Sedona, Arizona
Rick Reynolds is a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, Soul Coach and Reiki Master based in Sedona, Arizona. He has worked in private practice under the name TranceBreakers since 2003, and he began doing past life regression work in 1975, at thirteen years old.
His work centers on one idea. Most of what runs a person's life was installed early, without their consent, and it can be seen and changed. He calls that work de-hypnosis.
The short version
Rick's training did not begin in a classroom. It began at home, with a family already deep in this territory.
By age twelve he had studied the practices of the Rosicrucian Order, received instruction from the Institute of Human Abilities, and listened to courses from Ram Dass. His grandmother was a Reiki Master. His parents founded a spiritual foundation.
At thirteen, he began doing past life regression sessions. He has continued the work in the fifty years since.
Roughly two decades in television news, as a reporter, producer, executive producer and news director. The job trained him to listen hard, hold the thread, and hear the one sentence a person did not realize they had just said.
A breathwork session in Sedona changed the direction of his life. He left the newsroom and did not go back.
He completed formal training and internship in hypnotherapy, energy psychology and Reiki at the HCH Institute in Lafayette, California, and opened his private practice. He named it TranceBreakers.
He began working as a soul guide with Sedona Soul Adventures, designing and facilitating customized transformational retreats.
He has trained and mentored more than 150 coaches. He teaches the TranceBreakers material live once a year, and he still sees private clients in Sedona and on Zoom.
The vocabulary
Rick uses a handful of terms in a specific way. Here is what each one means, in plain language.
An unconscious pattern of belief and behavior, installed early and reinforced over time, that feels so familiar it seems like simply who you are.
The voice that says you are not enough. The pattern that repeats in relationships. The invisible ceiling on what you allow yourself to have. Trance is not unusual and it is not a disorder. Everyone runs on patterns, because nobody could get out of the driveway otherwise.
The work of helping someone wake up from a trance they were already in, rather than putting them into one.
Rick has called his practice TranceBreakers since 2003. Over the years the work turned out to be less about hypnotizing people and more about the opposite. A TranceBreaker is someone who can notice the programming while it is running. That is the whole skill. Once you can see it, you get a choice. Before you can see it, you only get a reaction.
A conclusion about yourself, reached early, that you now live rather than think.
You are not walking around saying the sentence. You are living it. It shows up as the apology you make before you speak, the job you will not leave, the conversation you rehearse for two days. Rick works with eight of these in particular.
A written portrait of a person, built from several wisdom systems at once, that names their gifts, their core wound, their recurring patterns and a pathway from fear to freedom.
It draws on the Enneagram, Human Design, Gene Keys, Numerology and Tarot together rather than separately. It is not a personality assessment. Most people describe it as feeling seen rather than typed.
A practitioner who conducts deep intake interviews, identifies the underlying pattern a person is living, and designs an experience around it.
This is the role Rick has held with Sedona Soul Adventures since 2011. It involves matching a person with the practitioners and experiences most likely to create a real shift, rather than delivering a fixed program.
What he works with
Most of the patterns Rick sees trace back to one of eight sentences. He treats these as the truth, and the work is about closing the gap between knowing them and feeling them.
The practice
He works one to one with private clients, guides retreats, and teaches. The methods vary. The through line is helping people find their own answers rather than becoming dependent on a coach.
Ninety minutes, in person in Sedona or on Zoom. Most people begin with a Pattern Portrait. Sessions combine hypnotherapy, coaching and energy work depending on what the person needs that day.
Customized multi-day transformational retreats in Sedona, designed around a person's specific pattern rather than a fixed itinerary. Delivered through Sedona Soul Adventures.
Once a year Rick teaches the whole body of work live, in a small group, over twenty weeks. It does not certify anyone in anything. It teaches practitioners' skills to people who are not practitioners.
He has trained and mentored more than 150 coaches. He also teaches practitioners how to use AI responsibly and creatively in their own work.
Clinical hypnotherapy, Emotional Freedom Techniques, somatic practices, breathwork, Reiki and energy healing, HeartMath, and inquiry work drawn from Byron Katie and Ho'oponopono.
For understanding a person's pattern he draws on the Enneagram, Positive Intelligence, Human Design, Gene Keys, Numerology and Tarot. Not one at a time. The whole picture at once.
None of this is therapy. It is education and coaching. It does not diagnose or treat any condition, and it is not a substitute for clinical care.
Questions
Sedona, Arizona. He first came to Sedona in 1990 and has lived and worked there since 2011. He sees clients in person in Sedona and remotely on Zoom, and he works with people worldwide.
He began past life regression work in 1975, at thirteen. He opened his formal private practice in 2003, after completing training and internship at the HCH Institute in Lafayette, California. Before that he spent about twenty years in television news.
TranceBreakers is Rick's private practice and his own independent body of work, developed over more than twenty years. The name has been in use since 2003. It refers to the skill of noticing your own conditioning while it is running.
It is also the name of the live group program he teaches once a year, TranceBreakers: The Journey from Fear to Freedom.
No. Clinical hypnotherapy is a focused, relaxed state in which a person remains aware and in control the entire time. Nobody can be made to do anything against their values. Rick's framing is that the trance came first, from childhood and culture and the conclusions you reached before you were old enough to know better. The session is about seeing that programming, not adding to it.
No. Rick's own spiritual life is real and he does not hide it. But he works easily with people who are religious, agnostic or atheist, and nothing in the work asks you to adopt a belief you do not already hold. Where an idea has a spiritual frame, you are welcome to take the practical version and leave the rest.
No. This is education and coaching. It is not therapy, it is not treatment, and it does not diagnose or cure anything. Some people do this alongside therapy, which works well. If you are dealing with something clinical, keep your clinician.
He has been a soul guide and senior practitioner with Sedona Soul Adventures since 2011, helping design and facilitate customized transformational retreats. TranceBreakers is separate. It is his own independent practice and body of work.
About twenty years in television news, as a reporter, producer, executive producer and news director. He left after a breathwork session in Sedona in 2001. For a while afterward he was lost, and worked in a catering business while he figured out what came next. He says that period taught him that purpose is a theme rather than a job. The theme had never left. Only the form had changed.
In one line
That is the whole mission. Everything else is method.