Theodore A. Benton M.Ed., CI

Theodore A. Benton, a liberal arts graduate from St. Edward's University and Boston University, is the founder of the original Benton's Hypnosis Clinic in Winchester, Massachusetts. He originally trained as a clinical hypnotherapist with the American Board of Hypnotherapy (ABH), the International Association of Counselors and Therapists (IACT), and is a Certified Instructor for basic hypnotherapy certification programs with the American Board of Hypnotherapy. Benton also regularly undertakes APA-approved clinical hypnotherapy CEU's with Daniel Brown Ph.D., following his appointment at Winchester Hospital as staff clinical hypnotherapist. He also serves as a therapist-provider at the Department of Adolescent Medicine at Children's Hospital in Boston.

Ted Benton runs certifying classes four months yearly in the greater Boston area, and also writes a quarterly column "Applied Hypnotherapy" for The Journal of Hypnotism. He is the author of several papers on various aspects of hypnotherapy including "Hypnotherapy, Golf and Tennis", "Depression and Hypnotherapy", "Cancer, Chemotherapy and Hypnotherapy", and "Children and Hypnotherapy". Ted Benton is the co-author of "Hypnotherapy for AD/HD: Preliminary Evidence for its Effectiveness". This paper was delivered at the national Convention for the American Psychological Association in Chicago, August 21, 2002. Benton was also a contributor to the AAMH Journal as well as to IACT's Unlimited Human, and has appeared nationally on television on the Discovery Channel as guest speaker on hypnotherapy featuring Weight Loss and Internet Addiction. In February 2004, Ted Benton was featured as the main speaker at the National Convention for the American Board of Hypnotherapy in Irvine, CA. In October 2008, Ted Benton was a featured speaker at the annual convention of the Association for Professional Hypnosis and Psychotherapy in London, England, where he spoke on the Applications of Hypnotherapy with Children.

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