Randal Churchill

Randal Churchill is founder of HTI, which became one of the first licensed hypnotherapy schools in 1978. He is President of the American Council of Hypnotist Examiners, the original and primary Hypnotherapy Certification organization. He received his degree in Psychology with Honors from Sonoma State University and has completed over 35,000 hours of exceptional hypnotherapy in a practice that began upon completion of his initial training with legendary Gil Boyne in 1968.

Randal has received international acclaim for his creative and comprehensive therapy and teaching skills. An intuitive, highly supportive therapist, he is originator of Hypnotic Dreamwork™ and has been a pioneering leader for over 30 years of Gestalt therapy, regression, advanced ideomotor methods, and the assimilation of various modalities with hypnotherapy.

Randal Churchill's seminal Become the Dream, is the first book about the integration of dreamwork and hypnotherapy. His 430-page text, Regression Hypnotherapy, teaches his revolutionary work in overcoming the effects of trauma. Experts have called it the most important book about regression ever published. Both books have received the A.C.H.E.'s Founders Award for Excellence in Professional Literature.

Randal has taught at numerous conferences and institutions, including teaching psychiatrists at Napa State Hospital. He is on the Board of Advisors of the Gestalt Institute of Austin and a member of the Association for Humanistic Psychology. The subject of a television documentary about his exceptional work, he has been interviewed by many media sources including the BBC, PBS and Japanese television.