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About Linda Thomson

Dr. Linda Thomson has been a nurse practitioner for nearly 50 years. She is a Past-President and Fellow of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis (ASCH) and also served as Moderator of the ASCH Board of Governors. Linda is an Approved Consultant in Clinical Hypnosis, the first nurse to ever have been awarded Diplomate status on the American Board of Medical Hypnosis, and is a Diplomate and Past President of the American Board of Hypnosis in Nursing. She is also on the Council of Representatives of the International Society of Hypnosis and a member of Hypnosis Without Borders.

Linda was awarded the prestigious William Wester Award for her significant contributions to the field of hypnosis as applied to the treatment of children and research in the application of hypnosis with children. Linda received the Josephine Hilgard Award for Best Paper on Pediatric Uses of Hypnosis. She has also been the recipient of four President's Awards from ASCH and the ASCH Award of Merit on two occasions. In 2022 ASCH awarded Linda the Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2025 she received a second Lifetime Achievement award for Clinical Hypnosis Education and Training. From Hartwick College, Linda has received the Outstanding Young Alumna Award, Distinguished Nursing Alumna Award, Meritorious Service Award and the President's Award for Liberal Arts in Practice.

Linda has published on a wide variety of subjects in professional journals in the United States, Europe and Australia and has contributed book chapters for both nursing and hypnosis texts. She is the author of the popular Harry Hypnopotamus Tales Volumes 1 & 2. "Stress Free Surgery: A Self Relaxation Program to Help you Prepare for and Recover from Surgery" is a CD program she created to help surgical patients. Linda was also the creator of Harry Hypnopotamus Imagination Cards, Learning the Lingo of Language Cards, COVID 19, a Hypnopotamus and You, and Harry Goes to Help the Children of Ukraine.

She is co-founder of Hypnovations: Clinical Hypnosis Education and Training Programs and the sole proprietor of Hypnosis for Health and Healing. Linda has lectured and taught clinical hypnosis workshops across the country and around the world educating health care professionals about the incredibly efficacious, yet underutilized therapeutic modality of clinical hypnosis.