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Biography for Mariamawit Girma Gobezie, CCHt

I have always been drawn to what remains unspoken. My professional path began in France, where I earned my Diploma in Fashion Design with distinction in a country renowned for its tradition of excellence and innovation in couture and design. I worked as a fashion designer for over 15 years, immersed in a culture where beauty was both language and legacy. Each garment became an expression of identity, transformation, and longing. In shaping color, texture, and silhouette, I was already in dialogue with the subconscious, translating emotions into form long before I named the practice.

Life later led me into nearly two decades of service in funeral care, where I stood with families during some of life’s most profound moments of transition. There, silence often spoke louder than words. Human experience revealed itself through posture, breath, gesture, and the spaces between sentences. It was here that I came to see mortality not as an end, but as a mirror reflecting meaning, perspective, and the essential question of how we choose to live. These two worlds “beauty and mortality” laid the foundation for the work that followed.

Today, my background in Mind-Body Psychology, Clinical Hypnotherapy, and Qigong provides a framework for understanding many of the patterns I had observed throughout my life and career. Together, they deepened my understanding of the relationship between conscious and unconscious processes, perception and behavior, identity and change. This brought into focus the ways people construct meaning from experience, the narratives they carry, and the often unseen influences that shape decisions, relationships, and transformation.

As a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, I work with individuals navigating periods of uncertainty, inner conflict, self-doubt, and significant life transitions. My approach is grounded in careful observation, deep listening, and respect for the complexity of human experience. Rather than focusing solely on symptoms, I work with individuals to better understand the underlying patterns, beliefs, perceptions, and experiences that shape their responses, relationships, and sense of self.

Over the years, I have come to recognize that beneath our different stories, many of us wrestle with similar questions: Who am I now? What am I holding onto? What am I becoming? Meaningful change rarely begins with force. More often, it begins when what has remained unseen, unheard, or unspoken is finally acknowledged. It is within those spaces that some of the most meaningful work can occur.

In the end, my work is guided by a simple truth: We do not control the length of our lives, but we can choose the depth with which we live them and in that depth lies the medicine of transformation and renewal.
Mariamawit

Hypnotherapy Specialties

  1. Abandonment
  2. Anxiety
  3. Breathing
  4. Child Birth
  5. Chronic Pain
  6. Creativity
  7. Exercise
  8. Fertility
  9. Headaches
  10. Improve Health
  11. Irritable Bowel Syndrome
  12. Nausea
  13. Pain Management
  14. Postsurgical
  15. Presurgical
  16. Rejection
  17. Sexual Problems
  18. Shame
  19. Trauma
  20. Ulcers

Experience

Healing is part of our shared humanity. Across cultures and traditions, it is expressed in different ways, through silence, through story, through the body itself. I have come to see that transformation is not owned by any belief system; it arises from the human capacity to adapt, to endure, and to rediscover meaning. My work is grounded in this principle, meeting each person as they are, with respect for both their individuality and their cultural roots.

I was fortunate to receive my training at the Hypnosis Motivation Institute, one of the top hypnotherapy schools in the world. This education refined my skills and instilled rigorous academic and professional standards. Alongside this, I hold certification in advanced handwriting analysis, a discipline that reveals subconscious patterns expressed in even the smallest gestures.

My expertise spans a wide spectrum of hypnotherapy modalities, including NLP, dream therapy, therapeutic imagery, emotional freedom technique (EFT), subconscious transformation methods, and applied mind-body practices. These approaches allow me to address emotional, behavioral, health, performance, and personal growth concerns in ways that adapt to each individual, rather than forcing them into a single framework.

My perspective has been shaped by decades in fields that required attunement to what is unseen: fashion design, where I learned to give form to emotion, and funeral service, where I witnessed how silence and presence can hold what words cannot. These experiences deepen my ability to meet clients with clarity, compassion, and respect, while guiding them toward their own capacity for renewal and transformation.

Education

  • Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy with Honors
    Hypnosis Motivation Institute - Nationally Accredited College of Hypnotherapy - 818-758-2700
    Date Started: 06/11/2024 - Date Graduated: 07/06/2025
    Total Hours: 720 - Total Weeks: 52 - Total Years: 1
  • Associate of Occupational Studies in Mind-Body Psychology
    Hypnosis Motivation Institute - Nationally Accredited College of Hypnotherapy - 818-758-2700
    Date Started: 07/07/2025 - Date Graduated: 06/29/2026
    Total Hours: 720 - Total Weeks: 52 - Total Years: 1

Continuing Education from the American Hypnosis Association

  1. Biofeedback 1 - 12/2024
  2. Biofeedback 2 - 12/2024
  3. Body Syndromes - 04/2025
  4. Child Hypnosis - 12/2024
  5. Clinical Case History Package 1 - 05/2025
  6. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Hypnosis - 01/2025
  7. Crisis Intervention - 04/2025
  8. Cultivating Mindfulness Using a Mind-Body Approach - 04/2025
  9. Heart Medicine: Stop Painful Patterns and Find Peace and Freedom - 04/2025
  10. Hypnosis in History - 06/2024
  11. Integrative Depth Psychology and Psychotherapy: Clinical Application - 04/2025
  12. Intimate Conversations with Dr. John Kappas - 04/2025
  13. Introduction to Biofeedback 1 and 2 - 12/2024
  14. Introduction to Intuitive and Energy Healing - 08/2024
  15. Introduction to Positive Psychology - 04/2025
  16. Introduction to Somatic and Parts Work for Healing Trauma - 04/2025
  17. Introduction to the Embodied Mind Theory - 04/2025
  18. Journaling to Deepen the Self - 03/2026
  19. Kappasinian Hypnosis - 11/2024
  20. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) - 04/2025
  21. NLP: Principles and Strategies of Success - 01/2025
  22. Numerology - The Language of Numbers as a Tool for Success! - 12/2024
  23. Psychosynthesis Transpersonal Workshop - 10/2025
  24. Recent Studies About Hypnosis and How They Can Help You Succeed - 02/2025
  25. Research Articles Course - 05/2025
  26. Subtleties of Hypnotherapy - 01/2025
  27. Understanding and Working with Older Patients - 04/2025
  28. Working with Children and Children on the Autism Spectrum - 04/2025

Certifications

  • Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist
    American Hypnosis Association - 818-758-2700
    Certification Number: 012754
    Certification Valid To: Dec 28, 2026

Certifications from the American Hypnosis Association

  1. Advanced Handwriting Analysis - 04/2025
  2. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - 09/2025
  3. Driving Anxiety and Social Phobias - 04/2025
  4. Handwriting Analysis - 04/2025
  5. Healing the Inner Child - 06/2026
  6. Hypnosis and PTSD - 03/2026
  7. Hypnosis and the Law of Attraction - 01/2026
  8. Hypnosis for Clients with Cancer - 07/2025
  9. Past-Life Regression Therapy - 06/2026
  10. Pre and Post Surgery Hypnosis - 07/2025
  11. Smoking/Vaping Cessation - 04/2025
  12. Trauma Recovery Hypnosis - 09/2025

Awards

  • Honors Graduate - Clinical Hypnotherapy Program
    Hypnosis Motivation Institute - 07/06/2025
  • High Honors Graduate - AOS Degree Program
    Hypnosis Motivation Institute - 06/29/2026

Professional Memberships

  • American Hypnosis Association
    Member Since: 2024

Website


https://www.TeakSepal.com/

Languages Spoken

  • English
  • Amharic
  • French

Contact Information

Mariamawit Girma Gobezie
Teak Sepal
Manhattan Beach, California 90266, United States
 866-775-9372

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