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About Linda

Linda Sevilla, B.Ed.

Clinical Counseling Hypnotherapist & Educator

I've always been fascinated by a simple question: why do capable, intelligent people keep doing things they genuinely want to stop doing?

Since 1999, that question has been at the centre of my work with thousands of clients, and of the hundreds of practitioners I've trained.

Why people do what they do

Patterns make sense once you see where they come from.

In my clinical practice, I've explored how beliefs, learned associations, and past experiences can shape the way people respond today. A habit of overworking, a mind that won't settle at night, or confidence that disappears in a meeting often has a logic of its own. Somewhere along the way, it became connected with being prepared, responsible, valued, or safe.

Recognizing a pattern is useful, but understanding it doesn't always change it on its own. That's where experiential techniques, including hypnosis, give people a practical way to explore a different response.

I'm also a teacher at heart. With a Bachelor of Education and more than twenty years of designing and delivering curriculum, I know how to make ideas clear, engaging, and usable. My workplace wellness workshops bring these two sides together: real education about how the mind works, and an experience participants can carry into their evenings, their sleep, and their working lives.

Experience and credentials

A career in practice, teaching, and leadership

  • Clinical Counseling Hypnotherapist practicing since 1999
  • Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.)
  • Hypnotherapy educator since 2004
  • Founder of the Horizon Center School of Hypnotherapy, training hundreds of hypnotherapists
  • Founder and former president of the Canadian Association of Counseling Hypnotherapists and Educators (CACHE)
  • Former board member, Association of Registered Clinical Hypnotherapists
  • Developer of Whole Brain Hypnotherapy
  • Experienced adult educator and curriculum developer

Speaking and media

50+

Guest appearances on Talk It Over with Terry Spence, discussing many aspects of hypnotherapy

Intl.

Speaker at international hypnotherapy conferences

Live

Demonstrations of hypnosis on television and radio

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