Clinton Clay, LCSW, is a licensed social worker having received his MSW from Florida State School of Social Work in 1956. He began his career as a social case worker with the Marshall County Department of Public Welfare in 1949, and has had more than fifty years experience, including public agencies, private not for profit agency, the US Army, a private practice in a psychiatric group, and finally, the past seven years in private independent practice. Always interested in new, innovative, and effective treatment approaches, he moved from the psychoanalytic approach to Rogerian client centered therapy, Behavior Modification, Rational Emotive Therapy, Transactional Analysis-Gestalt, and since 1980, has been extensively involved in Neuro Linguistic Programming, Hypnosis, EMDR and Energy Therapies.

He completed several levels of NLP training, becoming a Practitioner, Master Practitioner, Associate Trainer and Trainer. He also completed a special NLP program in Health and Wellness, and served as coach one year in that program. Having received his advancing certifications through the Southern Institute and NLP International with Ed and Maryann Reese, he was deeply interesting in a diversity of training programs and had significant periods of training with Steven and Connie Rae Andreas, Todd Epstein and Robert Dilts, Tad James, and others. Hypnosis has been a profound part of his life and practice for twenty years. He has studied hypnosis with some of the world's most highly recognized authorities, among whom were: Ed Reese, MSW, author lecturer and trainer; May Ann Reese, MS, therapist and international trainer; Robert Dilts, internationally known as an author, teacher, and developer of NLP therapy techniques; Stephen Lankton, MSW, international trainer, author and member of the ASCH (American Society of Clinical Hypnosis) Board; Ernest Rossi, PhD, author and internationally famous teacher; Carol Erickson, MA, daughter of Milton Erickson, teacher and therapist; Richard Bandler, co-founder of NLP, international trainer and developer of new therapies. Others include Michael Yapko PhD; Carl Hammerschlog, M.D.; William O'Hanlon, PhD; Jeffrey Zeig, PhD; Stephen Gilligan, PhD: Betty Alice Erickson, MS, LPS, LMFT.

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