The Light Gate Episode #018: Yvonne Smith (hypnotherapist/author)

Tonight, “The Light Gate” welcomes researcher, presenter, hypnotherapist and author, Yvonne Smith, C.Ht. Yvonne is one of the leading researchers into cases involving onboard encounters and missing time. She has also had some of her own experiences. In this gripping episode, she talks about her own experiences and how she came to work in the field of onboard UFO encounters. 

In 1992, Yvonne founded Close Encounter Resource Organization (CERO), a post-traumatic stress support group for individuals and families having trauma experiences. CERO has been active for 31 years, and has been recognized nationally and internationally by TV and radio. Yvonne became interested in victims of post-traumatic stress disorder (“PTSD”) in the late 1980s.

Then, in 1990, after two years of studies and 1000 hours of internship at California Hypnosis Motivation Institute, the only accredited college of hypnotherapy in the United States, she received her hypnotherapy certification. Specializing in post-traumatic stress disorder cases, she uses her hypnotherapy skills to assist such victims to work through their anxiety, with many of her subjects referred to her by physicians and psychiatrists who believe her expertise can benefit their patients. Many such patients have been doctors, military personnel, domestic and foreign pilots, university professors, and many other backgrounds.

While Yvonne has assisted many stress victims with military or traumatic early life situations, she points out that “PTSD” can also involve difficulties due to common situations such as traffic accidents and individuals who have experienced Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind. Some who have consulted Yvonne include a foreign air force pilot who flew to Los Angeles for sessions with Yvonne due to an experience which caused him unrelenting nightmares for many years, as well as a NATO officer with similar longtime anxiety due to previous military related exposure. In fact, it is not unusual for “military family” members to suffer anxiety due to concerns for their active service member.

Yvonne has co-lectured on tour with Dr. John Mack, head of Harvard University’s psychiatry department, presenting lectures in the United States at M.I.T. and other universities. Yvonne has also lectured for several years at international conferences from South America to Europe, and enjoyed a conference with Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, Major Robert Dean, and Nick Pope, former member of British Defense Department. Yvonne has been on dozens of television programs in the United States and across the world. and is a frequent consultant to producers, directors and actors for film and television programs. She has been a guest on all the major UFO radio shows and podcasts all over the world.

She is the author of the well-received books, "Chosen, From the Alien Hybrid Program to the Fate of the Planet," now in its 3rd edition, and “Coronado: The President, the Secret Service and Alien Abductions," a true account about a mass abduction which occurred in 1994. In these books, Yvonne has taken the time to reveal explicit, dramatic and unedited transcripts of clients’ reliving, during hypnotic regression, their recollections of alien encounters and abductions.

Yvonne is currently working on the manuscript for the "CERO Anniversary book," along with members of the support group, (to be published in Spring of 2024.) Filming is underway for the CERO documentary which will depict the "personal side" of the abduction experience, also due to be released in 2024. On January 1, 2023, Yvonne reached an important milestone of celebrating 32 years of working with UFO abduction cases.

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