Participants will be introduced to an integration of behavioral health care, Qigong, and psychotherapy stemming from Dr. Mayer’s thirty years of private practice and testing this combined approach in an integrated medical clinic that he cofounded. Qigong (of which Tai Chi is the best known system) is a many-thousand-year-old method of self-healing practice which can be done with movements or in stillness. You’ll learn how to integrate Qigong into psychotherapy without using Qigong movements, and without mentioning Qigong. Combining theory, case illustrations and research, this integral bodymind healing approach can help alleviate anxiety, hypertension, chronic pain, insomnia, etc.

Michael Mayer, Ph.D., licensed psychologist, hypnotherapist, and Qigong/Tai Chi teacher, specializes in self-healing methods for health problems, and presents his approach to bodymind healing at professional conferences, national/international workshops, universities and hospitals. He was cofounder of, and a practitioner at, a multidisciplinary medical clinic practicing integrative medicine. Dr. Mayer pioneered the integration of Qigong and psychotherapy, and was the first person in the United States to train doctoral psychology students in these methods. He is an award-winning author of 12 publications on bodymind healing including peer-reviewed articles and his most recent book, Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy: Ancient Pathways to Modern Health.