📍 Michigan – Nicol Merline, M.A., CHt. – Waterford

Contact directly:

1370 N. Oakland Boulevard, Suite 110
Waterford, MI 48327

📞 Phone: (248) 568-0831
✉️ Email: mtuintake@gmail.com

Meet Nicol Merline

Are you looking for an experienced hypnotherapist and mental-training coach in Waterford or Oakland County, Michigan?

Biography:  Nicol Merline is a Board-Certified Advanced Hypnotherapist, Certified Mental Training Coach, Stress Management Consultant, and founder of MTU Hypnosis, LLC. She has more than 25 years of professional experience helping clients change unwanted habits, manage stress, improve performance, and pursue meaningful personal goals.

Nicol founded MTU Hypnosis in 2000. She works with individuals, athletes, organizations, support groups, and corporate clients through private hypnosis sessions, mental coaching, seminars, and educational presentations. MTU Hypnosis

A Personalized Approach

Nicol’s approach focuses on helping clients make more effective use of their attention, imagination, motivation, and existing personal strengths.

Rather than applying the same script or program to every client, she develops personalized strategies based upon the person’s goals, concerns, habits, and preferred outcomes.

Her services may incorporate:

• Hypnosis

• Mental-training techniques

• Stress-management strategies

• Emotional Freedom Techniques

• Guided imagery

• Silva Method concepts

• Mind Dynamics techniques

• Goal development

• Performance rehearsal

• Complementary energy practices

• Between-session reinforcement

Areas of Focus

Clients may contact Nicol for help pursuing goals involving:

• Smoking cessation

• Vaping and chewing-tobacco cessation

• Weight-management habits

• Emotional eating

• Confidence and self-esteem

• Everyday anxiety and stress

• Public speaking

• Social confidence

• Fears and phobias

• Unwanted habits

• Motivation and procrastination

• Time management

• Learning and memory

• Test anxiety

• Focus and concentration

• Sports-performance optimization

• Professional performance

• Pain-management support

• Personal development

Smoking and Nicotine Cessation

Nicol works with clients seeking to stop:

• Cigarette smoking

• Vaping

• Cigar use

• Smokeless tobacco

• Nicotine-related habits

Her hypnosis programs focus on identifying personal triggers, strengthening motivation, rehearsing healthier responses, and reinforcing the client’s decision to become nicotine-free.

Weight Management

MTU Hypnosis offers personalized programs intended to support healthier eating, exercise, motivation, and weight-management habits.

Program topics may include:

• Emotional eating

• Food cravings

• Portion awareness

• Exercise motivation

• Stress-related eating

• Self-sabotaging patterns

• Binge-related behaviors

• Confidence and follow-through

• Long-term lifestyle habits

Nicol also offers Virtual Gastric Band hypnosis, which uses suggestion and imagery to encourage satisfaction with smaller portions.

Clients with obesity, diabetes, binge-eating disorder, another eating disorder, or a significant medical concern should work with appropriately licensed medical and nutritional professionals.

Performance and Mental Training

As a Certified Mental Training Coach, Nicol works with professional and amateur athletes as well as students, speakers, and business professionals.

Performance-focused sessions may address:

• Competitive confidence

• Concentration

• Mental rehearsal

• Recovery from a disappointing performance

• Pre-event stress

• Consistency

• Public speaking

• Test preparation

• Professional presentations

• Motivation and follow-through

• Returning to performance following an injury

Hypnosis may help with confidence, relaxation, and mental rehearsal. 

Complementary Medical Hypnosis

Nicol holds a specialty certification in Complementary Medical Hypnotherapy and has presented educational programs at healthcare-related locations, including the University of Michigan Hospital, the Charach Cancer Center at DMC Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital, and North Oakland Hospital.

Medical-support hypnosis may be used to assist with:

• Relaxation

• Stress associated with illness or treatment

• Medical-procedure preparation

• Comfort and coping

• Pain-management support

• Rehabilitation motivation

• Treatment adherence

Complementary Medical Hypnotherapy is an adjunctive service. It does not diagnose, treat, or cure a medical condition and should be coordinated with the client’s licensed healthcare provider.

Education and Credentials

Nicol’s published qualifications include:

• Master of Arts in Educational Leadership, Eastern Michigan University

• Bachelor of Science, Wayne State University

• Board-Certified Advanced Hypnotherapist

• Complementary Medical Hypnotherapy specialty certification

• Certified Mental Training Coach

• Certified Stress Management Consultant

• Virtual Gastric Band hypnosis training

• Emotional Freedom Techniques training

• Silva Method and Mind Dynamics training

• Certified Quantum Touch Practitioner

• State of Michigan Certified Teacher

• Motivational speaker

• Former Vice President of the International Association of Holistic Providers

• Founder of MTU Hypnosis, LLC in 2000

Nicol’s published professional affiliations and continuing-education sources include:

• International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association

• National Guild of Hypnotists

• International Association of Counselors and Therapists

• International Hypnosis Federation

• Hypnosis International Board of Registration

• American Board of Hypnotherapy

• Michigan Association of Counselors and Hypnotherapists

In-Person and Online Sessions

MTU Hypnosis currently offers:

• Private in-person sessions in Waterford

• Live online hypnosis appointments

• Individualized hypnosis programs

• Mental-training coaching

• Smoking and nicotine-cessation programs

• Weight-management programs

• Virtual Gastric Band hypnosis

• Performance-focused sessions

• Seminars and organizational presentations

• A complimentary initial consultation

Contact MTU Hypnosis

📍 MTU Hypnosis, LLC
1370 N. Oakland Boulevard, Suite 110
Waterford, MI 48327

📞 Phone: (248) 568-0831
✉️ Email: mtuintake@gmail.com
🌐 Website: MTU Hypnosis
👤 Qualifications: Meet Nicol Merline
📋 Consultation: Contact MTU Hypnosis

Business Hours

• Monday: Closed

• Tuesday: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

• Wednesday: Closed

• Thursday: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

• Friday: 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

• Saturday: 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

• Sunday: Closed

Contact MTU Hypnosis to confirm current hours, appointment availability, fees, program recommendations, and online-session eligibility.

Independent-Practice Disclosure

MTU Hypnosis, LLC is independently owned and operated. Nicol Merline 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, client relationships, professional decisions, representations, reported outcomes, or results.

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