Meet Helen Brenner | Helen Brenner, MS, ELI-MP | Coach Specializing in NLP in Hypnosis & EMERGE

We had the good fortune of connecting with Helen Brenner and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Helen, can you talk to us a bit about the social impact of your business?
I’m a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, bullying and “terrible” life choices. I spent decades in therapy and always felt something was missing. Throughout the time spent with 17 different mental health professionals from social workers to psychiatrists, I continued to feel empty, broken, and still hurting. And yet I was driven to find the answers. At 43 I decided to pursue a BS degree in psychology and then went on to complete a Masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. I was going to find my own answers! After completing my post-graduate field work, I experienced the greatest loss of my life. My love died. At the same time I was embarking on NLP in Hypnosis and EMERGE training. This intersection of events changed my life forever. I not only learned the most impactful change systems, I also healed from my loss and so much of my childhood and adult pain, I blows me away.

So, this is what I do for clients in my coaching business. I bring them the most powerful and most effective ways of retraining their brains to resolve pain and conflict and set them on a path of their choosing rather than a path they landed on by default and surviving. Older clients tell me they never believed this was possible – they’d tried like I did for years to find their healing in the traditional way without experiencing much success. Clients tell me that they are so excited to live the life ahead of them with so much clarity.

My goal is to help as many people as I can. Pay forward the gift I was given at the lowest time of my life. The knowledge and ability to understand human behavior and change and change modalities that tap into the power of the unconscious mind.

What should our readers know about your business?
I’m a trauma healing coach and I have a special interest in working with women who experienced sexual, physical, and psychological abuse in their childhood. I love helping people heal, especially people who have experienced great loss in their lives or feel abandoned in some way.
Through my work, regardless of childhood trauma, I find that all of my clients share so much of the same challenges. We are human and humans are flawed. Those flaws affect and mold who we become and much of it remains until someone like me helps them to understand their brains and resolve those challenging emotions.

I do my change work through the conscious hypnosis area of the mind because 90-95% of our brain’s activity is out of our conscious awareness. All of that behind-the-scenes activity greatly determines how we respond and show up in our lives. “Fix” that and life is completely different.

I spent decades as a therapy client trying to resolve my own childhood sexual abuse and bullying traumas. I never seemed to find the way through. So I decided to earn a BS in Psychology and a MS in Mental Health Counseling to find out why it wasn’t working for me and the many childhood trauma survivors I knew.

I kept feeling there was something deep going on, I could feel it in my core.

There was always a feeling of seeking answers, wanting to know more, a drive find release from the hard emotions and behaviors I was experiencing like desperately needing someone in my life, feeling lonely and unloved, feeling very unwanted by people who were good for me and attracting people who weren’t, oversleeping and being late or missing work, holding myself back in my work, not standing up for myself, and so on.

I had experienced hypnosis 20 years ago, which helped alleviate a few symptoms, but the deep uneasiness remained, which led me to searching for training in it and subsequently discovering NLP in Hypnosis™ and Eye Movement Emergence™ and experienced the deep changes I knew I wanted.

The transformation in me that came from my unyielding curiosity to find answers for myself was mind-blowing. Not only did it explain why therapy didn’t work for me but also introduced me to a whole new level of understanding about the human brain and how it works. I threw myself into 4 years of training and gaining experience perfecting my skills and bringing it to clients across the US and in Europe, Australia, and Japan.

I show people a better way, a way that brings the changes they want with minimal discomfort and without reexperiencing what burdens them.

People think that you need to talk about your problems in order to resolve them, but we know from brain science that this isn’t true.

My clients are so incredibly relieved to not have to rehash everything they experienced in order to get better. From a personal perspective, I’m most proud of my efforts to find a better way! I found it, I experienced it, and I bring it to others.

The other thing I’m very proud of is my website and creating what I hope is a place where people feel understood, safe, and comfortable. Putting the words and images on my website was a huge vulnerability trigger, something that many of my clients also experience. Add to that the struggle to describe what I do because our brain is just so complex and there’s not a single word to explain how our mind keeps repeating certain behaviors in an effort to learn.

The effort that goes into an entrepreneurial website requires personal understanding of who you are and how you want to show up in your world. This leads many entrepreneurs stalling in their actions to put themselves out there because of confusion and fear. My understanding of the effort behind creating a website helps me know what to uncover in my clients so they can move forward with confidence.

The hardest thing is describing what I do, just like it is hard to explain how our brain works. Scientifically there’s so many neurons and chemicals that are involved within our brain and all these neurons are firing at different moments at different times that result in emotional and behavioral responses. The goal is to eliminate or greatly minimize the responses people don’t want and create new, chosen responses they do want!

What I do is very unique, cutting edge work based on decades of brain science and already proven ways of creating behavioral change.

The theory of conscious and unconscious mind has been around for a while and has been taught by many experts before me. But no one can truly explain in a tangible way what is consciouness and what is unconconsiousness. It’s not something you can check out at a shop and measure it to the precise measurement.

My message is simple – I will help you clear out what you don’t want and replace it with what you do want! It’s the how that makes me unique, makes this work unique, and that’s what I want people to know.

How I do it is by taking you through a state of light, meditative trance and uncover the ways you unconsciously see, hear, feel, think, say, and do things. Explaining an experience that can only be experienced had been the hardest for me.

If I could share what I’ve learned about starting and growing a business, these are the top three things that helped me along the way:

1. I’d start with knowing why you want to do the business in the first place. What draws you do this? What’s your passion? That draw and passion are necessary to keep you focused on the bigger picture that takes time to develop. If you’re not invested in your core, you’re more likely to burn out and quit. This goes back to my earlier comment about vulnerability showing up in your website – knowing yourself and what you represent is paramount to developing a successful business.

2. Keep learning, keep developing your craft, whatever it is that you do. Never stay stagnant in your own self-development. Reach out to others to gain perspectives, take courses, volunteer at places where you’re learning more about yourself and what you can bring to the world!

3. Trust the process. Change and growth are quite often very slow and can’t be seen on a day-to-day basis. It’s like sending a child to summer camp and being very surprised at how they grew while they were away. They would have grown anyway; we just don’t notice the growth when it’s happening in front of us.

Let’s say your best friend was visiting the area and you wanted to show them the best time ever. Where would you take them? Give us a little itinerary – say it was a week long trip, where would you eat, drink, visit, hang out, etc.
I live in the Tampa Bay, Florida, area and there is so much to do here. We have one of the best beaches in the world in Clearwater. But I love to experience the local bands at bars along the beaches of St. Pete. If you’re here for a week, you can easily travel to Orlando for the day and experience Disney or Universal. Or you could catch the high speed Key West Express boat shuttle from Fort Meyers to Key West and spend the day there or a night or 2.

In the summer we have the most amazing lightning storms – we’re the lightning capital of the country. It’s like a firework show almost every night. This is how the Stanley Cup winning Tampa Bay Lightning hockey team got its name. If you get the chance, park in Ybor City and take the trolley to downtown Tampa Bay and walk along Riverwalk before heading into Amelie Arena to see a game! When you get back to Ybor, check out the night life on 7th Avenue on a Friday or Saturday night – you’d be amazed at what you’ll find there!

Travel north or southeast a few hours and you’re in horse country where you could see top level equestrian competitions or watch a polo match.

How about a circus? There’s a circus school just outside Sarasota. While you’re in that area, visit the Royal Lipizzan Stallions of Austria and the Ringling Museum.

Sarasota and Tampa have amazing rooftop pools and bars where you can soak up the sun by day and gaze out over the Gulf of Mexico by day and party with friends after dark.

We also have tons of rivers to kayak on and trails to hike when you want to get away from the hustle and bustle and enjoy the quiet of nature!

Honestly I could go on and on! There’s so much here!

The Shoutout series is all about recognizing that our success and where we are in life is at least somewhat thanks to the efforts, support, mentorship, love and encouragement of others. So is there someone that you want to dedicate your shoutout to?
My shoutout is to Elvis Lester, Tampa, FL, for his lifetime dedication to learning and perfecting change work models. Through his training I healed. Through his training I carry the healing to others. I send my love and encouragement to all my clients, past and present, through whom I continue to learn how best to serve others.

Website: https://helenbrennercoaching.com

Instagram: https://instagram.com/helenbrennercoaching/

Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/in/helenbrenner/