About the Founder of HypnoBirthing®
Marie Mongan, M.Ed., M.Hy., of Chichester, New Hampshire, is an award-winning
hypnotherapist, who brings to her classroom over thirty years experience in education
and counseling on the college level and in the private sector.
She is a former college dean who, early in her career, was named one of five outstanding
educational leaders in New Hampshire and was awarded a Ford Foundation Fellowship to
Harvard University.
Marie (best known as “Mickey”) is licensed by the State of New Hampshire as a counselor and is certified as a hypnotherapist, hypnoanesthesiologist, and instructor of hypnotherapy. She holds several awards for
distinguished service and achievement in the practice of hypnosis and is the 1995 recipient of the National Guild of Hypnotists
President’s Award. In 2000 she was presented with the coveted NGH Charles Tebbetts Award for her contribution in
“shedding the light” and advancing the awareness of hypnosis. In 2005 she became the first woman ever to receive the
highest award given by the National Guild- Rexford L. North Award.
Mickey is the mother of four adult children, all born in the late 50s and early 60s. She experienced all four labors without
labor medication, using the theories of Dr. Jonathan Dye, of Buffalo, New York, and Grantly Dick-Read, of the UK, two
pioneers in natural childbirth. Two of her birthings were entirely free of anesthesia at a time when it was unheard of, and her
husband was by her side in both the labor room and the “delivery” room. Her book, HypnoBirthing®–A Celebration of Life,
was written in 1989; her latest book, HypnoBirthing® – The Mongan Method is now available in leading book outlets and
through the HypnoBirthing® Institute.
|