Backgroud & Mission

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

• Professional Member, American Counseling Association.
• Member, American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress.
• Member, California Counseling Association.
• Fellow, Academy of Scientific & forensic Hypnotherapy.
• Life Member, American Association of Professional
  Hypnotherapists.
• Member & certified mediator, Association of Family and
  Conciliation Courts.
• Member & certified mediator, Association for Conflict Resolution.
• International Association of Marriage & Family Counselors.
• Association for Death Education and Counseling.

Hello!  My name is Bob McDowell, and I have always had a passion for helping people; whether it was through my work in emergency medicine, psychotherapeutic intervention, helping couples to work through the issues of a divorce, or just being a good listening ear when someone needed to talk.

Medicine has always been a passion of mine, even though I never had enough of the right brain cells to make it to medical school.  However, when I was first introduced to the relationship that excess & negative stress played on our bodies and more specifically, our respective immune systems, I felt compelled to find a way to make a difference.  I had done quite a bit of work helping people to manage stress in my private practice, but there was just something missing – something more I felt that I could do to make a positive mark in this world.  After all, I had created a unique treatment modality for helping those afflicted with PTSD to achieve virtually complete wellness inside of a year, rather than subjecting clients to endure traditional by-the-book psychotherapy of 5 - 7 years, and forcing them to re-live each and every traumatic event in order to achieve some level of positive results, so I knew in my heart that I could take stress management & stress elimination to the next level!

For nearly 2-long years off and on, I read everything I could get my hands on; I studied research articles on stress and its impact on health from Oxford, and medical schools here in the United States such as Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins and UCSF to name a few, as well as reviewing a countless number of articles from the New England Journal of Medicine, and speaking with a countless number of physicians from a variety of specialty backgrounds; wanting their perspectives on stress, and how it relates to everyday people, physiologically.   Approximately 98% of the physicians I spoke with, their first comments were almost always about how negative and excess stress affect our immune system, and how close to 90% of all doctor visits were in-fact, stress-related!

With all of the information that I had obtained, I set-out in 1998 to create a program that would ELIMINATE, rather than just manage stress, and I accomplished that goal with the birth of “Stress Management for Life” back in 2000. Between its conception and 2003, FIVE THOUSAND copies were sold, and it was hailed as the most unique, innovative & powerful program of its kind on the planet.

Stress Management for Life is my gift and my contribution to the world, and my goal is to get this program into the hands of every English-speaking individual in the United States, Canada, and the free world, only because I’ve witnessed first-hand the powerful & positive changes it has made in the lives of so many people from every walk of life; from the stay-at-home parent, to school teachers, law enforcement personnel, real estate agents, physicians, dentists, lawyers, college students, to those who have been trying to conceive children, to high-level “Fortune 100” executives, and just ordinary good and decent people such as yourself!