ICF International Coach Federation Certified Professional Coach Orange County CA Newport Beach Life Coach Coaching services. Irvine. APRIL BRASWELL Life Coaching & Hypnotherapy

Newport Beach Life Coach: Serving Orange County and Los Angeles

Orange County Cities Served from Newport Beach Offices: Newport Beach, Irvine, Huntington Beach, Tustin, Santa Ana, Orange, Fullerton, Yorba Linda, Brea and Los Angeles including Long Beach

Certified Life Coach Professionally Trained and Educated in Orange County and San Francisco Bay Area, and Las Vegas

April Braswell, CPC, is an ICF International Coach Federation approved Life Coaching trained Certified Master Life Coach with her Newport Beach Life Coach practice on Irvine Ave off of S. Bristol Street. April is certified by The Life Coach Institute of Orange County, based in Costa Mesa. In addition to her professional coaching training, April holds multiple professional certifications constituting over 300 hours in Hypnosis from IHF the International Hypnosis Federation and the Foundation for Inner Peace and Light in Marin County in the North Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Coaching since 2002 after her late husband passed, with Life Coaching being so popular but also unregulated so that any Psychic Medium or Astrologer can slap a “Life Coach” shingle up to describe their entertaining business, April determined it was time to pursue additional professional caliber coaching credentials approved by top-tier professional coaching bell wether, International Coach Federation.

April is an alumna of the top 10 Liberal Arts and largest all-women’s college, Smith College and Princeton Day School and has pursued business studies at CAL Berkeley and graduate studies at California Institute of Integral Studies and Golden Gate University in San Francisco.

Orange County CA Newport Beach IrvineLife Coach Coaching Grief Recovery Method Certification, Trained by Cofounder Russell Friedman April Braswell
Orange County Newport Beach Life Coach April Braswell with Grief Recovery Institute her trainer co-founder Russell Friedman.

Having experienced multiple deaths in a short period of time including her first husband, April turned to the Grief Recovery Institute and got certified in the The Grief Recovery Method, an approach to Grief, Death, and Loss focusing on the Emotions.

As featured in In Touch Weekly, CBS Radio, Wiley Publishers “Dating for Dummies” 3rd Edition, The Jewish Daily Forward (now The Forward), The Oakland Tribune, Detroit Free Press, Gatehouse Media, Kansas City Star, Woman’s World, The Boston Globe, Press of Atlantic City,The Telegraph Herald, and others. April is a multiple award winning Dating Expert, author, and columnist for Midlife Singles at DatingAdvice.com and most recently a regularly weekly featured guest on Dr. Gina Loudon’s Smart Life Show on The Money Biz Life Channel.

She has trained with internationally best-selling author and world-renowned Body Language expert, Kevin Hogan, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of Arkansas and author, Dr. Eric Knowles, Cognative Behavioral Therapist, Maxie Maultsby and best-selling Persuasion author, Dave Lakhani. Additionally, she has studied with gurus Mark Victor Hanson, Joel Bauer, and The Obvious Expert – Elsom Eldridge, Jr.

Having been widowed at a young age, April sought out the best grief and bereavement modality available, vetted many herself personally, and became certified in The Grief Recovery approach by the internationally renowned, The Grief Recovery Institute.

April is a sought after professional conference and seminar/workshop woman motivational speaker on all things Influence, Persuasion, Relationships, and Dating throughout California and Las Vegas.

Active in her local community, April presented a custom version of her Influence Impact workshop to the Jobseekers Club at WHW/M2W. And coaches some of the emerging leaders in Defy Ventures here throughout Southern California in Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego. April is proud to be an Active member of the Junior League of Orange County, CA.

junior league of orange county ca, professional and personal development of women

She and her fiance volunteer at Mitzvah Meals to help feed the OC’s hungry. Dedicated to serving, blessing, and enriching her LOCal community. #ShopLOCal

Our Values:

As good stewards of the Planet on which we reside and are part of, we are conscious of waste management seek to bless the Planet. Therefore we endeavor where we can both to minimize unbiodegradable waste and to bless by to collect to compost what would feed nourish and revitalize local soil.

So we don’t offer the Keurig single cups of coffee which create a lot of waste. Instead we are building up a collection of coffee cups for drinking and will have a drip style coffeepot in the office.

April Braswell Life Coaching & Hypnotherapy Location:

Enter and head right, circling fully around the back of the building. 116 is the very first suite around the back corner on the far side of the building. There is plenty of FREE parking. No Newport Beach valet service needed!

3400 Irvine Avenue
Ste 116
Office A
Newport Beach, CA 92660

Professional Honors:

#1 Hypnotherapist in Beach Cities

April Braswell Life Coaching & Hypnotherapy
Member and Trainer and Speaker International Hypnosis Federation


  • Number 1 Top Coach in the 10 Midlife Dating Coach awarded by DatingAdvice.com in 2014 and 2019.
  • Top 100 Blogs by Relationship Experts By 100BestDatingSites.org #2 Top 10 Senior Dating Experts as recognized by DatingAdvice.com.
  • #1 Senior Dating Expert to mature singles after 50 and 60+.
  • Top 10 Senior Dating Experts as recognized by DatingAdvice.com. #1 Senior Dating Expert to mature singles after 50 and 60+.
April’s Hypnotherapy, Coaching, and Human Behavior and Interpersonal Influence and Persuasion Education includes:
  • Bachelors of Arts, Liberal Arts, Smith College, Northampton, MA. 1986
  • Graduate Psychology, Somatics, and Personal Development studies, CIIS: California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA, 1993-1994.
  • Cognative Behavior Thinking (RBT) training from Dr. Maxie Maultsby, Sausalito, CA.
  • Certification in Transpersonal Hypnosis, The Foundation for Inner Peace & Light, Tiburon, CA. 1991
  • Certification in Past Life Regression Hypnosis, The Foundation for Inner Peace & Light, Tiburon, CA. 1992
  • Certification in Personal Mastery Coaching, At the Heart of Communication, Tiburon, CA 1993
  • Certification in Personal Growth Behavioral Studies, At the Heart of Communication, Tiburon, CA 1994
  • Certifications in Personal Dynamics, Levels I, II, and III, Learning as Leadership, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland, 1995 with Claire Nuer.
  • Influence and Persuasion: Recent Academic findings on Social Psychology and Human Behavioral Sciences, 50 hours CEU, Las Vegas, March 2007.
  • Influence and Persuasion: Recent Academic findings on Social Psychology and Human Behavioral Sciences, 50 hours CEU, Las Vegas, March 2008.
  • Influence and Persuasion: Recent Academic findings on Social Psychology and Human Behavioral Sciences, 50 hours CEU, Las Vegas, March 2009.
  • Influence and Persuasion: Recent Academic findings on Social Psychology and Human Behavioral Sciences, 50 hours CEU, Las Vegas, March 2010.
  • Life the Source Code, 50 hours CEU, Las Vegas, October 2010.
  • Certified Hypnotist, International Hypnosis Federation, The Desert Canyon Institute of Hypnosis, Las Vegas, NV, July 2010.
  • Certified Master Hypnotist, International Hypnosis Federation, Anaheim, CA, August 2011.
  • Registered Hypnotist, International Association of Clinical Hypnosis, Newport Beach, December 2011.
  • Certified Hypnotherapist, International Hypnosis Federation, Anaheim, CA, December 2011.
  • Certified Hypnosis Instructor, International Hypnosis Federation, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, October 2012.
  • Influence and Persuasion: Recent Academic findings on Social Psychology and Human Behavioral Sciences, 50 hours CEU, Las Vegas, March 2013.
  • Clinical Hypnotherapist, International Association of Clinical Hypnotherapy, Newport Beach, July 2013.
  • Influence and Persuasion: Recent Academic findings on Social Psychology and Human Behavioral Sciences, 50 hours CEU, Las Vegas, March 2014.
  • Certified Professional Coach: ICF approved Coach Certification Training from the Life Coach Institute of Orange County, April 2019.

Professional Memberships:

ICF – International Coach Federation

ICF – OC: International Coach Federation, Orange County Chapter

Holistic Chamber of Commerce – Newport Beach Chapter, Chapter Founder and President

IHF – International Hypnosis Federation, Certified Hypnotherapist, Trainer, and Conference Speaker