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.
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
Dr. 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 conducts his limited private practice via Telehealth
“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 and Daniel Blackwood have written a book/manual about MBSEP 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.
“Our Body Holds The Truth: The Art and Practice of Witnessing Emotion”
“Mindfulness-Based Somatic Emotional Processing: A Guide for Laypersons and Therapists”