Dr John Butler
PhD (Lond.), MBSH, CHT, MA, BA(Hons.), BSc(Hons.), DHP, Dip A.T., Leading Hypnotherapist & Trainer
Dr John Butler is a highly regarded hypnotherapist with over 30 years and over 30,000 hours of experience of clinical practice.
He is a leading hypnotherapy teacher in the UK and internationally. He began teaching hypnotherapy after 10 years of clincal hypnotherapy practice and has been a hypnotherapy instructor for over 20 years teaching to a wide variety of groups including writing and tutoring the first official training in hypnotherapy in the NHS taught at the Royal College of Nursing in London in 1992.
He is an approved hypnotherapy instructor for the American Council of Hypnotist Examiners (ACHE)and received an "Excellence in Teaching" award from the ACHE in 2008.
He is an instructor in Hypnosurgery teaching clinical hypnosis applications to surgeons and anesthetists in a course accredited by the Royal College of Anesthetists.
He has been a speaker on performance improvement for major businesses including Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, BUPA and Ernst & Young.
He had extensive training in many styles of hypnotherapy and studied several forms of psychotherapy, holding membership of various hypnotherapy and psychotherapy organisations, including the UKCP (UK Council of Psychotherapy) and EAP (European Association of Psychotherapy). His academic background includes extensive training in academic and applied psychology and in medical science.
Dr Butler taught in higher education for over 20 years. He has lectured in medical psychology, medical neuroscience and related medical science subjects. He was the principal lecturer in medical psychology teaching at Kings College London School of Medicine and Dentistry. He has taught applied psychology to students at top international business universities.
He served for many years on the governing board of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy and was instrumental in drafting the first educational standards for this organisation.
He organised the first conference of heads and delegates of hypnotherapy schools and hypnotherapy registers to initiate the processes of standards-setting and self-regulation of education and practice in the UK in 1986.
His contribution to the profession of hypnotherapy was formally recognized in 2004 by an award from a national confederation of Hypnotherapists.
He has acted as an expert witness and as an advisor to the police in legal cases involving hypnosis.
His work was first filmed over 15 years ago and since then has been reported many times in the media, including featuring in “Time” magazine and “Science” magazine. He has featured in a major live television broadcast demonstrating hypnosis as a sole anesthetic while surgery was performed on a patient in April 2006.
He has made more than 30 media appearances as an expert in hypnotherapy with several TV programmes focused on his use of hypnotherapy as an anesthetic for chronic pain and in invasive surgeries.
He is the clinical author of the popular book “Secrets of Hypnotherapy” (Pub. Dorling Kindersley) and has contributed to many articles in the press and professional journals.
