Dr. Charlie Fantechi

Born as a citizen of the world from an antipodea-european heritage, Charlie Fantechi was trained in psychology at The University ol La Sapienza (Rome) followed by specializations in psychotherapy and hypnotherapy at the Ericksonian Post Graduate School in Rome. He then continued by moving to California to study with Robert Dilts at the NLP University of Santa Cruz.

Member of the American Psychological Association and also of Global NLP Training and Consulting Community, and the NLP-IASH Institute for the Advanced Studies of Health, Dr. Fantechi lectures at the Post Graduate School of Specialization in Education at the University of Florence and at the Post Graduate "Scuola di Psicoterapia Strategica Integrata" in Rome.

Chairman of FeICo (Italian Federation of Counseling) and of the Centre for Brief Psychoterapy in Prato, he directs the Centre for Brief Counseling in Milan.

His brain-child, the ABC® Model (Approccio Breve Cinque incontri, Brief 5 Session Approach) informed by his multifaceted experience and the work of his ever-active research equipe, is revolutionizing the world of Counseling. The first model to give a pre-structured and exactly defined course to the counseling path, the first important model to define Counseling course, ABC® presents an established protocol to be followed towards identified objectives with measurable outcomes.

Author of the controversial "Did Obama Use Hypnosis?" and the closely analytic "Word of Leader", his perceptions concerning the state of the art in Counseling ad communication, enhanced by the techniques of conversational hypnosis, are positioned at the cutting edge of 21st century thinking.