Lisa Smith

A personal story about how I got into doing this work:

When people meet me today, they would never guess that I was once overweight, a smoker, very shy, extremely afraid of speaking in public, and a stressed-out perfectionist.

But here I am, at 57, a healthy, comfortable weight for 25 years, a non-smoker and professional speaker for 23 years, a 17-year business owner, and a confident woman who no longer bases my self-worth on being perfect.

Better yet, I made these changes fairly quickly. And maintained them all this time without the struggle of willpower. Because I learned to use simple, but powerful brain-based techniques that literally rewired my brain and the inner programs influencing my actions.

With these techniques, I finally established healthy habits that feel natural to me, and have nothing to do with willpower.

It started by studying and using self-hypnosis in high school. Through the years, I discovered and used other simple, neurocognitive tools that short-cut and automate the change process.

Techniques such as NLP (first learning this from tapes by Tony Robbins I ordered on the internet), EFT/”tapping” (from VCR tapes by its founder, Gary Craig, and the Ortners on their online Tapping World Summit), and more recently, Positive Intelligence (reading the book by Shirzad Chamine). (You can read about all these techniques on my Services page).

I felt compelled to help others end their struggles, too, so I got certified in each of them along the way, and have been successfully using and teaching them to my clients for nearly three decades to lose weight, stop smoking, get off medications, ease anxiety and phobias, sleep better, and so much more.

Without willpower. Without rebounding. And without any downsides.

Why would you want to do it any other way?

For those who like “credentials,” here are mine:

Lisa Smith, MHt, NLP, CPQC, EFT-1 is Certified as a Master Hypnotherapist, Wellness Coach, Positive Intelligence Coach, Neuro-Linguistics Practitioner, and Level 1 EFT Practitioner serving the Hampton Roads area of Virginia. She is also Ordained as a Minister of Spiritual Healing.

I really sharpened my skills in hypnosis while I was a senior staff hypnotist and trainer with the Virginia Beach and Chesapeake centers of the national franchise, Positive Changes Hypnosis Centers, for nearly 8 years. When the Centers closed down in this area in 2006, the majority of the clients stayed with me as I transitioned my part-time home office into a full-time practice.

With nearly years of education and commitment to helping people improve their health and well-being, I have conducted well over 15,000 hypnosis and coaching sessions, and feel grateful to have thousands of satisfied clients (see a small sampling of my client Client Testimonials).