IMDHA in health care facilities worldwide.

Camille Harris & Dr. Robert Levine are on staff at the Henry Ford Health System Center for Integrative Medicine. Camille delivers hypnotherapy in the Center for Integrative Medicine (CIM), one of the first to be fully integrated in a major healthcare system.

Camille is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified IMDHA Hypnotherapist. She works with individuals to meet goals such as reducing stress, improving performance, smoking cessation, pain reduction, and preparation for surgery or medical procedures. She uses hypnosis to teach skills that strengthen the mind-body connection and facilitate health and healing.

Levine states: I use hypnotherapy, along with other therapies. I participated in a surgical first, using hypnosis I provided and acupuncture, in place of general and spinal anesthesia. Subconsciously Speaking featured an article about it. I also prepared a bladder cancer client for bladderectomy. The prognosis was that the patient would be in intensive care for 7-10 days. After 3 hypnosis and 3 acupuncture sessions, and use of a self-hypnosis reinforcement CD provided 3 days prior to surgery, the patient avoided intensive care after the 9.5 hr surgery and was discharged in 6 days!

Dr. Levine was recently awarded a $1M grant over 3 years to study multimodal integrative care for chronic low back pain compared to conventional care. Each integrative group has hypnotherapy in a key modality as part of the treatment.

We are funded by the Susan Komen Breast Cancer Foundation (.25M over 2 years) to test acupuncture for alleviating hot flash symptoms in breast cancer patients receiving hormonal therapy. Other funds will be used to add a group to this trial that will receive multimodal care that includes hypnotherapy. We are applying for 2 NIH grants using hypnotherapy as part of the strategy; one for alleviating hot flush symptoms in prostate cancer patients receiving hormonal therapy, and the other to reduce/eliminate symptoms of tinnitus. Later in the year there are more to come!

Dr. Levine is internationally recognized for his research on mechanisms underlying premature nerve cell death in neurological diseases, including Parkinson's disease. He has published numerous scientific articles and edited several books related to his research. He is also an IMDHA Certified hypnotherapist and certified in St. John Neuromuscular Therapy, somatic functional therapy, and acupuncture, a graduate of the Medical Acupuncture for Physicians Program offered by UCLA School of Medicine. He oversees all complementary and integrative medicine research for HFHS and is currently running several clinical trials testing the efficacy of integrative medicine approaches.

Research Contact: Robert A. Levine, Ph.D., Director Complementary and Integrative Medicine (CIM) Research, and William T. Gossett Neurology Laboratories Henry Ford Health System 1 Ford Place, 4D Research Detroit, MI 48202 Phone: [phone] Email: [e-mail]

Diane Pope works at Affiliated Mental Health Center in Tomball, TX. Her sign says: Diane Pope Hypnotherapist. She informs us, Affiliated Mental Health Services is owned and run by a MSW. It is composed of 2 other MSWs, a Licensed Chemical Dependence Counselor and herself. There is also a massage therapist, a health food specialist and a Yoga instructor available.

I contract for space, use of the credit processing, and minimal office help for a split. I have my own office and handle my own advertising. I set my own appointments as I have another office in Houston.

The location has brought referrals from psychiatrists I might have otherwise missed elsewhere. When I find a client whose needs are out of my area of expertise, I refer them to team members and they in turn refer many of their clients to me for hypnosis. On occasion if they hit a block in therapy I do regression work to move things along.

I have the ability to go onto some of their managed care contracts. We have been working under this arrangement for about 5 years and everyone is happy. Email: [e-mail]

Jim Duncan--IMDHA Mentor Chairman speaks by invitation-only on a regular basis at Gilda's Club of Metro Detroit and at Karmanos Cancer Institute. He is a featured presenter during Karmanos' 2004 Annual Cancer Survivorship Celebration. Jim also lectures for Nursing Continuing Education Programs at hospitals and medical facilities as well as for the National Marfan Foundation Support Groups and other support organizations. Email: [e-mail]

Dr. Steven M. Freitag has 3 offices in Texas--Austin, Corpus Christi and San Antonio. He is affiliated with The Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology Group of San Antonio. An office owned and operated by 3 Neurologists, 2 Md's, and 2 psychologists. With 2 locations they see 200+ patients daily. The patients see me for a wide range of issues such as pain management, weight, smoking, self esteem, pre/post surgery or medical procedures. ... As a result, I have opened another office in San Antonio to handle the referrals I receive. I use hypnosis exclusively with these clients. The doctors are very happy with the work I am doing and see how important hypnosis is with their patients.

I also work with the hospice program in the Corpus Christi area. This is done in conjunction with the Christus Health Care Hospitals of Texas. This group sends me to the homes of people in the Hospice program to bring hypnosis to them. This program is under the umbrella of the hospital and is covered by insurance. E-mail: [e-mail] or by phone: [phone].