What is the difference between Reverse Therapy and Mickel Therapy?

Dr John Eaton developed the principles and techniques of Reverse Therapy between 1996-2002. In March 2002, Dr Eaton gave his first ever training seminar on the approach and included material on all the major ideas and techniques of Reverse Therapy: Psychobiology, State-Dependent Learning and Memory, the ‘Dis-ease’ State, Accessing Bodymind, Understanding symptoms and Developing symptom-messages. John was also using ideas based on the work of Dr Ernest Rossi, which showed the key tole of the Hypothalamus in creating symptom states. Dr David Mickel also attended this seminar and had in fact been John’s student since 1999, learning from him many other techniques which formed the approach John later named as ‘Reverse Therapy’.

Prior to studying with John, David had no experience in therapy, training or supervising pupils and John also taught him how to do these. For a while John tried to collaborate with David Mickel in order to develop Reverse Therapy and its application to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome before ending the association in 2004. They also trained other practitioners in Reverse Therapy using training manuals which were nearly all based on the original manual John wrote for the March 2002 seminar.

After John ended his association with him in 2004, David Mickel carried on practicing Reverse Therapy for a further two years under the name ‘Mickel Reverse Therapy’. However, more recently, he has developed a new approach, this time based on the ideas of another teacher, Steve Rother, a New Age theorist who claims that human beings are born with an energy matrix which was created by the soul prior to birth. Mickel Therapy now works with this energy matrix using what it calls ‘keys for health’. Although this new approach has yet to be explained clearly, it is obvious that Mickel Therapy no longer has anything common with Reverse Therapy. Reverse Therapy continues to be based on John’s original discovery of Bodymind, the dis-ease state and symptom-messaging.