Michael Finn, Ph.D

Michael Finn, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology at the Osher Center for Integrative Health. He received his PhD from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville and completed his clinical psychology internship at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY. He completed a one-year research fellowship at the Universität Heidelberg in Heidelberg, Germany where he studied the relationship between phenomenology (the study of first-person experience) and clinical psychology. He has received generalist training in health psychology, inpatient psychiatry, psychodynamic psychotherapy, and integrative approaches to psychotherapy. He will sometimes incorporate clinical hypnosis into psychotherapeutic work and often teaches clients self-hypnosis techniques. Using behavioral imaging, he conducts research on the relationship between movement, pain, and basic elements of the self. He also conducts research on hypnosis as both a natural phenomenon and as a form of treatment. His interdisciplinary research is largely inspired by psychodynamic and existential-phenomenological approaches to the self.