Skip to Main Content

AHA Hypnotherapists Directory

Biography for La Juanna Armstrong, CCHt

I am L’Marie Armstrong, and something in you already recognizes why you are reading this. As a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist and Honors Graduate of HMI College of Hypnotherapy, I partner with individuals who are ready to turn intention into lived, repeatable change. My practice is precise, personal, and built entirely around the person seated in front of me.

Individuals arrive carrying something specific: stress, trauma, performance anxiety, breathing and attitude, habits ready to change, behaviors ready to be released, communication and relationships ready to strengthen, career success, problem solving, self awareness, and self mastery. Presurgical preparation and post-surgical recovery belong here as well, alongside the quieter goals a person names only once seated and settled. Whatever brought you to this page has a path forward, and that path opens the moment it is spoken aloud.

Collaboration begins in the first moment and holds through every session that follows. You bring your willingness, your determination, your honesty, and your perceived outcome that you are reaching toward; I bring the clinical training, the tools, and a structure that holds steady while you do the reaching. Change belongs to you, and my role is to make the path toward it clear, direct, and obtainable.

Sessions are shaped to reach you the way you actually receive: through what you see, what you hear, what you sense, what you feel settle in your body, and what finally makes sense in your own words. Together we bring the conscious, subconscious, and unconscious mind into alignment, so that insight arrives as informed certainty, which is beyond simply information. Clients frequently describe the result as a calm knowing, the felt sense of arriving somewhere they were already moving toward.

That same knowing carries into rooms far larger than a single session, because an organization is many minds moving together. My role as Chief Infrastructure Strategist and Director of ADA Mental Health Compliance Strategies extends this principle to businesses and government organizations nationwide and internationally, through executive and workforce cognition optimization, leadership systems, accessibility governance, neurodivergence integration, and inclusion communication. Equip people fully, remain present with the guidance that keeps progress on course, and compliance matures into genuine capability.

A rare combination stands behind this practice; a degree in Mind-Body Psychology and clinical certification across trauma recovery, imagery, Ericksonian and Jungian modalities, cognitive behavioral technique, and many further modalities drawn upon precisely as each individual requires. Decades of business analysis, ongoing study in applied cognition and psycholinguistics, and standing as a published author, researcher, and member of the American Hypnosis Association complete the foundation. Every engagement, whether a single session or an organization wide initiative, carries the same exacting attention and discretion.

Reach out to schedule a “NO COST Discovery Call.” Bring your willingness and your questions… the expertise and structure will be here to meet them. The moment you decide is the moment we begin together.

Hypnotherapy Specialties

  1. Attitude Adjustment
  2. Breathing
  3. Career Success
  4. Change Habits
  5. Communication
  6. Performance Anxiety
  7. Postsurgical
  8. Presurgical
  9. Problem Solving
  10. Relationship Enhancement
  11. Self Awareness
  12. Self Defeating Behaviors
  13. Self Mastery
  14. Stress
  15. Trauma

Experience

My practice today is sustained entirely by the people inside it. Clients return, clients refer, and the schedule currently carries a waiting list, all without advertising or marketing of any kind. Word of mouth has remained the only introduction this practice has ever required.

Thirty years as a business analyst, as well as, a decade as a mediator serving conflict resolutions and disputes; shaped how hypnotherapy carries into organizational settings. My role as Chief Infrastructure Strategist and Director of ADA Mental Health Compliance Strategies brings employers, human resources, executive leadership, and employees into genuine meeting of the minds, so that reasonable accommodations are understood, retention strengthens, and concerns resolve while they are still conversations. Both sides of the table leave knowing what was said, what was agreed, and what follows next.

Currency in this field asks for continual study, and research remains a daily discipline rather than an occasional one. Standing as a published author and active researcher keeps the practice anchored in evidence, while the clinical side stays anchored in the person seated across from me. Thirteen years of ordained ministry underlie the discretion and ethical stewardship that every engagement receives.

Education

  • Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy
    Hypnosis Motivation Institute - Nationally Accredited College of Hypnotherapy - 818-758-2700
    Date Started: 12/14/2021 - Date Graduated: 06/08/2023
    Total Hours: 720 - Total Weeks: 52 - Total Years: 1
  • Associate of Occupational Studies in Mind-Body Psychology with Honors
    Hypnosis Motivation Institute - Nationally Accredited College of Hypnotherapy - 818-758-2700
    Date Started: 09/18/2023 - Date Graduated: 09/16/2024
    Total Hours: 720 - Total Weeks: 52 - Total Years: 1

Continuing Education from the American Hypnosis Association

  1. 5 Powerful Ways to Launch, Market, and Grow Your Hypnotherapy Practice - 04/2022
  2. A Primer on Transpersonal Psychology - 07/2022
  3. Aging Well: Staying Sharp with Hypnotherapy - 10/2023
  4. Basic Emotional Freedom Technique - 11/2017
  5. Body Syndromes - 01/2022
  6. Body/Mind Imaging - Creating Powerful, Personal Presence - 04/2022
  7. Cancer: The Path of Diagnosis to Hypnosis - 07/2024
  8. Clearing up Traumas at the Energy Level - 06/2022
  9. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Hypnosis - 01/2018
  10. Creating Easy and Effortless Hypnosis Workshops - 06/2022
  11. Crystal Singing Bowls and Hypnosis - 06/2022
  12. Cultivating Mindfulness Using a Mind-Body Approach - 10/2023
  13. Doing Time - Rehabilitating the Incarcerated - 04/2022
  14. Dream Interpretation - The Key to Unlocking Your Subconscious - 02/2024
  15. Embracing Your Shadow Self - 06/2022
  16. Emergency Hypnosis - 06/2022
  17. Emotional and Physical Sexuality 1 - 10/2023
  18. Emotional and Physical Sexuality 2 - 03/2025
  19. Emotional and Physical Sexuality Part 1 - 04/2017
  20. Empowered Speaking for Success - 07/2024
  21. Ericksonian Hypnosis and Therapeutic Metaphors - 06/2022
  22. Ericksonian Hypnosis and Trance Phenomena - 06/2022
  23. First Three Hypnosis Sessions - 07/2022
  24. Handwriting Analysis - 08/2018
  25. Healing Developmental Trauma and Adaptation with Hypnosis - 06/2022
  26. Healthy Boundaries - 01/2018
  27. Heart Medicine: Stop Painful Patterns and Find Peace and Freedom - 01/2023
  28. Help Your Clients Overcome Writer's Block - 04/2022
  29. Hoarding: How It Can Harm, How You Can Help - 07/2024
  30. Holotropic Breathwork: A Teacher’s Perspective - 02/2023
  31. How Forgiveness Impacts Brain Functioning - 06/2022
  32. How Not to Give into Naysayers - 06/2022
  33. How to Release Self-Limiting Beliefs - 11/2017
  34. Hypnosis and the Law of Attraction - 03/2017
  35. Hypnosis in History - 12/2016
  36. Hypnotherapy and Rehab: An Inside Look - 06/2022
  37. Hypnotic Remedies for Three Productivity Poisons - 06/2022
  38. Integrative Depth Psychology and Psychotherapy: Clinical Application - 09/2023
  39. Introduction to Intuitive and Energy Healing - 08/2018
  40. Introduction to Positive Psychology - 08/2022
  41. Introduction to Professional Podcasting - 06/2022
  42. Introduction to Somatic and Parts Work for Healing Trauma - 01/2023
  43. Introduction to the Embodied Mind Theory - 09/2022
  44. Is it Intuition, or is it NLP? - 06/2022
  45. Is Our Soul a Secret Problem Solver? - 03/2024
  46. jumpSTART 2021! - 01/2021
  47. Kappasinian Hypnosis - 07/2024
  48. Make Anxiety Your Best Friend - 07/2024
  49. Making Fast and Permanent Change - 04/2022
  50. Making the Unconscious Conscious - 04/2022
  51. Mental Bank Magic - 07/2024
  52. Mental Bank Seminar - 03/2017
  53. Mental Bank Seminar - 02/2021
  54. Mindfulness and Hypnotherapy - 06/2022
  55. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) - 08/2022
  56. Mindfulness: From the Perspective of Transpersonal Psychology - 07/2022
  57. NLP: Principles and Strategies of Success - 06/2022
  58. Numerology - The Language of Numbers as a Tool for Success! - 12/2023
  59. Psychedelics and Transpersonal Psychology: An Interview with Dr. Hartelius - 01/2024
  60. Rapid and Instant Inductions - 06/2017
  61. Research Articles Course - 09/2023
  62. Sacred Breath and the Human Potential - 06/2022
  63. Shadows, Sabotage and Subconscious Success - 11/2017
  64. So you want to write a book?! - 04/2022
  65. Spiritual Tarot: Hypnotic Applications for the Archetypes of Tarot - 04/2022
  66. Spoon Bending - Come to the PK Party! - 07/2024
  67. STOP IT: Overcome Overthinking for Good - 02/2024
  68. Stress Relief Techniques - 07/2024
  69. Subtleties of Hypnotherapy - 01/2021
  70. Synesthesia: The Neuroscience of Metaphor - 01/2025
  71. Taking Positive Psychology to Corporations - 06/2022
  72. Tapping the Subconscious through Conversational Hypnosis - 08/2020
  73. The Art of Positive Thinking - 11/2017
  74. The Basic Understanding and Principles of NLP - 06/2022
  75. The Decision Factor - 06/2022
  76. The Empty Leash - Hypnosis and the Loss of a Beloved Pet - 04/2022
  77. The Enneagram as the Gateway to Hypnotic Trance - 07/2024
  78. The First and Second Waves of Transpersonal Psychology - 08/2022
  79. The Incredible Power of the Mind/Body Connection - 04/2022
  80. The Power of Colors - 06/2022
  81. Thirteen Breaths to Freedom - 06/2017
  82. Transcendent Aspects of the Human Experience - 06/2022
  83. Transformation: Tools for Changing Behavior - 06/2022
  84. Understanding and Working with Older Patients - 08/2022
  85. Using Hypnosis in Dealing with Change - 07/2024
  86. Wisdom of the Body-Mind in Hypnotherapy - 04/2022
  87. Working with Children and Children on the Autism Spectrum - 04/2022

Certifications

  • Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist
    American Hypnosis Association - 818-758-2700
    Certification Number: 011025
    Certification Valid To: Mar 04, 2027
  • Peace Maker Certification
    Prison of Peace - 818-888-4840
  • Mediator Certification
    Prison of Peace - 818-888-4840

Certifications from the American Hypnosis Association

  1. Healing the Inner Child - 12/2023
  2. Hypnosis and Transgender Clients - 04/2022
  3. Hypnosis and Weight Loss - 10/2017
  4. Hypnosis for Clients with Cancer - 11/2023
  5. Trauma Recovery Hypnosis - 06/2022

Awards

  • Honors Graduate - AOS Degree Program
    Hypnosis Motivation Institute - 09/16/2024

Professional Memberships

  • American Hypnosis Association
    Member Since: 2017

Website


https://ADAComplianceStrategies.com/

Languages Spoken

  • English

Contact Information

La Juanna Armstrong
ADA Compliance Strategies LLC
Santa Monica, California 90405, United States
 888-695-4043

Contact Print Search