Cheryl Elman is the President and Primary Marketing Force of the Dave Elman Hypnosis Institute, committed to Leading Communities Through Hypnosis Education and Personal Empowerment Hypnosis using the Dave Elman Method. In addition, she is a highly respected Certified  Hypnotist, International Speaker and Certified Master Trainer, experienced in both helping Clients overcome their challenges through Hypnosis as well as teaching Instructors the latest in Rapid Induction Methods and Certifications. 

Cheryl began her teaching career as a high school instructor, spending over 30 years in the field of education. This experience has made her uniquely equipped to become a hypnosis trainer and counselor to students all around the world. She has also worked as a Vice President, Trainer and Manager of two companies in New York City for 14 years. Whether she is working with a client during a one-on-one Hypnosis session or teaching a class full of future Hypnotists, she brings humour, energy and creativity to every situation.

• Certified Consulting Hypnotist· 
• President and Marketing Director of DEHI (Dave Elman Hypnosis Institute)  
• Goulding SleepTalk® for Children Consultant and International Trainer       
• 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award from HypnoseKongress, Zurich        
• 2014 Educator of the Year Award from Mid-America Hypnosis Conference.
• ICBCH Hypnotist of the Year
• BS in Elementary Ed and Special Education K-12 from Syracuse University
• Certified Master Trainer (IACT) International Association of Counselors and Therapists
• DEHI Certified Hypnosis School Instructor for the International Medical and Dental Hypnosis Association (IMDHA)
• Lifetime Honorary Member of the Australian Society of Clinical Hypnosis
• Lifetime Honorary Member of the New Zealand Hypnosis Association
• Lifetime Honorary Member of the Asociatia Romana De Hipnoza
• Co-Producer of DEHI Training Products
• Henderson Optimist Club External VP
• Henderson Vance Chamber of Commerce Ambassador
• SOFA/TV (Brazil) Ambassador:   Virtual Conferences
• Virtual Gastric Band Practitioner

Dave Elman was born David Kopelman in Park River, North Dakota on May 6th, 1900. Growing up in Fargo, North Dakota, Dave became interested in hypnosis at a young age after witnessing its powerful effects on his ailing father. Stricken ill with cancer, Dave’s father Jake was able to play with his children again after a hypnosis pain reduction session by a hypnotist. That experience left Dave with a lifelong fascination with the art of hypnosis and it’s use for medical and health issues. He spent his teens learning as much about hypnotism as he possibly could, and he quickly became able to induce trances in his friends and neighbors.

In 1922, Dave began to perform in the Vaudeville circuit as a comedian, musician and Stage Hypnotist, and was known as “The World’s Youngest and Fastest Hypnotist”. Dave specialized in rapid hypnosis, and the speed of his inductions astounded audiences around the country, as he was often able to achieve a full trance in less than a minute. About this time he began to use Dave Elman as his stage name in order to fit his name on marquees and advertising when he performed. His name was legally changed many years later.

Over the next two decades, Dave became involved in the rapidly booming radio industry, first as a writer, producer, director and performer for CBS and later as creator and host of the enormously popular Hobby Lobby radio show which was on the air for well over a decade. He also created and hosted the radio program “War Bond Auction” (later renamed “Victory Auction”) as part of the War Effort during the Second World War. 

In 1949, he demonstrated his rapid induction methods and knowledge of pain control to a group of physicians who approached him after his hypnosis stage show. As a result, he was asked to provide a course on hypnosis to physicians and dentists. He insisted that he not practice medicine but only teach the techniques of hypnosis. His students often researched further medical applications and these collaborations were added to the course. The Dave Elman Course in Medical Hypnosis was taught to thousands of physicians and dentists.  In 1964, he wrote the widely respected book “Findings in Hypnosis”, which was later republished as HYPNOTHERAPY. Both the book and the series of audio recordings made in the classrooms of his courses are now highly regarded as classics in the field of Medical Hypnosis