Meet Mary Battaglia

Mary’s start as a clinical hypnosis practitioner

Hypnosis called me when I had a small online business. I sold products to help people sleep better and hypnosis CDs were part of my line. I remember speaking to the hypnotists about their work and it intrigued me. I researched the work and even found the school I wanted to attend but the business was not doing well and I went back to corporate America.  

It took four years doing work that felt inauthentic before life and hypnosis reclaimed my attention. Those four years living an emotionally and physically misaligned life had completely depleted me. When my sister passed from breast cancer and my marriage dissolved at the same time, I realized I needed to do something to change the trajectory of my life.  

I took a two-week vacation from my job and went to my first hypnosis training. I felt aligned with hypnosis from the first lesson. I booked individual sessions to help me heal from pain, sadness, and grief and to find self love. I came back home knowing what I wanted to do. 

I worked three more months at the corporate job and then took a leap of faith. I quit the job to go back for eight more weeks of hypnotherapist training. I came home and opened up my practice. Hypnotherapy has helped me establish a career that I love that does not feel like work.  

Mary’s start as a sound healer

Sound called me after hypnosis training. Being a sound healer has opened up doors to energy work and connecting to universal energy and knowledge. I find hypnosis and sound complement each other. I now incorporate various instruments like Himalayan bowls, gongs, drum, chimes, harp and toning in my work as a hypnotherapist. 

Guidance can come through in the deep hypnotic state created during sound healing. Sometimes it comes though me and other times through the client.  

Guidance to me is wisdom knowledge that comes from universal guides to help us on our path. Not all the answers come through from guidance, but it often offers a push, nudge, or direction to help you stay on your path and grow and expand. 

Life after hypnosis and sound healing

I learned that before hypnosis I had been existing and not really living. I now work on living and connecting to nature, the elements, and experiencing life as we are meant to live it.  

I have witnessed the healing from this work first hand for myself and others. Trained in medical hypnosis, I have helped clients with various illnesses including cancer. 

I found out first hand with my own cancer diagnosis of chronic myeloid leukemia in 2021 how hypnosis supports you in dealing with fear, anxiety, the unknown, and the lack of control. Through hypnosis and sound I was able to take back control over my thoughts and empowered myself instead of cancer taking over my life.  

I look at many things in my life as learning lessons and try to understand what I need to get out of it. I try hard to let go and release emotions and feelings that do not serve me as they come up.