. You clear, you center, you map, you resolve, you heal, and only then do you vision. Skip a step and the work doesn't hold.

Letting Go

Cellular block clearing

Adult Self Activation

Embodying the four Cs

Part Detection & Mapping

Meet the Committee

Part-to-Part Conflict Resolution

The Adult Self as mediator

Part Re-Roling

A part names its new role

Inner Child / Original Wound

Reaching the frozen moment

Future Self & Visioning

Leading from wholeness

Integration & Reassessment

Measuring what moved

Clear & center the systemVision from wholeness

Naming the eight is the easy part. Reading which protocol a client needs, sequencing them, holding the field through an inner-child regression, and knowing when not to go there — that is what the labs and the supervised practicum are for. It is taught in practice, under supervision, not in a paragraph on a website.

The Curriculum

Eleven weeks. Ten live sessions. Practice, not lecture.

A 90-minute orientation, a self-study week to absorb the handbook, then nine consecutive 3-hour live classes built around demonstration, triad practice, supervision, and real-time feedback — because you cannot learn to guide a trance by watching a slide about it.

Orientation & HSA Pre-Reading

Prep session — the HSA framework, cohort agreements, your Holistogram™ baseline, and how to read the Alchemical Hypnosis handbook through the HSA lens.

How To: Hypnotic Coaching Basics

What trance is and isn't, the neuroscience of suggestion, induction fundamentals, depth indicators — and where hypnosis sits inside ICF-aligned coaching.

Working with Scripts

Building, adapting, and delivering hypnotic scripts — and knowing when to put the script down and follow the client.

Classic Hypnotic Coaching

Run & Change and Etheric Plane Communication — working in the symbolic field, and transitioning in and out of trance within a coaching session.

Foundational Protocol: Letting Go + Adult Self

Cellular block clearing, then Adult Self Activation & Anchoring — embodying the four Cs: Calm, Curious, Compassionate, Clear. We clear before we map.

Part Detection & Mapping

Meet the Committee — a curious, non-diagnostic inventory of the inner system: what's here, and what each part is trying to do.

Part-to-Part Conflict Resolution

The Adult Self as skilled mediator between polarized parts — equal airtime, genuine agreement, and what resolution actually looks and feels like.

Part Re-Roling

Letting a part name its own new role — critic to quality director, protector to wise advisor — with system-wide consent so the change holds.

Inner Child / Original Wound

The formation model and age regression — reaching the moment a part was born and froze, and rescuing it from Adult Self leadership.

Future Self & Visioning + Integration

Visioning from Adult Self leadership rather than woundedness, the full 8-protocol arc review, and the Holistogram™ reassessment that measures what moved.

It closes with an individual final exam with Dr. Lisa Leit — a live protocol demonstration, conceptual Q&A, and a certification decision.

Optional Add-On

The 40-Hour Supervised Practicum & the ACHE Path

Certification proves you know the protocols. The optional 40-hour HWH® supervised practicum proves you can hold them with real clients — and it builds the documented hours that move you toward independent hypnosis credentialing.

Supervised hypnotic-coaching sessions with real client systems
Faculty observation, feedback, and case consultation
Documented coaching and hypnosis hours toward the ACHE path
Recorded protocol demonstrations for the HWH learning library

Ask About the Practicum

ACHE

American Council of Hypnotist Examiners

ACHE is an independent credentialing body that accredits HWH's hypnotic coaching training. The full ACHE Hypnotic Coach path is 200+ hours — roughly 100 coaching and 100 hypnosis.

This certification plus the optional supervised practicum, taken through Coach Club, build the accredited hours toward ACHE certification as a Hypnotic Coach.

Measurement

This is not mystique. It's measured change.

Subconscious work has a reputation for being unmeasurable. Not here. Every client begins with a Holistogram™ baseline and ends with a reassessment — so the shift is visible, in data, not just felt in the room.

Holistogram™ Baseline

The validated, award-winning 28-dimension whole-person map — taken before the protocol work begins, so you know exactly where the system starts.

The 8-Protocol Arc

Clearing → Adult Self → mapping → conflict resolution → re-roling → inner child → Future Self → integration. A complete system, run in order.

Holistogram™ Reassessment

Retake at integration. Compare baseline to current, dimension by dimension. Everyone says they change lives. You measure it, and celebrate what moved.

Ethically held, ICF-aligned

You will learn where hypnosis fits inside a coaching engagement and where it does not — the boundaries, the consent, the documentation, and the referral decisions. Hypnotic coaching facilitates a client's own subconscious change. It does not diagnose or treat, and this program is explicit about the line.

Course Materials

Required Readings & eCourse

Drawn from the Human Systems Architecture™ Series by Dr. Lisa Leit — the client-facing text, the coach's craft book, and the practitioner eCourse that carries the conceptual teaching. Digital editions are included with enrollment and delivered in the HWH App; print editions are on Amazon.

REQUIRED READING

Client Text

Human Systems Architecture™ for the Inner Human System

The client-facing map of the inner system — the book your clients read to understand their own parts and Adult Self.

Buy on Amazon In the App

Coach Craft Book

Hypnotic Coaching the Inner Human System

The craft book: scripts, the 8-protocol sequence, and the facilitation detail behind ethical hypnotic coaching in HSA™.

Buy on Amazon In the App

Coach eCourse

Hypnotic Coaching the Inner Human System eCourse

Your asynchronous practitioner eCourse — the conceptual teaching that lets live class time be for practice.

Open in the HWH App

Your Instructor

Taught by a licensed practitioner of the tradition

Hypnotic coaching should be taught by someone who has done thousands of hours of it — and who is licensed in the lineage it comes from.

Dr. Lisa Leit, Ph.D., MCC, ACTC, ESIA, M.npn

Founder & Director · Happy Whole Human® Institute of Holistic Wellness

Dr. Lisa Leit is an ICF Master Certified Coach, an ACHE Master Hypnotic Coach, and a licensed practitioner in the Alchemical Hypnosis tradition of David Quigley — the lineage this certification's 8-protocol sequence is built on and for which HWH holds formal licensing.

She is also a Master Neuroplastician™ (M.npn), which is not incidental to this work: the whole premise of hypnotic coaching is that what a client repeats, they rewire. Her Ph.D. research at the University of Texas at Austin was on measuring meaningful change in human systems, and she brings more than 20 years of clinical experience and 12,000+ coaching hours.

She is the author of the Human Systems Architecture™ Series and the architect of the validated, award-winning Holistogram™. She teaches every live class herself, with HWH Certified Coach Nicole House as co-instructor.

ACHE

Master Hypnotic Coach

12,000+

coaching hours delivered

Ph.D.

UT Austin · published research

drlisaleit.com → Connect on LinkedIn →

Credentials & Accreditations

ICF MCC
Master Certified Coach

ICF ACTC
Team Coach

EMCC ESIA
Supervisor

ACHE
Master Hypnotic Coach

Association for Coaching Accredited Master Executive Coach

AC Accredited
Master Executive Coach

ABS
Diplomate, Sexology

M.npn
Master Neuroplastician

Evidence

Where this work is already deployed

HWH® coaching programs have been delivered inside some of the most demanding organizations in the world — and independently validated for outcomes.

What Hypnotic Coaches Are Saying · 140 Reviews · 95% Satisfaction

“After 28 years as a hypnotherapist, I was looking to level up, and this program checks all of the boxes. My listening skills have sharpened, my use of open-ended questions has made my sessions more client-led and dynamic, and my business has grown dramatically. ICF-aligned coaching combined with hypnotherapy is a powerful approach. I highly recommend the Master Hypnotic Coach training.”

Alicia K. Mutch, BCTMB, CCHtBoard Certified in Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork · Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist

“What I love most about the Happy Whole Human® Hypnotic Coaching program is how it goes beyond the analytical mind into deep subconscious work, where real change happens. The blend of hypnosis and coaching is both intuitive and highly effective, helping clients shift long-standing patterns while finally understanding their roots. It has truly transformed the way I support others.”

Dr. Robyn Bragg, ACCHWH Certified Coach & Instructor

“HWH’s training is comprehensive, deeply thought out, and clearly created by professionals in the field. It has given me the confidence I needed to integrate hypnosis with my clients, creating incredible and lasting transformation. It’s the perfect follow-up to Level 1 — powerful tools inside an ICF-aligned framework. There is NO part of me that regrets my investment in the Coach Club.”

Sara Moles, PCCHWH Certified Coach & Instructor

“For me it was taking hypnosis that I knew and putting the ICF around it.”

Stacy Braiuca, MSW, MPH, LCSW, CTMH, NPT-C®Certified Master Practitioner of NLP, MER®, and Hypnosis · HWH Hypnotic Coach

140 verified reviews. 95% satisfaction. Hypnotherapists, clinicians, and coaches who added the ICF-aligned architecture to the deep work they already do.

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Validation Institute — HealthValue Award, Well-being

Independently validated — not self-reported

Happy Whole Human® earned Validation for Outcomes from the Validation Institute (2022, Well-Being category). An independent review of a 30-participant cohort found a statistically significant increase in employees' intention to stay with their employer. Backed by the Validation Institute's Credibility Guarantee, and recognized with the HealthValue Award — Well-being.

Awards & Recognition

Global 100 — Executive Coach of the Year 2026 — Global 100
Coach of the Year 2026

EdTech Trendsetter Awards 2026 — EdTech Trendsetter
2026

American Business Vanguard 2026 — American Business
Vanguard 2026

Fluxx Awards 2025 Winner — Fluxx 2025
Winner

EdTech Leadership Award 2025 — EdTech Leadership
2025

Global Health & Wellness Excellence 2025 — Global Health & Wellness
Excellence 2025

Corporate America Today 2025 — Corporate America
Today 2025

IFAH Top 100 Healthcare Visionaries — IFAH Top 100
Visionaries

HWH Global Business Award 2024 — HWH Global
Business 2024

HealthValue Award — Validation Institute — HealthValue Award
Validation Institute

As Featured In

As seen in Business Insider, Chicago Tribune and more

The Bigger Picture

See how this fits into the whole HWH® ecosystem

The hypnotic track is one part of the Human Systems Architecture™ Series — a connected ecosystem where every book, client eCourse, validated assessment, AI companion, and ICF-accredited training speaks the same language.

7 Validated AssessmentsHSA™ Series BooksClient eCourses5 AI CompanionsICF Levels 1–3 · AATC · ACHEThe HWH App Coach Club

Explore the HSA™ Series & Ecosystem

HWH Mojo™ AI · Your AI Copilot

Built specifically for hypnotic coaching

This isn't a generic induction bot. Every certified HWH® Hypnotic Coach gets access to HWH Mojo™ AI — an AI coaching copilot that works from your client's own assessment data to deliver a precision-targeted hypnotic coaching experience, built around exactly where the client is right now. Your clinical intuition stays in the room; Mojo handles the architecture around it.

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Custom hypnotic coaching scripts

Mojo generates bespoke scripts adapted to each client's goals and their Holistogram™ results, aligned with HWH methodology. Precision-targeted, not templates.

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Session prep & entry points

Before each session, Mojo synthesizes your client's assessment data, surfaces the right entry points, and helps you prepare high-leverage questions and interventions aligned to where they actually are.

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Assessment debriefs

Mojo supports you through Holistogram™, DPI, 360, and Couples Pulse™ debriefs — surfacing patterns, prioritizing dimensions, and recommending exercises tied directly to client data.

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Between-session support

While you're with other clients, Mojo is working with yours — accountability check-ins, reflection prompts, and goal-tracking aligned to their profile — keeping momentum alive in the 167 hours between sessions.

“You already do the deep work. Now give it the architecture it deserves.”

Dr. Lisa Leit, MCC · Founder, Happy Whole Human®

Build & Scale With Us

A hypnotic-coaching practice, not just a certificate

Through the HWH® Coach Club you leave with a delivery system: a licensed methodology, a co-branded client app, revenue infrastructure, and a community that co-creates rather than competes.

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A co-branded client app

Your clients get the HWH App under your brand — the Holistogram™, the inner-system eCourse, journals, and AI companions that support the work between sessions.

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Evidence that sells

Baseline-and-reassessment reporting means clients can see their own change — which is why they stay, why they refer, and why you can price on evidence.

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The coaching marketplace

List your hypnotic-coaching practice in the HWH marketplace and take referrals from an ecosystem actively selling into consumer and enterprise markets.

50 / 50

revenue share on client app subscriptions

80 / 20

revenue share in your favor on eCourse sales

Investment

This training is not sold separately.

The Hypnotic Coach Certification is available exclusively to HWH Coach Club members — one of the credential tracks your membership unlocks, not a course you buy on its own.

One membership. Every credential level.

The HWH® All-Access Coach Club gives you lifetime access to ICF Level 1, Level 2, Level 3, AATC and the ACHE hypnotic track — including this certification and the optional 40-hour practicum. You are not paying per course. You are joining an ecosystem.

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$12,000one-time · nothing ongoing

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Includes this Hypnotic Coach Certification
The optional 40-hour supervised practicum toward ACHE
Lifetime access to ICF Level 1, 2, 3, AATC + ACHE hypnotic track
400+ hours of ICF-accredited training
Validated assessments — including the Holistogram™ — with delta reporting
Monday drop-ins: mentoring, supervision, office hours (35 weeks a year)
Co-branded client app, AI companions, and revenue share

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Application + 3 professional references, reviewed by the HWH Director.

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The 60-hour ICF Level 1 program — ACC credential eligible
The hypnotic track assumes an active coaching credential or completed ICF-accredited training
Cohort pathway or self-paced Fast Track
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Level 1 is open enrollment — no application required.

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Good to Know

Who is this hypnotic coach training for?

Coaches who hold an active coaching credential or have completed an ICF-accredited coach training program — or who hold HWH Level 2 certification — and who want to add ethical, structured hypnotic and subconscious change work to their practice.

Is it accredited, and how long is it?

The training is ICF-aligned continuing education and is accredited by the American Council of Hypnotist Examiners (ACHE). It runs eleven weeks: a 90-minute orientation, a self-study week, nine consecutive 3-hour live classes, and an individual final exam with Dr. Lisa Leit.

What is the optional 40-hour practicum?

After certification you can add an optional 40-hour HWH supervised practicum that converts protocol training into supervised client practice — faculty observation, feedback, and case consultation — and builds the documented coaching and hypnosis hours that count toward the ACHE Hypnotic Coach certification path.

How do I earn ACHE certification?

The American Council of Hypnotist Examiners (ACHE) is an independent credentialing body that accredits HWH's hypnotic coaching training. The full ACHE Hypnotic Coach path is 200+ hours (roughly 100 coaching and 100 hypnosis). This certification and the optional supervised practicum, taken through Coach Club, build the accredited hours toward it.

What tradition is this based on?

The 8-protocol sequence is grounded in the Alchemical Hypnosis tradition of David Quigley — for which Happy Whole Human holds formal licensing — integrated with the Human Systems Architecture™ framework and ICF-aligned coaching.

What does it cost?

It is not sold separately. It is one of the credential tracks unlocked by HWH® All-Access Coach Club membership: $12,000 one-time, or $5,000 one-time enrollment plus $199/month. Installments are available via Klarna, Afterpay, and Intuit Credit Karma.

Is hypnotic coaching therapy?

No. Hypnotic coaching facilitates a client's own subconscious change within an ICF-aligned coaching scope. It does not diagnose, treat, or replace mental-health care, and the program is explicit about that boundary — including screening and referral.

Get certified. Reach where change actually happens.

Enroll now to earn your HWH® Certified Hypnotic Coach credential — and the licensed methodology, the ACHE-accredited pathway, and the platform and support of the Institute behind you.

What your clients repeat, they rewire. Teach their system to repeat something new.

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