Peter Hawkins is a founder director, and currently President of the European School of Psychotherapy. He is also a visiting professor in hypnosis and psychotherapy at ISMAI in Portugal. Peter has been involved in hypnosis and psychotherapy at ISMAI in Portugal. Peter has been involved in hypnosis and psychotherapy training in many countries during the past 30 years, and is presently teaching courses for clinicians in Italy, Spain and Portugal. He has written several books on hypnotherapy, which have been translated into several languages including Russian, Chinese, Greek and Spanish, as well as numerous clinical and research papers. He is Co-Director of two Erickson Institutes, in Madrid and Northern Portugal (Porto), and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the European Journal of Clinical Hypnosis. He is a former Chartered Counselling and Health Psychologist and has directed several European Union projects in counselling and health psychology in Romania, Uzbekistan and countries of Western Europe. He has frequently presented paper s and workshops at international conferences.