Marilyn Salerno, Plastic Surgery of the Mind, www.plasticsurgeryofthemind.com, ITEX in San Diego. Marilyn is a Certified Master Practitioner of Hypnotherapy and a graduate of the American Pacific College in Hawaii. She has certificates as a Practitioner of Hypnotherapy, Master Practitioner of Hypnotherapy, NLP, Time Line Therapy, Advanced Hypnotherapy and Clinical Hypnotherapy. Her classroom instruction was with Dr. Matthew B. James, MA, PhD, Certified Master NLP trainer. She follows the Master Association for Integrative Psychology Training Standards guidelines. Marilyn Portrait Her sessions usually begin with a detailed discussion about the issue(s) at hand. After the goals and approaches to be used have been determined, the actual hypnosis usually lasts about a half-hour of the one-and-a-half-hour session. This process may vary, depending on the needs of the situation, but most of most the time the goals of the session can be achieved in this manner. Some clients need only one session, and some need more. Occasionally, when major life-changing issues are involved, we schedule a longer session.