📍 Iowa: Sharon Winkel, MBA, LNHA, C.Ht. – Johnston – Des Moines
Contact directly:
5525 Merle Hay Road, Suite 290
Johnston, IA 50131
📞 Phone: 515-868-9578
✉️ Email: info@redesignedmindhypno.com
Meet Sharon Winkel
Are you looking for an experienced hypnotherapist and mindset coach near Johnston or Des Moines, Iowa?
Biography: Sharon Winkel is a Certified Hypnotherapist, Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, mindset coach, and the founder of Redesigned Mind Hypnotherapy. She helps clients explore the thoughts, habits, beliefs, and emotional patterns that may be interfering with their personal goals.
Sharon brings more than 25 years of healthcare leadership and administrative experience to her work. Her professional background includes middle and senior management positions in healthcare, along with service as an administrator of long-term care and skilled-nursing facilities.
Her approach is collaborative and action-oriented. Rather than telling clients who they should become, Sharon works with them to identify their desired outcomes, recognize existing strengths, develop practical skills, and reinforce more supportive patterns.
A Partnership for Personal Change
Sharon’s clients can become active participants in creating change. Her goal is to provide tools that may help clients:
- Strengthen confidence and self-trust
- Recognize their personal value
- Understand limiting thoughts and habits
- Develop healthier responses to stress
- Improve focus and motivation
- Practice emotional self-regulation
- Clarify personal and professional goals
- Build practical skills for maintaining progress
- Become more resilient during periods of change
Hypnosis is a collaborative process, and clients remain aware and capable of making their own decisions.
Areas of Focus
Sharon’s areas of training and practice include:
- Smoking and vaping cessation
- Weight-management habits
- Stress reduction
- Anxious feelings
- Fears and phobias
- Confidence and self-esteem
- Negative self-talk and rumination
- Sleep-related habits
- Motivation and concentration
- Habit change
- Public-speaking confidence
- Test-taking and study habits
- Sports performance
- Career and leadership performance
- Communication skills
- Personal and professional change management
- Complementary pain-management support
- Tinnitus habituation support
- Trauma-informed hypnosis, with appropriate professional involvement
- Support for clients affected by cancer, with medical authorization when appropriate
Education
Sharon’s educational background includes:
- Master of Business Administration, summa cum laude
- Bachelor of Arts in Communications, cum laude
- Associate of Arts in Long-Term Healthcare Administration
- Diploma in Hypnotherapy with honors, Hypnosis Motivation Institute
Hypnotherapy Training
Sharon’s diploma curriculum included training in:
- Foundations of hypnotherapy
- Ericksonian hypnosis
- Kappasinian hypnosis
- Neuro-Linguistic Programming
- Therapeutic imagery
- Habit control
- Fears and phobias
- Smoking cessation
- Weight-management hypnosis
- Medical-support hypnosis
- Pain-management hypnosis
- Emotional Freedom Techniques
- Biofeedback
- Family systems
- Crisis intervention
- Substance-use concerns
- Therapeutic journaling
- Hypnotic regression
- Past-life regression
- Dream exploration
- Child-focused hypnosis
- Ethics, law, and professional practice
- Clinical case studies
Certifications and Professional Development
Sharon’s certifications and advanced training include:
- Certified Hypnotherapist
- Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming
- Hypnosis for smoking cessation
- Hypnosis and weight management
- Hypnosis and sports performance
- Hypnosis and pain management
- Hypnosis and tinnitus
- Hypnosis for anxious feelings and fears
- Trauma Recovery Hypnosis
- Healing the Inner Child
- Somatic and parts-work approaches
- Hypnosis support for clients affected by cancer
Professional Memberships
Sharon’s professional memberships include:
- American Hypnosis Association
- International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association
- Hypnotherapists Union Local 472
- National Federation of Neuro-Linguistic Programming
Healthcare and Leadership Experience
Her leadership experience may be particularly relevant to clients pursuing goals involving:
- Career transitions
- Professional communication
- Leadership confidence
- Workplace stress
- Decision-making
- Public speaking
- Personal accountability
- Performance and goal achievement
Appointment Options
Redesigned Mind Hypnotherapy offers:
- In-person appointments in Johnston, Iowa
- Live online hypnosis sessions
- Zoom appointments
- FaceTime appointments
- Individual hypnotherapy
- Mindset coaching
- Neuro-Linguistic Programming
- Complimentary introductory telephone consultations
Contact Sharon directly to confirm appointment availability, program length, and fees.
Contact Redesigned Mind Hypnotherapy
📍 Redesigned Mind Hypnotherapy
5525 Merle Hay Road, Suite 290
Johnston, IA 50131
📞 Phone: 515-868-9578
✉️ Email: info@redesignedmindhypno.com
🌐 Website: RedesignedMindHypno.com
Independent-Practice Disclosure
Redesigned Mind Hypnotherapy is independently owned and operated. Sharon Winkel is not an employee, agent, or representative of Healthy Life Centers.
Recommended by Healthy Life Centers.
Healthy Life Centers recommends and refers prospective clients to independent practitioners but does not supervise or control their credentials, licensing, services, fees, scheduling, client relationships, professional decisions, supervision arrangements, or results.




