The School Faculty
Award-Winning Instructors
PASH instructors strive for continual excellence. We are committed to providing the best training and education possible. Our successful graduates reflect our teaching and we are committed to helping students reach their goals.
PASH teaches professional hypnotherapy in a step by step nurturing progression. The courses involve exploring personal and professional goals, learning new skills and developing a successful practice. The School's curriculum includes:
• Varied and diverse lecture topics
• Counseling skills
• Group participation
• Powerful and relevant case studies
• Coursework binders
• Hypnotic inductions
• Interviewing techniques
• Guest speakers
• Tools and successful tips for developing a hypnotherapy practice
Dorthy V. Tyo, Director of the Palo Alto School of Hypnotherapy since 2007 received her hypnotherapy training at PASOH in 1985. Josie Hadley, Founder, would often say about her “I kept the best”. Dorthy became instructor at the school in 1986.
Josie and Dorthy co-founded and developed the first medical hypnotherapy school in Northern California, the California Institute of Medical Hypnotherapy in 1995.
Programs and courses developed under Dorthy’s astute guidance are Metaphor Intervention; Mind Body Energy Balancing; Intuitive Studies and Development and Perception Rules. Dorthy’s approach to hypnotherapy is scientific based. These workshops and programs have long been incorporated into the PASOH curriculum.
Existent with her PASOH dedication is her private practice, Options Unlimited, co-founded with Barbara Courtney, independently and together they offer weekend conferences. Annual retreats have been presented at Asilimar in Carmel, California.
Since 1975 Dorthy has offered services in her private practice in Intuitive Counseling and Hypnotherapy. Public appearances include; radio, TV, lectures, speaker at Sequoia Hospital, and various service organizations.
Dorthy’s formal education is from New York University at Cortland. She is a native of New York and often is invited to be a public speaker when in the New York area.
In March 2009, through PASOH she developed “Connecting with Healers” where healers in the community gather and share their talents and ideas and methods.
