Meet Denise Dempsey

Are you looking for an experienced Clinical Hypnotherapist, mindfulness educator, and Integrative Coach in Davis, California?

Denise Dempsey, CHT, MEd, has spent more than 25 years helping people navigate significant personal, professional, and health-related transitions. Her background includes supporting combat veterans, stroke survivors, people living with chronic pain, healthcare professionals, entrepreneurs, authors, and organizational leaders.

Today, Denise primarily works with growth-oriented people who are building something meaningful, moving through an identity transition, or seeking a more sustainable relationship with their work, health, and personal lives.

Rather than focusing on a challenge in isolation, Denise considers how subconscious patterns, nervous-system responses, values, relationships, and daily actions may interact. Her goal is to help clients recognize patterns, access internal resources, and translate personal insight into practical change.

An Integrative Approach

Denise’s approach may combine:

• Clinical hypnotherapy
• Integrative coaching
• Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
• Emotional Freedom Techniques
• Breathwork and somatic awareness
• Integral Eye Movement Therapy
• Values clarification
• Goal development and strategic planning
• Emotional literacy
• Reiki and complementary energy practices
• Personalized between-session exercises

The techniques used depend upon each client’s goals, preferences, and professional or healthcare needs.

Areas of Focus

Clients may contact Denise for support with goals involving:

• Stress reduction and nervous-system regulation
• Professional burnout and overwhelm
• Leadership and entrepreneurial development
• Major life and career transitions
• Confidence and self-trust
• Fears and limiting beliefs
• Habit and behavior change
• Performance and visibility
• Chronic-pain coping skills
• Mindfulness development
• Emotional resilience
• Values-based goal achievement
• Personal and professional alignment

Denise offers in-person appointments in Davis and online sessions through Zoom.

Education and Professional Training

Denise’s education and training include:

• Master of Education with an emphasis on transformative learning
• Bachelor’s degree in Human Development
• Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist
• Certified Integrative Coach
• Certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction instructor
• Hypnotherapy training through the Ali Campbell Hypnotherapy Training Academy
• MBSR certification through the UMass Center for Mindfulness
• Emotional Freedom Techniques training
• Tiny Habits coaching training
• Reiki Master Teacher and practitioner training
• Yoga, massage, breathwork, and somatic-psychology training

Denise reports training directly with Jon Kabat-Zinn and teaching Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for approximately 25 years. Her professional history also includes mindfulness instruction and research-related work connected with UC Davis and Sutter Health.

Her current professional background is available on her biography page.

Published Author

Denise is the author of:

Mindfulness Meditations for Stress: 100 Simple Practices to Ease Tension and Find Peace

The book provides short mindfulness exercises that readers can incorporate into everyday routines to develop awareness, reduce tension, and respond to stress more intentionally.

Contact Denise

Denise Dempsey Integrative Coaching and Hypnotherapy

Westlake Plaza

📍 1260 Lake Boulevard, Suite 5

Davis, CA 95616

📞 Call: 530-500-2256

✉️ denise@stressreductionprograms.com

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👤 About Denise Dempsey

Contact Denise directly to confirm the suite number, current appointment availability, fees, program requirements, and whether her services are appropriate for your goals.

Denise Dempsey’s practice is independently owned and operated. Denise is not an employee, agent, partner, or representative of Healthy Life Centers.

Healthy Life Centers recommends and refers prospective clients to independent practitioners but does not supervise or control their credentials, services, fees, scheduling, professional decisions, client relationships, or results. Prospective clients should independently confirm each practitioner’s qualifications, professional scope, and suitability before scheduling.