Hypnosis is quite dangerous. Are you really going to turn your life over to a hypnotist? Let's face it, they get complete control of you, can get you to do about anything, never mind what they tell you... if you take along an observer to monitor things.. maybe...
NLP is not rocket science at all and it's quite effective. Get NLP for Dummies and learn it for yourself or find a practitioner near you. They are usually hypnotherapists btw, respected psychologists don't do NLP afaik, it's really an offshoot of hypnosis...