About Philippe Vallat, PhD
My mission is to help you live a more fulfilling life and rediscover freedom.
After a career in research and teaching spanning two decades, I decided to open my own hypnotherapy practice in Geneva in 2019. I’ve been practicing self-hypnosis and meditation for over 30 years and had great results overcoming a number of issues, including physical injuries.
My approach to treatment incorporates both ancient (mainly Indian) and modern practices (breathing and vagus nerve exercises, NLP, Milton Erickson's hypnotherapy).
In my view, a lot of issues my clients deal with arise from the imbalance between the two parts of their brain, to the detriment of the right. Hypnosis & Meditation reinstates the right hemisphere and allows it to bring about a transformation that seemed impossible before.
"Only now are scientists beginning to glimpse how these traditional practices may work in terms of Western models, and it is remarkable the extent to which almost all the neuroplasticians I visited were deepening their understanding of how to use neuroplasticity by linking insights from Western neuroscience to insights from Eastern health practices, including traditional Chinese medicine, ancient Buddhist meditation and visualization, martial arts such as tai chi and judo; yoga, and energy medicine."
Norman Doidge, The Brain’s Way of Healing
Education
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M.A. (summa cum laude), Philosophy and Religious Studies | Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (Inalco)
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Ph.D. (summa cum laude), Late Antique and Medieval Philosophy | University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne
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Post-Doctoral Studies, Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes
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Habilitation Degree, Philosophy and Religious Studies | EPHE Paris - Université Bordeaux
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Training in Ericksonian hypnosis | ARCHE, Paris
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One year training with American Voice Dialogue psychotherapist Celie Fox Cabane
Awards
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The Bordin Prize (Prix Bordin) 2015 | French Academy (Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres)
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Humboldt Research Fellowship Program | Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation
"The right hemisphere tends to make changes to its ‘version’ as it gathers information from experience. The left hemisphere, however, tends to stick to its theory in the face of disconfirming evidence. This has been repeatedly demonstrated"
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Dr Iain McGilchrist, The Matter with Things