Dear ISSTD Community, Welcome to the October 2025 edition of ISSTD News, which you are reading in early November! This month’s update will be brief. I am currently writing from sunny – and windy – Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, where ISSTD just concluded its regional conference. I want to extend my most heartfelt thanks to […]
Dear ISSTD Community, Welcome to the September 2025 edition of ISSTD News, which you are reading in early October! Hypnosis has been on my mind a lot over the past weeks, due in equal parts to my attendance at ISSTD’s 2025 Chicago Regional Conference (one day of which was dedicated to hypnotic phenomena in the […]
Dear ISSTD Community, Welcome to the August 2025 edition of ISSTD News, which you are reading in early-September! I initially planned to reflect upon the preceding month, but then I realized that September is ISSTD’s Student and Emerging Professional (SEP) Month. So, rather than look to the past in this letter, I have decided to […]
Dear ISSTD Community, It’s hard to believe that, as of July, we are over the peak and now on the downslope of 2025. In my first letter this year, I shared that I was “feeling my way into some sort of happy medium between thinking and acting, doing and sitting.” I’ve found myself pondering over […]
Dear ISSTD Community, What a month it’s been! Owing to that, this is going to a shorter message than you’ve been accustomed to seeing from me. I mentioned last month that one of the antidotes to the sense of isolation that might be evoked by the heightened stress and strain of life these days is […]
Dear ISSTD Community, Although I hope the month since my last message has treated you kindly, I also know very well that may not be the case for many of us. The heightened stress and strain of daily life is real, and enduring. One of the antidotes to the isolation that this stress may foster […]
Dear ISSTD Community, I’ve had the word ‘community’ on my mind a lot lately, particularly since the warmth of this year’s Annual Conference, back in March. When I first joined ISSTD as a professional member in February 2012, I was nearly five years out of grad school and about two years beyond having achieved full […]
Dear ISSTD Community, I hope the month has been treating you relatively well – ‘relatively’ because these are challenging and uncertain times in many parts of the world, and I’d prefer to avoid assuming anything. One thing I can offer unreservedly is how positive, warm, and exciting the vibes felt at ISSTD’s Annual Conference this […]
Dear ISSTD Community, I shared with you last month that I had adopted a theme of “Healthy Communication and Connection” for my presidential year. With that very much at the front of my mind, I thought it would be of value to share with you a little bit about ISSTD’s recent Annual Business Meeting, which […]
Dear ISSTD Community, Welcome to 2025! Those words seem fraught to me, frankly, based upon the worries raised in recent months by several of my clients, many of whom are LGBTQ-identifying, some of whom are terrified they will soon lose their right to be married, or even to exist at all. Being a queer-identifying person […]
