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Hypnosis for Trauma & PTSD Certificate Course

Program Information

Outline

Neurophysiology of Trauma/PTSD

Impact on the nervous system
Impact of trauma on the 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 body carrying information
Cellular biophoton release
Limitations with research

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

Put Clinical Hypnosis to Practice

Simple Inductions
Changing Mental States
Strategies to Interrupt Rumination
Strategies for Anxiety, Depression, 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 on feelings
Too much emphases on the trauma story

Objectives

Breakdown the basics of clinical hypnosis to incorporate into your practice.
Analyze the research on hypnosis as it relates to the clinical treatment of trauma.
Describe advances in mind/body research as it relates to trauma.
Determine the efficacy of focused attention on alleviating symptoms of trauma and PTSD.
Analyze the neurophysiology of trauma in relation to assessment and treatment planning.
Integrate three hypnotic strategies to facilitate trauma- symptom resolution with clients.
Demonstrate how deep hypnotic states can help calm a client’s anxiety, panic and reactivity.
Describe how trauma symptoms may act as negative hypnotic trances and how that may affect therapeutic outcomes.
Intervene on emotional instability with three hypnotic protocols to improve client level of functioning.
Describe how you can alter client’s emotional states with hypnosis to help reduce trauma symptoms.
Determine how the differences among secure, ambivalent, anxious and disorganized attachment categories can better inform clinical assessment of trauma.
Modify attachment patterns with hypnosis to help move clients forward in clinical treatment.

Target Audience

Addiction Counselors, Case Managers, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Psychologists, Social Workers, and other Mental Health Professionals