Carmen Leilani

Carmen Leilani De Jesus is a hypnotherapist, productivity coach, freelance web researcher, blogger and screenwriter, whose first film, Ang Pamana: The Inheritance, opens nationwide in the Philippines on November 22nd, and will be coming to a film festival near you!
You can find her articles by or about her in Scr(i)pt magazine, The Messenger, Fudge magazine, and soon FHM Philippines. She writes mobisodes and develops other mobile content for 3G enabled phones and other portable entertainment devices.
Carmen's private practice in Hollywood, CA, provides hypnotherapy, organizational coaching, creative/performance coaching and vocal training for singers/public speakers and actors. She is a certified Hypnotherapist and a Master Practitioner of Neurolinguistic Programming.

My practice, Optimal Mindset, blends Kappasinian and Ericksonian hypnotic methods, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Therapeutic Imagery, Sports Psychology and the Psychology of Optimal Experience to create unique paths and strategies for personal and professional success.

Carmen believes that all self-improvement and self-actualization goals benefit from subconscious alignment and reinforcement. Carmen helps her clients access and amplify these moments of Pure Flow, for creativity, habit control, self-improvement, motivation, and overcoming fears and phobias.

Whether working within the NLP, Imagery or pure Hypnotic modalities, Carmen’s methods facilitate an emotional alchemy – transforming loss and pain into strength and personal awareness.

In each unique session, she cultivates trust and responds to her clients’ needs for encouragement, validation, gentleness and motivation.

Carmen is passionately dedicated to facilitating Optimal Mindset for performance success, personal empowerment and masterful life transitions for her clients, combining pragmatic, compassionate and intuitive skills to help dissolve obstacles, unleash creative flow and create successful strategies for achieving goals.

_As a vocal coach, Carmen teaches the Seth Riggs Speech Level Singing Technique.

_As an productivity consultant, Carmen facilitates implementation of David Allen's "Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress Free Productivity."

_As a marketing/brand consultant, Carmen has worked with J. Walter Thompson's "Thompson Total Branding."

_As a writer/content editor, Carmen has written a feature film screenplay, written and developed mobile video content for 3G enabled mobile phones, writes/contributes to blogs, and does internet research/data mining for PR and advertising firms.

_As a performer/vocalist, Carmen has appeared in the Broadway musical Miss Saigon, performed in television specials, variety shows, solo concerts as well as with jazz combos and the blues band The Smokedaddies in San Francisco.