Mission Statement

The mission of The Parsons-Fein Training Institute for Psychotherapy and Hypnosis, Inc. (PFTI) is to train therapists and other health care professionals in the language, art and science of unconscious communication and healing as developed and practiced by Milton H. Erickson, MD, Virginia Satir, Moshe Feldenkrais, and Kay Thompson, DDS. Each had a unique dialogue with the unconscious and was a master hypnotist. By working with the multi-layered interweaving of these approaches, therapists can use their own unconscious processes to help their patients and clients access their own unique, creative unconscious resources.

PFTI promotes a therapeutic paradigm in which natural unconscious communication becomes clear, and its relationship to the bodymind is demystified. This process can then become a tool that can be used in all theoretical models.

As Virginia Satir said, "Few training programs really work with the person of the therapist." PFTI focuses on the hypnotherapeutic relationship as the context in which two or more people grow in their work together. Tapping into the moment-to-moment shifting unconscious connections with their patients/clients, therapists develop their own artistry as they accept, deepen and expand their shared experience.

PFTI training fosters the personal refinement of the art of being a therapist rather than doing therapy. We are committed to amplifying this creative process in everyone who comes to our trainings. We are also committed to accessing and evoking new and creative tools that maintain the rigor and vigor of masterful work.

A final goal is to develop the expanding professional community established at PFTI to support and enhance the growth of its members.

The Institute is incorporated in the State of New York.


Develop your own technique. Be your own natural self.
Milton H. Erickson, MD