A Brief Profile: Maureen Finnerty Turner, RNBC, LCMHC, LCSW, ASCH-Approved Consultant who pioneered in developing new techniques in psychotherapy since 1972, when she founded C.O.P.E. (Coping with the Overall Pregnancy/Parenting Experience) – which became the first ever Licensed Mental Health Clinic to specialize in Pregnancy and Parenting Issues. Turner was the CEO for 20 years and brought programming to over 60 communities in the Boston area including hospitals, high schools and youth programs.She has used her extensive background in nursing, psychotherapy, child development and in parenting issues of the past 60 years to develop innovative hypno-analytic techniques, such as the Turner Somatic-Affect Bridge Technique and the “Turner Rescue Mission,” a protocol to help facilitate the re-integration of traumatic experiences. The Elman-Turner Induction Technique is an adaptation of the well-known David Elman Rapid Induction that adds on - both a Self-Hypnosis and Trance Depth Anchoring technique.Turner has been specializing in Hypnotherapy for the past 15 years and has taught hypnosis to thousands of individuals and has facilitated many thousands of Rescue Missions. In 2006, Maureen moved to Burlington, Vermont and has established a full-time practice with offices in Downtown Burlington and in rural Isle La Motte, VT. In Fall, 2008, Linda Thomson, MSN, APRN, ABMH and Maureen Turner Co-Founded and Co-Directed Hypnovations: Clinical Hypnosis Education and Training Programs, a Division of Motivation Hypnosis, which Turner founded in 2001.Thomson and Turner are presently the only two ASCH-Approved Consultants in Vermont.Sponsoring three ASCH-Approved Clinical Hypnosis Training Programs within 53 weeks, Thomson and Turner had over 130 registrants participate in the Hypnovations Basic, Intermediate and Advanced Programs with 5 Faculty members. Coming this Fall, Oct. 2-3, 2010, one of the Great Masters in the Clinical Hypnosis community, Dabney Ewin, M.D., ABMH, author of Ideomotor Signals for Rapid Hypnoanalysis: A How To Manual (2006) and 101 Things I Wish I’d Known When I Started Using Hypnosis (2009). Please see the Tab for Dr. Ewin's workshop on this website. For the Upcoming Age Regression beginning on Tuesday, October 19th, please see below.
