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Biography for Marilyn Montero, CHt

Marilyn Montero is a Clinical Hypnotherapist, Subconscious Strategist™, and Identity & Transformation Specialist serving clients in Beverly Hills, Newport Beach, and worldwide.

She works privately with high-performing individuals whose external accomplishments do not always reflect what they are experiencing internally. Her clients include physicians, surgeons, attorneys, entrepreneurs, executives, athletes, creatives, public figures, and individuals navigating significant personal, professional, or family transitions.

Marilyn’s work focuses on identifying and changing the deeper subconscious patterns that influence emotional well-being, behavior, relationships, decision-making, performance, and quality of life.

Clients often seek her support for anxiety, overthinking, emotional exhaustion, sleep difficulties, fears, unresolved experiences, self-sabotage, relationship patterns, confidence, motivation, performance pressure, major transitions, and the feeling of no longer being fully themselves.

An Individualized, Multidimensional Approach

Marilyn does not use a single formula or require every client to fit into the same process. Each session is designed around the individual’s history, goals, responsiveness, personality, current challenges, and internal operating state.

Her work may integrate:

  • Clinical Hypnotherapy
  • Conversational Hypnosis
  • Therapeutic Imagery
  • Subconscious Pattern Identification
  • Neuro-Linguistic Programming
  • Mental and Emotional Release® Techniques
  • Inner-Child Healing
  • Regression-Based Approaches
  • Identity Integration
  • Emotional and Behavioral Recalibration
  • Performance-Focused Subconscious Work
  • Metaphysical and Spiritual Principles (when aligned with the client’s beliefs)

This integrative approach allows Marilyn to work beneath the surface of a recurring problem and identify the subconscious associations, emotional imprints, internal conflicts, and protective patterns that may be maintaining it. Rather than focusing exclusively on symptom management, Marilyn helps clients understand the deeper internal structure from which their reactions, choices, habits, and life patterns are being created.

The Operating State™ Approach

A central part of Marilyn’s work is her Operating State™ approach—the understanding that a person’s thoughts, emotions, behavior, relationships, health choices, creativity, and performance are influenced by the internal state from which they are living.

Someone may consciously desire confidence, peace, success, intimacy, or change while subconsciously operating from fear, hypervigilance, emotional containment, self-protection, or an outdated identity. Marilyn helps clients identify where they are operating internally and supports them in moving toward greater regulation, clarity, self-trust, emotional capacity, expression, and creation.

The goal is not simply to feel better during a session. The goal is to create a more stable internal foundation from which the client can live, lead, relate, perform, and make decisions.

Private Intensives and Personalized Programs

In addition to individual hypnotherapy sessions, Marilyn offers private three-hour intensives and customized multi-session programs for clients who desire concentrated, uninterrupted work.

These immersive sessions allow time to explore the client’s history, identify underlying patterns, complete deeper subconscious work, and integrate meaningful change without being restricted by a traditional short-session format.

Marilyn also provides:

  • Private One-to-One Intensives
  • Personalized Subconscious Recalibration Programs
  • Family Ecosystem Intensives™
  • Corporate Ecosystem Intensives™
  • Virtual Sessions Worldwide
  • Private travel to clients throughout the United States and Internationally

Her travel-based intensives are designed for individuals and families who value privacy, discretion, continuity, and a highly personalized experience within their own environment.

Professional Background

Before entering the field of Clinical Hypnotherapy, Marilyn built a successful corporate career with major organizations including Office Depot and Ericsson. She later became an entrepreneur, managing multiple businesses and real estate investments.

Her corporate and entrepreneurial experience gave her a firsthand understanding of leadership pressure, responsibility, financial stress, performance expectations, reinvention, and the private emotional challenges that can exist behind professional success.

Marilyn graduated with Honors from the Hypnosis Motivation Institute in Tarzana, California, completing its 720-hour Clinical Hypnotherapy program. She received the Director’s Award, Academic Achievement Award, and Clinical Achievement Award.

Her continuing education and certifications include Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Mental and Emotional Release® Therapy, Therapeutic Imagery, Inner-Child Healing, Past Life Regression Therapy, PTSD and Hypnosis, Weight Loss, Smoking Cessation, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Hypnosis, Body Syndromes, and Rapid and Instant Inductions.

Raised in Boston with Puerto Rican roots, Marilyn brings resilience, intuition, warmth, cultural awareness, and directness to her work. She speaks both English and Spanish.

A Private Space for Meaningful Transformation

Marilyn’s style is compassionate, intuitive, conversational, and highly focused. She creates a private environment in which clients can speak honestly, explore difficult experiences without judgment, and access parts of themselves that may have been hidden beneath years of achievement, responsibility, adaptation, or emotional protection.

Her work is especially suited for individuals who recognize that insight alone has not created the change they desire and who are ready to work directly with the subconscious processes influencing their lives. Private sessions and intensives are available in Beverly Hills and Newport Beach, virtually worldwide, and through private domestic and international travel.

Hypnotherapy Specialties

  1. Addictions
  2. Anxiety
  3. Creativity
  4. Fears
  5. Frustration
  6. Lack of Ambition
  7. Lack of Direction
  8. Motivation
  9. Negativism
  10. Overeating
  11. Performance Anxiety
  12. Phobias
  13. Self Awareness
  14. Self Esteem
  15. Self Mastery
  16. Sports
  17. Stress
  18. Trauma
  19. Weight Loss
  20. Worry

Experience

Since graduating with Honors from the Hypnosis Motivation Institute, Marilyn Montero has built a private practice specializing in subconscious transformation, identity work, emotional recalibration, and intensive hypnotherapy experiences.

Practicing since 2019, Marilyn has worked with hundreds of individuals, including executives, physicians, attorneys, entrepreneurs, athletes, creatives, public figures, parents, couples, and individuals navigating trauma, relationship challenges, performance pressure, grief, anxiety, and major life transitions.

As a Clinical Hypnotherapist, Subconscious Strategist™, and Identity & Transformation Specialist, Marilyn’s work extends beyond a single technique or standardized process. She develops an individualized approach for every client based on their personal history, goals, subconscious patterns, emotional responses, beliefs, and current Operating State™.

Her sessions may integrate Clinical Hypnotherapy, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Mental and Emotional Release® techniques, therapeutic imagery, inner-child healing, regression-based approaches, identity integration, subconscious pattern recognition, metaphysical principles, and spiritually aligned practices when appropriate for the client.

Marilyn is known for identifying the deeper subconscious associations and protective patterns that may be operating beneath a recurring emotional, behavioral, relationship, or performance challenge. Her work helps clients move beyond intellectual awareness and begin changing the internal patterns influencing how they feel, respond, make decisions, and experience their lives.

Her professional experience includes supporting clients who have:

  • Carried anxiety, hypervigilance, fear, or emotional distress connected to earlier life experiences.
  • Repeated painful relationship dynamics despite consciously wanting something different.
  • Struggled with confidence, visibility, self-expression, boundaries, or personal authority.
  • Experienced emotional exhaustion, overthinking, sleep difficulties, or difficulty feeling fully present.
  • Felt disconnected from their identity after trauma, caregiving, professional pressure, grief, or a major transition.
  • Wanted to strengthen focus, motivation, creativity, leadership, or performance.
  • Understood their patterns intellectually but remained unable to create lasting internal change.

In one complex case, Marilyn supported an older client whose relationship with nourishment had become affected by deeply rooted fear and control patterns. Through ongoing subconscious work, the client developed greater comfort, emotional ease, and willingness to engage with daily life.

In another case, a young professional sought help after remaining emotionally attached to a relationship that had significantly affected her confidence and self-worth. By addressing the subconscious associations maintaining the attachment, the client was able to establish emotional separation, strengthen her boundaries, and move forward with greater autonomy.

Marilyn has also worked with trauma survivors seeking relief from longstanding emotional activation, subconscious guilt, disrupted sleep, and persistent feelings of danger. Her work focuses on helping clients develop a greater sense of internal safety, clarity, self-trust, and emotional capacity.

These experiences contributed to Marilyn’s development of the Operating State™ approach, which examines the internal state from which a person is living, relating, leading, and making decisions. She believes that lasting transformation becomes possible when the subconscious patterns beneath the visible problem are identified and addressed.

Marilyn holds advanced certifications and specialized training in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Mental and Emotional Release® Therapy, Therapeutic Imagery, Inner-Child Healing, Past Life Regression Therapy, PTSD and Hypnosis, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Hypnosis, Weight Loss, Smoking Cessation, Body Syndromes, and Rapid and Instant Inductions.

In addition to traditional private sessions, Marilyn offers concentrated three-hour intensives, customized multi-session programs, Family Ecosystem Intensives™, and Corporate Ecosystem Intensives™. She works with clients in Beverly Hills and Newport Beach, virtually throughout the world, and through private domestic and international travel.

Marilyn’s approach is compassionate, direct, intuitive, and highly personalized. She remains deeply committed to helping clients understand what is happening beneath the surface and create meaningful changes in their emotional lives, identities, relationships, performance, and overall quality of life.

Education

  • Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy with Honors
    Hypnosis Motivation Institute - Nationally Accredited College of Hypnotherapy - 818-758-2700
    Date Started: 09/18/2018 - Date Graduated: 10/10/2019
    Total Hours: 720 - Total Weeks: 52 - Total Years: 1

Continuing Education from the American Hypnosis Association

  1. Body Syndromes - 03/2019
  2. Business Basics: Tools to Get, Retain and Help More Clients - 01/2020
  3. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Hypnosis - 01/2020
  4. Crystal Singing Bowls and Hypnosis - 01/2020
  5. Dr. Kappas Atlanta Series - 04/2026
  6. Empowered Speaking for Success - 01/2020
  7. Explode Your Practice with Phone and Skype Sessions - 03/2019
  8. Hypnosis in History - 09/2018
  9. Jumpstart 2019 Jamboree! - 01/2019
  10. Jumpstart 2020 Jamboree! - 02/2020
  11. Mental Bank Seminar - 11/2018
  12. Rapid and Instant Inductions - 01/2020
  13. Release Technique - 04/2019
  14. Research Articles Course - 10/2019
  15. Sacred Breath and the Human Potential - 01/2020
  16. Shadows, Sabotage and Subconscious Success - 01/2020
  17. Sigil Magic Imagery - Draw your Way to Success - 01/2020
  18. Stage Hypnosis - 01/2020
  19. Therapeutic Imagery Training - Imagery for Life Passages - 04/2019
  20. Therapeutic Imagery Training - Metaphysical Imagery - 04/2019

Certifications

  • Certified Hypnotherapist
    American Hypnosis Association - 818-758-2700
    Certification Number: 010281
    Certification Valid To: Oct 30, 2026

Certifications from the American Hypnosis Association

  1. Certified Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming - 07/2019
  2. Healing the Inner Child - 01/2022
  3. Hypnosis and PTSD - 02/2023
  4. Hypnosis and Weight Loss - 01/2019
  5. Mental and Emotional Release® Therapy - 07/2019
  6. Past Life Regression Therapy - 03/2019
  7. Smoking Cessation - 05/2020

Awards

  • Honors Graduate - Clinical Hypnotherapy Program
    Hypnosis Motivation Institute - 10/10/2019
  • Director's Award
    Hypnosis Motivation Institute - 10/10/2019
  • Academic Achievement Award
    Hypnosis Motivation Institute - 10/10/2019
  • Clinical Achievement Award
    Hypnosis Motivation Institute - 10/10/2019

Professional Memberships

  • American Hypnosis Association
    Member Since: 2018

Website


https://MarilynWellnessStudio.com/

Languages Spoken

  • English
  • Spanish

Contact Information

Marilyn Montero
Marilyn Wellness Studio
Beverly Hills, California 90211, United States
 949-397-1115

Laguna Beach, California 92651, United States
 949-397-1115

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