FOR DONALD PELLES, PH.D, Hypnotherapist, Speaker, Author
Book Donald for Your Next Event
Inspire, engage, and empower your audience with Donald’s transformative talks on hypnotherapy, mindset, and personal breakthrough. With a warm presence and proven strategies, Donald offers practical tools for lasting change. Perfect for wellness events, corporate retreats, or community workshops—book Donald today and give your attendees an unforgettable experience.
Donald Pelles, Ph.D. has provided hypnotherapy services to the greater Washington, DC, area and beyond since 2007. He guides and enables his clients to resolve difficult issues in their lives that they no longer want to settle for, including excess weight, smoking, pain, grief, and anxiety.
Donald’s talks are dynamic and informal as well as interactive, providing his those listeners wish to participate with a brief hypnotic experience. The question-and-answer time that follows is lively and stimulating. Times range from 20 minutes to longer presentations suitable for workshops or conferences.
Explore Donald’s Books – Practical Wisdom for a Calmer Mind and Healthier Life
Hypnosis and Weight is a practical, encouraging guide to lasting weight loss through the power of your mind. Drawing on years of client success stories, Donald Pelles, Ph.D., offers hypnosis-based tips and insights to help you overcome emotional eating, reduce belly fat caused by stress, and rewire your mindset for sustainable health. With gentle humor and expert guidance, this book shows you how to tap into your natural ability to be fit and trim—without willpower wars or fad diets. You're already on the right path—this book helps you go further.
Driving is one of the most common—and most stressful—activities we do each day. In Drive Calm, Donald Pelles, Ph.D., hypnotherapist and seasoned driver, blends humor, personal stories, and powerful self-hypnosis techniques to help you transform tension into tranquility. Drawing on nearly 60 years of driving experience and over a decade in hypnosis, he shares practical ways to stay calm, focused, and healthy behind the wheel—no matter the traffic or the drivers around you. If you’re ready to let go of road rage and embrace the ride, this book is your guide to becoming a safer, happier, and more peaceful driver.
Talks and Presentations
Don’t Settle! Stop settling for things in your life that make you unhappy: excess weight, habits, addictions, insomnia, anxiety, anger, pain, or being “stuck.” You have to go beyond logic and beating yourself up, to transform on the emotional, unconscious level.
- Control Your Stress! Imagine yourself serene, calm, and at ease, a smile on your lips. This is how participants will feel at the end of one of my Stress Relief talks.
- Weight Loss: It’s not just about losing x number of pounds – you must change your relationship with food and yourself in order to become slim, fit, and healthy for good.
- Self-Hypnosis/Meditation and Wholeness: Brief mental practices that will transform your perspective and put you on a path to equanimity and serenity.
- Get Unstuck! Imagine being totally free of everything and anything that is limiting you and holding you back. This talk is about reprogramming yourself for a happier, healthier, and more effective life.
- Use Your Brain, Control Your Pain: “Mind tricks” you can use to reduce and/or eliminate pain. All pain is in your head. Really.
Testimonial: "The Rotary Club of Columbia extends its gratitude to you for your engaging, informative, expert and enthusiastic presentation at its meeting. The members appreciated the discussion which you handled with amazing ease and rapport."