Greg McHugh

Greg holds a BA in Sociology from the University of Denver.

Greg was trained in Client Centered Therapy (1965-67), training in Gestalt Therapy at Esalen Institute of Big Sur, California (1967) and at the Gestalt Institute of Multiple Psychotherapy in San Francisco (1968 -71). He also had a practice at the Gestalt Institute of Multiple Psychotherapy and in Nevada County, California in 1970-72.

During the period of 9 years from 1972-79 received intensive spiritual training and initiation in the Ancient Mysteries in a semi monastic Christian Mystery school and provided on going spiritual counseling and training during the latter half of that period. 

Since 1990 Greg has received certification in Alchemical Hypnotherapy from the Alchemical Hypnotherapy Institutes, Santa Rosa, California and Seattle, received certification in Cellular Release Therapy as created by Anne DeChenne Drucker of Parker, Colorado. I have received training in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) at the Institute for Therapeutic Learning, Seattle. 

Greg received further training at the Colorado School of Counseling and Hypnotherapy Training and certified as a Clinical Hypnotherapist by the Association for Transpersonal Psychology and Hypnotherapy. 

He is an Instructor in Hypnotherapy credentialed by the Colorado Department of Higher Education, and has been teaching the New Regression Therapy and Spirit Releasement to students and professionals for over 10 years.

The author of three professional manuals: Regression Therapy; Gestalt Therapy Applied to Hypnotherapy; Remote Work, a Manual for Professionals on Remote Regression and Remote Spirit Releasement.

In 2010 he published a book for professional therapists and students called "The New Regression Therapy". 

Greg served on the Board of Directors of the Colorado Association of Psychotherapists from 2000 to 2009 and is now an Honorary Lifetime Member. Additionally, he also is a co-founder and President of the Golden Portal Institute and Secretary of The International Board for Regression Therapy (www.ibrt.org)

TRANSPERSONAL  HYPNOTHERAPY
This approach is one that recognizes and incorporates Spirit, Divine Presence and the unlimited resources of the clients Inner Being in the healing of trauma, negative emotional patters, and destructive relationships with oneself and others.

TRADITIONAL PAST LIFE THERAPY, REGRESSION THERAPY, & THE NEW REGRESSION THERAPY
Most of the negative emotional patterns of experience, trauma and negative conditioning experienced by a person in this life have been created by the emotional charged fields and beliefs associated  with trauma or difficult experiences in prior lives or early in this life. These fields or "energetic signatures" (called Sanskara in Hinduism and in Buddhism) are held within the soul like impressions on photographic film. A great deal of our experience in the outer world, feelings and beliefs we have about ourselves, or experiences in relationships with others is then colored, created, or magnetized by the beliefs, emotional charge or residue of those fields.

You could say that the "movie" of our life is, in large part, really a projection of the Light of our own Inner Being (Self) through that film, through those fields and memories still vibrating and alive within the soul. Our "movie" is then populated with people, events feelings and experiences that have arisen from those fields within our soul to be addressed with healing, learning, and growth.

In traditional regression and past life therapy the client is placed in a deeply relaxed state (though completely conscious) and expresses their intention to their subconscious to be taken to the root causal life of the current problem or theme. A good therapist will encourage them to feel the critical events in the past life and be "in" them thus allowing catharsis, often a critical element in healing and insight in the dynamics of the Sanskara. This may include a reviewing or reliving of the death experience in that causal life and some therapists may guide the client into the experience of the 'Life Between Lives"(also known as the Interlife or heaven worlds) . They then may revisit the events they had just been in in that life and reframe or rescript those events using their conscious mind. When facilitated in a thorough manner the process may include a new rational mind understanding of the causes of the current life issue and some possible emotional clearing. Often the presenting issue may be resolved.

In The New Regression Therapy the client, after taking the past life journey to the "causal life", may also be directed into the "Life Between Lives" where Divine Presence (Light of God, or a great Teacher or an Angel of the White Light or the client's Higher Self) a brought into what still remains of the theme and feelings and beliefs carried out of that life that had originally been carried into the current life. The therapist asks that that Presence of the Divine come and touch the past life personality in the "life between lives" and the field (Sansakara) of those feelings and beliefs. The result is a complete dissolution of the once emotionally charged field and beliefs. This results significantly more profound shift in consciousness for the client than in traditional regression therapy.

The client as that prior life personality carries that profound altered state of healing by Divine Presence back to the just visited lifetime and feels and watches the impact of that state on that life. Where there was trauma, there may be no event or there may be protection or compassion. In most cases a whole lifetime seems to disappear or may be redone anew in the consciousness of Inner Being. Sometimes other lifetimes that had been filled with the same charge and were part of that field or Sanskara appear to be spontaneously transformed. The whole field or Sanskara may have been lifted from the soul.

When the client returns to their current "movie" and life, the issue and theme, its "clues and triggers" are dissolved. In-sight may be carried with them, but mostly it is the total transformation of the issue into seemingly nonexistence.. No management or revisiting that prior life is needed.

For an over simplified example, one client might have a pattern of feeling abandoned or abandoning others in relationships in this life. In the regression she may experience the causal life where her mother was not emotionally present while the client (as the prior life personality) was in the womb. He mother in that life may have given her up for adoption and the father not around at all. There the client may have felt that absence of love and garnered the belief that she was not lovable or worthy of being loved. She died alone and angry. In the "movie" of this life the theme is replicated, she is emotionally abandoned by her parents and grows up rejecting others or being rejected in relationship. But after one or two sessions of The New Regression Therapy, that whole theme is healed and she finds more and more people genuinely drawn to her and feels a greater capacity for both giving and receiving love.

GESTALT THERAPY
Gestalt Therapy was developed and taught by Fritz Perls is the 1950s -70s. It is a "non trance"" therapy. Yet it is based upon the same assumptions as the hypnotherapy I use - that our apparent outer world is really only a reflection of our inner world. Through the heightening of our awareness of our process, feelings, and parts we can find ourselves moving through the emotional conflicts and entering into wholeness in the moment Many of the elements of Gestalt are integrated in the work I do in The New Regression Therapy.

SPIRIT RELEASEMENT
Also known as spirit de-possession, this process is based upon the pioneering work of Edith Fiore, Ph.D., William Baldwin, Ph.D., and others in the field. (See Resources/Book Reviews below). Spirit Releasement is a treatment process and releasing process of attached beings and energies, both demonic and other energies and earth bound (those who have died but not risen into the Light or the Heaven worlds). Such attachments can significantly affect client behavior, feelings, and attitudes usually without any conscious awareness on the part of the client. The documentation of the effect of attached beings and the results after releasement is significant. The end results of the releasement process are often dramatic, profound, and enduring.

REMOTE HEALING THROUGH A SURROGATE
This is the application of Regression Therapy and Spirit Releasement but the work is done through or with the presence of a surrogate for the client without the physical presence of the client. In Remote Work the surrogate either witnesses the client's presence and healing process or becomes the client participating in this therapy at the subconscious and spirit level. Through this connection the surrogate has the experience of the client's feelings, significant memory recalls, and inner experiences, spirit attachments and the healing and releasement processes.

Though clients or subjects usually have no conscious recall of the "remote" process, often they are aware of the differences in how they feel in themselves and the differences in how others in their life seem to be responding to them and with them. In a very classic case, one client repeated the very same words and phrases that she had expressed in the remote session through the surrogate three months prior. She had had no knowledge of the use of those phrases by her through the surrogate in that remote session.

Appropriate Applications of Remote Work This has been effectively used with young children, where vivid recall of "past lives" may otherwise have been too traumatic.

It has also been effectively used with clients of therapists where their client has seemed "stuck". The effect has usually been an opening that easily facilitates further work between the therapist and client.

Our application of Remote Work has been successful in many other circumstances including those where the client/subject could not be physically present due to various factors and where phone work would not have been appropriate. We have seen Remote Work applied successfully in family dynamic situations where it has had a positive and significant healing outcome not only on the client/subject, but also on the whole of the family and their core relationships.

Other Surrogates: Sometimes a parent of a child or a volunteer may be a very appropriate surrogate for a subject/client in a remote session.

Number of Remote Sessions: Sometimes several sessions are required, depending upon the request and intention. Some cases only require one session for the client or observer to see significant changes.

REMOTE CLEARING OF DARK ENTITIES, DECEASED SPIRITS (GHOSTS) FROM HOMES, OFFICES, PHYSICAL LOCATIONS

This is a straightforward effective process similar to a remote spirit releasement. The clearing is done away from the physical location and through myself and a surrogate who goes to visit the place (in spirit)to see what and who is there. We clear any entities and energies that have been identified. This is through loving persuasion and the use of Angels of the White Light. We then have the energy of the place sealed against any further intrusions.

SPIRITUAL ALCHEMY
This is a deliberate choice of the client to pursue training and clearing in order to experience Illumination and Realization of the Self or God within through the use of the tools of hypnotherapy, meditation, teaching, Divine Presence, and initiation. Such a conscious request and intention by a client can eventually result in experiences and initiations that bring significant, permanent, and irreversible elevations or positive shifts in consciousness. It is a pathway to True Mastery by the Self. It is the return Home and an avenue for Universal Service in the Unity of All Being.

ANGELS
Angels are an integral part of my work. I invoke their assistance in a number of ways. Clients in altered or trance state in hypnotherapy readily experience their presence and workings when such presence is invoked.