When clients feel trapped in cycles of anxiety, trauma, or depression, small shifts in brain and body can open the way to real change. Bill Wade helps clinicians use clinical hypnosis, neuroscience, and meditation-informed approaches to create those shifts safely and effectively in everyday practice.
Dr Wade is a psychotherapist and international trainer known for integrating the neuroscience of psychotherapy with practical hypnosis skills. He is co‑director of the Milton Erickson Institute of Houston and practices in Houston, Texas, where he works with individuals and couples on anxiety, depression, panic, trauma, relationship enhancement, divorce recovery, parenting, and peak performance. Trained in psychiatry and religion at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, he brings a thoughtful, mind‑body‑spirit perspective to his clinical and teaching work.
Clinically, Dr Wade focuses on how targeted hypnotic interventions and experiential methods can help clients regulate arousal, shift rigid patterns, and build new responses. His work draws on current understandings of the brain in psychotherapy while staying grounded in what actually helps clients feel and function better. In his Houston practice and training roles, he uses hypnosis, meditation, and brief, focused strategies to address anxiety, depression, panic disorder, trauma and post‑traumatic stress, and relational distress. He also works with couples and families to improve communication, rebuild trust, and support healthier patterns after rupture or divorce.
Dr Wade has presented workshops throughout the United States and internationally on clinical hypnosis, meditation, overcoming anxiety and depression, panic disorder, relationship enhancement, divorce recovery, parenting, and peak performance. He is a regular faculty member for Milton H. Erickson Foundation events, including Erickson Congresses and specialty panels such as “Meditation and Hypnosis.” He also teaches experiential courses on hypnosis for trauma and post‑traumatic stress, and has offered trainings on hypnosis and mood and anxiety difficulties.
For your practice, Dr Wade’s teaching is highly applied. Clinicians learn concrete hypnotic language, ways to weave meditation and focused attention into sessions, and strategies to calm the “stress spin cycle” that keeps clients stuck in worry and reactivity. His work is designed to help you strengthen your clients’ self‑regulation, deepen their access to internal resources, and support lasting self‑directed change.
A key theme in his writing and teaching is that when clients understand how their brains and minds work, they can become active partners in change rather than passive recipients of treatment. His co‑authored books, Brain Change Therapy: Clinical Interventions for Self‑Transformation and The Worry‑Free Mind: Train Your Brain, Calm the Stress Spin Cycle, and Discover a Happier, More Productive You, translate neuroscience and hypnosis into step‑by‑step clinical applications.
Qualifications
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Master of Divinity (MDiv), Psychiatry and Religion; Union Theological Seminary, New York City, USA; year unverified
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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD); field, institution, and year unverified
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Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC); Texas, USA
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Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT); Texas, USA
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Clinical Member and Approved Supervisor, American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT)
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Member and Approved Consultant, American Society of Clinical Hypnosis
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Member, International Society of Hypnosis and American Counseling Association
Selected Books
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Brain Change Therapy: Clinical Interventions for Self‑Transformation (2012); Co‑author; W.W. Norton & Company
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The Worry‑Free Mind: Train Your Brain, Calm the Stress Spin Cycle, and Discover a Happier, More Productive You (2017); Co‑author; Career Press
Teaching & Roles
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Co‑Director, Milton Erickson Institute of Houston; Houston, Texas, USA
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Psychotherapist, Institute for Family Psychology; Houston, Texas, USA
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International trainer in neuroscience of psychotherapy and clinical hypnosis; workshops throughout the United States and abroad
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Former review editor, Milton Erickson Foundation Newsletter; Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Consider joining Dr Wade’s course if you want clinically grounded, neuroscience‑informed hypnosis tools you can use immediately to help clients calm distress, process trauma, and build more flexible, resilient lives.