Jessica Vassallo at Sanctuary Sleeps Froginwell Devon

Hello, I’m Jess

The moment everything changed, I was 40.

It took four decades before I learned that I wasn’t anxious or depressed — it was something I was doing. That insight alone changed my life because, if it was something I was doing — and it wasn’t helpful — then I could start doing something new, different and more helpful to my life.

I didn’t learn this at school. I didn’t learn it when I returned to university as a mature student. I learned it in a training room in London, with Trainers of NLP and Hypnosis, in 2014. And it changed everything.

That’s the thing about our unconscious mind, we aren’t taught how to use it are we!? Most of us spend years — sometimes decades — believing that the way we feel, the patterns of thinking and habits we repeat, the limitations that hold us back are simply who we are. They’re not. They’re what we’ve learned. And what has been learned can be unlearned, updated, and replaced with something that actually works.

That’s what I do now — in The Practice Rooms in Exeter, online, in training rooms and in organisations where people are ready to stop managing their challenges and start changing them.

The awards, the PR, interviews aren’t about me, it’s about sharing what I feel is the world’s best kept secret – transform your mindset, emotions and habits and you can step into the life you truly deserve.

Always with your wellness in mind

Jess x

Multi Award-Winning NLP and Hypnotherapy Master Practitioner, Trainer of NLP & Hypnosis, based in Exeter, Devon and Online.

I’m Maltese by heritage — my family moved to the UK when I was young, following my father’s career in the Royal Marines. I’ve called Devon home for many years now, and I can’t imagine being anywhere else (accept Malta). I live in a quintessentially English village, walk the coast paths and countryside trails whenever I can, and find that the sea and the hills are my go-to for quientening my busy mind – accept hypnosis ofcourse!

I have a son who makes me beam with pride — he’s a Doctor, which tells you something about the kind of special human he is. I’m surrounded by good friends, a close community, a wonderful partner, and a deep love of wonderful expereineces, adventure and making memories.

Jessica Vassallo as a baby
Jessica Vassallo Master NLP Practitioner and Hypnotherapist. Full Body Catalepsy

I was working at a military charity when I first saw something that stopped me in my tracks. I watched people who had been through experiences I couldn’t begin to imagine — genuinely transform before my eyes. Not manage them with tools and techniques but actually transform, from the inside out.

I needed to understand how that was possible.

A friend mentioned an NLP Practitioner course. Something in me just knew I needed to be on it. My first training was in 2014 — and 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 to prove something. I was learning because I was genuinely curious about my own mind, emotions and habits, like emotional eating.

That course changed everything. It was the catalyst for my change and I knew I had to help others too.

After more advanced training in 2015, I built my practice in Exmouth and Exeter. In 2018, I went on to train to Master Practitioner level with NLP co-founder Richard Bandler, and in 2020 worked at number 10 Harley Street. In 2023, I trained with Ewan Mochrie from Inspire 360 and became an ABNLP and ABH certified Trainer of NLP and Hypnosis.

In 2024 I had the honour of assisting Paul McKenna on his Success for Life Tour.

In 2025 I presented at the UK Hypnosis Convention, London and am honoured to have been asked back this year.

I have now supported around 2,000 clients.

The credentials matter. But they’re not the point. The point is that every single one of those experiences has made me better at sitting across from someone and helping them transform their mindset, breakfree from unresolved emotions from the past and create new healthy habits.

Image: Full Body Catalespy during my Hypnosis Trainers Trainer.

Something shifted in how I worked with clients over the years. I noticed in sessions that I was teaching the neuroscience behind the change. Showing people how their patterns had been running their life, not just helping them switch them off.

Because I wanted them to leave with more than a result. I wanted them to leave empowered, with understanding they could carry into everything their lives.

Undergoing the Trainers Training took me to a level of mastery where I had a deeper understanding of how I was doing what I was doing.

Jessica Vassallo with her NLP Practitioner Graduates 2025

The approaches most people have already tried work at the conscious level. They’re useful. They’re just not where the problem lives. The unconscious mind built this so it is at the level of the unconscious mind that we  change.

That’s the difference that makes the difference in my experience.

Highly skilled, compassionate and intuitive guide

I had the privilege of experiencing both the NLP and hypnosis training and therapy sessions with Jessica, and I can honestly say it has been a life-altering experience. From the very beginning, the program was expertly structured, blending both theoretical knowledge and practical techniques that could be immediately applied…read more

Elizabeth

Nutritionist, NLP & Hypnosis Practitioner, 2024

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