Garrett W.

Clinical Hypnotherapist & Executive Well-Being Specialist

Garrett W. is an insightful, deeply attuned clinical hypnotherapist who specializes in supporting high-achieving, high-masking professionals who have spent years succeeding on paper while secretly burning out inside. With a background in leadership development and wellness dating back to 2007, Garrett brings a rare blend of emotional intelligence, performance psychology, and somatic awareness to his work.

As the founder of Gnosis Therapy in Orange County, California, he works at the intersection of hypnotherapy, executive well-being coaching, sensory and somatic regulation, attachment-informed leadership, and evidence-based approaches grounded in the PERMA+4 model. His mission is simple: help leaders restore capacity, rebuild self-trust, and create sustainable success that never costs them their health, their relationships, or their identity again.

Garrett’s sessions are known for their clarity, steadiness, and emotionally safe containers where high performers can finally exhale, let down their armor, and reconnect with the parts of themselves that have carried too much for too long.

Special Interests

Garrett’s work is especially aligned with the lives of ambitious, high-responsibility professionals who have learned to mask stress so well that no one notices the strain—until their bodies and relationships start to break under the weight.

He specializes in burnout recovery, stress regulation, performance anxiety, imposter syndrome, chronic overworking, and the emotional patterns that high achievers often keep hidden. He also works deeply with:

• Pain flare-ups tied to stress and nervous system overload

• Sleep disruption, sensory overwhelm, and chronic “fight-flight” cycles

• Procrastination, perfectionism, and executive functioning challenges

• Boundary-setting, emotional regulation, and relational intelligence

• High-masking leaders who feel responsible for everyone but themselves

• Professionals navigating promotions, visibility, team leadership, and pressure

His clients range from executives leading seventy-person teams to young professionals navigating their first major leadership roles. Garrett thrives with those willing to change but unsure where to begin—people who have pushed hard for years, and are finally ready for a way of living that doesn’t break them.

Approach

Garrett’s approach is integrative, strategic, and profoundly human. He blends Ericksonian hypnosis with modern evidence-based tools—memory reconsolidation, CBT, ACT, mindfulness, somatics, biofeedback principles, parts work, appreciative inquiry, and motivational interviewing—to create sessions that feel both deeply therapeutic and immediately applicable to real life.

He believes that every leader is doing the best they can with the tools they have. His work focuses on building capacity first—regulating the nervous system, restoring sleep, and strengthening self-trust—before guiding clients into the deeper layers of emotional patterns, limiting beliefs, and identity-level shifts.

Clients describe his sessions as grounding, insightful, and honestly life-changing. Many say they finally understand what it feels like to lead without panic, to perform without pressure, and to succeed without sacrificing themselves.

Garrett’s Story

A personal journey from burnout to belonging

Before becoming a hypnotherapist, Garrett lived the life so many of his clients now bring to him. He was burned out, exhausted, and stretched thin. His back and hip pain flared constantly. His relationships were strained. Even his dog annoyed him. Meals were skipped, workouts abandoned, sleep broken. And behind the professional mask was a constant fear: “I’m not enough.”

A research study on sleep led him to explore non-sleep deep rest, and eventually to hypnotherapy—something he hoped might help his sleep but ended up transforming every area of his life.

Twelve sessions later, everything had shifted.
His team’s numbers improved.
His pain decreased.
His relationships softened.
His confidence returned.
And the inner critic he carried for years finally quieted.

What surprised him most wasn’t the sleep improvements—it was how hypnotherapy loosened the emotional knots beneath the burnout. The limiting beliefs. The reactivity. The imposter syndrome. For the first time, he felt like he belonged in his own life.

Now, as a hypnotherapist, he works with clients who are ready to raise their hands the way he once did. His story shapes his empathy, his precision, and his ability to meet people exactly where they are—with honesty, compassion, and tools that work.

Favorite Quote

“Real lasting success is built through your well-being, not at its expense.”
— Garrett W.