About Ajamu

 Ajamu James Ayinde, B.C.H. is a Board Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist with the International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association (IMDHA) and a Certified Medical Hypnotherapist with advanced training in pain management, childbirth preparation, and catastrophic illnesses.  He has been certified in Medical Hypnosis by Bruce Kaloski, Ph.D., Patricia Scott, Ph.D. and is a certified Trainer of Melissa Roth, renowned Medical Hypnosis pioneer. He is a Master Mental Skills Coach and Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming through the American Board of NLP.  He is a Transpersonal Hypnotherapy Trainer through the National Association of Transpersonal Hypnotherapists (NATH) and he completed his training in 1998 with the late Dr. Allen Chips, Executive Director of the NATH.  

He was the Mental Skills Coach for the Vassar College Fencing team for two seasons.       

 He specializes in sports and performing arts enhancement, hypnotic childbirth, and empowering people of color. 

Ajamu has provided hypnotic support to clients in thirty states and thirteen countries via Skype and Zoom. His work has been featured in local and national newspapers, magazines, internet radio, and cable television. He was the subject of a documentary film by History on Video which showcased African Americans in the field of holistic medicine.

Ajamu is the recipient of three awards in hypnotherapy: 

2004 International Association of Counselors and Therapists (IACT) Therapist of the Year (cancer)

                        2012 NATH Outstanding Transpersonal Contribution (sports)

2017 NATH Most Unique Contribution (childbirth)

Ajamu Ayinde was born and raised in the South Bronx,

surrounded by poverty, crime, and hopelessness. His mother and father read Dr. William Kroger's book, Childbirth with Hypnosis in 1968 and his mother gave birth to Ajamu without even an aspirin.  

 In early 1973, his mother completed the Silva Mind Control program

and used what she learned daily with her children to program them for success.

In 1982, Ajamu learned self-hypnosis using the late Dick

Sutphen’s mail order hypnosis cassette tapes. Hypnosis saved his life. It helped him

become a gentleman and a scholar and avoid gangs, guns, and

prison. His positive, focused state of mind helped him to earn

full scholarships to boarding school and later to a competitive college where he majored in Asian Studies and excelled in theatre arts, dance, and martial arts.  

 Since 2000 he has traveled across the US and to Canada and England to train physicians, nurses and other health professionals in various aspects of hypnotherapy. His informative presentations have been offered at SUNY New Paltz, Bard College, Health Alliance of the Hudson Valley-(Broadway campus and Mary’s Ave. campus), St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital, Morehouse School of Medicine, Orange County Dept. of Health and the Dutchess County Dental Society. 

Ajamu offers classes in: Basic Hypnosis, Sports Hypnosis and Self-Hypnosis.