Dr John Butler is a highly regarded hypnotherapist with over 40 years of proven experience as a successful clinical practitioner.

He has been a therapist to many high-level performers in performing arts, the media and business.

He has been a highly regarded teacher of clinical hypnotherapy for over 30 years gaining many awards for his teaching and a vast number of testimonials.

He has been a hypnotherapy educator to a wide variety of health professionals including writing and tutoring the first official training in hypnotherapy in the NHS in 1992, teaching at the Royal College of Nursing in London.

Dr. Butler trained in experimental neuroanatomy, neurosurgery and neuroscience methodologies and carried out research in medical science specialising in the field of neuroendocrinology, in which he holds a doctoral degree from the University of London.
He has lectured in higher education for over 30 years and has taught medical psychology, neuroanatomy and medical neuroscience in medical education.

He has taught psychological therapies specialising in clinical hypnosis for over 30 years, teaching in the UK and other countries.  This included writing and tutoring the first official training in clinical hypnotherapy in the NHS in 1992, at the Royal College of Nursing in London.

He is an instructor in surgical applications of hypnosis and has taught clinical hypnosis applications to surgeons and anaesthetists in a course accredited
by the Royal College of Anaesthetists.

He is the principal instructor for Hypnotherapy Training International which operates training programmes internationally.

He is an approved hypnotherapy instructor for the American Council of Hypnotist Examiners and several other accrediting bodies.

He has been lectured to major businesses including Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, BUPA, Ernst & Young, etc.

He has acted as an expert witness and as an advisor to the police in legal cases involving hypnosis.

No anaesthesia Operaration

Dr John Butler underwent a hernia operation without any chemical anaesthesia, relying entirely on self-hypnosis to manage pain and control bleeding.

Media Appearances & Contributions

 

Media Appearances & Contributions

 

In his clinical work Dr Butler has been influential in establishing the effectiveness of hypnotherapy as a healing method in the perception of the public and health professionals alike.

His work was first filmed over 30 years ago and since then has been reported many times in the media, including a major BBC television series, “Mysteries”, in 1997 and Channel 4’s breakthrough live broadcast with John Butler using hypnosis as a sole anaesthetic while surgery was performed on a patient in April 2006  (“HypnoSurgery Live”, More 4 / Channel 4 TV).

TRAINING & EDUCATION

He trained in a variety of systems of psychological therapies, including autogenic therapy and other systems of psychotherapy and made an intensive study of many healing systems.  He studied hypnotherapy with several schools and learned directly from many renowned medical hypnotherapists.  He specialised in clinical hypnotherapy and undertook lengthy training with Gil Boyne.  He studied personally with Gil Boyne and taught with him on many occasions.  Dr. Butler was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award of the ACHE in 2011.   

He has been registered as a psychotherapist in several modalities with the United Kingdom for Psychotherapy and received certification from the European Association for Psychotherapy. He is a member of the British Psychological Society.  His academic background includes degrees in science and psychology and medical science with higher degrees in psychology and medical science.  He holds a doctoral degree in medical research from University of London. 

STANDARDS SETTING & REGULATION ACTIVITY

He has been active for 30 years in the development of professional psychological therapies the UK and internationally and has served on committees and boards of government and private initiatives in setting training standards for this field.

He was a key figure in the development of the profession of hypnotherapy in the UK. Since the early 1980s he has been highly influential in the areas of establishing educational and training standards for hypnotherapists and in achieving public and political recognition of hypnotherapy as a major healing art.

He organised the first conference of heads and delegates of hypnotherapy schools and registers in 1986 to formally initiate processes of standard-setting for the training and professional regulation of hypnotherapists in the UK.

He played a major role in many private and government-sponsored initiatives concerned with training requirements, occupational standards and self-regulation of hypnotherapists that were established in the late 1980s and 1990s. His contribution to the profession in the UK was formally recognized in 2004 by an award from a national confederation of hypnotherapists.

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