Pacific Brief Therapy Center
PACIFIC
BRIEF THERAPY CENTER
TRAINING COURSES
• BRIEF THERAPY, MRI MODEL
• ANXIETY & DEPRESSION TREATMENT
• HYPNOSIS of MILTON H. ERICKSON
• SELF-HYPNOSIS SKILLS
• PROBLEM-SOLVING FOR ATTORNEYS
• STRESS REDUCTION for HEALTH-CARE
WORKERS
Participants learn the powerful and effective hypnosis skills of Milton H. Erickson, M.D. in the seminar trainings and the Brief Therapy of the masters at the Brief Therapy Center of the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto, CA. Continuing Education Units available.
Mr. Tetreault trained extensively at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto, CA and at Stanford University with John Weakland, LMFT, Paul Watzlawick, PhD, Richard Fisch, MD, and with Jay Haley. His training in Brief Therapy began in 1975 in graduate school at the University of San Francisco.
TRAINER’S EXPERIENCE
Ken received extensive training in Hypnosis at the Milton H. Erickson Foundation in both Phoenix, Arizona and in Buenos Aires, Argentina and frequently, over 20 years, with Dr. William E. Aubry, who studied extensively under Dr. Erickson in Phoenix and with the masters at the Mental Research Institute.
Mr. Tetreault has provided many Brief Therapy and Ericksonian Hypnosis training seminars for physicians, family therapists, psychologists, social workers, nurses, physicians, and dentists throughout Western U.S., in Argentina and Peru.
He was an Ericksonian Hypnosis trainer for the Milton H. Erickson Foundation in Phoenix Affiliate in Buenos Aires, Argentina. All trainings are available in English or Spanish.
PACIFIC
PROBLEM-SOLVING CENTER
We use researched and tested methods which recognize client strengths and focus on resolving the problems and complaints that clients bring to us, We do not diagnose and treat mental disorders. Rather, we treat individuals, couples, and families that experience difficulties that get stuck and repeated and become problems. These are seen as occurring in the context of life’s various stages and experiences that we all go through, defining them in a way that makes them solvable. We help problem of couples and family conflict, stress, feelings of depression and anxiety, pain relief, and children’s misbehavior. We also teach health care professionals Ericksonian Hypnotherapy and Brief Therapy.
Schedule of Activities
- Online and some In-person problem-solving for individuals, couples, children and families.
- Ericksonian Hypnosis Training, Fundamental Level for health care professionals coming soon. REGISTER NOW
- Self-hypnosis Training, available upon request
- Anxiety & Depression: Brief Therapy Approaches, August 14, 2024. 1pm-2:30pm EST, REGISTER NOW
- Problem Solving & Relaxation for Attorneys Webinar May 8, 2024
Ken has over 40 years of professional experience counseling clients. Problem-solving sessions and seminars are online, or in-person. He has provided many training seminars for nurses, psychologists, physicians, family therapists, dentists and social workers in Hypnotherapy and Brief Therapy throughout Western U.S., Argentina and in Peru.
Participants learn the powerful and effective hypnosis skills of Milton H. Erickson, M.D. in the seminar trainings and the Brief Therapy of the masters at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto, CA. Continuing Education Units are applied for. Educational Counseling, Hypnosis, and Brief Therapy trainings are presented in English or Spanish.
Our Approach
• Focus on Client Strengths.
• Actively striving to solve client presenting complaints.
• Aiming for positive results soon rather than later.
• We see individuals, couples, and children.
• Treatment of feelings of Anxiety, Depression, Physical Pain, Conflict.
• No diagnosing & treatment of classifications of mental disorders.
• Problems are seen as unfortunate and sometimes unavoidable difficulties of going through life stages.