Webinar Speakers
Alejandra Sención, MD
Dr. Alejandra Sención is a general pediatrician and a specialist in Clinical Hypnosis. She is Co-Director of ProHipnosis (Center of Reference in Clinical Hypnosis in Latin America) and Co-Founder of the Committee for the Multimodal Approach to Pain of the Uruguayan Society of Pediatrics. She serves as faculty at NPHTI, a training center for healthcare professionals in pediatric hypnosis.
Dr. Sención has collaborated on several projects aimed at creating relief through hypnosis for Spanish-speaking children and adolescents experiencing pain or anxiety, including ImaginAction and Hipnosis Dolor Abdominal.
She has also conducted research to demonstrate the effectiveness of clinical hypnosis in the area of pain, showing that the “magic glove” technique is effective in patients with hemophilia during venipunctures: https://doi.org/10.31134/ap.95.2.2
In 2025, Dr. Sención, together with other leading colleagues in the field of pediatric pain, organized an initiative that had a significant impact across Latin America: “Pain Education Day,” bringing visibility to an issue that affects thousands of children and their families. The aim is to make resources in Spanish more accessible to healthcare professionals in order to better address this problem.
She currently works as an instructor at ProHipnosis, where she trains healthcare professionals, and also runs her private practice with a special focus on anxiety and pain working with kids, adolescents and their families.
Adam Keating, MD, FAAP
Dr. Keating is Section Head of Community Pediatrics at Cleveland Clinic Children’s in Wooster, Ohio and Quality Improvement Officer at Cleveland Clinic Community Pediatrics. He is Former Medical Director, Longbrake Student Wellness Center The College of Wooster; Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine; Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Keating has been using hypnosis as part of his general pediatric practice for his entire career, since being first introduced to hypnosis in his 3rd year of medical school at the University of Rochester.
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He is an American Society of Clinical Hypnosis (ASCH) Approved Consultant. He is a member for the American Academy of Pediatrics Section for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. In addition to his community based pediatric practice, he regularly teaches medical students in the clinical setting, serves at primary care physician to the youth in The Village Network Wooster residential facility, and works to integrate mental health and primary care for the Cleveland Clinic Children’s population transformations.
Leora Kuttner, PhD
Dr. Kuttner is Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of British Columbia and BC Children’s Hospital, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Dr. Kuttner is the recipient of the American Pain Society’s Jeffrey Lawson Award for Advocacy in Children’s Pain Relief in 2007, and is internationally recognized for her work in pain management. She has published over 45 Journal articles and has written two books, the most recent A Child in Pain, What Health Professional can do to Help (2010) has been translated into Italian, French and Mandarin.
As a documentary filmmaker, Dr. Kuttner has co-produced and directed the award-winning documentaries: “No Fears, No Tears – Children Coping With Pain” (1985) on hypnosis to alleviate procedural cancer pain management; “No Fears, No Tears – 13 Years Later” (1998) on the long-term benefits of hypnosis for children and teens with cancer; with The National Film Board of Canada “Making Every Moment Count” (2003) on state the art pediatric palliative care and “Dancing with Pain” (2013) exploring chronic pain treatment in teens through the lens of dance.
Dr. Kuttner was trained in Hypnosis in 1976 has taught pain management and pediatric hypnosis since 1987 to pediatric professionals in hospitals throughout Europe, the Middle East, Australia, New Zealand and Asia. She taught with The Society of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics from 1987 and with NPHTI since it’s founding in 2010. She currently serves on the NPHTI Board of Directors and is the NPHTI Director of Education (2024-present) She has been on the Board of the Canadian Clinical Hypnosis Society (BC Division) since 1987 and is an approved ASCH Consultant. Dr. Kuttner was awarded the Vancouver Woman of Distinction for Health and Wellness in 1998.