On January 1, 2023, Yvonne Smith, a Certified Hypnotherapist, reached an important milestone by celebrating 32 years of working with UFO abduction cases.

Yvonne is the author of Chosen: From The Alien Hybrid Program To The Fate Of The Planet; Coronado: The President, The Secret Service and Alien Abductions, which is a true account about a mass abduction which occurred in 1994. In these books, Yvonne has taken the time to reveal explicit, dramatic and unedited client transcripts reliving, during hypnotic regression, their recollections of alien encounters and abductions. 

Since she felt group therapy would assist in their trauma recovery, Yvonne founded Close Encounter Resource Organization (CERO) in 1992, which conducts monthly meetings to this day. During 2023, CERO also reached an important milestone of 31 years in existence. Yvonne is currently working on the manuscript for the “CERO Anniversary Book,” along with several members of the support group, to be published in the Spring of 2024. 

Yvonne and members of CERO have also been filming the CERO Documentary, which will depict the “personal side” of the abduction experience, also due to be released in 2024. In addition to maintaining personal contact with her clients, she has traveled extensively, lecturing at MIT and several other American universities and conferences, as well as international conferences from Europe to South America.

During the 1990s, Yvonne traveled with her abduction research colleagues Budd Hopkins, David Jacobs, Ph.D., and the late John Mack, M.D. as a participant in a lecture series. Yvonne’s many television appearances have included programs, such as: The Joan Rivers Show, The Montel Williams Show, History Channel, MSNBC, The Discovery Channel, Encounters, Sightings.

In addition, well known radio hosts, Art Bell, Paul Harvey, Dr. David Viscott and George Noory have also had Yvonne on the air as their special guest.

Yvonne has frequently been a consultant to producers, directors and actors for film and TV programs. Since 2021, she has been hosting the “Yvonne Smith Therapist Training Workshop” for qualified therapists who have expressed interest in incorporating UFO abduction cases into their therapy practices.

Recently, Yvonne was the recipient of the “Lifetime Achievement Award” at Contact in the Desert in 2023.