Stanley Krippner Ph.D.

Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., professor of psychology at Saybrook Graduate School, San Francisco, is a Fellow in three APA divisions, and former president of two divisions (30 and 32). Formerly, he was director of the Kent State University Child Study Center, Kent OH, and the Maimonides Medical Center Dream Research Laboratory, Brooklyn NY. He is co-author of Extraordinary Dreams (SUNY, 2002) and co-editor of Varieties of Anomalous Experience: Examining the Scientific Evidence (APA, 2000) and The Psychological Impact of War on Civilians: An International Perspective (Greenwood, 2002). Krippner has conducted workshops and seminars on dreams and/or hypnosis in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Cyprus, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Panama, the Philippines, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Venezuela, and at the last four congresses of the Interamerican Psychological Association. He is a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Indian Psychology and Revista Argentina de Psicologia Paranormal, and the advisory board for International School for Psychotherapy, Counseling, and Group Leadership (St. Petersburg) and the Czech Unitaria (Prague). He holds faculty appointments at the Universidade Holistica Internacional (Brasilia) and the Instituto de Medicina y Tecnologia Avanzada de la Conducta (Ciudad Juarez). He has given invited addresses for the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Russian Academy of Pedagogical Sciences, and the School for Diplomatic Studies, Montevideo, Uruguay. He is a Fellow of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, and has published cross-cultural studies on spiritual content in dreams.

Dr. Bill Webster

Dr. Bill Webster is one of the leading and most influential lecturers on bereavement issues.
As a member of the American Association of Death Education and Grief Counselling, Dr. Webster conducts many seminars and educational programmes throughout America, Canada and Great Britain, he is the author of several books and hosts a national weekly TV programme in North America called 'Living with Loss'.

David Quigley, B.A. C.Ht

David Quigley is the founder of Alchemical Hypnotherapy, a powerful system of hypnosis taught at more than a dozen schools in the United States and Europe. Graduating from Duke University with a degree in Comparative Religions, he went on to study Psychosynthesis, NLP, Ericksonian hypnosis and Gestalt therapy with a special emphasis in Jungian studies. He graduated from The Hypnotherapy Training Institute in 1983. He is currently a board member of the American Council of Hypnotist’s Examiners. David has also been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the ACHE.

David Quigley has been the Director of the Alchemy Institute; a California State licensed school, in Santa Rosa California since 1988. He also travels and teaches worldwide as guest faculty at numerous schools and events. Recently, David was a guest speaker at the United Nations Guild Society, ACHE convention, NGH convention and SACH International.

His willingness to share his own personal struggles and transformation creates an intimate atmosphere of trust and support among his students and audiences. A dynamic teacher and presenter, David Quigley combines a theatrical and humorous delivery style with 20 years of teaching experience and private practice.

David is the author of 'The Manual of Alchemical Hypnotherapy'. He continues to expand the course curriculum at the Institute and collaborates with other teachers and schools worldwide to stay in the forefront in this exciting and growing field.

Sue is a graduate of the Alchemical Hypnotherapy Institute of Sacramento. and owner/director of InnerQuest School of Applied Transpersonal Hypnotherapy, in Auburn, California. Sue is a Registered Behavioral Therapist, Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, and ACHE Designated Examiner. As a member of the American Association of Behavioral Therapists, The National Guild of Hypnotists, and The American Council of Hypnotist Examiners (ACHE) Sue is dedicated to expanding the dimensions of hypnotherapeutic technology by blending her considerable drive and ambition as a corporate business woman with her creative talents.

Dr. David Dead Ellis PhD C.Ht Director of the Institute

Dr. David Ellis, is a chartered and licensed holder of the Curriculum of the British School of Analytical and Cognitive Hypnotherapy, which has received accreditation from the National Council for Education in Britain one of the country's oldest vocational awarding bodies. The Institute is also a licensed member of the International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association based in the United States, which is accredited by the National Association of Drug Abuse Counselors, The American Institute of Hypnotherapy, and Westbrook University.

Carl Siegel, PhD

Carl is a Clinical Psychologist and an ordained Episcopal clergyman. Dr. Siegel brings his experience and training from both of these vocations to bear on the art of healing the soul and helping people to find more rewarding ways of working and living in community. He has more than 15 years of experience of providing individual, couples, group, and family therapy to clients with a wide variety of cultural backgrounds. He is a certified Imago Relationship Therapist and a licensed psychologist in Maryland and DC

Rebecca Sears M Div, LPC

Rebecca is a Fellow in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors. An Advanced Clinician in Imago Relationship Therapy, she is also a certified workshop presenter for the “Getting the Love You Want” workshop. Currently serving as PC&CC’s Executive Director, Rebecca has been on the staff since 1986. Rebecca brings a compassionate zest for her work with couples, families, and individuals and a dedication to the deep healing potential of Relationship Therapy. Her ordination is with The Church of the Saviour in Washington DC

Dr. Tatiana Lobanova , Dr.Tech.S. Cert. Family consultant, psychologist St. Petersburg, Russia

Tatiana was educated in Air-Cosmic Academy and Institute of Development of Education in St. Petersburg where she got the scientific degree and worked as a lecture and a scientific researcher, then in  Wiesbaden Postgraduate Center for Psychotherapy and Family Therapy (Germany) and in Aurovalley Ashram, Rishidwar (India).

Tatiana works as a psychologist consultant with individuals and trainer with groups using hypnotherapy, art-therapy, body-therapy techniques. She gives lectures and works a lot with victims of war conflicts in the Caucuses. Currently she works as a thanatotherapist in the Institune of Thanatotherapy (V.Baskakov, Moscow). She also works as a psychologist in Norway, Germany, Holland and India.

Head of Department of Psychology,

Assistant Professor at the Academy of Liberal Arts Education (St. Petersburg). 

Yelena Mikhailova has been teaching psychology and psychotherapy for over 18 years at the universities of St. Petersburg, Moscow, Ekaterinburg, Irkutsk (Russia), and Riga (Latvia). She is the author of more than 50 scientific books and articles, one of them being her well-known “Method of social intelligence research” that went into three publishing and is popular among Russian psychologists. Y.Mikhailova is a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Acmeology, a member of St. Petersburg Association of Training and Psychotherapy, a member of St. Petersburg Department of Psychoanalytical Society and St. Petersburg Psychological Club, and a member of K. Horny-Society (USA). 

Yelena has participated in scientific projects of adaptation of many foreign psychodiagnostic tests to Russian socio-cultural conditions (GATB, BET, tests measuring cognitive and emotional styles, social intelligence test (J.Guilford)). She is the author of original psychometric procedures in the realm of diagnostics of emotions, life style, and social intelligence.Scientific knowledgeability, but also by her constant studying and raising of qualification in the sphere of practical psychotechnologies. Her studies have included 10 years training in psychotherapy and counseling psychology - Group-Analysis, Body-Therapy, Art-Therapy, Sand-Play, Symboldrama, Gestalt-Therapy, THA. She also trained in Jungian Counseling, Adlerian Counseling in Germany (Mainz), as well as in Business Counseling. 

For 6 years Yelena Mikhailova has been in practice as the leader of training programmers, and as psychotherapist working with groups and individuals. She has been attested as a practicing psychologist of advanced level by Russian Ministry of Education.

Charles Montague CHT

Charles first trained as a hypnotherapist and interned with Gil Boyne in California. He is the founder of the Health Partnership, an integrated unique holistic and medical practice in South Kensington which combines Western and Eastern approaches to health and well-being. Charles is the first hypnotherapist in Britain to receive NHS funding for medical applications, and his private practice is booked months in advance. He sits on both The Advisory and Examining Boards of the American Council (A.C.H.E) as well as the Board of the British Council for Complementary Medicine.