Mr. McDaniel has worked with more than thirty thousand persons utilizing medical hypnotherapy since 1969. He was certified as Clinical Psychologist by the State of Georgia Merit System in 1976 and as Senior Behavioral Specialist in 1986. Mr. McDaniel was trained by the late William J. Bryan, Jr, M.D., PhD., LLD, JD in all aspects of medical hypnotherapy and was on the faculty of the American Institute of Hypnosis in Los Angeles, CA for many years. He founded the National Hypnotherapy Association in Atlanta, Georgia some years before his semi-retirement in the north Georgia mountains where he continues to practice and teach.