Interview by The Success Today
Could you tell us about yourself and your work?
Hi, I am Dr Maria Pauline Vasudevan. Right throughout my 70 years, I juggled various careers to polish and perfect the skills I possess. I started from the time I was even younger than 16 to sing and earn some money. I knew I could enthrall an audience with my voice, and I did it with aplomb! I was still in school, yet nothing deterred me. My mother needed the monetary help and I did all I could to help! From there I moved on to teaching at Green Lawns High School, I loved it!
Later, I trained as a Clinical Hypnotherapist – in California USA, Counsellor, Past Life Regression Therapist, and Trainer. Did NLP Master Practitioner courses with Dick McHugh, and qualified as a Transpersonal Regressionist – Netherlands. I am registered and endorsed by the American Hypnosis Association USA, as well as the Indian Board of Alternate Medicine. A member of The Earth Association for Regression Therapy (EARTH). I have worked and trained under renowned Persons like Richard Bandler, Paul Mckenna Dr Joe Vitale, and Dr Steve G Jones. I am also a qualified, Yoga Therapist and practitioner, and Doctor of Alternative Medicine, Bach Flower Remedies is a great support to my work.
My career in clinical hypnotherapy evolved through my interest in music and dramatics – I have been singing and performing from the age of three and trained under some of Mumbai’s most renowned singers and dramatists, going on to sing on stage, over the radio, and television. Since 1996, I have been training students to take the Speech and Drama exams conducted by the Trinity College of London, UK. Interacting with a large number of students, their parents, and of course 1000’s of my colleagues in the Airline that I worked for, I saw the great need for counseling and realized the potential of hypnotherapy and NLP, and other modalities to help people. The experience of flying for over three decades as a Manager Cabin Crew with an international airline also highlighted for me today’s need for a form of therapy free from pain, trauma, relationship issues, anger drugs and other artificial stimulants, and many more such pains.
As a therapist for more than 25 years, I am widely known and regarded for my work with empowering men, women, and children. I have also successfully worked with dispelling traumas, fears, phobias, aches pains, and physical, mental, and emotional conditions. I have helped clients address issues of addiction. So along with practicing hypnotherapy, I also practice Neuro Linguistic Programming, Past Life Regression, Transpersonal Regression therapy, and Life Between Life Regression to iterate a few here. I am also trained as a Life Coach! However, music and dramatics continue to be my passion and I enjoy my time teaching Speech and Drama at my “Everything Else School” which started way back in 1995.
How you and your service is helping society?
My intuitive grasp of the different values, traditions, and expectations of each client makes me sensitive to each individual’s needs and I have been able to help many people overcome their problems. I have been doing such transformational work for more than 26 years. I have fully completed the Silva Mind training for Silva Mind Body and Spirit Healing and the Life System Training. I have also taken the responsibility of working and empowering women and children, healing and restoring their lives at the NGO “Shanti Ghar” using hypnotherapy, NLP, etc. for the abandoned children and battered women who take shelter there.
I am always excited to get up every morning and start my work which lasts sometimes 12 hours! Just the fact that I can help and know that I can make someone feel completely alright, drives me.
I find the work I do stimulating and invigorating. I feel so happy!
I think the most interesting thing about me, I have been told is the fact that I work extremely hard to meet my goals, with plenty of love and kindness.
In my kind of work, what is important as a therapist is to have tons of empathy, time, and patience! Working to empower the clients and free them from whatever problems
What is the USP of your work?
My customer desires to heal and have the ability to cope. My business does Best in bringing about complete Healing and Empowering my clients. Don’t know what my competitors lack
I only want to add ‘I’
a. Have the ability to say “I CAN” to heal and empower the client irrespective of the kind of problems they have.
b. Dedication
c. Honesty with tremendous patience.
What are your Vision and Mission?
My Vision is to be an honest, empathetic, and impactful therapist and trainer that is recognized for my healing and empowering work for my clients to guide them toward a happy life.
My Mission is to heal, train, and empower as many clients and students with skills and tools I have learned, to work with the mind to heal the body.
What are your achievements in this industry?
I have had a great learning that has helped me in different ways to find means to heal and help my clients. To enumerate some of them, Akashic &Tarot cards, Graphology, Numerology, Vaastu, Wrist Watch Analysis, and the list goes on.
My learnings and years of experience and proficiency have brought me many Awards:
At the Asian Regression Therapy Arts Festival 2016 I was felicitated for my dedication and Work, then the WOW Personality Awards for Hypnotherapy Par Excellence in the year Award 2018
In 2020 I was recognized by The Indian Achiever’s Club as one of the Top 50 Therapists, Trainers & healers nationally. In April 2024 was awarded by SKLTA a Perseverance Star Award. Also, I have been interviewed By Mom Talks – a YouTube interview in New Jersey USA about my work, and also by Mentoria – a Career Guidance& Counselling Company interview on ‘A Day in the Life of a Hypnotherapist’ to bring awareness to young minds of yet another Career option.
Does your work ever feel tedious to you? If so, how do you stay driven and motivated towards it?
I Love My Work! It’s not tedious, it gives loving attention, empowers, and holds the space for the client to experience and go through what is troubling them. I want people to know that each and every problem that they are facing can be resolved and healed. So I stay motivated.
What are your hobbies and specific interests other than your profession?
I love reading and Music. To quote from William Shakespeare’s The Twelfth Night “If music be the food of love, play on”.
You have achieved so much in life, any specific advice you’d like to share with our readers to grow in life
Well, I am still studying, now, Vedic astrology! I hope to master it soon. I have consistently continued to study every single year of mine with vigor and verve and ‘Life’ is always teaching us and we are forever students.
“The more you give, the more you get. In everything you do – for your customers, your associates, your employees, your family-practice doing just a little more than is expected. You’ll stand out because there’s no traffic jam on the extra mile, and you’ll discover that service to others is one of Life’s greatest riches. -Napoleon Hill, 1883-1970
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