About Mark Bancroft, MA, CHT
For more than 32 years, I have had the privilege of helping people navigate periods of change, challenge, healing, and personal growth. My work is based on a simple but deeply held understanding: each person has inner resources that can help them respond to life with greater awareness, resilience, compassion, and choice. Sometimes we remain connected to those resources. At other times—particularly during periods of stress, illness, loss, uncertainty, or long-standing emotional struggle—we can lose touch with them. Much of my work is about helping people find their way back.
I offer an integrative approach that draws from hypnotherapy, life coaching, spiritual counseling, meditation, nervous-system regulation, mind-body practices, and more than three decades of experience working directly with clients. Rather than fitting people into a particular method or philosophy, I begin with the individual: who you are, what you are experiencing, what you hope to change, and what kind of support would be most helpful.
My Approach
I believe meaningful change is most likely to occur in an atmosphere of respect, compassion, curiosity, and genuine human connection. People do not come to me as problems that need to be fixed. They come as whole people who may be struggling with a particular part of life, carrying an old pattern that no longer serves them, facing circumstances they did not choose, or simply sensing that something within them is ready to grow or change. My role is to provide a supportive space in which we can understand what is happening, identify the resources available to you, and help you move toward greater balance, clarity, and well-being.
Depending upon your needs, our work may include hypnotherapy, guided imagery, coaching, meditation, spiritual exploration, nervous-system regulation, mind-body approaches, EFT, or other complementary methods. No two people are exactly alike, and I do not believe their sessions should be either. I take time and care to individually prepare each session rather than rely upon generic hypnosis scripts or predetermined formulas.
More Than Three Decades of Experience
Since beginning this work professionally in the early 1990s, I have conducted more than 25,000 private and group sessions with people from a remarkably wide range of backgrounds and life circumstances. Over the years, I have worked with people seeking help with stress and anxiety, unwanted habits, weight management, chronic pain, health-related concerns, relationships, confidence, motivation, life transitions, grief, spiritual awakenings, career direction, and many other areas of personal change.
People often come to me during one of the most difficult periods of their lives. Others simply want help changing a stubborn habit, making an important decision, understanding themselves more deeply, or moving toward a goal. That diversity has been one of the greatest teachers of my professional life. It has taught me that there is rarely one method that is right for everyone. It has also deepened my respect for the individuality of every person's life story and reinforced my belief that effective support begins by meeting someone where they actually are.
The Person Behind the Practice
What continues to make this work meaningful to me is the opportunity to sit with another human being at a point when something in their life is asking for attention. Sometimes that means helping someone find relief from a pattern that has followed them for years. Sometimes it means supporting a person through uncertainty, illness, loss, or transition. Sometimes it is helping someone reconnect with confidence, direction, meaning, or a deeper relationship with themselves.
I have always been interested in the intersection between psychology, consciousness, spirituality, the body, and the human capacity for change. That curiosity eventually became both my academic path and my life's work. My graduate studies in consciousness and transformative studies allowed me to explore psychology, consciousness, spirituality, mind-body approaches, systems thinking, philosophy, and Eastern and Western contemplative traditions within an interdisciplinary academic setting. Just as important has been what more than three decades of sitting with clients has taught me about being human. I have come to value gentleness more than force, curiosity more than judgment, and sustainable change more than trying to push ourselves into becoming someone we think we are supposed to be. My intention is not to impose my beliefs or worldview upon anyone. People come from many different philosophical, psychological, religious, and spiritual backgrounds. I respect that diversity and work within each person's beliefs and comfort level.
Education, Training & Professional Background
Master of Arts — Consciousness and Transformative Studies
John F. Kennedy University, Pleasant Hill, California
Formerly titled Interdisciplinary Consciousness Studies
Bachelor of Science — Business Management
San Diego State University, San Diego, California
Graduate — California Institute of the Healing Arts & Sciences
Sacramento, California
Certified Hypnotherapist — CHT #394-285
American Council of Hypnotist Examiners
Co-founder — Alternative Solutions Hypnotherapy Services
Sacramento, California, 1994–1996
Professional Practice
More than 32 years of experience in hypnotherapy, holistic health, personal development, spiritual growth, and complementary approaches to well-being.
Author and Publisher
Creator of 40 Holistic Hypnotherapy audio programs.
A Continuing Commitment
When I began this work professionally in the early 1990s, I made a commitment to approach it with integrity and with genuine respect for the people who trusted me enough to share important parts of their lives with me. That commitment remains at the center of my practice today. My approach has naturally evolved over more than three decades as I have continued to study, learn, work with clients, and deepen my own understanding of what supports meaningful change. I expect it will continue to evolve. What has remained consistent is my desire to offer people a place where they can feel respected, understood, and supported while discovering what is possible for them. If you are considering working with me and would like to learn more, you are welcome to schedule a complementary 20-minute consultation.
[Mark's personal hobbies and interests include travel, photography, videography, music, nature, meditation, writing, reading, cardio and strength training, and taking care of animals.]
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