About

Colleen Hitchcock, BCH, CCHt, CI

Colleen first became aware of hypnosis when she was 8.  Her mother, Eva, was an avid reader and picked up a pamphlet on how to do hypnosis.  So at a time when Colleen found it difficult to learn and memorize the rivers in Asia and Europe and Africa, Colleen had dreaded geography and was getting low grades.  

Eva hypnotized Colleen to love geography and love the planet.  

It worked—and she became a top student.

It wasn’t until she married Neil Hitchcock, a former University of Iowa basketball player, a Vietnam Veteran, and a fellow stockbroker, who smoked cigarettes, that hypnosis came up again.  A month after they married, she got a call from Neil’s doctor telling her that Neil had a spot on his lungs in the X-ray.  He said not to worry—it could be the machine, so he wanted to have him come back and have another X-ray.  

She asked the doctor to please encourage Neil to quit smoking. 

Neil returned from the doctor and luckily, it was the machine; but he had a card with him for a hypnotist.  Neil was smoking 3 packs of cigarettes a day and he went to the hypnotist and had his session, and the next day they were at their family Lake Superior cabin.  It rained 5 days in a row and Colleen, Neil, Eva, and her husband “Doc” sat and played bridge for the whole time  Doc, a physician, smoked Chesterfield straights all day.  During those 5 days, Neil still never smoked.  Didn’t ask to “bum” one from Doc—and Colleen was shocked.  

Neil had quit for good.

Hypnosis now had Colleen’s attention and she started doing impromptu sessions for friends when they were at turning points in their lives, when they were separating from their relationships, had job issues, or needed a boost in their lives.

Colleen has her Bachelor of Science in Education from Minnesota State University, she was a Regional Manager for a Boston Management Consulting company for 9 years doing corporate culture change for Fortune 100 companies.  She founded her own publishing company that she grew to 5,000 stores in 33 countries before she sold it.

Hitchcock is now a Board Certified Hypnotist, Master Hypnotist, Certified Clinical Hypnotist, and NGH Certified Instructor who trains hypnotists.  She is active in several hypnotist associations such as ACHE, NGH, IMDHA,  and ASPH.  She also founded A-CHA, American Clinical Hypnotist Association, a non-profit organization (who does not accept donations) that stands by in times of public trauma, and pro-bono work for those in need.

Colleen has been a volunteer at Banner Estrella Medical Center in the Emergency Department dealing with heroin and drug withdrawal, suicide attempts, severe or chronic pain, anxiety, stress, heart issues, head traumas, brain injury, & other emergency room patients. She has done sessions on a baby days old having seizures to 100 years of age and she loves to work with a wide range of diversity with her clients.

She founded Scottsdale Hypnosis about 10 years ago and has specialties in smoking cessation, HypnoMothering, PostPartum, Fertility, rewiring the brain, anxiety/stress, medical issues, pain management, Clear Sleep Insomnia, addictions, virtual gastric band, sexual freedom, sensual intelligence, and past life regressions. 

She is the author of Hypnotherapy for Over-drinking, Addictions & Trauma for Hypnotists and Create Your Best Life:  Hypnotherapy for Positive Change.  

She believes that a hypnotist’s intention is critical 

for the success of all hypnotherapy and

And actively uses her heart in every session

—with every client.