About Carol Woodliff
Growing up in Rockford, Illinois Carol never imagined that she one day would be a spiritual hypnotherapist, coach and speaker helping people connect to their scared selves. In fact, being a spiritual teacher who assists others to heal themselves was not even on the radar.
Carol grew up with the “not so secret” desire to act and write. Growing up in a practical household with parents who lived through the Depression and World War II, those energies were discouraged and channeled into “practical pursuits.” Carol graduated from Marquette University’s with a B.A. in journalism. Her first job out of college was as a retail sales manager for Macy’s. That job lasted 9 months as Carol figured out that worrying about inventory and sales floor presentation wasn’t her. Thinking about a possible career in law, Carol took a job in a law firm in Kansas City. After a couple of years in that job, she knew that going to law school wasn’t for her but that she had found a good paying job that could support her while she explored those dreams of acting and writing.
Like many others, Carol followed the lure of Hollywood and moved to Los Angeles. She worked in law firms while pursuing a career as an actor and writing plays. She became more and more successful at her money job in law firms that one day she woke up and found that she was managing 350 employees in one of the nation’s premier law firms. This began a path of exploration of her personal goals. Carol stepped down from her high pressure management job and into a position that was more flexible and enabled her to not only pursue her acting but to explore her passion for personal and spiritual development.
You may be wondering if you have seen Carol in anything. Carol answers honestly. “I was fortunate as an actor to actually get paid to act. But most of those jobs were for industrial films and infomercials. The few television shows I did disappeared pretty quickly. I don’t think anything that I did is currently available for folks to see unless I held a private screening.”
A series of events in 2001 including the events of 911, caused Carol to rethink her career direction and led her to study hypnotherapy at the Hypnosis Motivation Institute (HMI) in Tarzana, CA. Carol graduated cum laude from HMI in March 2003. She is a certified hypnotherapist and certified therapeutic imagery facilitator. She has been seeing clients in private practice since her residency at HMI in 2002. As Carol worked with clients, she found herself drawing on spiritual teachings and her client’s spiritual beliefs. She soon began to realize that the clients who were working on “spirit level” were doing much deeper work and were happier and more peaceful with all the changes they were trying to create in their lives. In 2006 , she became a minister through the Universal Life church. Carol’s clients praise her compassionate, practical and spiritual approach. Carol’s intuitive skills help her assist clients in finding their own solutions to the issues they face. The work is about connecting body, mind and spirit and not about any particular faith or creed.
Carol has been speaking for over 20 years. She has designed training programs for the law firms she has worked at and in more recent years has been speaking on health, self-improvement, spirituality and stress management to corporations and organizations throughout the country.
Carol currently resides in the Pasadena area of Los Angeles and is working on her first book.