This week on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam welcomes Robert Weisz, Ph.D., retired clinical psychologist, consultant, and trainer whose fifty years of practice have moved fluidly across the worlds of Ericksonian hypnosis, shamanic healing, mindfulness, and nondual Wisdom.
Robert is co-author of the newly released Mindfulness-Based Somatic Emotional Processing: A Guide for Patients and Therapists. He has taught through Southwestern College, the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Webster University, the University of Wyoming, and New Mexico Highlands University, and served as co-founder and director of the Milton Erickson Institute for Clinical Hypnosis and Behavioral Sciences of New Mexico for forty years.
Robert’s path into this work began well before his career did. Born in Lima, Peru, in 1944 to German-Jewish parents who had fled the Holocaust, he spent his early years moving through Peru, Bolivia, and Chile before immigrating to the United States at thirteen. That early experience of exile and adaptation seeded a lifelong curiosity about the human mind and the resilience of the spirit. His doctoral research in Sleep and dreams gave way to decades of clinical practice, community Mental Health work, and a deep involvement with Ericksonian hypnotherapy. Alongside all of this, drawn by the healing potential of altered states, he spent thirty years studying with shamans and healers in Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, and the United States, letting that ancient knowledge shape and inform his clinical understanding.
Together, Sam and Robert explore what it means to help people heal at the meeting place of body, mind, and spirit. They discuss the somatic wisdom the body carries long after the thinking mind has moved on, the emotional patterns that live beneath cognition, and the mindful presence that allows what is held to finally be released. Drawing on Robert’s new book, they look at how mindfulness-based somatic emotional processing offers patients and therapists a grounded, integrative path into deep healing. This episode is an invitation to trust the intelligence of the body, to soften into what wants to be known, and to remember that healing rarely happens through the mind alone.
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