Holistic Life Coach, NLP Master Practitioner
and Hypnotist in Davao: Michiel Paulus
For over 25 years, I have been fascinated by the human mind’s incredible power to transform. My journey began not in a classroom, but in a school hallway, facing a challenge that would define my life’s work. I am an internationally certified NLP Post Master Practitioner and NLP Life Coach, and my passion is empowering individuals in Davao and beyond to break through their limitations and unlock a life of purpose, clarity, and contentment.
I am a Life Coach. My work is focused on the present and future, providing you with practical tools and strategies for personal growth and goal achievement. I am not a therapist and do not provide psychological or medical treatment for mental health disorders.
What Can a Life Coach Help You With?
What Can a Life Coach Help You With? The greatest gift you can give to yourself and those around you is committing to your own growth and desire. Decide to focus on where you want to go, “your toward” or outcome is the first big step you will take to healing and growth.
This will help you escape from where you’re coming from or where you are now. This is called “your away from”. Without a goal or outcome nothing will change. To do so, I provide practical guidance and proven techniques to help you navigate life’s challenges in the following areas below. Together with your life coach we will always start with the question “What do you want”, “What do you desire”. Knowing truly what you want might be already half of the coaching.
Overcoming Stress & Anxiety
When external pressures and internal turmoil create a cycle of stress, it can feel impossible to break free. I provide tools to help you identify the root causes, restore your inner balance, and build resilience so you can face life with calm and confidence.
Healing Relationship Issues
Healthy relationships are built on trust, respect, and understanding. When conflict, distrust, or communication breakdowns occur, I can help you rebuild a stronger foundation, improve your connection with others, and develop the skills for more nourishing relationships.
Releasing Emotional Pain
Our minds can cling to past hurts, creating emotional pain that holds us back. Using powerful methods, with me, as your life coach, we can reprocess these memories, neutralize their negative charge, and free you from the weight of past traumas, allowing you to move forward.
Mastering Your Time & Focus
Feel overwhelmed and unproductive? Effective time management is more than a schedule—it’s about aligning your daily actions with your core goals. A mental coach help you create strategies to prioritize, reduce stress, and stay motivated and on track.
Silencing Negative Thoughts
In a world saturated with negativity, it’s easy for your inner critic to take over. Your life coach will give you the mental tools to filter out this noise, reframe unhelpful thought patterns, and cultivate a more positive and empowering inner dialogue.
Managing Anger Constructively
Anger is a natural emotion, but uncontrolled, it can be destructive. Learn to identify your unique triggers, understand the message behind the anger, and develop healthy ways to express it, leading to better communication and less regret.
Filling Emptiness
& Loneliness
Feeling disconnected or empty, even when surrounded by people, is a common modern struggle. We will work together to explore the sources of these feelings and help you build a stronger sense of self and connection to the world around you.
Conquering Fears & Phobias
Whether it’s a fear of heights, social anxiety, or a specific phobia, these limitations can shrink your world. Using fast-acting techniques like NLP, we can target and neutralize these fears at their source, often in just a few sessions.
Restoring Restful, Rejuvenating Sleep
When stress and a racing mind follow you to bed, it can feel impossible to get the deep, restorative sleep your body and mind desperately need. We will work on quality sleep, the foundation of your energy, mood, and overall well-being.
Personal Growth
Ready to reach your highest potential? I act as a strategic partner to help you gain crystal-clear self-awareness, set meaningful goals, develop new skills, and overcome the internal obstacles that stand between you and the life you want to live.
Unhealthy lifestyle
In a world of constant social pressure and unrealistic ideals, our relationship with food can become a source of struggle rather than nourishment. These patterns can deeply affect both your physical vitality and mental peace. With life coaching you can start to build up a more healthy life.
Path of Grief and Loss
The loss of someone close can leave you feeling as if the world has shifted beneath your feet. Grief is a deeply personal journey. While honoring the profound depth of your loss, I can offer guidance to help you process the complex emotions.
My Approach: Your Path to Transformation
Me, as a life coach, I am dedicated to providing personalized, one-on-one support to help you navigate life’s difficulties and develop the skills to not just cope, but to thrive. My approach is holistic, working with the four key aspects of your being: Body, Mind, Emotions, and Energy.
The Moment That Changed Everything:
My First NLP Experience
I still remember the moment I knew I had to learn Neuro-Linguistic Programming.
In 1995, I was working as a music teacher at a school with a vice-principal named Menno Abbas. Everyone was afraid of him. I saw many colleagues leaving his office in tears. He was a master manipulator, in fact a very rude person and like many others, his face would follow me home, playing over and over in my mind.
This was before the internet, so I went to the local library and found a book on NLP. The concepts seemed too good to be true—these “instant interventions.” But I decided to try one called Sub-modalities.
This technique involves changing how you see a memory with your “inner eye.” Is it a movie or a still picture? Is it in color or black and white? Is it close or far away? All these visual sub-modalities define how you experience a memory.
I tried it on my memory of Menno. I froze the picture, turned it to black and white, and mentally moved it so far away that I could barely see it. With a mental “click,” I locked it in place. Later that day, I realized something profound: He was gone from my mind. The mental loop had stopped. He was no longer following me.
That was the moment I enrolled at the institute where I completed my:
- NLP Practitioner
- NLP Master Practitioner
- NLP Post Master Practitioner
- NLP Life Coach Certification
- Ericksonian Hypnosis Certification
This journey not only equipped me to help others but fundamentally transformed me. I became a calmer, more patient person, a better listener, and a more effective communicator, all qualities a good life coach needs. Most importantly, it gave me a profound sense of purpose: to use these powerful tools to facilitate real transformation in the lifes of others.
Free Guided Meditation
Experience the power of guided mind work. These free samples from my other website, Mind Shifting Audio, can be your first step toward calm and clarity.
- [Link] A 5-Minute Breathing Meditation for Instant Calm
- [Link] A 10-Minute Guided Session for Mental Focus
- [Link] A Short Visualization for Releasing Anxiety
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between a Life Coach and a therapist?
A therapist often focuses on diagnosing and treating mental health disorders, exploring the past to heal deep psychological wounds. As a Life Coach, I am future-oriented. Therapist is a protected and licensed title.
I provide practical tools, strategies, and motivation to help you set and achieve personal and professional goals, manage life’s challenges, and unlock your potential. I am not a licensed therapist.
How can NLP help me?
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) provides a “user’s manual for your brain.” It offers powerful techniques to change unhelpful thought patterns, overcome phobias and fears, break bad habits, and reprogram the way you respond to challenges. My story with the vice-principal is a direct example of how quickly an NLP technique can shift your experience.
How many sessions will I need?
This varies depending on your individual goals and challenges. Some issues, like specific phobias, can see significant improvement in just 1-2 sessions. For more complex goals like personal transformation or career growth, we may develop a longer-term plan. We will discuss this during your initial consultation.
Do you offer online sessions?
Yes! I offer flexible online life coaching sessions via Zoom or Messenger, making it easy to work with me no matter where you are in the Philippines or the world.
Ready to Begin Your Transformation?
If you have any questions or are ready to book your first private session, don’t hesitate to reach out. Let’s start a conversation about how we can achieve your goals together. Go here to my contact page.
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My Certifications
NLP Practitioner
Doing the Practitioner Training was the beginning of the life I was living until then.
For the first time in my life I was not the victim anymore of the circumstances around me.
NLP teaches how to be responsible for your emotions and inner experiences, as well the bad ones, as also the good ones. During the Practitioner You are provided with a large set of tools. Some of these tools are described on nlpdavao.com
I learned what were my limiting beliefs and succeeded to change them into supporting beliefs, that released all possibilities I have within me.
These are the tools I will use and teach you during our life coach sessions.
NLP Master Practitioner
This is the second year of the complete NLP training program. A great opportunity to deepen and expand your skills. This training provided me a very complete insight into every form of functioning of myself and others. I discovered the coherence of the various NLP options with which I can acquire “mastery” over myself. Like working with:
Beliefs & Criteria. During the Master you will learn which criteria & beliefs underlie your character and behavior.
Interventions with Submodalities. The internal representation system is composed of 5 modalities; images, sounds, touch, smell and taste. You will learn how to use them.
Post Master and NLP Coach
During the NLP Post Master Practitioner/Life Coach, I learned to use all NLP skills from the Practitioner and Master Practitioner as an integrated system.
The Post Master opened my eyes for all kind of systemic thinking.
I discovered that everything functions in a coherent whole. In other words, changing a small part in the system, will influence all other parts, the balance will be distorted.
A family is a system consisting of several generations in the past. A traumatic event three generations ago can still burdened a present child with shame, guilt for something they even don’t know about.
Systems the post master covers are:
- Holism
- Family Systems / Constellations
- Spiral Dynamics – Clare W. Graves
- Integral Psychology – Ken Wilber
NLP Trainer
Trainers Training
Ericksonian Hypnosis
Ericksonian hypnosis is a permissive, indirect style of hypnotherapy developed by Milton Erickson that uses metaphor, storytelling, and other indirect suggestions to facilitate change. Unlike the direct, authoritative approach of traditional hypnosis, it works with the individual’s unconscious mind, often bypassing conscious resistance by embedding suggestions within stories or seemingly casual remarks. This method is highly individualized, focusing on a client’s unique resources and natural processes to solve problems.
Master Hypnotist Silva
The term “master hypnotist” refers to the high level of skill individuals can achieve using mind development techniques or their separate professional qualifications in the field of hypnosis and NLP.
The Silva hypnosis training teaches the direct, more traditional way of hypnosis. Which can be vocal, with a script, counting backwards.
Also more direct, physical methods are used, like stage hypnotists use.
The most direct is the Witch Handshake.
National Guild of Hypnotist
The National Guild of Hypnotists (NGH) is the world’s largest and oldest professional organization for hypnotherapists and hypnotists, founded in 1951. It is a non-profit educational corporation that provides certification, training, and resources for its members, who are located across the globe. The NGH offers a Code of Ethics and Practice, and its members include doctors, psychologists, and other individuals who have completed NGH-approved training.