About Elena Huttenlocher, LISW-CP/SA lawyer who became a therapist, on purpose.
Elena Huttenlocher, MSW, LISW-CP/S. Licensed Independent Social Worker for clinical practice and supervision, certified clinical hypnotherapist, and bilingual in English and Russian.
Chapter one · Perm and Moscow
Trained to take things apart.
I grew up in Perm, in the Urals, and went to Moscow to train as a lawyer. Law teaches you to take a tangled situation apart until you can see what is actually holding it together. It is a good skill. It was just pointed at the wrong things.
Chapter two · New York
The situations I wanted to untangle weren't contracts.
When I moved to America, I realized what I actually wanted to take apart were the habits, fears and patterns that run people's lives without their permission. So I went back to school: a Master of Social Work from Long Island University, clinical licensure, and then, because talk alone doesn't reach everything, years of training in clinical hypnotherapy.
Chapter three · Myrtle Beach
Direct, warm, and finished on purpose.
For more than a decade I've helped people change their lives through counseling, coaching and hypnotherapy, first in New York and now in Myrtle Beach. I don't do open-ended therapy with no plan. We decide what we're working on, we work on it, and you leave with something that holds. Adults, teens and children, in my office in Socastee or online (counseling across South Carolina, hypnotherapy anywhere in the world), in English or in Russian.
I don't do open-ended therapy with no plan. We decide what we're working on, we work on it, and you leave with something that holds.
Education
| 2014 | Master of Social WorkLong Island University, Post Campus |
| 2014 | Advanced Certificate, Applied Behavior AnalysisLong Island University |
| 2014 | Advanced Certificate, Nonprofit ManagementLong Island University |
| 1999 | Master of LawMoscow Military Institute of the Federal Border Service |
Clinical training
| LISW-CP/S | Licensed Independent Social Worker, Clinical Practice and SupervisionSouth Carolina |
| CCH | Certified Clinical HypnotherapistThe Hypno Academy · North American Academy of Hypnosis |
| Pain | OldPain2Go practitionerHypnotic pain control for chronic and historic pain |
| Weight | Gastric balloon (HypnoBalloon) hypnosis |
| Smoking | Ken Guzzo stop-smoking protocolOne-session cessation |
| Kids | HypnoKids certifiedHypnosis designed for children and teens |
Trained and certified
The training behind the work.
Each body on this list stands behind a specific program on the hypnotherapy page. The clinical license comes first; the rest is the toolkit.
The Hypno Academy
Clinical hypnotherapy training, including the one-session stop-smoking protocol.
OldPain2Go
Steven Blake's methodology for long-standing pain the body no longer needs.
North American Academy of Hypnosis
Certified hypnotist, trained to the Academy's clinical standard.
SP Certified Practitioner
Advanced practitioner certification in hypnotherapy.
HypnoKids
OMNI Hypnosis Training for children and teens, ISO 9001 certified.
How I work
Plain words, a real plan, and an end in sight.
The first call is free and it's a real conversation, not a screening script. I want to hear what's going on in your words, and I'll tell you honestly whether I think I can help, and how.
Then we pick a lane. Sometimes that's counseling, week to week. Sometimes it's a focused hypnotherapy program with a known number of sessions. Often it's one and then the other. Either way you'll know what each session is for.
And if what you need is something I don't do, I'll say so and point you somewhere good.
to Greater
Self-Love
Free guide
A month of being kinder to yourself.
Thirty short daily practices for people who are better at taking care of everyone else. A few minutes a day, in Elena's words. It lives right here: one day opens each morning, and it remembers where you are. No email, no strings.
Free 20-minute call
Start with a conversation, not a commitment.
A free 20-minute call to talk through what's going on and whether counseling, hypnotherapy, or both make sense for you. No forms, no pressure.