♦ Alternative Practitioner Academy ♦ Illinois State Licensed School ♦

APA Staff & Faculty
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"You are the only hypnosis training center you can trust to provide adequate information from the best teachers" ~ Evelyn Walsh, CH

	Michael Smith, CH, CI APA Director Michael Smith is Certified in Clinical Hypnotherapy by the Leidecker Institute - the Alternative Practitioner Academy - and also by the National Guild of Hypnotists. He is also an NGH Certified Instructor. He loves hypnotherapy and is devoted to help our students to set up a successful practice and provide any help they need.

	Art Leidecker, BCH The Founder of the school Art Leidecker is a Board Certified Hypnotherapist/Instructor with the National Guild of Hypnotists, a Certified Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP) Instructor, and President of the International Association of Medical and Therapeutic Specialists. Along with teaching Certification Courses to new hypnotists, he has also trained doctors, psychologists, counselors, and hypnotherapists.

	Rev. C. Scot Giles, D.Min. National Guild Certified Instructor: Complementary Medical Hypnotism Scot Giles holds Bachelor's and Master's Degrees from the University of Connecticut, Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa as well as Doctor of Ministry Degree from Meadville/Lombard Theological School at the University of Chicago With Highest Distinction and two academic prizes. He also sits on the Advisory Board of the National Guild of Hypnotists.
Dr. Giles has won its highest awards, including the North Award for Lifetime Achievement, the President's Award, and the Hypnosis Research Award; he has been inducted into the Order of James Braid, the international honor society for hypnotism and ranks as a Certified Instructor and Diplomate of the National Guild of Hypnotists which are the highest levels of recognition that can be earned.

	Tatiana Korol, CH Tatiana Korol is our gifted instructor from Ukraine. In addition to certification in Complementary Medical & Clinical Hypnotism by the Leidecker Institute and by the National Guild of Hypnotists she is a Certified HypnoBirthing® Fertility Therapist. She is also creator of the Inner Transformation Therapies (ITT) - a new and unique framework that delivers long lasting or permanent
results to clients with a wide variety of issues. This system has shown to be very effective for clients with physical issues like cancer, infertility, cysts, diabetes, blood clods or pressure, and more. Here is how hypnotherapy students rated her as an instructor: "Competent, knowledgeable, well-versed in every facet of hypnotherapy and able to explain & answer questions explicitly" ~ Dave Jordan, IL

	Drake Eastburn, BCH Drake is a Board Certified Hypnotherapist and a Certified Instructor. He is a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist through the American Council of Hypnotist Examiners (ACHE), and is also certified through the Alchemical Hypnotherapy Institute, and the Transformational Hypnotherapy Association. He has been practicing hypnotism for over 30 years and is known as a man who put half of Colorado to sleep.
Drake has been featured on local television news and radio, and in print media including the Denver Post. Drake also developed several courses, including The power of the Past (Regression training), Puffed Enuff (TM) - a highly specialized smoking cessation program for hypnotherapists, Suggestion Management, and more.

	Lynsi Eastburn, BCH Gestalt-based Hypnotherapy, Fertility Therapist Certification Training Lynsi is a Board Certified Hypnotherapist. She specializes in HypnoBirthing, Fertility Training and is best-selling author of "It's Conceivable". Lynsi is a world-wide known instructor of her own program HypnoBirthing Fertility Therapist Certification. Her Hypnosis for Fertility program has the best possible proof of its success - BABIES!

	Mark Masi, PsyD, CH Mark received his doctorate in clinical psychology from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology in 1993. As he continued clinical work in his practice, he began to discover that his patients seemed to need more than the traditional “dialogue” or talking forms of therapy to help in the healing process.
In 2003, he completed a certification training in Bach Flower Therapy through the British Homeopathic Institute and Level I and II Reiki. After practicing this healing modality for three years, he completed the Advanced Reiki and Master Training. "I believe that by integrating Reiki, hypnosis, and the Bach Flower Remedies this is made possible everyday for all who are open to experience emotional, physical and spiritual transformation", Mark says. And this is what he teaching in our school.