By Dr Tracie O’Keefe DCH, keynote speaker, Women and Depression Conference, 6-9 April, 2006, Sydney, Australia Abstract This is a discursive paper and workshop illustrated by four women’s cases where they were able to overcome their sense of depression by learning a greater sense of self-efficacy during hypnotherapy. In Australia, as in every other country… Read More

Published in HypnosisAustralia, May 2006 By Dr Tracie O’Keefe DCH Whether those practising hypnosis for therapeutic purposes and clinical hypnotherapy should be registered with the government is often a topic of conjecture in many countries. In Australia from time to time this becomes very poignant and controversial too. Different states have had different approaches in… Read More

Published in HypnosisAustralia, November 2006 By Dr Tracie O’Keefe DCH Background From time to time, issues of government regulation of practitioners involved in health professions comes to the public’s attention. With those industries that may be involved in the use of therapeutic hypnosis, some professions are already on state or federal registers such as medical… Read More

Published in HypnosisAustralia, November 2005 By Dr Tracie O’Keefe DCH The one thing I learned from reading everything Milton Erickson ever published, watching my great English hypnosis teacher Ray Keedy-Lilley of the National School of Hypnosis and Advanced Psychotherapy, London (a hypnotist for more than 50 years), and from my marvellous Hungarian hypnotist friend Michael… Read More