This website is designed primarily as a educational resource for psychology students interested in clinical hypnosis and mental health , as well as for those who practice in the dental area and are interested in earning about how to use clinical hypnosis to intervene in their respective fields.
The intent is to encourage the development and growth of existing applications and practices in hypnosis and related interventions in all fields of patient care.
David H. Clayton Ph.D.
Psychotherapist and Hypnotherapist,
with 46 years of experience
About the site manager:
Dave Clayton has been studying and employing hypnotherapy in his practice of psychotherapy since 1973. Dave spent his first eight years out of graduate school training at a community mental health center on the near north side of Chicago. In 1978, after starting his own private practice, Dave began a student relationship with Dr. Milton Erickson MD until Dr. Erickson's death two years later.
Dave has taught and lectured internationally for the last 27 years.
He has been published twice in Europe.
Dave has been married 50 years to his wife Nancy. They have raised two daughters and are now grandparents to three grandchildren. Both Dave and Nancy are now retired and have lived and worked in Wood Dale Illinois for the last 48 years.