About Jesslyn - The Zen Queen

CCHt, NLP Practitioner

Certified Verbatim Reporter (CVR)
Founder of The Zen Queen

Jesslyn Shani is a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, NLP practitioner, speaker, and creator of The Zen Queen. For more than 15 years, she has helped individuals quiet mental chatter, overcome internal blocks, manage performance anxiety, and build greater confidence, focus, and resilience.

Today, Jesslyn brings that experience into the world of court reporting, a profession she came to understand from the inside through her own journey into voice writing and court reporting. She quickly recognized that becoming a successful reporter requires far more than learning theory and building speed—it also requires the ability to perform under pressure, recover from setbacks, trust your skills, and stay mentally steady when the stakes feel high.

That realization led to Zen Steno, an extension of The Zen Queen created specifically for court reporting students and professionals. Jesslyn provides mentoring and mindset support for students navigating school, speed-building, certification exams, and the transition from student to working reporter. She also works with reporters who want support managing stress, confidence, performance anxiety, and the demands of the profession.

Jesslyn is the creator of the Zen Steno Court Reporting Student Toolkit, a practical resource designed to help students reduce overwhelm, strengthen their mindset, and develop habits that support progress through school and certification. Her work with court reporters also incorporates many of the techniques she has used throughout her career, including hypnosis, NLP, visualization, relaxation, and performance-focused mindset work. Your existing materials already describe this approach as helping court reporting students with performance anxiety, concentration, memory retention, and staying calm under pressure. 

After more than 15 years in private practice, Jesslyn has closed her general one-on-one hypnotherapy practice for the time being as she focuses on her work in court reporting and the court reporting community. She continues to welcome court reporting students and professionals for mentoring, mindset coaching, and specialized hypnotherapy supportrelated to their education, certification, and professional performance.

Through The Zen Queen, Zen Steno, and The Zen Steno Podcast, Jesslyn's mission remains much the same as it has always been: helping people move through fear, trust themselves, and perform at their best when it matters most.