| RIE ANDERSON, M.A., LMHC, NBCDCH - FL License 1338
 Rie holds a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology and is licensed as a Mental Health Counselor in the State of Florida. Her private practice has covered individual, group, marriage, and family therapy spanning more than 30 years. She continues to be an avid student, teacher, and researcher in the field of Human Behavior Science and Psychology. Her expertise and training covers the disciplines of advanced Transactional Analysis1, Family Systems2, Stages of Childhood Development3, Gestalt Therapy4, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Meta-NLP and Neuro-Semantics, Ericksonian Hypnosis, The Other-than-Conscience Mind5, and Life Transitions - Death & Dying6. She received her Practitioner and Master Practitioner Certification in NLP from the Society of Neuro-Linguistic Programming headed by Drs. Richard Bandler and John Grinder during the time when Leslie Cameron Bandler, David Gordon, Robert Dilts, Todd Epstein, et als, were an integral part of their teaching staff. She received her Trainer's Training and Accelerated Master Practitioner Modeler Certification from Dr. Bandler. She joined forces with Dr. L. Michael Hall in 1997 to study his breakthrough research on Meta-States, the third domain of NLP, as he, along with Bob Bodenhamer, M.Div., established this expansion in the field of Cognitive Science and secured it within the new field of Neuro-Semantics. Rie was a Staff member of Discovery Institute for over a decade and was part owner for the last five years with Dr. Roy Persons. As Hospice took root across the country, Rie served on a panel of 12 Professionals who pioneered, planned, and facilitated the training of the first 25 Hospice Volunteers in the State of Florida. Her private practice included the counseling of the terminally ill patient and their families. For 3 years, Rie was primary hospital caretaker for her youngest daughter's treatment for CML, including bone marrow transplant at the Medical College of Virginia. When treatment began to lose its positive effects she was support and witness to her daughter's transition through the final stages of separation and goodbye. In the last hours the Head Physician of the Bone Marrow Transplant Team and his Lead Nurse joined her in a team effort to assist each other and family members through the removal of life support systemse . She completed three "Firewalks" with Tony Robbins in 1985. More recently, with the advent of Energy Psychology, she has included trainings in Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)7, Quantum Touch8, Quantum Techniques9. Rie's current passion is Energy Essentials research, the development of Core Health and DTQ10 (Deeply, Thoroughly, Quickly) and the wide variety of practical applications. 1. T.A. Hedges Capers, Ph.D., Sol Samuel, M.D., Jacqui Lee Schiff, M.S.S.W 2. Virginia Satair 3. Bowen; Piaget; Schiff, Vi Brody, Ph.D., John K. Burton, Ed.D 4. Vincent O'Connell, Ph.D., Roy Persons, Ph.D., Robert Goulding, Ph.D., Gertrude Krause, Ph.D. 5. David Dobson, Ph.D. 6. Mentored by Elizabeth Kubler Ross, M.D. 7. Gary Craig 8. Richard Gordon 9. Dr. Stephen Daniel 10. Dr. Ed Carlson
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| | "When there is no more separation between 'this' and 'that,' it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things." Quoting the Experts: Hypnosis can help …a growing body of research supports the ancient practice as an effective tool in the treatment of a variety of problems, from anxiety to chronic pain.” -Newsweek, 9/04
“In [hypnosis], you can attain significant psycho-physiologic changes.” Dr. Daniel Handel, National Institute of Health
-New York Times, 6/02 “Want to lose weight? Kick a bad habit? Well you might want to try hypnosis! … no longer regarded as mere hocus-pocus, it's been shown as an effective means of helping people quit smoking, shed pounds, reduce stress, and end phobias.” -Jane Pauley Show, 9/04
“Though often denigrated as fakery or wishful thinking, hypnosis has been shown to be a real phenomenon with a variety of therapeutic uses…” -Scientific American, 7/01
“... hypnosis is not mind control. It's a naturally occurring state of concentration; It's actually a means of enhancing your control over both your mind and your body.” -Dr. David Spiegel, Assoc. Chair of Psychiatry Stanford University School of Medicine, - Jane Pauley Show 9/04
“Hypnosis has gained credibility in the past five years because of research using the latest brain-imaging technology…. Studies show hypnosis can help treat a multitude of disorders...” -Business Week, 2/04
“Hypnosis can actually help you lose weight.” Harvard Medical School psychotherapist Jean Fain -Oprah Magazine, 8/04
“Hypnosis is the most effective way of giving up smoking, according to the largest ever scientific comparison of ways of breaking the habit.” -New Scientist, 10/92
“… hypnosis often is used to modify behavior and overcome phobias and bad habits - it can help you make changes that you've been unable to make otherwise.” -National Women's Health Resource Center, 11/03
“With weight loss the evidence is conclusive...hypnosis does help people reduce.” -Smithsonian Magazine, 3/99
“…throughout the medical mainstream, it's common to be used for addiction…and psychotherapy.” -Diane Sawyer, Good Morning America, 6/02 “It is employed today to combat phobias, control bad habits and enhance performance.” -Smithsonian Magazine, 3/99 | |