Book Donald Pelles, Ph.D. to Speak
Transform How Your Audience Thinks, Feels, and Performs
Donald Pelles, Ph.D., is a nationally respected hypnotherapist, speaker, and author who helps people move beyond stress, fear, self-doubt, and stuck patterns—into calm, confidence, and meaningful change.
With a warm, engaging style and decades of experience, Donald delivers talks that are practical, interactive, and genuinely transformative. Audiences don’t just listen—they experience tools they can use immediately.
His presentations are ideal for:
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Wellness and mental health events
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Corporate retreats and professional groups
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Community organizations and nonprofits
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Conferences, workshops, and retreats
If you want your audience to leave feeling calmer, clearer, and more capable than when they arrived, Donald is the speaker to book.
About Donald Pelles, Ph.D.
Donald Pelles, Ph.D., has provided hypnotherapy services in the greater Washington, DC area and worldwide since 2007. He works with individuals who are ready to stop settling—whether they are dealing with anxiety, habits, stress, pain, weight struggles, or a persistent sense of being stuck.
His work integrates hypnosis, self-hypnosis, NLP, Core Transformation, and Wholeness approaches into what he calls the Empowered Self Framework—a practical, experience-based approach that helps people access the part of themselves that is calm, confident, and resilient under pressure.
Donald’s talks are dynamic, informal, and highly interactive. Many include a brief, optional hypnotic or guided experiential exercise, followed by lively discussion and Q&A. Presentations can range from 20 minutes to full-length workshops or conference sessions. conferences.
The Empowered Self Framework (Briefly Explained)
At the heart of Donald’s work is a simple idea:
lasting change doesn’t happen through willpower alone—it happens when people learn how to work with their
unconscious patterns instead of fighting them.
The Empowered Self Framework helps participants:
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Quiet mental noise and stress responses
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Shift emotional patterns that logic alone can’t change
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Access inner resources for clarity, confidence, and self-regulation
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Create change that feels natural, not forced
Audiences consistently describe Donald’s approach as grounded, humane, and surprisingly practical.
Talks & Presentations
Don’t Settle!
Stop settling for patterns that make you unhappy—stress, habits, anxiety, insomnia, pain, or feeling stuck. This talk focuses on creating change at the emotional and unconscious level, where real transformation happens.
Control Your Stress
Participants are guided into a deeply calm, focused state and learn simple tools they can use anytime to reduce stress, restore balance, and think more clearly under pressure.
Get Unstuck
A powerful talk about breaking free from internal limitations and outdated patterns—and stepping into a more effective, fulfilling way of living and working.
Weight Loss: Beyond Willpower
Sustainable change isn’t about fighting food or yourself. This talk explores how to change your relationship with eating, stress, and self-image for long-term health.
Self-Hypnosis, Meditation, and Wholeness
Brief, accessible mental practices that help participants cultivate equanimity, emotional balance, and a greater sense of inner stability.
Use Your Brain, Control Your Pain
Learn how the brain processes pain—and practical “mind tools” that can reduce or even eliminate it. Challenging, empowering, and surprisingly hopeful.
What Organizations Say
“The Rotary Club of Columbia extends its gratitude to you for your engaging, informative, expert, and enthusiastic presentation. Members appreciated the discussion, which you handled with amazing ease and rapport.”
Ready to Book Donald for Your Event?
If you’re looking for a speaker who combines depth, warmth, humor, and real-world tools, Donald Pelles, Ph.D., delivers an experience your audience will remember—and use—long after the event ends.
📩 Contact us today to discuss availability, formats, and customized presentations.
Explore Donald’s Books – Practical Wisdom for a Calmer Mind and Healthier Life
Hypnosis and Weight Loss
A practical, encouraging guide to lasting weight loss that helps readers move beyond emotional eating, stress-driven habits, and self-sabotage—without willpower battles or fad diets.
Drive Calm
A humorous, insightful guide to transforming stress and frustration behind the wheel into calm, focus, and safer driving.