ABOUT  ME

My professional Life

I'm Jessie Santiago, a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, educator and consultant. I offer trauma-informed, consent-based hypnotherapy for helpers, healers, highly sensitive people, neurodivergent and intuitive folks: the ones who hold space for everyone else and rarely have anyone holding it for them.

Before hypnotherapy, I spent more than 20 years in the beauty industry as a hairstylist, educator, and salon owner. I taught at AVEDA and Paul Mitchell and eventually opened my own trauma-informed, LGBTQ+ centered salon. Somewhere along the way I realized I wasn't just doing hair. Clients came for a cut and stayed for the conversations, the release, the healing. Hairstylists are often the unofficial therapists, and two decades behind the chair taught me what no classroom could: people reveal their inner world when they feel safe, seen, and unhurried.

Eventually, listening wasn't enough. I wanted to help in a deeper and more lasting way, and clinical hypnotherapy gave me the rigorous training to do it in alignment with my values. Hypnosis works differently than talk therapy alone. It allows us to move past conscious resistance and work directly with the subconscious, where limiting beliefs and deep-rooted patterns actually live. That is where real shifts happen: gently, efficiently, and meaningfully. As The Subliminal Stylist, I now work as a stylist of the subconscious, blending evidence-based subconscious reprogramming with intuition, creativity, and care.

My practice is identity-affirming and justice-centered, honoring each person's full humanity. Whether we meet virtually or in my Long Beach studio, you will be welcomed into a space of radical belonging where we work on anxiety, burnout, confidence, sleep, and reconnecting with who you are underneath it all. I also work closely with therapists, physicians, and wellness practitioners whose clients are seeking hypnotherapy as a complement to ongoing care. Whoever you are, your healing matters. Follow the thread back to yourself.

My Personal Story

I was born in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, the youngest of two sisters, raised by a single mother who carried our culture with us through every move: the food, the music, the stories, the spirituality of our people. From a young age I was tuned in to things I couldn't explain. Even as a kid, I was tuned in to things I couldn't explain. When I was seven, I asked my mom if she remembered my boyfriend with the red Camaro. I had never had a boyfriend, and obviously no one I knew had that car. But I remembered him anyway. My family still laughs about it, but for me it was an early glimpse of an intuition that showed up long before I had words for it. Growing up queer and neurodivergent in a conservative southern town, I was bullied, misunderstood, and often felt like the odd one out, even in my own family. I was deeply sensitive, able to feel the emotions of everyone around me, and without support, that sensitivity sometimes overwhelmed me. For a long time I thought being too much was my flaw.

Now I understand it's my gift. My sensitivity, my intuition, my creativity, and my hunger for meaning were never problems. They were the raw materials of who I am. Today I'm a queer Puerto Rican woman, a healing artist, and someone who knows what it means to feel both broken and whole at the same time. I work with people like me: sensitive, neurodivergent, intuitive beings who need a reminder that they are not broken. They are becoming.

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