The Milton H. Erickson Institute of the Bay Area (MHEIBA) is an association of licensed professional therapists and Guild Certified Feldenkrais practitioners, all of whom have added therapeutic hypnosis to their practices.

The Milton H. Erickson Foundation authorizes Erickson Institutes world-wide to pursue the ethical practice of and training in Ericksonian hypnotherapy and related methods of healing. Our institute was founded in 1994 and has more than 40 associates. Our Board of Directors includes Betty Alice Erickson, MPT, LPC, a daughter of Milton Erickson and a renowned practitioner in her own right, and Eric Greenleaf, PhD., whom Dr. Erickson chose to receive the first Milton H. Erickson Award of Scientific Excellence for Writing in Hypnosis.

Treatment and education are what we offer to our patients. Healing and learning are what they do within themselves. Communication and relationship invite healing within the person. This therapy provides means for effective communication, relationship and attention, based on the work of Milton Erickson, MD in medical hypnosis, psychotherapy and child development.

Our practitioners hold licenses in psychology, marriage and family therapy, clinical social work, nursing and medicine. We are in all ways a diverse group of highly expert and experienced professionals.

Our individual practices are located throughout the San Francisco Bay Area from Sacramento to San Mateo, and in Marin, San Francisco and the East Bay. We incorporate a very wide range of specialties and methods for therapy and healing of the mind and body.

Our members provide a wide range of professional trainings and workshops, locally and throughout the world. We teach Ericksonian hypnosis, conflict resolution, Gesalt therapy, grief work, workplace relations, and many other topics.