About Dr John Butler
He is the principal instructor for the HypnotherapyTraining Institute of Britain. See their website at www.hypnotherapytraininginstitute.org
He has been a hypnotherapy educator to a wide variety of groups including writing and tutoring the first official training in hypnotherapy in the NHS in 1992, teaching at the Royal College of Nursing in London.
He was a key figure in the development of the profession of hypnotherapy in the UK. Since the early 1980s he has been highly influential in the areas of establishing educational and training standards for hypnotherapists and in achieving public and political recognition of hypnotherapy as a major healing art.
He organised the first conference of heads and delegates of hypnotherapy schools and registers in 1986 to formally initiate processes of standard-setting for the training and professional regulation of hypnotherapists in the UK.
He played a major role in many private and government-sponsored initiatives concerned with training requirements, occupational standards and self-regulation of hypnotherapists that were established in the late 1980s and 1990s. His contribution to the profession was formally recognized in 2004 by an award from a national confederation of hypnotherapists.
In his clinical work Dr Butler has been highly influential in establishing the effectiveness of hypnotherapy as a healing method in the perception of the public and health professional alike.
He has made more than 20 television appearances as an expert in hypnotherapy with several programmes focused on his use of hypnotherapy as an anaesthetic for chronic pain and in invasive surgeries.
He has been widely quoted in the media and elsewhere as an authoritative source of information on hypnosis.
He trained in a variety of systems of hypnotherapy and other psychological therapies including extensive training in autogenic psychotherapy.
He has been registered as a psychotherapist with the United Kingdom for Psychotherapy and received certification from the European Association for Psychotherapy and holds membership of the British Psychological Society.
He has made a personal study of many healing systems and has taught mental development and therapy systems for 32 years.
He is an approved hypnotherapy instructor for the American Council of Hypnotist Examiners and has taught hypnosis internationally.
He is a licensed teacher of Transforming Therapy™ and has taught this therapy system over many years including as a teaching assistant to its originator Gil Boyne under whom he trained extensively in the method.
He has been a speaker for major businesses including Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, BUPA, Ernst & Young, etc.
He has acted as an expert witness and as an advisor to the police in legal cases involving hypnosis.
Dr Butler has written articles on hypnotherapy for magazines and newspapers and contributed to various publications and television programmes on hypnosis and related subjects.
He is the clinical author of the popular book “Secrets of Hypnotherapy” (Pub. Dorling Kindersley).
Dr Butler taught in higher education for over 15 years lecturing in medical psychology, medical neuroscience and other subjects in medical schools and other university departments.
He has carried out research in medical science specialising in neuroendocrinology, in which he holds a doctorate from the University of London.
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