Dr. Robert Weisz
Robert Weisz is a clinical psychologist, consultant, educator, trainer, and life coach in private practice in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Dr. Weisz is the developer of Mindfulness – Based Emotional Processing (MBEP), a focused approach to support emotional processing in counseling and psychotherapy. MBEP can be used in the integration phase of psychedelic sessions.
Dr. Robert Weisz was born in Lima, Peru, in 1944. His parents were German Jewish refugees from the Holocaust. He lived in Peru, Bolivia, and Chile before immigrating to the USA in 1957 at the age of thirteen. Dr. Weisz earned an MA in psychology and a Ph.D. in clinical/community psychology from the University of Wyoming. During graduate school years, he conducted research and authored a number of articles in scientific journals in the field of sleep and dreams. Dr. Weisz served as an officer with the US Army Medical Service Corps. In 1980, he cofounded the Milton Erickson Institute for Clinical Hypnosis and Behavioral Sciences of New Mexico.
His interest in the healing potential of altered states of consciousness and psychedelics led to a 30-year study of the healing process and a return to his native South America to study with shamans and healers in Peru, Ecuador, the USA, and Brazil.
Dr. Weisz has served as an educator on the faculties of the University of Wyoming, Southwestern College, Webster University, and the Clinical Faculty at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. He is the co-author, with Deuter (1991), of a series of eight hypnotherapeutic audio healing journeys published by Health Communications, Inc., and now available in CD format. Dr. Weisz is deeply interested in the spiritual/philosophical path of Nonduality. In private practice since 1980, Dr. Weisz lives and practices in Santa Fe, NM.