A Holistic Path · Coaching · NLP · Hypnotherapy
Three disciplines, one integrated path to flourishing.
Coaching gives structure. NLP reframes the mind. Hypnotherapy reaches the subconscious. Together, they hold the architecture, the language, and the depth of lasting change.
“Many approaches promise transformation. This one creates the conditions for it — at the level of goals, mindsets, and the subconscious beliefs underneath them all.”
PhD Scholar · Professor of Hypnotherapy · ICF PCC Coach · LBL® Certified · Founder, World Happiness Foundation
The core trinity
Each discipline is powerful alone. Combined, they operate at every level of the person — goal, thought, emotion, body, subconscious.
Coaching
The architecture of intentional change
Coaching is the collaborative, forward-looking process that turns longing into direction. It clarifies what you want, breaks it into reachable moves, and holds you accountable as you walk toward it. Through years of ICF-certified practice, I bring structure without rigidity — space for your own agency to emerge.
- Goal setting. Clear, measurable, and aligned with what you actually care about.
- Action plans. Step-by-step strategies that respect your real life — not an ideal one.
- Accountability. Steady, compassionate support to keep commitments aligned with values.
NLP
The language of inner change
NLP studies the relationship between neurology, language, and the patterns we learn through experience. It offers precise tools to shift the meanings we unconsciously assign — softening what hurts, expanding what heals, and modeling what works.
- Reframing. Changing the context and meaning of experience to unlock new possibilities.
- Modeling excellence. Studying and internalising the patterns behind what genuinely works.
- Anchoring. Linking empowered states to cues you can return to when you most need them.
Hypnotherapy
Where lasting change roots itself
Hypnotherapy works with the subconscious — the 90% of the mind that runs the show beneath the level of choice. In a relaxed, focused state, limiting patterns can be seen, loosened, and re-authored at the level they were first formed. Fully awake, always in control, moving at your own pace.
- Behavioural change. Release patterns around habits, anxiety, self-sabotage and old coping.
- Emotional healing. Meet and integrate the feelings that have been running the operating system.
- Subconscious re-patterning. Plant the new belief, behavior or identity at the level it will actually hold.
The synergy of integration
When these three meet, transformation stops being a struggle and starts being a sequence — one discipline naturally lifting what the next can work with.
Holistic growth
No single tool reaches every layer. A complete approach honors mind, mood, body and subconscious — each with its own language and its own way in.
- · Coaching sets the roadmap and keeps momentum.
- · NLP opens what language has frozen in place.
- · Hypnotherapy anchors the change at the root.
Enhanced problem-solving
The same issue looks different from three vantage points. What seems immovable from one angle dissolves when approached from another — and ideas emerge that no single method would have produced.
- · Coaching identifies the visible challenge.
- · NLP reveals the language patterns sustaining it.
- · Hypnotherapy resolves what lies beneath.
Accelerated, lasting results
Change made with one discipline can unravel when life gets complicated. Change anchored across all three tends to hold. Clients often reach in weeks what used to take years — and they keep it.
- · Coaching sustains consistent progress.
- · NLP accelerates mental and emotional shifts.
- · Hypnotherapy makes change structural.
Beyond the core
Deeper modalities, woven in when the moment is ready.
When a client is ready to go beyond the first three, these additional practices are integrated — each one a doorway the others cannot fully open.
Gestalt therapy
Present-moment dialogue with the parts of you still waiting to be heard.
Inner child work
Reparenting the younger self who first learned to hold what you still carry.
Breathwork
Using breath as the shortest path between mind and body — no belief required.
Transpersonal psychology
The recognition that we are also souls, and that soul-level work completes what ego-level work begins.
When the work goes soul-deep
For many clients, this integrative method is all they need. For others, the work naturally deepens into regression territory — into the stories the subconscious has been holding since before language, or across lifetimes.
Childhood · Womb · Past Life
When present-day patterns keep pointing back to their origin, we go there — to the child who first learned, the pre-verbal imprint, or the memory that feels like it belongs to a life that was and was not yours. A sacred return to the root, so the present can be re-authored.
Explore Regression Journeys →The inter-life · Newton Institute Certified
As a Michael Newton Institute LBL® Certified Therapist, I facilitate the deepest journey this work allows — into the state of consciousness we inhabit between lifetimes. A meeting with your essence, your guides, and the soul contracts shaping this life.
Explore LBL® Sessions →What this looks like in real life
Two composite examples of how the three disciplines work together, from the first session to lasting change.
Overcoming limiting beliefs
Self-doubt · procrastination · impostor voice
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Coaching. We set clear, honest goals and design an action plan that respects your real life — not the mythical version.
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NLP. We reframe the internal voice of self-doubt and anchor a new state of confidence you can return to.
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Hypnotherapy. We go beneath the belief itself — to when it was first formed — and let it dissolve at its origin.
Achieving work-life balance
Chronic overwhelm · boundary collapse · burnout edge
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Coaching. We map how time, energy and boundaries are actually being spent — and design a week you could sustain for a year.
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NLP. We reprogram the stress response so your nervous system no longer reads every demand as an emergency.
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Hypnotherapy. We address the deeper belief — often 'I am only worthy when I am producing' — and rewrite it.
Fundamental Peace is not the absence of pain — it is the active presence of all seven dimensions of flourishing.
My work sits at the intersection of personal transformation and planetary flourishing. The integrative method is how I hold the individual session. The Shadow · Gift · Essence framework is how I hold the soul's journey. The World Happiness Foundation and the 17 Happytalist Goals are how I hold the collective. Each scale informs the others. Each session is a small instance of the whole.
Luis Miguel Gallardo — PhD Scholar · Founder, World Happiness Foundation
Our Accreditations
Trained and certified by the institutions that set the standard.
Institute of Interpersonal Hypnotherapy
Michael Newton Institute — LBL® Certified
International Coaching Federation
ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC)
Master NLP Practitioner
Certified Mental Health Coach
Certified Master Life Coach
Certified Life Coach
INA Accredited Member
The science
Trance is not sleep. It's focused attention.
Modern neuroscience shows hypnosis is a measurable state of brain-wave activity — predominantly theta and alpha — in which the analytical filters of the conscious mind soften and the deeper layers of the psyche become accessible.
In that state, the subconscious mind is unusually receptive to new associations. Carefully chosen suggestions can release a phobia, reframe a memory, or anchor a state of confidence in minutes — work that ordinary willpower might struggle to accomplish in years.
Luis combines this with NLP and coaching frameworks, ensuring change is integrated cognitively as well as emotionally.
Brain waves & states
The orchestra of consciousness.
Delta
Deep sleep, deep healing, profound restoration
Theta
Hypnotic trance, regression, creative insight
Alpha
Relaxed focus, meditation, learning
Beta
Everyday awake state, problem-solving
Gamma
Peak performance, expanded awareness
FAQ
Questions, gently answered.
How is this different from traditional therapy?
Traditional therapy often focuses on understanding the past through talk. This method adds the forward-orientation of coaching, the precision of NLP, and the depth of hypnotherapy — so insight becomes action, and action becomes embodied change. Both approaches are valuable; this one is designed to move more of the person at once.
Do I need to do all three from the start?
No. We begin where you are. Sometimes a client needs primarily coaching for a few sessions before any hypnotherapy is useful. Other times, depth is what is ready to move first. The blend is responsive to what this specific work, with this specific person, in this specific season requires.
How long does it usually take?
Many clients experience real shifts in 3–6 sessions. Deeper work — especially when it touches childhood, trauma, or soul-level material — often unfolds across 8–12 sessions or into regression work. The goal is never more sessions; it is genuine freedom with what you arrived carrying.
Can I combine this with my existing therapist?
Often beautifully, yes. Coaching and hypnotherapy work parallel to most talk therapy without interfering. I am always happy to coordinate respectfully with another practitioner.
Where do sessions take place?
Online is my preferred setting for most work — and often enables greater depth from the safety of home. In-person sessions are available in Madrid, Miami, Dubai, San Francisco, New York and London. All sessions run in English or Spanish.
Will I lose control during hypnosis?
No. Hypnosis is a focused state of attention — like being deeply absorbed in a film or a piece of music. You remain fully aware, in control, and able to end the session at any moment.
Clinical scope & safety
Complementary practice — not a substitute for medical care.
Clinical and transpersonal hypnotherapy is a complementary wellbeing practice. It does not diagnose, treat or cure disease, and it does not replace medical, psychiatric or psychological care. If you are in treatment, continue working with your health professional.
Verifiable credentials
- • IIH — Institute of Interpersonal Hypnotherapy (Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist)
- • Michael Newton Institute — Life Between Lives® Practitioner
- • INA — International Association of Counselors & Therapists (accredited)
- • Master NLP Practitioner
- • ICF PCC — Professional Certified Coach
Not appropriate if
- • You experience active psychosis, acute bipolar episodes, or dissociative disorders without concurrent clinical support.
- • You are under the influence of consciousness-altering substances.
- • You need urgent care for suicidal ideation or an acute crisis.
Emergencies
If you are in crisis, call 911 (US), 999 (UK) or 112 (EU). In the US you can also reach the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.