Jeffrey Zeig, PhD

Bio:

Jeffrey K. Zeig, PhD, is the Founder and Director of the Milton H. Erickson Foundation. He has edited, co-edited, authored or coauthored more than 20 books on psychotherapy that appear in fourteen foreign languages. Dr. Zeig is the architect of The Evolution of Psychotherapy Conferences, the Brief Therapy Conferences, the Couples Conferences, and the International Congresses on Ericksonian Approaches to Hypnosis and Psychotherapy. A psychologist and marriage and family therapist in private practice in Phoenix, Arizona, Dr. Zeig conducts workshops internationally (40 countries). He is president of Zeig, Tucker & Theisen, Inc., publishers in the behavioral sciences.

Handouts

• Phenomenology
• Phenomenology Graph
• ARE Methods

Sessions:

Thursday

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Reid Wilson, PhD

Bio:

REID WILSON, Ph.D., a licensed psychologist in Chapel Hill, NC, is author of Stopping the Noise in Your Head and Don’t Panic and co-author of Stop Obsessing!; Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents; and Playing with Anxiety. He is Founding Clinical Fellow of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America and Fellow of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.

Handouts

• OCD – Black and White
• OCD – Color

Sessions:

Thursday

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Bill Wade, PhD

Bio:

Bill Wade, PhD is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Houston, Texas and international trainer in the neuroscience of psychotherapy and hypnosis. He is the co-author of Brain Change Therapy: Clinical Interventions for Self Transformation, published by WW Norton in 2012 and The Worry Free Mind, published by Career Press in 2017. Bill has been a frequent speaker at a Buddhist Temple and is a student of meditation.

Sessions:

Thursday

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Bernhard Trenkle, Dipl.Psych., Dipl.Wi.-Ing.

Bio:

• President International Society of Hypnosis ISH.
• BOD Milton Erickson Foundation Phoenix since 1999.
• Director Milton Erickson Institute Rottweil Germany.
• Past President of Milton Erickson Gesellschaft M.E.G. (1996-2003).
• 1999 Lifetime Achievement Award of the Milton Erickson Foundation.
• 2012 Milton Erickson Award M.E.G.
• 2012 Pierre Janet Award for Clinical Excellence ISH (International Society of Hypnosis).
• 2016 Nezindlovu Award Milton Erickson Institute South Africa MEISA for advancing hypnosis on the African Continent.
• 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award of Chinese Hypnosis Association.
• 2018 John and Helen Watkins Award ISH Excellence in teaching.
• Hahandbook of Psychotherapy a bestselling joke book in Germany ( translated in English, Russian, Italian). Author or editor of more than 10 German language books.
• Editor of the German Editions of Collected Papers of Milton Erickson.
• Organizer of many congresses and workshops which have been attended by more than 40.000 people the last 40 years.

Sessions:

Thursday

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Albina M. Tamalonis, PsyD

Bio:

Albina M. Tamalonis, Psy.D, is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice treating 12 year olds to geriatric patients of all sexual orientations. Dr. Tamalonis also works with couples and families. She specializes in anxiety, depression, eating disorders and all the addictions. Dr. Tamalonis is an ASCH consultant. She lectures nationally and internationally. Her Ripple Effect approach to addiction and eating disorders is the culmination of over 25 years of experience in research, training and clinical experience using Ericksonian strategies and hypnosis. Dr. Tamalonis’ husband, Thomas, writes original music for the meditative MP3’s they produce together.

Susy Signer-Fischer, Lic. Phil. Psych

Bio:

Susy Signer-Fischer is a board certified (federal approved) psychologist and psychotherapist specialized in working with children, adolescents and adults.  She works at the Institute for Developmental and Personality Psychology at the University of Basel in Switzerland and also has private practices in Basel and Bern.  For ten years, she was director of the Family and Educational Counselling Centre in Basel, Switzerland. She is supervisor and trainer in psychotherapy, mainly in hypnotherapy, systemic, gestalt and behavioural psychotherapy for children, adolescents, adults, families and couples. She is the past-president and founding member of the Swiss Society of Clinical Hypnosis (GHypS).

Dan Short, PhD

Bio:

Dr. Dan Short is Director for the Phoenix Erickson Institute, former Editor for the Foundation Newsletter, and former Assistant Director at the Erickson Foundation. He is the author of Hope and Resiliency, co-written with Betty Alice Erickson and Roxanne Erickson-Klein. Dan teaches hypnosis at Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine, conducts consultation groups for local professionals, as well as serving as visiting faculty at institutes around the world.

Robert Schwarz, PsyD

Bio:

Robert Schwarz, PsyD, DCEP is a licensed psychologist who has been practicing for over 30 years. He is the Executive
Director of the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology (energypsych.org). He is author of Tools for Transforming Trauma. He is the co-instructor for ACEP’s online EFT course. Dr. Schwarz has organized over 25 conferences on treating trauma, Ericksonian Hypnosis and energy psychology.

Gunther Schmidt, MD

Bio:

Dr. med. M.S. (economics) Gunther Schmidt, Medical doctor- specialist in psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy, Medical director of sysTelios-clinic for psychosomatic health development (inpatient clinic) in 69483 Waldmichelbach-Siedelsbrunn, www.systelios.de , director of the Milton-Erickson-Institut Heidelberg. www.meihei.de

Founder of the hypnosystemic approach for competence-activation and solution development in therapy/ counseling/ coaching/ team-and organisational development.

Teaching and training expert in systemic therapy of the Helm Stierlin Institute for systemic therapy/counseling, teaching trainer and for 20 years vice-president oft he German Milton-Erickson-Society for clinical hypnosis (MEG), Co-founder and Senior Coach oft he German Association for Coaching (DBVC). International teaching and training activities.

Life Achievement Award 2011 of the German training field www.life-achievement-award.de , carrier of the award of the Milton-Erickson-Society of German (MEG-Preis 2014) http://www.meg-hypnose.de/ueber-uns/meg-preisverleihungen.html , carrier of the Coaching Award 2015 of the German Coaching Convention www.coaching-award.de and of the winwinno-price 2017 of the Association for mediation DACH e.V., of Germany, Austria and Switzerland www.mediation-dach.com

Latest books:

• Gunthard Weber, Gunther Schmidt, Fritz B. Simon (2005): Aufstellungsarbeit revisited- … nach Hellinger, Carl-Auer-Systeme-Verlag, Heidelberg
• Schmidt,G., Dollinger,A., Müller-Kalthoff,B. (2009): Gut beraten in der Krise: Konzepte und Werkzeuge für ganz alltägliche Ausnahmesituationen, Manager-Seminare-Verlag 
• Bohne,M., Ohler,M., Schmidt,G., Trenkle,B. (Hrsg.)(2016): Reden reicht nicht!?: Bifokal-multisensorische Interventionsstrategien für Therapie und Beratung, Carl-Auer-Systeme-Verlag, Heidelberg
• Klein,R., Schmidt,G. (2017): Alkoholabhängigkeit (Störungen systemisch behandeln), Carl-Auer-Systeme-Verlag, Heidelberg
• Schmidt, G. (2017): Liebesaffären zwischen Problem und Lösung- hypnosystemischee Konzepte für schwierige Kontexte, Carl-Auer-Systeme-Verlag, Heidelberg
• Schmidt, G. (2018): Einführung in die hypnosystemische Therapie und Beratung, Carl-Auer-Systeme-Verlag, Heidelberg

Sessions:

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Gary Ruelas, DO, PhD

Bio:

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.