Kathryn Rossi, PhD

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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.

Ernest Rossi, PhD

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Teresa Robles, MA, PhD

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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.

Michele Ritterman, PhD

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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, PhD

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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, PhD

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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 Parsons-Fein, LCSW, BCD, DAHB

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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:

• President Emerita of the Manhattan Society of Clinical Hypnosis (MANSCH), the Manhattan component of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis (ASCH)
• President Emerita of the New York Milton H. Erickson Society for Psychotherapy and Hypnosis, of which she was co-founder in 1981 and Director of its Training Program 1991-1997.
• Diplomate of the American Hypnosis Board for Clinical Social Work and President Emerita of that organization
• Diplomate of Clinical Social Work, National Association of Social Workers
• Member of The New York State Society for Clinical Social Work
• Diplomate of The American Board of Examiners in Clinical Social Work
• Fellow and Consultant of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, serving as a Board of Governors representative from March 2006 to March 2015 and on its Executive Committee in March 2015
• Member of the Society for Clinical & Experimental Hypnosis, the International
• Society of Hypnosis and the Swedish Society of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis

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 Oster, PsyD

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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.

Rafael Nunez, MA

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RAFAEL NÚÑEZ: Industrial Relations BS; Clinical Psychology BA; Master of Arts in Family Therapy; Training in Ericksonian Hypnotherapy; Co-Director of the Milton H. Erickson Institute of Mexico City; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas. Co-Director Center for Superior Studies of Clinical Hypnosis; Co-Academic Chair for the Post-graduate program in Ericksonian Hypnotherapy, the University Extension of UNAM (The National Autonomous University of Mexico), FES Iztacala; Secretary of the Mexican Society of Hypnosis.

Michael Munion, MA

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Michael Munion has been practicing psychotherapy in Arizona for 40 years. He is a veteran of the publicly funded behavioral health system, and has been affiliated with the Milton Erickson Foundation since 1980. He has co-authored two books with Jeffrey Zeig and has lectured nationally and internationally on Ericksonian approaches to psychotherapy. Munion has also worked extensively with family violence, co-occurring substance/mental health disorder, integrated primary & behavioral health care, and pain management.