Atlanta Coaching & Hypnotherapy Associates

Our Story Atlanta Coaching & Hypnotherapy Associates (ACHA) is a premier life coaching, self-improvement, and hypnotherapy practice based in Atlanta, Georgia, led by Dr. David A. Wright, a board-certified hypnotherapist and NLP practitioner holding credentials in medicine, business, and health services administration. The practice operates under a holistic, naturopathic, and integrative philosophy, combining cognitive, behavioral, psychoanalytic, and psychodynamic methods to help clients move past life’s obstacles and achieve permanent personal and professional growth. Drawing on over a decade of consultation experience in forensic psychiatry, addiction medicine, and neurology, ACHA serves individuals, couples, groups, and organizations across the Greater Atlanta area. The practice reports a success rate exceeding 95% for clients who fully complete an individualized, tailored, custom-designed holistic therapy and coaching plan. ACHA has been featured in Psychology Today, The Atlantan Magazine, Modern Luxury Medicine + Doctors, WebMD, and numerous other media outlets. Programs & Trainings 🎓 Life Coaching & Life Direction — Personalized coaching to activate goals, desires, objectives, and long-term life plans through cognitive and holistic strategies. 🎓 Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy — Board-certified sessions grounded in Freudian and Ericksonian principles to eliminate mental blockages and emotional baggage. 🎓 Mental Health Coaching — Alternative mental health support addressing depression, grief, sadness, anxiety, ADHD, and insomnia without medications or psychotropic substances. 🎓 Health & Wellness Coaching — Integrated health coaching covering nutritional coaching, dietary coaching, weight loss, lifestyle modification, chronic disease management, and exercise wellness. 🎓 Career Coaching & Career Direction — Guidance for career transitions, professional realignment, occupational goal achievement, and vocational strategy. 🎓 Academic Coaching — Learning strategies, study skills, test-taking and standardized testing strategies, plus ADHD, attention, focus, and concentration support for students. 🎓 Business Coaching — Strategic support for entrepreneurs and business owners spanning creation, growth, administration, and management. 🎓 Small Business Incubator Program — End-to-end business activation and incubation covering creation, growth, marketing, advertising, strategy, planning, and management. 🎓 Performance Coaching — Foundational performance improvement coaching for personal and professional excellence. 🎓 Diet, Nutrition & Weight Loss Coaching — Cognitive-behavioral and psychological approaches to sustainable weight management and dietary change. 🎓 Financial Coaching — Coaching focused on financial behaviors, planning, and money management strategies. 🎓 Spiritual Coaching — Guidance for spiritual growth and integration within a holistic life framework. 🎓 Group Coaching — Structured group sessions for collective growth, shared accountability, and team development. 🎓 Anger Management — Targeted behavioral coaching to manage anger responses, emotional regulation, and conflict patterns. 🎓 Vocational Coaching — Direction and strategy for vocational training, trades, and hands-on career pathing. 🎓 Professional Coaching — Advanced coaching for established professionals seeking elevation, refinement, and peak performance. 🎓 Mental Massage Hypnosis — A specialized hypnotic technique designed for deep mental relaxation, subconscious reset, and cognitive clarity. 🎓 Life Advice 360™ — A comprehensive advisory framework covering multiple life domains for integrated decision-making and balanced living. 🎓 SoHo Life Program — A luxury lifestyle and apparel brand initiative centered on growth, transformation, positive self-expression, and social impact under the "Wear a Higher You™" concept. Specialties 🎯 Holistic mental health and alternative psychiatry without pharmacologic or psychotropic medications 🎯 Stress, anxiety, worry, overwhelm, and emotional exhaustion management 🎯 Depression, sadness, emotional withdrawal, and grief support 🎯 Sleep disorders, insomnia, hypersomnia, and bedtime mind-racing resolution 🎯 ADHD, attention deficits, focus, and concentration improvement 🎯 Imposter syndrome, self-esteem, self-confidence, and self-worth restoration 🎯 Relationship compatibility, emotional withdrawal, conflicting values, and commitment counseling 🎯 Small business incubation, entrepreneurial development, and business administration 🎯 Academic achievement, learning strategies, and standardized test performance 🎯 Weight loss, nutritional transformation, and chronic disease lifestyle management Methods & Approach ACHA employs a highly customized, whole-person methodology that blends cognitive-behavioral techniques with holistic, naturopathic, and integrative frameworks. The practice utilizes board-certified hypnosis and hypnotherapy grounded in Freudian and Ericksonian traditions, alongside Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Time Line Therapy®, and meditative practices. All interventions are non-pharmacologic and non-psychotropic, emphasizing psychoanalytic and psychodynamic exploration to uncover root causes rather than treat surface symptoms. The pedagogical style is accountability-based: clients receive individualized assessments, tailored treatment plans, structured homework, and continuous follow-through to ensure permanent transformation rather than temporary relief. Who It's For The practice serves adolescents, young adults, and adults from all backgrounds, ages, ethnicities, and vocations. It is especially relevant for overstressed business owners and professionals facing burnout, individuals undergoing career change, students requiring academic and test-taking support, couples navigating relationship challenges, and anyone managing chronic cognitive or emotional stressors. ACHA welcomes clients regardless of current mental health status who are committed to changing their outcomes, results, and returns through intentional, structured self-development. Facilities & Practical Info Sessions are delivered across two Atlanta-area offices and remotely. The Buckhead office is located at 3495 Piedmont Rd NE, Building 11, Suite 205, and the Sandy Springs/Roswell office is at 1010 Huntcliff, Ste 1270. Both in-person and remote formats are available, with flexible scheduling and an initial phone consultation offered at no charge. The practice uses technologically advanced tools and modern methodologies to support individualized session plans. Location Address: 3495 Piedmont Rd NE, Building 11, Suite 205, Atlanta, GA 30305, United States; secondary office at 1010 Huntcliff, Ste 1270, Atlanta, GA 30350 Hours: See website for schedule The "+" ✅ Board-certified practitioner credentials in hypnotherapy, NLP, and Time Line Therapy® ✅ Over 95% documented success rate for clients who complete customized holistic plans ✅ Entirely non-pharmacologic, holistic, and root-cause-focused methodology ✅ Free initial phone consultation and tailored, accountability-driven coaching plans with homework and structured follow-through