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

Director

In 1975, Dorthy Co-founded Options Unlimited, a firm that offers private consultation, workshops and seminars designed to help people manage their lives more effectively. She is the creator of Metaphor Intervention, which utilizes the client's own metaphor and symbolism for healing both physically and emotionally.

In 1989 she joined the staff of PASOH as an instructor. Her innovative ways of teaching soon resulted in becoming the Director of Metaphor Intervention. Today she holds the title of Director of PASH. Memberships include: Lifetime member of the American Association of Professional Hypnotherapist.

Dorthy weaves her knowledge of dream work, mythology, symbolism, and metaphor into fascinating class presentations. Topics she will help you explore include:

• Metaphor Intervention (healing through the use of metaphor)
• The language of metaphor
• The 6 most successful steps for recovery
• Inner child metaphor

Chinese Division

Corrine Chen is now scheduling full hypnotherapy certification classes in Chinese. These courses use the Chinese language exclusively, and will focus on hypnotherapy techniques for practitioners and certification for new hypnotherapists.

CHT, Administrative Coordinator

Pat oversees enrollment and the student finance department. Pat organizes many activities from scheduling appointments and maintaining to supervising our volunteer program, and assists students with course assignments and special studies.

She is a certified Hypnotherapist and teaches meditation classes. Memberships include Lifetime member of the American Asso

Director of Technology
Hypnotherapy Instructor, Portland, Oregon Campus
Katin manages the technical side of the distance learning and online referral programs as well as serves as an instructor for many of the classes at the Portland, Oregon campus of PASOH.

Having spent 15 years as a software engineer and 4 years as a practicing hypnotherapist, Katin has the ability to bridge high-tech minds and lifestyles into the high-touch world of hypnosis, NLP, team communications, and trust management. Katin also has three years of somatic training, which he integrates into his classe. He utilizes a high-awareness of states and body energies.

• Learn to hypnotize yourself and others
• Specialty program in advanced Past Life Regression
• NLP Introductory classes
• Developing Guided Meditations
• Communications & Team Management Seminars

CCHT, CMHT, CD, Childbirth Hypnosis
Jennifer graduated from the Palo Alto School of Hypnotherapy in1996. She is a DONA-certified doula, clinical and medical hypnotherapist, yoga instructor, childbirth educator, and Reiki master.

Jennifer founded the Dolphin Yoga and Doula Center in 2002 to help birthing women and their partners have better birth experiences by providing knowledge, tools and a comforting environment for prenatal health and childbirth. As a hypnotherapist for the past eight years, Jennifer has pioneered Childbirth Hypnosis, a unique methodology she developed for gentle birthing and anxiety reduction. Jennifer utilizes Childbirth Hypnosis and yoga in her doula practice to achieve deep mind and body relaxation. She has prepared hundreds of pregnant women for childbirth and provided doula support at Mills Peninsula, Sequoia, Kaiser, Stanford, El Camino, Good Samaritan, Valley Care Medical Center, Pleasanton Birth Home, and California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) hospitals.

Visit the Dolphin Yoga and Doula Center web site:
http://www.dolphinyogaanddoulacenter.com/

Psy.D. Clinical Psychology
Dr. Parke brings more than 18 years of experience in Ericksonian hypnosis to the Palo Alto School of Hypnotherapy. He specializes in the treatment of Post Traumatic Disorder, Depression, Anxiety, Dissociative disorders, Phobias, and Chronic Pain.

He began his practice in Massachusetts, where he provided hypnotherapy for artists and other clients interested in using creativity to solve problems. He provided hypnosis for the inpatient detoxification program at Somerville Community Hospital and conducted hypnosis research at McLean Hospital in Belmont, one of the oldest and foremost research and psychiatric hospitals in the U.S.

Dr. Parke provides psychological consultation for the Pain Management Clinic at Stanford University, and is currently a psychologist on staff at the Native American Health Center in Oakland, CA. He holds a bachelor's degree in fine art, a master's degree in counseling psychology and a doctorate in clinical psychology. He holds a diplomate in pain management from the American Academy of Pain Management and is a licensed psychologist in the State of California.

Visit Dr. Parke's website at www.drparke.com.

CHT, Intuitive Consultant

Simone has taken the diverse experiences of her life and woven them together in a tapestry for for healing. Simone sees herself as a catalyst offering a refined blend of artistry and pragmatism. She helps people rekindle their inner light and strengthen the ability to respond creatively to life.

Simone presents classes on how intuition can be applied to increase joyful well-being on all levels. Students learn to open easily to their intuition/Higher Self. Voice, primitive instruments, and meditation transport us to the world of altered states where all healing is possible. You will learn to

• Deepen your meditation
• Reclaim the power of psychic and intuitive realms
• Enhance the natural energy and healing forces of the physical, emotional, and spiritual bodies

CHT, Medical Hypnotherapist, Reiki Practitioner, San Jose Fire Department Captain

Walter brings his years of experience in dealing with life-threatening situations and high anxiety to his stress management classes. He is a member of the San Jose Fire Department's Critical Incident Stress Management Team and teaches Medic First Aid. Walter combines several stress reduction techniques into his successful class. A few topics you will cover and practice are:

• Introduction to stress (what it is, where it comes from)
• How stress affects the body, mind and spirit
• Stress test
• Stress reduction and induction

CHT, Reiki Master

Terry began her healing practice in 1970. Terry is adept at the art of guided visualization. She teaches classes in guided visualization, meditation, and healing designed for application in both your hypnotherapy practice and personal life. Terry also conducts ongoing classes in Reiki. She is the co-author of Reiki-Frequency of Love.

The Opening the Heart to Healing class is intended to help you walk upon the earth with strength, appreciation, and grace. The course will focus on

• Introduction to Reiki
• Guided visualization
• Clearing, cleansing, and balancing chakras
• Therapeutic meditation
• Contacting the healing presence

CHT, Hypnoanesthesiologist, Director of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)

Dusty is the founder and Director of Counting Down, a practice in therapeutic techniques and metaphysical healing. Dusty, who worked as a senior manager at a high-tech Silicon Valley company for many years, has skillfully combined her knowledge of corporate stress and anxiety into her successful programs that are easy to understand and apply.

In presenting an introduction to NLP, Dusty emphasizes techniques that are beneficial to the beginning practicing Hypnotherapist, including

• Introduction to Neuro-Linguistic Programming
• How to use the language of the mind
• Achieving specific and desired goals
• Timeline Therapy
Visit Dusty's website at www.dustywhite.com.

The main focus of Leticia’s private and professional work is with the SpanishCommunity of Northern California. As a Specialist Regressive Reconstructive Therapist and Spirit Release Practitioner she offers individual sessions, workshops and seminars.

Professional Hypnotherapist, Hipnoterapista Profesional en la comunidad hispana en el norte de California. Specialist Regrressive-reconstructive