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Who is Alan

A little past

I have always yearned to be a scientist. 

I have early memories of taking apart a radio, of stars on a clear night, of my chemistry set and mad scientist lab in the basement. I left college with an advanced degree in computer science. My first job was with an electric utility. I spent my career applying computer technology to the efficient and safe generation and transfer of electrical power. I work as a consultant in this area today.

I have always yearned to understand people.

In the early 80’s I realized that my path to joy arises out of creating situations where other people can be creative. I moved into management positions and eventually led teams of up to 35 people on complex control systems projects.

As I moved onto management, I became fascinated with the workings of the human mind. I began to identify similarities and differences between my computer programs and the way the people around me seemed to be locked into specific behavior patterns.

My fascination took me to the work of Bandler and Grindler and Neural Linguistic Programming (NLP). I applied NLP techniques and approaches toward the issues of motivating and directing task-oriented people. As my understanding and effectiveness grew so did my respect for each individual’s experience of human consciousness.

I have always yearned to help people.

I participated in human-potential seminars and retreats as staff and eventually as a speaker. My joy flowered when I played with fellow participants, when I taught college classes, and when I gave demonstrations at the local high school, I find fulfillment in those moments when a light bulb seems to appear brightly over a student’s head.I took formal training and became certified as a Clinical Hypnotherapist by the American Council of Hypnotist Examiners (ACHE). For the past 15 years I have considered hypnosis my avocation. I run a small part-time practice out of my home in Newark, California.

I found a way to fulfill all my yearnings.

My hypnotherapy practice helps me to be grounded in the psychological world just as my consulting practice helps me to be grounded in the engineering world. My associates tell me that my manifestation in both worlds is creative, passionate, inquisitive, and open to learning. My clients tell me that my ability to accept both worlds at the same time helps them to also integrate these seemingly disparate aspects of their own being.

I found a way to contribute to my community.

As the century turned, my practice moved from human potential toward pain management. In 2005 I found myself at a hospital helping a young man deal with the pain of abdominal surgery in the days immediately after a colostomy procedure. An MD witnessed what I was doing and asked if she could work with me. She had experienced a crippling trauma 18 years before and was in constant debilitating pain.

As we worked together over the next year, she grew vibrant, healthy, and pretty much pain free. Together we discovered practices that grew out of the hypnosis mind-model and the medical body-model but seemed to be both unique and universal, both simple and elegant, and both easily accessible and understandable; practices that allow people to become vibrantly alive and pain-free without the need for either formal hypnosis or medical drug-based intervention.