IC07 Dialogue 04 - Hypnosis with Children & Adolescents - Joyce Mills, Ph.D., Susy Signer-Fischer, Lie. Phil., Bernhard Trenkle, Dipl. Psych.
Joyce C. Mills, PhD, LMFT, Registered Play Therapy Supervisor is the Founder/director of the Story- Play® Center in Scottsdale AZ and Co-director of the Phoenix Institute of Ericksonian Therapy. Recipient of 1997 Annual Intern Play Therapy Award for an “outstanding career contribution in Child Psychology and Play Therapy.” An internationally recognized trainer speaker, consultant, and program development specialist, author of eight books, including the award- winning Therapeutic Metaphors for Children and the Child Within and Reconnecting to the Magic of Life.
Susy Signer-Fischer, Lic. Phil., is a psychologist and psychotherapist FSP, specializing in working with children, adolescents and adults. She works at the Institute for Developmental and Personality Psychology at the University of Basel in Switzerland and is also in private practice in Basel and Bern. Susy was director of the Family and Educational Counseling Centre in Basel, Switzerland for the past ten years. She is a supervisor and trainer in psychotherapy, mainly in hypnotherapy, psychotherapy for children, adolescents, families and couples. She is the past-president and founding member of the Swiss Society of Clinical Hypnosis (GHypS).
Bernhard Trenkle, DIPL.PSYCH., is Director of the Milton Erickson Institute Rottweil Germany, and member of the Board of Directors of the Milton Erickson Foundation. He is member of Board of Directors International Society of Hypnosis ISH and past President of Milton Erickson Society of Clinical Hypnosis Germany (1996-2003). Author of Ha Ha Handbook of Hypnosis and Psychotherapy a bestselling joke book in Germany (now translated in English, Russian, and Italian).