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 27 years of proven experience and over 30,000 hours of practice as a successful clinical practitioner.
He has been a hypnotherapy educator to a wide variety of groups including writing and tutoring the first official training in hypnotherapy in the NHS in 1992, teaching at the Royal College of Nursing in London.
He is an approved hypnotherapy instructor for the American Council of Hypnotist Examiners and teaches hypnosis internationally.
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 enhancement and personal and career development for major businesses including Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, BUPA and Ernst & Young.
Dr Butler has taught in higher education for over 15 years lecturing in medical psychology, medical neuroscience and other subjects in medical schools and other university departments.
He organised the first conference of heads and delegates of hypnotherapy schools and registers over twenty years ago to initiate the processes of standards-setting and self-regulation.
His contribution to the profession 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 10 years ago and since then has been reported many times in the media, including being featured in “Time” magazine and “Science” magazine and using hypnosis as a sole anesthetic while surgery was performed on a patient in April 2006 in a live television broadcast.
He has made more than 20 television appearances as an expert in hypnotherapy with several 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).
