Eric K. Willmarth – 2-Day Training on Clinical Hypnosis: Transform Your Treatment of Trauma, Anxiety, Depression, Addiction and Chronic Pain

Outline

Discover the Core Skills of Hypnosis

• Brief history of clinical/medical hypnosis
• Ethics of clinical hypnosis
• When should hypnosis be used in therapy?
• Hypnotic change language for clinicians
• Intrapersonal and interpersonal dynamics
• How to disrupt patterns to encourage flexibility
• Hypnosis as an adjunctive technique
• The neurophysiology of Hypnosis

Methods to Elicit a Trance Experience: Increase Focus and Relaxation to Intensify Therapy

• Assess for willingness and hypnotic ability
• Hypnotic phenomena
• Three-stage “skeleton” of an induction sequence
• Relaxation techniques
• Visualization to recall positive memories
• Countdown breathing

How to Structure a Hypnosis Session

• How to use hypnosis across modalities
  • Relaxation
  • Rapport
  • Induction
  • Deepening
  • Waking
• Hypnotic techniques to work with resistances
• Apply hypnosis methods without a formal trance

Hypnosis Skills and Techniques for Specific Disorders and Conditions

Trauma: Restore Control and Process Traumatic Memories

• How hypnosis works with exposure
• Hypnosis techniques to restore control to clients
• Regression for processing traumatic memories
• Practices to alter distorted beliefs
• Hypnotic suggestions to foster greater emotional control

Anxiety: Shift Clients to Calm with Hypnotic Suggestion

• Strategies to get to the root of your client’s anxiety
• Hypnosis and metaphor to redefine anxiety
• Exercises to manage the energy of anxiety
• Hypnotic techniques to improve sleep in anxious clients

Depression: Breaking the Cycles of Depression

• Combining hypnosis and CBT for mood control
• Using hypnotic age regression and progression for depression
• Mesmer, music, mood and movement
• Using creative stories to reconceptualize depression

Acute and Chronic Pain: Interventions to Change Clients’ Minds and Pain

• Altering the perception of pain
• Hypnotic interventions to dissociate clients from the reality of pain
• Shift clients’ attention from painful sensations
• Forgetting about the pain with amnesia
• Expand time and expand comfort
• Elicit vivid memories to obviate pain

Addiction: Release Clients from Addictive Behavior Patterns

• How to use hypnosis to create a different perspective
• Hypnotic suggestions to strengthen willpower
• Self-hypnosis to overcome addictive urges and cravings
• Ease withdrawal symptoms with hypnosis

Experiential Workshop: Elicit a Trance State for Enhanced Responsiveness in Therapy