Christa Mackinnon
MSc, DFC, PgDHyp, FBSCH, FBAMH, GHR, RSM
http://www.christamackinnon.com/
I read Psychology and Sociology at Berlin University and then worked as a lecturer and researcher at the university. I subsequently trained as a family counsellor, specialising in trauma, PTSD and related issues and later, after moving to the UK, as a clinical hypnotherapist. My lifelong fascination with the functioning of the human mind and altered states of consciousness has led me to explore spiritual and shamanic approaches to mental healing in different parts of the world. I have lived and studied in Ashrams in Asia, have been apprenticed to Yachak Shamans under Don Esteban Tamayo in Ecuador, and trained with John Perkins and Sandra Ingerman in the USA and Annie Spencer in the UK.
http://www.christamackinnon.com/
I read Psychology and Sociology at Berlin University and then worked as a lecturer and researcher at the university. I subsequently trained as a family counsellor, specialising in trauma, PTSD and related issues and later, after moving to the UK, as a clinical hypnotherapist. My lifelong fascination with the functioning of the human mind and altered states of consciousness has led me to explore spiritual and shamanic approaches to mental healing in different parts of the world. I have lived and studied in Ashrams in Asia, have been apprenticed to Yachak Shamans under Don Esteban Tamayo in Ecuador, and trained with John Perkins and Sandra Ingerman in the USA and Annie Spencer in the UK.
I am a Fellow of the British Society of Clinical Hypnosis, a founder member of the Society of Medical Hypnosis and a member of the General Hypnotherapy Register and the Royal Society of Medicine.
Over many years, I have worked as a therapist, specialising in trauma, child abuse, PTSD and related mental/emotional issues. I have also provided training and consultancy on these issues for different organisations and professionals, ranging from the police and probation services to mental health services, counsellors and therapists, here as well as in Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Northern Uganda. In parallel with my work as a trauma specialist, I was for 12 years the South West course director and a senior lecturer for the London College of Clinical Hypnosis, working in partnership with Thames Valley University.
I now live in Devon and my focus has slightly shifted. I concentrate mainly on writing, running CPD courses for hypnotherapists and personal development workshops, combining indigenous and spiritual approaches with Western-style therapy. I still provide special study units on the subjects of trauma and PTSD, as well as Clinical Hypnosis, in my capacity as an Honorary Fellow at Peninsula Medical School, Universities of Exeter and Plymouth.
