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Chris Lemig: Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy (History, Misconceptions, Example of Induction, and Mental Health Benefits)

Chris Lemig is a transpersonal hypnotherapist, author, and spiritual educator. Prior to pursuing a career in hypnotherapy, he spent several years as a Buddhist monk studying philosophy, meditation, and religious ritual in India and Nepal. He founded True Nature Hypnotherapy in 2019 where he works with private clients to heal past traumas and create powerful, healthy changes in their lives. In addition, he teaches a transformational workshop for emotional healing and spiritual growth called “Gateway to the Limitless.”
 
Website: https://www.truenaturehypnotherapy.com/
Email: chris@truenaturehypnotherapy.com 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/truenaturehypnotherapy
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chrislemigcht/
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-lemig-cht/
Choosing Therapy: https://www.choosingtherapy.com/chris-lemig/
 
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Judith Whatley: Reflexology (Therapy for Relaxation, Deep Sleep, and Anxiety)

Judith Whatley is an academic reflexologist of some 27 years standing. She recently retired from academic life, where she was a senior lecturer in Clinical reflexology and Research Methods at Cardiff Metropolitan University. She is a Psychology graduate who holds a Masters degree in research methodologies.
 
Her reflexology practice was built up over 15 years culminating in a clinic with 9 therapists many of whom she trained herself. The ethos behind the clinic environment was to work cohesively and supportively as a team - working to improve clients’ health, build resilience and aid recovery from illness of all kinds.  
She has been passionate about building an evidence base for reflexology and is particularly interested in the physiological changes which occur during a reflexology treatment. In 2015, she was project leader of a study into the effects of reflexology lymphatic drainage (RLD) on breast cancer related lymphoedema. This technique of lymphatic drainage, developed by Sally Kay offered a unique opportunity to measure in real time the effects of reflexology. Three academic papers have now been published looking at the impact of reflexology on the movement of lymphoedema after breast cancer. The last of these used Thermal imaging cameras to view the movement of lymphatic fluid in the arm. As part of her academic work Judith was the Academic Lead for the final year research dissertations on the University’s undergraduate programmes in complementary healthcare.  
 
She has been published in academic journals such as Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice, and the British Journal of Community Nursing and a variety of professional publications, such as Reflexions and International Therapist. In 2014 she was awarded the Association of Reflexologists Tutor of the year. In both 2017 and 2020 she was ‘Highly commended’ in the Higher Education Teaching Excellence awards, and she was awarded the AoR (Association of Reflexologists) Research Excellence Award in 2018.
 
In conjunction with her colleagues Joanne Perkins and Dr Carol Samuel, she has recently published an academic paper exploring the mechanism of action of reflexology and proposed links with fascia. She has lectured widely at conferences in the UK and in the US, winning the best presentation prize at the CAMSTRAND conference at the University of Warwick in 2016. She most recently presented at the AoR national conference in London, where her topic was 40 years of reflexology research.
 
Judith’s latest paper can be found here:
‘Reflexology: Exploring the mechanism of action’ - ScienceDirect
 
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Dr. Manoj Sharma: Yoga (The Eight Limbs and Treatment of Depression, Anxiety, and Mental Health of Cancer Patients)

Manoj Sharma, MBBS, Ph.D., MCHES® is a public health physician and educator with a medical degree from the University of Delhi and a doctorate in Preventive Medicine (Public Health) from The Ohio State University.  He is also a Master Certified Health Education Specialist certified by the National Commission on Health Education Credentialing.  He is currently a tenured Full Professor and Chair of the Social & Behavioral Health Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in the School of Public Health.  In his career, spanning over 35 years, he has trained/taught over 6,000 health professionals. He has designed and taught a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in health behavior, health education, and health promotion at 13 national and international universities working full-time or part-time. He has worked and provided leadership for local health departments, state health departments/agencies,  federal government agencies, non-profit agencies, professional organizations, and international agencies including governments of other nations. He has been invited as a keynote presenter at several universities. He is a prolific researcher and as of August 2024 had published 15 books, over 400 peer-reviewed research articles, and over 500 other publications (h-index 56, i-10 index over 250, and over 17,000 citations) and secured funding for over $10 million.  He is ranked in the top one percentile of global scientists from 176 subfields by Elsevier and top 0.5% by ScholarGPS. He has been awarded several prestigious honors including the American Public Health Association’s Lyndon Haviland Mentoring Award, ICTHP Impact Award, J. Mayhew Derryberry Award, ATOD Lifetime Achievement Award, and William R. Gemma Distinguished Alumnus Award from the College of Public Health Alumni Society at the Ohio State University among others. His research interests are in developing and evaluating theory-based health behavior change interventions, obesity prevention, stress-coping, community-based participatory research/evaluation, and integrative mind-body-spirit interventions.
 
Websites: https://www.unlv.edu/people/manoj-sharma
https://www.unlv.edu/news/expert/manoj-sharma
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manoj-sharma-18983944/
 
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Ana Hernández-Sauret: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (Effectiveness for Improving Cognitive Control in Depressed Patients)

Ana Hernández-Sauret is a PhD candidate in cognitive neuroscience at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya in Barcelona. Originally from the Canary Islands in Spain, she completed her undergraduate degree in Life Sciences with a specialization in Neuroscience at the University of Aix-Marseille (France). During her final year, she studied at the University of Montreal in Canada. Ana earned her Master’s in Neuroscience at the University of Bordeaux (France), where she completed a six-month internship focusing on hippocampal stimulation in pharmaco-resistant epilepsy patients. After her studies, she developed a strong interest in non-invasive brain stimulation techniques and their potential to treat various mental disorders, which led her to focus her research on this area. Currently, Ana’s work centers on non-invasive brain stimulation, specifically investigating its role in enhancing cognitive control in depression.
 
Ana’s latest paper can be found here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13415-024-01193-w 
 
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Dr. James Lake: The Future of Mental Healthcare

Dr. Lake is a Board-certified psychiatrist who practices on the central California coast. He has chaired symposia and workshops at APA meetings and other national and international conferences on complementary, alternative and integrative mental health care. Dr. Lake has served as a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at Stanford, and the University of Arizona School of Medicine, Center for Integrative Medicine. Dr. Lake founded and chaired the American Psychiatric Association’s Caucus on Complementary, Alternative and Integrative Medicine from 2004 through 2010 and was a founding member and chair of the International Network of Integrative Mental Health. Since 2019 Dr. Lake has been an adjunct Fellow, National Institute of Complementary Medicine, Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University. 
 
Dr. Lake has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles and chapters on integrative medicine and psychiatry, and serves on the editorial review boards of Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, Journal of the Association for Advances in Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, and Jour of Clinical Psychiatry. Dr. Lake is the author or editor of: Chinese Medical Psychiatry: A Clinical Manual, (with Bob Flaws), Blue Poppy Press, 2000; Textbook of Integrative Mental Health Care, Thieme, 2006; Complementary and Alternative Treatments in Mental Health Care (co-edited with David Spiegel), American Psychiatric Press, 2007, Integrative Mental Health Care: A Therapist’s Handbook, Norton, 2009, and An Integrative Paradigm for Mental Health Care: Ideas and Methods Shaping the Future, Springer, 2019. He has also published a series of 10 e-books on integrative mental healthcare intended as self-help guides for patients on the integrative management of depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety, substance abuse and other common mental health problems.
 
Dr. Lake’s website: http://progressivepsychiatry.com/
Dr. Lake’s series of self-help books: https://theintegrativementalhealthsolution.com/ 
 
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