Rick Collingwood

Rick is one of the world's leading professional clinical therapeutic hypnotists. He is an internationally renowned Celebrity Hypnotist, Hypnosis Trainer, Mesmerist, Author, Counsellor, Public Speaker, Sales Motivator, Corporate Speaker, and the founder of Mind Motivations & The Australian Academy of Hypnosis. Using his own unique therapeutic hypnosis techniques Rick has personally assisted countless thousands of people from all walks of life; facing challenges such as stress disorders, nicotine and drug dependency, gambling, addiction, pain management, depression, panic disorder, insomnia, motivation, chronic fatigue syndrome, and many other various behavioral challenges. His client list includes international Movies Stars, Sales Motivators, Commercial Airline Pilots, Psychologists, Medical Professionals, Business People, Home makers and Children.

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Qualifications & Background

Rick is one of the world's leading professional clinical therapeutic hypnotists. He is an internationally renowned hypnotist, hypnosis trainer, mesmerist, author, counsellor, public speaker, corporate speaker, and the founder of Mind Motivations™ & The Australian Academy of Hypnosis™. His official qualifications include: Dip. Hypnosis, Dip. Adv. Hypnosis, Dip. 1-2 Counselling, Dip. Mental Health, B.A. Counselling, Cert IV Workplace Training & Assessment, and 'Mesmerismus Magnetista' (Mesmerism).

Media Coverage

Rick has been a featured guest as an expert on hypnosis for more than 50 different TV and radio shows, as well as dozens of newspapers and magazines. Some of the more notable shows he has been a part of include 3 appearances on A Coast to Coast AM (the world's largest 'progressive' radio show), twice on A Current Affair (Australia's most popular current affairs program) and Good Morning America. For a full list of Rick's numerous other media appearances please view his media listings page here.

Hypnosis Recordings & Awards

Rick's personal hypnotherapy series of recordings have been extremely popular and helped many people. Since 2002 his 'Life Improvement Series' has sold more than one million copies all over the world. He is also the first self-help author to be awarded an ARIA (Australian Recording Industry Association) Gold or Platinum Record Certification award.

Rick with Mel Gibson and sword from Braveheart

Hypnotherapy Style & Methods

Rick has an extensive knowledge of all the different forms of hypnosis from his many years of practical experience and learning. He also practices modalities such as Mesmerism, counselling, TFT & NLP along with traditional hypnosis. He practices a unique hybrid of different therapies developed by combination of traditional hypnosis and his vast knowledge and expertise of Mesmerism combined with hypnotic fascination and direct and rapid hypnosis methods. Rick is one of the world's most prominent hypnosis researchers and trainers, with arguably the largest collection of old rare hypnosis books in the Southern Hemisphere.

Hypnosis Achievements

Rick Collingwood has conducted group and mass therapeutic hypnosis seminars with attendances up to 1000 people. He is also believed to have performed the world's largest ever 'live radio hypnosis session' during an interview on A Coast to Coast AM by over 2 million people. Rick is a lifetime member of the PHWA (Professional Hypnotists of Western Australia) as well as having previous lead membership roles with the AHA (Australian Hypnotherapists Association) and the CCH (Council of Clinical Hypnotherapists). His learning institute 'The Australian Academy of Hypnosis' has officially trained more than 3000 students in a variety of recognized courses across Australia, the US and the UK.

HFT & Clinical Cancer Trials

HFT is a powerful deep trance hypnosis technique that quickly gets to the core and releases or alters the subconscious patterns that are always the cause of any personal habit, emotional issue, and physical or mental health concern and pleasantly releases or re balances it within the mind. The special advanced techniques used and applied in 'Hypnosis Field Therapy' were developed and used in Rick’s, 'Hypnosis & Improvement in The Quality Of Life' cancer research conducted in 2005. Observational Priming is a powerful guided technique that enables participants discover their own individual inner power and become free from external programming and make correct judgements about their own lives and life’s direction.

It was the use of Ricks HFT techniques that produced such positive results for the participants in the 2005 Cancer Trails. Since 2005 the techniques have been further developed during thousands of hours of clinical experiments and research. 'Hypnosis Field Therapy' is at the new frontier of hypnosis. HFT's cutting edge hypnosis techniques were derived from years of clinical expertise and research. HFT is pure traditional hypnosis in its most powerful form, and is a Quantum Leap beyond the NLP, Ericksonian Hypnosis, and relaxation or visualization techniques used by many of hypnotherapists. In conjunction with a Pharmacist colleague, Mr. Nathan Elliott, in 2005 Rick conducted Australia's first monitored clinical study to evaluate improvements in the quality of life, using hypnosis as an adjunct to conventional medical treatments. The participants of the trial were nine, medical doctor referred and monitored, volunteers suffering various types of cancers at various stages of progression. Both the Clinical and the experiential results were beyond all expectations.