William Mitchell, BCH, CI, MDiv, PhD

William Mitchell is the founder of the Mitchell Institute for Professional Hypnosis and Personal Motivation Hypnosis Clinics and Pastor First Baptist Church, Stonington, IL.

William Mitchell is a Certified Instructor for the National Guild of Hypnotists and was awarded the NGH Religion and Hypnotism Award in 2009. Between 1997 and 2002, he hypnotized thousands in group seminars. Since 1999 he has performed over 250 Stage Hypnosis Shows for various schools, companies, and social groups. Since 2005 he has served as an adjunct faculty member at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield, IL serving on their Complementary and Alternative Medicine Panel. Since 2007 he has served as Pastor of First Baptist Church, Stonington,IL. ,where he resides with his wife Linda and their children. Academic credentials include a Bachelor of Arts from Culver-Stockton College with a Missouri Secondary Teaching Certificate in Social Studies and graduate theological education at Texas Christian University Brite Divinity School and Phillips University Graduate Seminary in Oklahoma with an earned Master of Divinity. While serving congregations in Missouri, Nebraska, Kentucky, Texas and Illinois he did doctoral work at TCU and has now completed a Professional Doctorate of Hypnotherapy from Madison University.

He maintains a large hypnotherapy practice of several hundred clients a year in Springfield and Decatur ,Illinois. His clients routinely lose 10-100 pounds, stop smoking and successfully learn to use hypnotism for improving their lives! As a professional, William Mitchell has served as an instructor, pastoral counselor, business owner, and hypnotist. Out of this varied background he offers an alternative and inspiring perspective on motivation, change, and success.

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