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About Tracie O'Keefe

I am an eclectic therapist with my roots based in Ericksonian (Milton) hypnotherapy/psychotherapy. For me as a therapist, Ericksonianism is the most effective and certainly the most economical way for a client to find their way forward. I’m simply not interested in seeing clients for a long time and chose my discipline because of the amazing help I knew that Ericksonian therapists could initiate in their clients.

Sometimes the client and I use NLP techniques, along with brief effective therapy. My turnaround time is 1 to 6 sessions, a maximum of 12 sessions for deep seated problems, but normally we work so fast and effectively that the clients are seldom in therapy for long. My philosophy is to assist the client to become their own self-healer, helper and motivator. I am simply a mind mechanic who can suggest which button, lever and switch might be used to effect the change required.

One of my special fields is sex, gender and sexuality. I am the author of the books Trans-X-U-All: The Naked Difference and Sex, Gender & Sexuality: 21st Century Transformations. Click here (www.extraordinarypeoplepress.com) for more information and to order these titles. I am also co-editor of Finding the Real Me: True Tales of Sex and Gender Diversity (published by Jossey Bass, a division of John Wiley & Co). I have taught in this subject in the National Health Service in the UK, as well as teaching communications skills to sexual health workers. My special project has been the development of the Pan-identity Model of Sex, Gender and Sexuality, and my work has been reviewed in several international academic publications, including the European Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, The Psychotherapist, Journal of Sex Research and the American Journal of Psychiatry.

I am fascinated and devoted to human development through therapeutic approaches combined with hypnosis. I am the author of the books Investigating Stage Hypnosis and Self-Hypnosis for Life: Mind, Body & Spiritual Excellence. Click here for more details and how to order these titles.

I regularly speak, lecture, teach and hold workshops on a wide variety of topics. I have spoken and lectured at conferences at Oxford University, Manchester University, the London School of Economics, University of Liverpool, University of Plymouth, University of Sussex, University of Southampton, University of Glasgow, University of Nottingham, University of Newcastle, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, and Conway Hall in the UK, and at the University of Toulouse in France. I came to Australia in 2001 and have spoken at a range of conferences, including the inaugural Women in Depression Conference in 2006.

I was the editorial director of Hypnosis Australia Online Journal between 2001 and 2009.

I am also a naturopath and medical herbalist who is trained in nutritional medicine.

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I am a member of the following organisations:

Association of Solution Oriented Counsellors & Hypnotherapists of Australia (ASOCHA)

Australian Society of Sex Educators, Researchers & Therapists (ASSERT)

Psychotherapy & Counselling Federation of Australia (on national register) (PACFA)

Australian Naturopathic Practitioners Association (ANPA)

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, (Associate Member)

World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) - (formerly Harry Benjamin International Gender Dsyphoria Association)

Trans-Essex (Patron)

Gendys Network (Patron)

Sex And Gender Education Foundation (SAGE) Steering Committee

International Transgender Film Festival (Patron)

T-Image Foundation, Netherlands (International Adviser)