About Us

We are psychologists specializing in meditation, hypnotherapy, and neuroscience. We are authors of 28 books, many of them bestsellers. Our most recent books are The Yoga and Mindfulness Therapy Workbook (PESI, 2014), The Tao of Bipolar (New Harbinger, 2013), Neuroscience for Clinicians (Springer, 2012), Zen Meditation in Psychotherapy (Wiley, 2011), Neuro-Hypnosis (Norton, 2010), Meditation and Yoga in Psychotherapy: Techniques for Clinical Practice (Wiley, 2010), The Dao of Neuroscience (Norton, 2010), and Meditation for Therapists and Their Clients (Norton, 2009). Our books have more than 20 foreign editions and have won numerous awards.

We have been practicing psychotherapy for more than three decades and have taught our meditative and hypnotic methods to facilitate mind-brain change in people of all ages. We have been involved in neuroscience for more than fifteen years and teach Tae Chun Do, a martial art that includes yoga mindfulness, meditation, and breathing to address mind, body, and spirit. We present seminars and workshops all around the world. We also teach at professional conferences, state mental hospitals, and university campuses. We speak to popular audiences and have appeared on radio programs through out the United States and Canada. We have performed psychotherapy research and studied personally with psychotherapy masters, including Milton H. Erickson, Jerome D. Frank, Carl Rogers, Lawrence Kubie, and Ernest Rossi. Our Eastern philosophy influence along with our commitment to continual learning and therapeutic effectiveness has helped us to look at things through the crystal of a unique vision, which we extend to you with warmth and clarity in our books, seminars, and this webpage.

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SIMPKINS 2-DAY WORKSHOPS!

Two-Day Intensive Mindfulness, Meditation and Neuroscience Conference: Creating Active Pathways for Therapeutic Change Seminar

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2-Day Intensive Certificate Workshop: Applying Clinical Hypnosis with Psychological Treatments

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ONE-DAY WORKSHOPS

Yoga and Mindfulness Therapy: Mind-Brain Change for Anxiety, Moods, Trauma, and Substance Abuse
This is an all new workshop showing the latest neuroscience findings about yoga and mindfulness for therapy along with powerful meditative techniques to add to your practice.
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Doing Hypnosis: Integrating Clinical Hypnosis into Psychological Treatments for Anxiety, Trauma, Stress, Addiction and Chronic Pain

Learn principles of hypnosis for therapy and how hypnosis changes the brain in healing ways. Experience the use of direct and indirect suggestion, methods for going into and coming out of trance, and ways to activate positive unconscious processes for therapeutic change for psychological problems.

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Hypnosis at Esalen, Big Sur, California

Neuroscience for Clinicians: Brain Change for Stress, Anxiety, Truama, Depression, and Substance Abuse

Discover useful methods for bringing the latest neuroscience research into your practice. With interactive demonstrations in multiple dimensions and modalities, you will have fun as you gain an understanding of the brain and how it can be enhanced for your clients and yourself.
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Transformation through Neuroscience:
Enhance Your Brain to Reach Your Potential
Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California April 21-23

This workshop activates your brain resources so that you may become your personal best. Have fun as you gain a felt understanding of key nervous system structures, functions, and pathways that demystify the complexities of brain science. Experience brain-enhancing methods to overcome stress and foster well-being and renewal.
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And please check out our newest book/ CD/DVD combination:

Core Principles of Meditation for Therapy: Improving Outcomes of Psychotherapeutic Treatment

July, 2016

Wiley

This package includes

*A book with 20 principles of meditation to guide your practice including applications to many psychological problems

*DVDs with clear instructions for how to integrate meditation into therapy

*CDs you can give your clients or use yourself to learn and sustain a meditative path to healing

Yoga and Mindfulness Therapy Workbook

2014

Published by PESI/CMI
175 pages
$29.95

The Tao of Bipolar:
Using Meditation and Mindfulness to Find Balance and Peace

New Harbinger

Softcover
ISBN: 9781608822928
Released: April 1, 2013
192 pages $16.95

"The book nurtures the mind, body, and spirit of every reader, satisfies the need for sound knowledge, and gives the pleasure of reading a well-written book enriched by metaphors and cases."
Consuelo Casula
psychologist, psychotherapist, and the president-elect of the Europeacn Society of Hypnosis

Neuroscience for Clinicians: Evidence, Models, and Practice

Springer 464 p. 98 illus.
Softcover Information
ISBN 978-1-4614-4841-9
Also avaiable as an E-Book
2012

"This book is a terrific introduction to basic neuroscience, as a prelude to understanding the current excitement surrounding the neural basis of mind – body interactions."
VS Ramachandran, PhD
Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition , UCSD and author of The Tell-tale Brain