Tom Zinser, Ed.D. is a hypnotherapist 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 in private practice in 1980. In 1987, he was specializing in the treatment of dissociative disorders when he met Katharine Mackey who channeled a spirit entity named Gerod. After several sessions with Gerod, Dr. Zinser established a clinical collaboration with Gerod that continued for 14 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 recently completed a book about his collaboration with Gerod and the healing methods that emerged from it. Book.
Dr. Zinser offers spiritual counseling and hypnotherapy to individuals and couples who wish to—or need 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, Soul-Centered Healing expands this framework and vision to include the psychic and spirit dimensions of a person as well.