{"id":41,"date":"2014-08-17T10:40:21","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T15:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linking-minds.com\/?page_id=41"},"modified":"2015-07-03T08:11:21","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T13:11:21","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/linking-minds.com\/?page_id=41","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/linking-minds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/lm-1-e1431633266627.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-83 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/linking-minds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/lm-1-e1431633266627.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a>My Qualifications:<\/h3>\n<p>One could say my training actually started back in 1976 when I became a staff member of a meditation group in the Berkshires for seven years, then actively involved in Zen for 15 years, then as a side interest while working as a professional architectural engineer in Massachusetts and Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>But my formal hypnosis training started after I retired from engineering in 2009. After studying different hypnotic styles in depth with many of the big names, my own style has settled in to an Ericksonian (&#8220;Naturalistic&#8221;) NLP and Metaphorical blend that can <em>help you access deep resources quickly<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I have worked with clients throughout the United States, and in France.<\/p>\n<p>My credentials, trainings, and main influences are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Certified Transpersonal Hypnotist &#8211; Transpersonal Hypnotherapy Institute of Colorado, with Anne Salisbury and Greg Meyerhoff<\/li>\n<li>NLP Master Practitioner, NeuroLinguistic Hypnotist &#8211; BennettStellar University with Michael Bennett and Sandra Vesterstein<\/li>\n<li>Advanced Metaphor Mastery (Clean Language) with Judy Rees<\/li>\n<li>Clean Language Coach with Angela Dunbar<\/li>\n<li>Ericksonian Hypnosis with Bill O\u2019Hanlon and Rob McNeilly (both of whom studied directly with Milton Erickson)<\/li>\n<li>strongly influenced by Cognitive Hypnotherapy by Trevor Sylvester<\/li>\n<li>currently studying Metaphors of Movement with Andrew Austin<\/li>\n<li>Certified Somatic Healing &#8211; Alchemical Hypnosis with David Quigley<\/li>\n<li>Certified Direct Hypnotist with Jeffrey Stevens<\/li>\n<li>Certified Simpson Protocol (Esdaile and beyond) with Tina Simpson and Ted Robinson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Member of the International Association of Coaches and Therapists (IACT)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Qualifications: One could say my training actually started back in 1976 when I became a staff member of a meditation group in the Berkshires for seven years, then actively involved in Zen for 15 years, then as a side interest while working as a professional architectural engineer in Massachusetts and Colorado. But my formal <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/linking-minds.com\/?page_id=41\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-41","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linking-minds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linking-minds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linking-minds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linking-minds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linking-minds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/linking-minds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"https:\/\/linking-minds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linking-minds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}