Clinical Hypnosis
Ericksonian Therapy
“Each person is a unique individual.”
“Hence, psychotherapy should be formulated to meet the uniqueness of the individual’s needs, rather than tailoring the person to fit the procrustean bed of a hypothetical theory of human behavior.”
Mitlon H. Erickson, M.D
This course is designed for professionals in the field of mental health such as social workers, nurses, and counselors in general and it is not open to the general population. Continuation of this course leads you into intermediate and advanced levels that will have different outlines of study. However, each level of study requires reading, research in own time, authoring papers, and practice. All material needed for study (books) are individual’s responsibility to provide for oneself.
40 hours of training for each level.
- In a group setting students will learn from each other by participating and collaborating.
- In-person setting training hours can be scheduled according to the trainee’s and trainer’s agreement.
Notes: Practitioners require
- 10 hours of supervision work in this course
- Minimum 20 hours of practice before entering intermediate level.
- Minimum 20 hours of therapy sessions (self-growth) at each level.
- Involving in research and authoring the paper on the desired subject matters or assigned one, at the end of each learning level
- You as practitioner ethically and legally prohibited from using clinical hypnosis based on the client’s desire to achieve any legal matter within the court of law.
- You as a practitioner prohibited from using clinical hypnosis on the individual who is suffering from psychosis.
- Note: At the end of each level, the test of knowledge will take place for evaluation purposes.
Basic Clinical Hypnosis course
In this 40-hour training our emphasizes would be on theory and practice along with some relaxation techniques. Practitioner cannot practice and apply trance work on any other individual before completion of the first level of training.
Note: Practitioners requires
Minimum 20 hours of practice before entering intermediate level.
Content
- Information sheet
- Informed consent
- Audio and video recording consent
- Ethics, (some case study), no physical contact
- Law and Hypnosis
- History of hypnosis
- Misconceptions about trance (hypnosis)
- Theory of hypnosis
- Condition for trance work (environmental and physical variables)
- Use of Language.
- Defining hypnosis or trance state
- Mental status, and hypnotisability
- Hypnotisability test
- Suggestibility
- Pattern of hypnotic communication
- Building rapport
- Observation skill
- Some basic hypnosis technique:
- Arm levitation, catalepsy
- Counting down, sound techniques
- Relaxation and related techniques
- Eye fixation
- Breathing exercise
- Practicing and exercising
Intermediate Clinical Hypnosis
In this 40-hour training, our emphasis would be on theory and practice along with methods of approaches.
Hypnotic intervention:
It is very important to understand and recognize that you as a therapist will not work hard for the client yet; the client will work hard. This is the downfall of some counselors who work harder than the client and the result is passivity of the client and dependency. The therapist must let the client know that she or he has full control while they are in a trance state they can stop the processes of trance work. Clinical hypnotic intervention starts after evaluation and assessment however, fundamental elements of intervention in any case regardless of assessment, are the client’s consent and trust level in the clinician. Any intervention must take place in a safe and relaxed environment that generates a relaxed state of mind and body that could generate a sense of security and safety. As if the therapist senses or is told by the client about a lack of trust and sense of insecurity toward the therapist or the environment, the trance procedure must be stopped.
Content
- Ethic
- Safety of client and practitioner
- Misconception of hypnosis
- Core belief system
- Building Rapport
- Working with adults
- Working with children
- Awareness
- Language
- Body Language
- Visualization
- Post hypnosis
- By passing logical progress
- Trance and behavior
- Logic / Trance
- Model of achieving goal
- Targeted applications of treatment
- Utilization of trance work
- Techniques of trance work in intermediate level
- Amnesia
- Legal and ethical rules regarding to amnesia
- Anchoring
- Hypnosis and memory
- Thinking pattern
- Resistance and its utilization procedure
- Stress / Anxiety
- SUD (subjective units of distress scale)
- Trigger elements
- Panic attack
- Trauma
- PTSD
- Experiments and practices
Advanced Clinical Hypnosis course
In this 40-hour training level, the emphasis is given to practice, participation, research, and reading materials along with more advanced techniques and utilization approaches.
Hypnotic intervention:
It is very important to understand and recognize that you as a therapist will not work hard for the client yet; the client will work hard. This is the downfall of some counselors who work harder than clients and the result is passivity of the client and dependency. The therapist must let the client know that she or he has full control while they are in a trance they can stop the processes of trance work. Clinical hypnotic intervention starts after evaluation and assessment however, fundamental elements of intervention in any case regardless of assessment, are the client’s consent and trust level in the clinician. Any intervention must take place in a safe and relaxed environment that generates a relaxed state of mind and body that could generate a sense of security and safety. As if the therapist senses or is told by the client about a lack of trust and sense of insecurity toward the therapist or the environment, the trance procedure must be stopped.
Content
- Utilization within trance work
- Language
- Tone of voice
- Storytelling
- Metaphor
- Post hypnosis
- Direct/indirect suggestions
- Trance and deepening of it,
- Trance and behavior
- Conversational trance
- Role and legality of generated amnesia,
- Amnesia in general,
- Demonstration
- Working with children in more detail
- Children’s Ideomotor signals
- Working with young adult
- Age regression,
- Age progression,
- Guided imagery
- Visualization
- Resistant and its utilization
- Working with PTSD,
- Re-framing,
- Pain control
- Hypnosis and memory
- False memory
- Trauma and disassociation
- Trigger elements in detail
- Depression, ADD and OCD in more detail (approaches mostly will be incorporated within medical treatment)
- Working with disassociation,
- Age limitation for children,
- Habit control
- Stress
- Panic disorder
- Weight / inhibited sexual desire.
- Addiction and understanding of the root cause and trance work approaches.
- Chronic pain / chronic depression
- Cope-mechanism
Clinical Hypnosis
Private training is available.
In a group setting training will take place every weekend:
Saturday 9:30 am to 7:30 pm
Sunday 9:30 am to 7:30 pm
The registration fee for each level is $1800 plus tax.