About Dr. Thomas Paul

Dr. Thomas Paul

Founder of Past Life Therapy Center® | Clinical Hypnotherapist | Past Life Therapist

Dr. Thomas Paul is the founder of Past Life Therapy Center® (PLTC), also known as Past Life Regression Center® (PLRC), and the developer of the Netherton-Paul De-Hypnosis Method. He holds a Doctorate in Clinical Hypnotherapy and has more than two decades of clinical experience in Past Life Therapy, Past Life Regression Therapy, Clinical Hypnotherapy, hypnosis, and De-Hypnosis.

Dr. Paul’s clinical work is grounded in the exploration of unconscious patterns and unresolved experiences that may continue to influence an individual’s present life. His approach is intended to help clients bring such material into conscious awareness so that it can be examined, understood, and, where possible, resolved.

A significant foundation of Dr. Paul’s professional work comes from his extensive training and long-standing mentorship with Dr. Morris Netherton (1935–2020), the pioneer of Past Lives Therapy and author of the landmark book Past Lives Therapy, published by William Morrow in 1978.

Dr. Paul completed six years of intensive training and mentoring with Dr. Netherton. Following that period of formal and intensive training, their professional relationship continued for several additional years through personal mentorship, professional consultation, and the review and discussion of clinical cases. Taken together, their relationship extended over approximately a decade.

Through this clinical lineage, and through his subsequent years of private practice, Dr. Paul developed and refined his own approach to the work, which became known as the Netherton-Paul Method and, more specifically, the Netherton-Paul De-Hypnosis Method.

The Netherton-Paul De-Hypnosis Method

Although Dr. Paul’s professional training includes Clinical Hypnotherapy and hypnosis, his clinical approach has evolved beyond traditional suggestion-based methods.

The Netherton-Paul Method is a De-Hypnosis approach that emphasizes conscious awareness and active participation. Rather than relying primarily upon hypnotic suggestion, the process is designed to help individuals recognize and address unconscious conditioning, emotional patterns, and unresolved experiences while remaining aware and engaged throughout the session.

The term “De-Hypnosis” reflects an important distinction in Dr. Paul’s approach. Instead of primarily attempting to place an individual into a state of increased suggestibility, the process seeks to identify and understand the conditioning, beliefs, emotional responses, and patterns that may have been acquired throughout life or carried forward from past lifetimes, and that can continue to operate outside ordinary conscious awareness.

The objective is not simply to create a temporary change in how a person feels, functions, or behaves. The emphasis is on identifying the underlying patterns and unresolved experiences that may contribute to them, and on examining the emotional experiences, traumas, conditioning, and other unresolved material that may extend across one or more lifetimes. By bringing this material into conscious awareness, the process provides an opportunity to understand its influence, resolve what remains unresolved, and create meaningful change in the present life.

Past Life Regression Within Past Life Therapy

Past Life Regression is one of the primary techniques used within the broader therapeutic process of Past Life Therapy.

For Dr. Paul, regression is not simply about recalling or experiencing a past-life narrative. The more important question is what emotional material, patterns, beliefs, or unresolved experiences emerge during the process and how they may relate to the individual’s present life.

Depending upon the individual and the circumstances being explored, regression work may involve experiences understood as past lives as well as prenatal and birth experiences, childhood experiences, surgeries, emotional shocks, trauma, and other significant experiences that may remain unresolved in the unconscious.

The process is individualized. Dr. Paul does not require clients to adopt a particular religious, spiritual, or philosophical belief in order to participate. A belief in reincarnation, karma, spirituality, or any particular interpretation of past-life experiences is not a prerequisite for the work.

Instead, clients are invited to explore their own experiences and to consider what meaning and relevance the material may have for their present lives.

A Clinical Approach Centered on Awareness

Dr. Paul approaches each session as an individualized therapeutic process. His work emphasizes privacy, confidentiality, conscious awareness, personal responsibility, and meaningful resolution.

He recognizes that individuals arrive at Past Life Therapy for many different reasons. Some are seeking a deeper understanding of recurring emotional patterns, relationship difficulties, behavioral patterns, fears, or other challenges that seem resistant to conventional approaches. Others are interested in personal growth, greater self-awareness, spiritual questions, or understanding experiences that have remained difficult to explain.

The work can involve difficult emotional material. Dr. Paul therefore places importance on creating an environment in which clients can examine their experiences honestly and openly while maintaining awareness of what they are experiencing.

His approach combines compassion and patience with a willingness to explore difficult material directly. The purpose is not to encourage clients to remain focused on the past, but to use greater understanding of the past as a means of becoming more consciously engaged in the present.

More Than Two Decades of Clinical Practice

Dr. Paul has more than two decades of clinical experience and continues to work privately with individuals throughout the United States and internationally.

His practice has developed through years of direct clinical experience following his extensive training with Dr. Netherton. While carrying forward the foundation of Past Lives Therapy established by Dr. Netherton, Dr. Paul has continued to develop the Netherton-Paul Method through his own clinical observations, experience, and ongoing work with clients.

This combination of historical training and subsequent independent clinical practice is central to Dr. Paul’s professional identity. He does not simply reproduce an earlier method; he continues to refine and develop the approach within his own practice.

Dr. Paul works with individuals from a wide range of personal and professional backgrounds. Sessions are conducted privately by telephone and secure online conferencing, allowing him to work with clients throughout the United States and worldwide.

Professional Credentials

Dr. Thomas Paul holds the following professional credentials:

DCH — Doctor of Clinical Hypnotherapy
C.Ht. — Certified Hypnotherapist
MCPLT — Master Clinical Past Life Therapist

Dr. Paul is not a medical doctor. His doctorate is in Clinical Hypnotherapy, reflecting his professional training and specialization in hypnotherapy and related therapeutic approaches.

Integrity, Privacy, and the Therapeutic Relationship

Dr. Paul considers integrity and confidentiality essential to the therapeutic relationship.

He believes that meaningful therapeutic work requires an atmosphere in which individuals can speak openly about experiences, emotions, memories, and questions without fear of judgment. At the same time, he recognizes that productive therapeutic work can require more than reassurance. It may require a willingness to confront difficult emotions and previously unresolved experiences directly.

Dr. Paul brings patience, compassion, and a sense of humor to his work while maintaining the seriousness appropriate to intensive therapeutic work.

His role is not to impose a particular belief system upon a client. Rather, he guides clients through a process in which they can recognize and examine their own experiences, identify underlying patterns, and develop a greater understanding of the influences that may be affecting their present lives.

Continuing the Work of Dr. Morris Netherton

Dr. Thomas Paul’s professional work represents a continuation of the clinical tradition established by Dr. Morris Netherton while also reflecting the development of a distinct approach of his own.

Dr. Netherton devoted approximately fifty years to the practice and teaching of Past Lives Therapy and became widely known for pioneering its therapeutic application. His book Past Lives Therapy, published by William Morrow in 1978, became an important early work in the field.

Dr. Paul’s relationship with Dr. Netherton extended beyond formal instruction. Following six years of intensive training, their professional relationship remained active through additional years of mentorship, consultation, and discussion of clinical cases. This extended relationship provided Dr. Paul with a substantial foundation in the clinical methods developed by Dr. Netherton.

Dr. Paul subsequently incorporated his own clinical experience and observations into the development of the Netherton-Paul Method. The result is an approach that preserves the central importance of bringing unconscious material into conscious awareness while applying and refining these principles within his own private clinical practice.

The Work Today

Today, Dr. Thomas Paul practices privately through Past Life Therapy Center®, carrying forward the clinical foundation established by Dr. Morris Netherton while further developing the Netherton-Paul De-Hypnosis Method through his own clinical experience and practice.

His work is centered on a simple principle: unresolved experiences can influence the present, and greater conscious awareness can provide an opportunity to recognize, understand, and resolve difficult patterns.

Past Life Therapy does not require acceptance of any particular explanation of the human experience. Individuals may approach the work from a spiritual, philosophical, or psychological perspective, or simply from a desire to understand experiences that have remained unresolved.

A belief in reincarnation, karma, spirituality, or any particular philosophical framework is therefore not required to participate in the process.

For those who choose to undertake Past Life Therapy, Dr. Paul’s objective is to provide a private, individualized setting in which they can examine their experiences with broader awareness and develop a deeper understanding of themselves.

After more than two decades of clinical practice, Dr. Paul has dedicated his work to helping clients identify unconscious patterns and address unresolved experiences so they can better understand how greater conscious awareness in the present can emerge through resolving material held in the unconscious past. This may include repressed memories and unresolved experiences associated with past lifetimes, as well as experiences from the individual’s present life.

Dr. Thomas Paul is the founder of Past Life Therapy Center® and the developer of the Netherton-Paul De-Hypnosis Method. His professional work carries forward the foundation established through his approximately decade-long relationship with Dr. Morris Netherton while reflecting the knowledge, clinical experience, and independent development that continues to shape his practice.

Testimonials

"The world's best therapy is Past Life Therapy. For 56 years I have studied, experienced, used and taught a wide variety of approaches to help people overcome chronic illnesses. I have experienced half a dozen [past life regression] experts and nothing even approaches the remarkable results of the Netherton-Paul Method of Past Life Therapy. There is no other therapy as powerful!"

— Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D.

"I just wanted to let you know that, when I woke up this morning, I didn't have any sense of dread, fear, anticipation, stress, or any of those types of things that I'd gotten so used to. I just felt normal. I really don't remember the last time that happened. I now feel like I really can get on with my life in a positive way. Thanks again. This therapy works!"

— D.K., PLRC Therapy Client

"I have seen a great improvement since the last session and have succeeded in achieving what I wanted. Past life regression therapy was a great experience and very beneficial. Per my request, Dr. Paul was able to provide some much needed spiritual counseling while respecting my agnostic views. Everyone should work with him in their lifetime."

— N.D., Therapy Client

"I was open-minded, but skeptical about this de-hypnosis type of past-life therapy. I want to thank you for being persistent but also very caring with me. You assisted me with connecting and resolving the many physical issues I had to their past-life sources. You encouraged me to go into the sadness and anger so I could get to the bottom of these patterns I've had my entire life rather than having me cover up the issues with 'hypnosis' or meditation tapes other therapists I've worked with had me do. This past-life therapy process has worked tremendously for me. I'm at peace, focused and out of pain. I'm forever grateful."

— Janet J., Therapy Client

"I have resolved more in 1 session than in 10 years of psychotherapy. Finally, a therapy that works."

— PLRC Therapy Client
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