Woltemade Hartman (Ph.D) is a Clinical and Educational Psychologist, and psychotherapist from Pretoria, South Africa.  He received his training as an Ericksonian psychotherapist at the Ericksonian Foundation in Phoenix, Arizona, USA and trained with dr Jeffrey Zeig and others.  Dr Hartman also trained as an Ego State therapist with Prof J.G. Watkins and Mrs H. Watkins in Missoula, Montana, USA.  He is the author of “Ego state therapy with sexually traumatized children” and “Einführung in die Ego-State Therapie”, as well as various scientific articles on the topic of trauma, hypnosis and psychotherapy. Dr Hartman is the Founding Director of the Milton H. Erickson Institutes of South Africa (MEISA). He is the founder and Past-president of Ego State Therapy International and currently serves as Secretary and Treasurer of Ego State Therapy International (ESTI). Woltemade is an executive board member of the International Society of Hypnosis (ISH) and also serves as Chairperson of the Council of Representatives on this board. Dr Hartman was a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Psychology at the University of Johannesburg and lectures in South Africa, Germany, Austria, France, Denmark, Türkiye, and Switzerland, The United States of America, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Iran, Singapore, South Korea and Japan. He has been a Keynote Speaker at various international congresses on the topics of psychotherapy, hypnosis psychotherapy and trauma. Dr Hartman is the recipient of the 2009 Early Career Award for Innovative Contributions to Hypnosis from the International Society of Hypnosis (ISH) and the 2022 John and Helen Watkins Award for Clinical Excellence in Ego State Therapy from Ego State International (ESTI), as well as other Awards. He is also trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Eye Movement Integration (EMI), EdxTM (Energy Psychology), Impact Therapy, Sex therapy, Mindfulness Techniques, Trauma Therapeutic Yoga, Soma Body Therapy and is a certified Somatic Experiencing (SE) practitioner.