Thomas Zinser Ed.D

Thomas Zinser, Ed.D. is a hypnotherapist, author, and international speaker with a private practice in Grand Rapids, MI. He holds degrees from the University of Notre Dame (B.A.), Xavier University (M.Ed), and received his doctorate in Counseling Psychology from Texas A&M University:Commerce in 1977. After serving as a staff psychologist at a local psychiatric hospital, Dr. Zinser started a private practice in 1980. In 1987, he was specializing in hypnosis and the treatment of dissociative disorders when he met Katharine Mackey who channeled a spirit entity named Gerod. Through Katharine, Gerod offered information about specific clients that was helpful in their treatment. He also offered information about spiritual and metaphysical realities in general. After several sessions with Gerod, Dr. Zinser established a clinical collaboration with Gerod that continued for fifteen years. In addition to helping clients, this collaboration led to an unprecedented mapping of psychic and spirit dimensions of the self. The result was an approach to healing which he called Soul-Centered Healing. Dr. Zinser tells the story of this collaboration, and the healing methods that emerged from it, in his book, Soul-Centered Healing: A Psychologist’s Extraordinary Journey into the Realms of Sub-Personalities, Spirits, and Past Lives. Two subsequent books, The Practice of Soul-Centered Healing, Vols. I & II, were published in 2013 and 2016 respectively. These books are written for hypnotherapists who wish to incorporate methods of SCH into their own work. They are instructional manuals describing the protocols and procedures and the different phenomena one can encounter in the healing process. For the non-professional, but interested reader, the books present a great deal more information on the psychic and spiritual dimensions of the self and reality. Dr. Zinser offers spiritual counseling and Soul-Centered Healing to individuals who wish to address these psychic and spiritual dimensions in their own healing process. Soul-Centered Healing accepts the validity and importance of what we currently know about the physical, emotional, and psychological levels of an individual. However, it expands this framework and vision to include the psychic and spirit dimensions of a person as well.