Hypnosis for Trauma & PTSD Certificate Course: Effectively integrating hypnosis, neuroscience, and mind/body approaches in clinical practice – Dr. Carol Kershaw, Bill Wade

Course Description

Hypnosis for Trauma & PTSD Certificate Course: Effectively integrating hypnosis, neuroscience, and mind/body approaches in clinical practice – Dr. Carol Kershaw, Bill Wade

Add additional power to your current clinical approach and make trauma  treatment more effective in a shorter period of time  when you  incorporate clinical hypnosis in your practice.

Hypnosis is gentle, collaborative and powerful in eliciting lasting change in clients.  Now you can join long-time Ericksonian-based practitioners, Drs. Carol Kershaw and Bill Wade, in this  comprehensive certificate course  where they draw on the resource-based approach of  Ericksonian Tradition  as well as modern brain science and neurology to provide you a step-by-step guide for applying hypnosis to your clinical practice.

Throughout the course, special emphasis will be given to understanding how  trauma  affects the brain and how hypnosis can be used to  alleviate PTSD symptoms such as anxiety, depression, panic, insomnia, obsessive-compulsive behavior and difficulty handling anger.

Whether you’re new to hypnosis or an experienced hypnotherapist, this unique training opportunity can improve both your competence and confidence in resolving entrenched trauma using clinical hypnosis.

Here’s what you’ll learn to do in this certificate training…

Integrate the essential building blocks  for safely and easily incorporating hypnosis into clinical practice.

Gain client buy-in  by learning how to provide effective psychoeducation that includes the research and science behind hypnosis.

Alleviate symptoms of trauma and PTSD  through focused attention.

Enhance your treatment planning  by understanding the neuroscience of hypnosis.

Advance your clinical assessment skills  by understanding how the critical differences among attachment categories impact your clients.

Improve clinical outcomes  by learning to utilize evidence-based mind/body tools and strategies.

Boost trauma symptom resolution  with three simple hypnotic strategies.

Calm your client’s anxiety, panic, and reactivity  by learning how to induce deep hypnotic states.

Prevent your clients from getting stuck  by learning to recognize and prevent trauma symptoms acting as negative trances.

Improve your clients’ level of functioning and emotional stability  with three hypnotic protocols.

Help clients move forward in clinical treatment  with therapeutic strategies for modifying attachment patterns.

You’ll also learn…

Neurophysiology of Trauma/PTSD

• Impact of trauma on the nervous system and brain
• Impact of stress on the brain
• Vagal Nerve Activation-Stephen Porges

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES)

• Intense and prolonged trauma
• Developmental trauma
• Seizure activity with trauma

Trauma and Attachment

• Attachment styles
• Trauma and dissociation style attachment
• Attachment and relationships

Latest Neuroscience Research on Body/Mind Healing

• Body/mind as frequency, light and innate healing abilities
• Discovery of filament structures in the body carrying information
• Cellular biophoton release

Long-Term Stress and Its Impact on the Limbic System

• Symptoms of limbic over arousal: Anxiety, startle response, panic, obsessive-compulsive patterns, anger, insomnia
• Symptoms of limbic under arousal: Depression, negative thinking and altered perception of experiences

Essentials of Clinical Hypnosis

• Definition of hypnosis as resource activator
• Focused attention and suggestion
• Hypnotic language
• Conversational hypnosis
• Psychotherapy as hypnosis
• EEG hypnosis

Putting Clinical Hypnosis to Practice

• Simple inductions
• Changing mental states
• Strategies to interrupt rumination
• Strategies for anxiety, depression, and calming the nervous system
• Experiential exercises to practice the skills learned
• Demonstration: EEG Hypnosis

Strategies for Developing Traumatic Memory Reconsolidation

• Retrieval and disruption
• How to move a memory from short-term to long-term
• State-dependent memory and learning

Focused Attention as a State of Negative or Positive Hypnotic Trance

• How optical system may play a role in symptom formation and removal
• Focus on -nothing helps eliminates negative thought

Simple Biofeedback Tools Paired with Hypnosis to Support Post Traumatic Growth

• Heartmath HRV Training
• Temperature Training
• Breath Training and Meditation
• Galvanic Skin Response Training

How to Avoid Common Mistakes in Talk Therapy that May Make Trauma Symptoms Worse

• Too much attention to  feelings
• Too much emphases on the trauma story