About Jess
There's a particular kind of exhaustion that comes with being capable.
You're the one who holds it together. Who shows up. Who delivers. And somewhere along the way, the gap between who you appear to be and how you actually feel became so wide you stopped noticing it. I know that gap. I lived in it for years.
My story
For decades I worked in marketing and events management — Busy, purposeful work. A full life. To the outside world everything looked great.
But underneath it all, I was running on anxiety and a quiet, persistent belief that I still hadn’t quite proved myself. Not clever enough. Not good enough. Not deserving of my place. I’d been working hard to earn that proof and had no awareness I was doing it, but I knew how it felt. That was very real.
Then my twenty-year marriage ended. And without the structure of the life I’d been maintaining, I had to face something I’d been successfully avoiding: I didn’t really know who I was. What was important to me (other than my son and being his mother). If I’m honest, I’m not sure I ever had.
I wasn’t dramatically falling apart. I was just quietly, completely lost. And I was still showing up every day looking like everything was fine.
What changed
I was still working at the Royal Marines charity when I started to see something that stopped me in my tracks.
I watched people — people who had been through experiences I couldn’t begin to imagine — transform. Not manage their situation. Not develop better coping strategies. Transform. Genuinely, from the inside out.
I wanted to understand how that was possible. So I started reading, listening, and eventually a friend mentioned an NLP Practitioner course. Something in me just knew I needed to be on it too.
My first NLP Practitioner training was in 2014. It didn’t just give me tools. It helped me dismantle things I’d been carrying for decades — the relentless inner critic, the inherited patterns, the exhausting drive to earn my place in every room. For the first time I wasn’t learning because I felt I had to prove something. I was learning because I was genuinely curious about my own mind and my true potential.
That shift changed everything.
How I got here
I built my practice in Exmouth and Exeter, UK. Went on to become a Master of NLP and Hypnosis, training directly with NLP co-founder Richard Bandler. I worked at 10 Harley Street for a year, and to date have helped around 2,000 clients. In 2024 I had the honour of assisting Paul McKenna on his Success for Life tour.
And in 2023 I achieved ABNLP and ABH Trainer status — which opened up something I hadn’t expected to love as much as I do.
Why I Train
Something shifted in how I work with clients over the years.
I noticed I kept doing the same thing in sessions — not just using the techniques, but explaining them. Sharing the neuroscience and awareness behind the change. Showing people how their beliefs and outdated strategies had been running their life, not just helping them switch it off. Because I wanted them to leave with more than a result. I wanted them to leave with awareness, understanding and empowerment. Something they could carry into the rest of their life.
And at some point I thought — if I’m already teaching this one to one, why not teach it one to many?
That’s the honest origin of how I became a Trainer. Not a pivot, not a strategy. Just the natural extension of what I was already doing.
I’m still deeply passionate about my 1:1 work. Sitting with someone and witnessing that ‘light bulb’ moment — there’s nothing quite like it and I don’t imagine that will ever change. But training practitioners means the ripple goes further. That the tools I’ve seen transform lives — including my own — reach people through the practitioners I help create.
Who I Work With
People come to my NLP Practitioner training from very different starting points.
Some are people who have simply reached a point where they want to understand their own mind properly. Not manage symptoms. Not read another book about mindset. Actually get into the room where the patterns are made — and change them.
Some are coaches, therapists or wellness professionals looking to go deeper — to add a methodology that creates faster, more lasting change for the people they work with.
Both are exactly the right reason to be there. The course meets you where you are.
And if you’re not ready for training yet my 1:1 work is where we start. Using Hypnotherapy, NLP and Time Line Therapy™, we work to reprogram your unconscious mind because that’s where the real transformation happens.
You are not broken. You are not weak. You don’t need more resilience.
You just need the right tools — and someone who has used every single one of them on herself first.
Why Work With Jess?
Jessica Vassallo is a Multi Award-Winning Hypnotherapist, ABNLP Trainer of NLP & ABH Trainer of Hypnosis, based in Devon. Master Practitioner of NLP, Hypnosis and Time Line Therapy™. Trained directly with NLP co-founder Richard Bandler. Author of Stepping Into You. Assisted Paul McKenna on his Success for Life Tour (2024). Harley Street Therapist 2021-22. Presenter for the American Board of NLP. Speaker at the UK Hypnosis Convention 2025 & Nov 2026. Speaker at the Hypno LA Convention Sept 2026. Over 2,000 lives transformed.
Ready to Take The Next Step?
Whether you’re here to train as a practitioner or to work with me privately — lets begin with a conversation. You can find out if I’m the right Trainer and/or Coach for you.
Training Dates
Mindset Masterclass: Breakthrough Limiting Belief Barriers. Tues 2nd June 2026, 1400 BST (and every 1st Tuesday of the Month) Book Here
NLP & Hypnosis Practitioner Training, Exeter – 1-5 June 2026 and 11-16 January 2027 – Book Here
NLP & Hypnosis Practitioner Training, Barcelona – 5-11 October 2026 – Book Here
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