BSF CE Workshop Faculty

Neuroscience in clinical practice:
Clinical hypnosis, mindfulness meditation,
and neuromodulation


Orlando, Florida - August 10-11, 2024

Pesented by
Louis Damis, PhD, ABPP, FASCH, BCB
Assistant Professor, UCF College of Medicine
Past President, American Society of Clinical Hypnosis

Louis Damis, PhD, ABPP, FASCH, BCB is a Diplomate with the American Board of Professional Psychology, a Fellow of the American Academy of Clinical Health Psychology, the Biofeedback Certification International Alliance, and the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis(ASCH). He is an Assistant Professor at the UCF College of Medicine and an ESTI-accredited Ego State Therapist. Dr. Damis is a licensed psychologist with ASCH Consultant Status and Certification in Clinical Hypnosis. He is a Past President of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis as well as the Florida and Washington DC Societies of Clinical Hypnosis. He has taught hypnosis for over 25 years for the ASCH, the Florida Society of Clinical Hypnosis, and the Society of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. Dr. Damis maintains a private practice and works as an instructor, author, and consultant.


Akira Otani, Ed.D, ABPH, FASCH
Waypoint Wellness Center, Annapolis, MD
Fellow, American Society of Clinical Hypnosis
Diplomate, American Board of Psychological Hypnosis

Akira Otani, Ed.D., ABPH is a psychologist in private practice at Waypoint Wellness Center in Annapolis, MD. Before joining the current practice group, he served on the graduate faculty at he Division of Education, The Johns Hopkins University, and as Senior Staff Psychologist at the University of Maryland Counseling Center at College Park. Dr. Atani’s interest and training in clinical hypnosis started during his doctoral internship when he worked with Kay F. Thompson, DDS, a close friend and colleague of Milton H. Erickson, M.D. He has been long interested in meditation. In 2016 he had a 6-month sabbatical in Kobe, Japan, where he studied mindfulness meditation with a former Buddhist monk-turned-psychologist. This experience has helped him greatly to synthesize hypnosis with mindfulness meditation. Akira is a Fellow and Approved Consultant of ASCH as well as a Diplomate in Psychological Hypnosis (ABPH). He has published nine books (in Japanese) and more than 70 scholarly articles and book chapters (in English and Japanese) on topics ranging from psychotherapy training and hypnosis to meditation.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL INTEREST DECLARATION

The speakers have no financial interest to declare related to this presentation.

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