Dr. Linda Thomson has been a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner for the past 40 years, employed in primary care in both a pediatric and a family practice. She received her undergraduate degree from Hartwick College and graduate degrees from Northeastern University and University of Massachusetts.   She has served as adjunct faculty and preceptor for nurse practitioner students from 7 different universities.

      Linda is an Approved Consultant in Clinical Hypnosis, the first nurse to ever have been awarded Diplomate status on the American Board of Medical Hypnosis, and is a Fellow of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis and a Fellow of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners.  She is a Diplomate and President of the American Board of Hypnosis in Nursing.  In 2009 she was named the Distinguished Nursing Alumni of Hartwick College. Linda is a Past  President of both the New England Society of Clinical Hypnosis and the Northeastern Mountain Society of Clinical Hypnosis, and has served on the Executive Committee, Educational Committee, Component Society Committee and Speaker’s Bureau of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis.  She is a Past-President of  American Society of Clinical Hypnosis and current chair of the Education and Research Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis.   She is co-founder of Hypnovations:  Clinical Hypnosis Education and Training Programs. 

    Linda has published on a wide variety of subjects in professional journals in the United States, Europe and Australia, has contributed book chapters and is the author of 2 books on pediatric hypnosis.  “Stress Free Surgery:  A Self Relaxation Program to Help you Prepare for and Recover from Surgery”  is a CD program she created to help surgical patients.  Linda is also the creator of GEMINI, a health education program to teach children self-regulation skills that is available world-wide.  She is the creator and Project Director of Up with Downtime, an interactive video program of stretching, movement, and controlled breathing to improve social skills and enhance emotional management and self-esteem.

    A member of NAPNAP’s Clinical Expert Panel, Linda is also an Advisory Editor to the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis.  Linda has lectured and taught workshops across the country and around the world changing the attitudes, practices and beliefs of health care professionals concerning hypnosis.

    Linda lives in Ludlow, VT with her husband George, an elementary school principal.  She is the mother of three and the grandmother of three more.