Eric received his Master’s degree from Eastern Michigan University in 1977 and his doctorate in clinical psychology in 1998 from Fielding University. He is a past president of the Michigan Society for Behavioral Medicine and Biofeedback, the current president of the Michigan Society for Clinical Hypnosis and the past-president of the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis, the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis and the APA’s Society for Psychological Hypnosis (Div. 30). He is the winner of both the Erika Fromm Award for Excellence in Teaching (2017) and the Distinguished Contributions to Professional Hypnosis Award from the American Psychological Association. (2017) Dr. Willmarth is a Senior Fellow of the Association of Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, president of Michigan Behavioral Consultants, a pain management practice, and has been teaching at Saybrook University since 2007. Areas of interest include hypnosis, pain management and psychomusicology.