Dr. Ruelas is the Medical Director for the Ericksonian Integrative Medical Institute, Board Member for the AOA National Academy of Addiction Medicine, Clinical & Neuropsychologist Child Psychoanalyst and Family Medicine Physician. His early mentors were Dr. Erickson and Gregory Bateson. His most recent work continues to look at the brain, body and spiritual lives as extensions of each other.
Kathryn Rossi, PhD, has edited or co-authored 20 books in the field of psychotherapy including co-editing 16 volumes of The Collected Works of Milton H. Erickson. She is passionate about bringing yoga into the field of psychotherapy and has taught innovative psychotherapy internationally for more than 30 years.
Teresa Robles, Mexican, MA in Anthropology, PhD in Clinical Psychology.
She has received: The Roerich Medal from the UN, the Life Time Achievement Award, by The MHE Foundation. The MHE Award from Emergences. The Janet Award to Clinical Excellence from the ISH.
She founded the Centro Ericksoniano de México.
More than ten books translated to different languages.
Dr. Michele Ritterman, is the Mother of the integration of hypnosis and family therapy. Among Dr. Erickson ’s beloved students, she originated the concept of the symptom as a trance state; developed a non-hierarachical, mutuallty dignifying therapy.; considers the applications of psychotherapeutic principles in the larger context of political and social reality ; originated the three-minute trance, and emphasizes that Reciprocity is the highest form of love. And love has everything to do with healing.
Wendel Ray is Spyker Eminent Scholar & Endowed Chair; Director of the Don Jackson Archive, Marriage & Family Therapy Program(s), University of Louisiana at Monroe. A Mental Research Institute (MRI) Senior Research Fellow & author of 11 books and 150+ papers in 25+ languages, Wendel travels widely teaching Systemic Therapy.
Maggie Phillips, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist. As the author of four books and numerous papers, chapters, and articles on trauma, dissociation, pain, ego-state therapy, hypnosis, and mind-body healing, she specializes in the treatment of traumatic stress, fragmentation, dissociation, and pain disorders. She has taught at major conferences and presented invited addresses and workshops on Energy Psychology, Ego-State Therapy, Somatic Experiencing, trauma, hypnosis, EMDR, and behavioral medicine, in the U.S., the UK, Canada, Europe, South Africa, Australia, Scandinavia, Hong Kong, China, Malaysia, and Japan. Her most recent best-selling books, Freedom From Pain (co-authored with Peter Levine) and Reversing Chronic Pain: A 10-Point All-Natural Program, were released in 2012 and 2007. Maggie has also released two e-books on Ego-State Therapy (co-authored with Claire Frederick, MD): Empowering the Self through Ego-State Therapy, and Ego-State Therapy in Mindbody Healing, which built on their foundational book, Healing the Divided Self (1995).
Jane A. Parsons-Fein, LCSW, BCD, DAHB, a graduate of Smith College and the Columbia School of Social Work, is President of the Parsons-Fein Training Institute for Psychotherapy and Hypnosis in New York City, which integrates the hypnotic approaches of Milton H. Erickson, M.D., Virginia Satir, and Moshe Feldenkrais.
She holds the following titles and positions:
She worked in the Department of Psychiatry of Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City for twelve years, has directed an ongoing training programs in Stockholm, Sweden from 1995 to 2004 and has remained a consultant and sponsor of the Center of Hypnosis and Psychotherapy (CHP) in Stockholm, Sweden. She co-directed a 112-hour training program in Boston with Kay Thompson, DDS from October 1994 to March 1995.
A member of The International Human Learning Resources Network and a past member of AVANTA. She has taught and presented in the United States and Europe for twenty-seven years. She is the author of “Loving in the Here and Now: Recreate Your Relationship and Bring Love Back Into Your Life”, a book about the hypnotic language of couples, published by Penguin Tarcher in 2004.
Marc I. Oster, PsyD is a Clinical Psychologist focusing on health and chronic illness. He is a Life Fellow and past-President of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis and a Fellow of the APA. He is a Diplomate and past-President of the American Board of Psychological Hypnosis and a recipient of the Milton H. Erickson Award for Scientific Excellence in Writing on Clinical Hypnosis.
Bill O’Hanlon, M.S., LMFT, has published 38 books and has given over 3,500 talks around the world. He was featured on Oprah with his book Do One Thing Different (HarperCollins/Morrow). He studied directly with Milton H. Erickson, M.D. and has written several books about Erickson’s work and hypnosis, including Taproots (W.W. Norton) and Solution-Oriented Hypnosis (W.W. Norton). Bill is now pursuing a career as a professional songwriter in Nashville, Tennessee.