Coming up:
Next Open House: Free Reiki Clinic Next Hypnotherapy Training Next Parapsychology Class Next Reiki I Next Reiki II Next EFT Training Next EFT II |
Holly Holmes-Meredith:Doctor of Ministry, MA, Clinical Director, Licensed Marriage Family Therapist, Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, Board Certified Regression Therapist
Holly's teaching and therapy is grounded in a solid twenty-five year background in education, psychology, hypnotherapy and metaphysics. She teaches with an engaging expertise, ease and competence that builds professional skill and confidence in her students. Holly integrates a psycho-spiritual perspective in her teaching, models client empowerment and practices hypnotherapy as an art. In the last ten years she began studying and adding hands on healing and energy therapies to her work including Reiki and EFT.
Holly has a private psychotherapy and hypnotherapy practice on site at HCH at the Transformational Therapy Center which she founded in 1986. She is especially skilled in regression therapy, pain management, working with phobias, anxiety, and spiritual issues.
Holly is an examiner and a founding member on the Board of Directors for the International Board of Regression Therapy.
She was awarded her Doctorate in Ministry degree in 2007. Holly's dissertation on Hypnotherapy as a Spiritual Practice is in the process of being re-written as a Hypnotherapy text.
"Holly's integrity, compassion and wisdom are felt throughout the training. I felt her supportiveness like a guiding hand while at HCH and was constantly delighted by her skills, warmth and clarity. Her generous respect for her students allowed me to trust myself and my work in a new way. She possesses a rare gift of being able to pass on her knowledge that is spiced with inspiration and joyous humor."
Paul Michael Meredith:CCHT, HCH Administrator, CD Recording Workshop.
As husband and partner to Holly, Paul brings twenty-five years experience as a business owner into the job of running the HCH office. Paul also owns his own music company, Peaceful Music, through which he composes and records original keyboard, harp and harmonica music. As a metaphysician and hypnotherapist Paul adds a special dimension to connecting with students and clients who come to the Institute. Paul will most likely be your first contact either by phone, email or in person. He looks forward to introducing you to HCH and invites you to participate in his Hypnosis CD Recording Workshop.
Loyd Auerbach:MA, Parapsychology.
Loyd has been on faculty at JFK University since 1983, and is in his fourth year as President of the international organization, the Psychic Entertainers Association. He is a Past President of the California Society for Psychical Study and a long-time contributor and columnist for FATE Magazine. He is on the advisory board of the Rhine Research Center. He holds a degree in Cultural Anthropology from Northwestern University and a graduate degree in Parapsychology from JFK University.
He has worked as a consultant on the paranormal for organizations in the field of Parapsychology, as well as for a variety of media. As for the former, he worked in the early 1980s as Public Information and Media Consultant to the American Society for Psychical Research, and has consulted with various researchers since then. For the latter, he has consulted on a number of TV series and shows, including the Travel Channel’s America’s Most Haunted Places.
Loyd is the author of several books and audio CDs. His most recent books are Ghost Hunting: How to Investigate the Paranormal and Hauntings and Poltergeists: The Ghost Hunter’s Guide.. Both are from Ronin Publishing, 2004.
His first book, ESP, HAUNTINGS AND POLTERGEISTS was named the “Sacred Text” on Ghosts by NEWSWEEK in 1996. He is co-producer for and appears on camera in the video documentary The Haunting of the USS Hornet.
He is a professional speaker on the college circuit, with his lecture True Tales of Ghosts and Hauntings. In addition, he lectures and teaches on a variety of other paranormally related topics.
He is a professional mentalist and psychic entertainer, performing as Professor Paranormal for all sorts of audiences, from small private parties to large corporate, college and public events.
Loyd Auerbach has appeared on hundreds of radio shows, and dozens of local and national TV shows, including Larry King Live, Unsolved Mysteries, The Today Show, OPRAH, Sightings, Popular Mechanics for Kids, Coast to Coast with Art Bell and Late Night with David Letterman.. He is constantly haunting occasional new shows and many re-runs on the Discovery Channel, the Travel Channel, TechTV, the Travel Channel, A&E, the History Channel and The Learning Channel. He is featured in and was Series Consultant for the Travel Channel mini-series "America's Most Haunted Places."
He has been conducting his investigations and research in the world of psychic phenomena and the paranormal for over 25 years.
Kay Taylor: CCHTCertified Clinical Hypnotherapist
KAY is a compassionate, grounded and experienced intuitive counselor, integrating clear psychic skills with astrology, psychosynthesis, hypnotherapy and spiritual healing. She has worked with individuals, couples and groups since 1984. Developing and teaching her Intuitive Training Program since the late 1980's, she has trained hundreds of people to use their psychic skills, including advanced apprenticeship for individuals who wish to use their skills professionally. As a clairvoyant channel Kay receives information and healing energy through several channels simultaneously. She mentored with Glenn Perry and others in psychological astrology and apprenticed with Steven Forrest in Evolutionary Astrology after many years of self-study and practice. She is a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist from HCH and specializes in past life regressions as well as psychosynthesis, for which she also completed extended training with Ann Gila and John Firman of Psychosynthesis Palo Alto. www.kaytaylor.com.
John Thatcher, PhDCertified Clinical Hypnotherapist
An instructor at HCH, John brings an extensive background in education, the social sciences, and interdisciplinary aspects of human consciousness into the field of hypnotherapy. He has a private practice in Oakland and specializes in a combination of hypnotherapy and psychosynthesis. John's special interest is in examining and transforming the ways in which our habitual thoughts and unconscious beliefs shape our reality. After a long career in anthropology, John more recently attended JFK University were he received his Master's Degree in Consciousness Studies. A graduate of HCH, John also trained in psychosynthesis programs in San Francisco and Palo Alto.
Greg Harper:PhD, CCHT, EFT-ADV
After receiving his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, Greg was a geology professor for many years, with more than 60 scientific research publications. He has long had interests in human behavior, how reality is affected by beliefs, the true nature of reality as revealed by quantum physics, and enlightenment. Workshops in shamanism, including advanced training with Michael Harner and Alberto Villoldo, revealed the nature of non-ordinary reality experienced during the shamanic state of consciousness. Recognizing a link between shamanic journeys and hypnosis, Greg decided to attend HCH, which has a tradition of incorporating aspects of shamanism into hypnotherapy training. Now he is continuing that tradition by teaching at HCH.
Greg is also an EFT specialist and has taught EFT workshops for therapists and for staff at the Omega Institute. He has an active interest in the new Human Givens approach to therapy that is widely used in the U.K. Greg has a private hypnotherapy practice in Berkeley and Lafayette.
Carolyn Rigiero:Advanced Certification in EFT, CCHT
Carolyn was trained as a nurse but realized nursing was not for her. Not wanting to abandon her love of medicine, she parlayed her medical training into a career as a Medical Research Assistant at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, a position she held for more than 15 years.
After a serious illness in 2002, she was introduced to Bio-feedback, which became the bridge to hypnotherapy and EFT. She earned her Clinical Certification in Hypnotherapy from HCH in February 2006. She became a devotee of EFT during a hypnotherapy class after her instructor applied EFT on her to avert a migraine. The results were amazing and she was hooked. She shares this amazing process with her clients at HCH.
Carolyn teaches habit control and medical hypnosis in the hypnotherapy training.
Louis Bernstein:MS, CHT
Following a successful career in Engineering, Louie has devoted his energy and passion towards the Healing Arts, and in particular, towards assisting others in accessing and manifesting their emotional healing through non-ordinary states of consciousness. Louie is a Certified Hypnotherapist, trained through the HCH Institute, and has a private practice that combines Hypnotherapy with the Expressive Arts. Louie is currently enrolled in the JFK University Graduate Program of Holistic Studies towards a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology / Transpersonal Psychology.
Louie has been a facilitator and practitioner of Emotional Healing Breathwork since 1997 and has received specialized training in the Expressive Arts / Expressive Movement healing modalities.
His philosophy is that each person already has the inner guidance and wisdom to find their own, personal healing. The healers role is to walk beside the individual along their path, offering compassion and unconditional regard while serving as a mirror to reflect back the individuals whole and complete True Self.
Jacquie ArchambeauCertified Clinical Hypnotherapist
Jacquie is a tribal member of the Cherokee Nation who grew up learning and developing intuitive and hands on energy healing skills at home from family members. She especially enjoys working with groups as it is akin to her early training and also the training that she received at HCH Institute.
When people come together in groups, magic occurs. Everyones energy is focused on the common good, sending each group member away with a deeper healing, much more so than healing alone. Plus its more fun!
Jacquie has blended hypnotherapy, EFT, Reiki and her own natural hands on energy style into compassionate and intuitive healing groups and individual sessions since graduating from HCH. She brings a soulful, fun and creative presence to the work of supporting women and men in transforming blocks to being more whole and joyful. She is especially skilled in issues of weight, self-acceptance and helping others to establish strong personal energetic boundaries. www.sixthmoonhealing.com.
Tammy Hartman, CCHT, CMTCertified Clinical Hypnotherapist, Certified Coach, Certified Massage Therapist
Tammy combines all of her training in the healing arts with a life-long natural ability as an intuitive. In her private practice, she enjoys working with individuals and leading empowering spiritual support groups for women.
Tammy teaches in the HCH Coaching training and also trains hypnotherapists in intuition development and tools to manage grief and loss while dealing with death and dying in the HCH hypnotherapy certification training.
Abba Anderson: LAc CCHT MS MAMaster Reiki Teacher, Licensed Acupuncturist, Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist
Abba is an acupuncturist and hypnotherapist practicing in Lafayette and Berkeley, California, a professional writer and Editor-in-Chief of the California Journal of Oriental Medicine. Practicing Reiki is a special part of Abba's life, and she feels blessed to share this simple, accessible practice with her students. Abba's acupuncture school classmates humorously voted her "most likely to have a patient levitating three feet above the table," and while you may not experience exactly that in her Reiki classes, you're likely to experience something equally as magical - not because of Abba, she's quick to point out, but because Reiki is such a loving, magical, transformative practice.
Megan Woolever, MA, CCHTCertified Clinical Hypnotherapist
Megan is a Holistic Healing Practitioner in San Francisco. She has been studying and working with energy healing in its various forms pretty much all her life, having been healed of a serious childhood illness through the laying on of hands and healing prayer.
A Certified Energy Healer, Reiki Master Teacher, Clinically Certified Hypnotherapist, Chi Nei Tsang (Internal Organ Massage) Practitioner, Life Coach, Spiritual and Intuitive Guide, Massage practitioner and Certified Somatic Therapist Megan also holds a Masters degree in Ethics and Social Theory.
Her approach to teaching is based upon the philosophy that the best learning happens when we are encouraged to be curious, explore our own inner wisdom and experiment without judgment. Our life experience is often the best classroom we have! Having a background in theater and performance art also helps to infuse her classes with playfulness, joy and laughter. You can learn more about Megan on her website Emerge Healing
 |  | |
 |  |  |
 |  |  |
 |  |  |
 |  |  |
3702 Mt Diablo Blvd Lafayette, California 94549 (click for map) | ||
