Claire Peterson Jacks, C.Ht., ATP®, began her post-college career as an
Administrative Assistant for a major motion picture camera rental company in
Southern California. The job was fun, the people were great, but Claire was dissatisfied
with her personal life and embarked on a journey of personal growth. She heard about a
counselor through a relative and began working with the therapist in 1997. After several
months, Claire was much clearer about her own behavior, but still didn't know how to
change the behaviors that she felt were holding her back from living a full, happy life.
During that time, she met someone who was talking about "past-life regressions," a rather
mysterious and intriguing variation on the hypnotic regressions that Claire had been
considering as a next step in her therapy. She began reading up on the subject, and,
in talking about it with her family, learned that her brother had met a hypnotist a few years
back who said she did past-life regressions. Her brother dug up the hypnotist's business
card, and contact was made!
Claire began a fascinating and powerful phase of her therapeutic journey, which led to
her interest in becoming a hypnotherapist herself. Through hypnosis, she was able to
make the shift from just talking about what she wanted to change, to actually making
the changes, and came away from it with more energy and enthusiasm than she had ever
experienced before. This, she felt, needed to be shared with others, who also might be
giving up hope that their lives could be better. In 1999, she enrolled at the Hypnosis
Motivation Institute (HMI) in Tarzana, CA, and graduated in November 2000.
HMI is the first nationally accredited college of hypnotherapy in the country, and is a
one-year program that includes an internship of practical experience under the supervision
of staff instructors holding teaching credentials from the State Department of Education.
Claire is certified as a Hypnotherapist by the Hypnotherapists Union Local 472,
AFL-CIO, Certification # AL001694. She is also a member of the American
Counseling Association and the American Hypnosis Association.
Claire has conducted a private practice since 2000, assisting clients in achieving their
personal goals in areas such as habit modification, stress reduction, overcoming fears,
achieving career goals, increasing self-confidence and self-esteem, etc. She has taught
seminars at HMI including "The Secrets of Successful Relationships," "Past-Life
Regression," and "Dream Therapy." She has conducted private group seminars on
guided imagery, theory of mind, dream analysis/dream therapy, past-life regression,
and relationship strategies.
Claire is currently a staff instructor at HMI teaching the 501 course "Counseling and
Interviewing," and various practicum workshops.
Claire is also an Angel Therapy Practitioner®, certified by Doreen Virtue, PhD;
a Certified Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP);
a Time Line TherapyTM Practitioner; a Master Therapeutic Imagery Facilitator; and
a practitioner of The Second Degree of The Radiance Technique®/TRT® /
Authentic Reiki®.
Additional seminars taken include:
Working with Seniors, Feng Shui, Stop Smoking 101, Lullaby Birthing Hypnosis,
Hypnobirthing®, Transformational Imagery, Mythic/Archetypal Imagery, Imagery for
Life Passages, Magical Mystical Metaphysical Imagery, Advanced Imagery, Humans
Being More, Krieger Training's Selling Skills Seminar, Imagery Mastery, the GEMS
Seminar, The First Degree and The Second Degree of The Radiance TechniqueR,
and courses by Illuminating Souls: Amplifying Your Intuition; Mediumship;
Understanding the Energy Body; and Angel Therapy Practitioner®.
Prior to her professional career, Claire was an English Honor Society student and
graduated magna cum laude from the California State University, Bakersfield in 1994,
with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature, and a minor in Philosophy.
Her education helps her to interpret, formulate, and communicate an effective
plan of action.
If you are ready now to take your life to a whole new level of joy and fulfillment,
call Claire today to schedule your first appointment, (424) 288-4293.
