Robert Weisz, Ph.D. is the creator of Mindfulness-Based Somatic Emotional Processing.
Dr. Weisz trains professionals who want to broaden their scope of mind/body therapies.
Dr. Robert Weisz is a retired clinical psychologist, consultant, educator, trainer, and life coach in limited private practice in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Dr. Weisz is the developer of Mindfulness-Based Somatic Emotional Processing (MBSEP), a new and highly focused approach to activate and support emotional processing in counseling and psychotherapy.
Dr. Robert Weisz, MBSEP Developer
Robert Weisz was born in Lima, Peru, in 1944. His parents were German Jewish refugees from the Holocaust. He lived in Peru, Bolivia, and Chile before immigrating to the USA in 1957 at the age of thirteen. After graduating from high school, he attended the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology for three years before graduating in psychology and philosophy at the University of South Dakota.
Dr. Weisz earned an MA in psychology and a Ph.D. in clinical/community psychology from the University of Wyoming. During graduate school years, he conducted research and authored a number of articles in scientific journals in the field of sleep and dreams. After graduate work at the University of Wyoming, Dr. Weisz completed a 1-year clinical internship in Wichita, Kansas, then served as an officer with the US Army Medical Service Corps.
Licensed as a psychologist in 1972, Dr. Weisz managed a comprehensive community mental health center in Gillette, Wyo. from 1972 to 1979. He authored two chapters in books about mental health in boom towns.
Dr. Weisz moved to New Mexico in 1979, took a year sabbatical, then began private practice and a 26-year involvement in Ericksonian Hypnotherapy as a trainer and practitioner. In 1980, he cofounded the Milton Erickson Institute for Clinical Hypnosis and Behavioral Sciences of New Mexico. His interest in the healing potential of altered states of consciousness led to 30 years of healing work and travel to his native South America to study with shamans and healers in Peru, Ecuador, the USA, and Brazil.
Dr. Weisz has served as an educator on the faculties of the University of Wyoming, Southwestern College, Webster University, and the Clinical Faculty at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine.
He is the co-author, with Deuter (1991), of a series of eight hypnotherapeutic audio healing journeys published by Health Communications, Inc., and now available in CD format. Dr. Weisz is deeply interested in the spiritual/philosophical path of Nonduality.
His favorite activities include hiking, kayaking, snowshoeing, SCUBA diving, poetry, animal psychology, photography, and the investigation of consciousness. In private practice since 1980, Dr. Weisz now lives and practices in Santa Fe, NM.
“I am very fortunate to have been engaged for over 50 years in work that I loved and which brought me into deep, authentic, and rewarding contact with my clients. In 2013, I developed a new therapy modality which is now known as Mindfulness-Based Somatic Emotional Processing (MBSEP). MBSEP supports deep, intrinsic emotional processing and facilitates emotional maintenance through mindful, nonjudgmental attention and awareness of the body’s experience of emotionally charged issues or memories. My mission now is to make the MBSEP skills available to all those who wish to learn them.”
Dr. Weisz lives 25 miles northeast of Santa Fe, with partner Diane, two dogs, two cats, and many tree friends in a country home on ten acres of beautiful mountain land.
Dr. Weisz is able to work via Telehealth with a very limited number of clients who can self-pay. (see practice information)
Dr. Weisz and Daniel Blackwood have written a 20 chapter, 372-page book about MBSEP for laypersons and health care practitioners, titled
Minding the Body, Embodying the Mind
Mindfulness-Based Somatic Emotional Processing:
A Guide for Laypersons and Therapists
The book is available for sale through this website for $25.00 + S&H. Go to the SERVICES page for details on purchasing the book or CLICK HERE to access the order form.
About Daniel Blackwood, MA, LPCC
Daniel Blackwood, MA, LPCC is the co-creator of Mindfulness-Based Somatic Emotional Processing (MBSEP).
Daniel Blackwood trains professionals who want to broaden their scope of mind/body therapies, here at our lovely campus in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Daniel Blackwood began working in the field in 1984 and obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and his Master’s in Counseling from the University of New Mexico in 1988. After ten years of practice Daniel founded the Evolution Group, Inc. in 1988, where he serves with a team of talented clinicians and administrative staff.
Daniel Blackwood, Co-Author MBSEP
Daniel specializes in trauma recovery, and works with individuals, couples and partners who want to recover from intimacy issues, from gambling problems, as well as recovery from other mental illnesses and addictions.
Author of “Integrity Recovery”, and Co-Author of “Minding the Body, Embodying the Mind”, Daniel teaches, supervises, and loves the work of therapy and the results that it can bring to the clients he serves.
“Through the warm and respectful bond that exists between us, my clients have an opportunity to heal from trauma and come to have clarity about how they feel. They begin to make new choices for themselves. They feel better, have more flow in their lives, and learn to choose and act with more mindful intention. My clients learn that they are deep, mysterious, and wonderfully unique. I find that down deep my clients, my colleagues, and people in general, are whole and the point of therapy is to empower the wholeness that lies within them. My mission is to light the way.”