ISSTD-Sponsored ASCH-Approved Level II Training in Clinical Hypnosis

Attending this ASCH Level II training in Clinical Hypnosis is an important step towards proficiency and confidence in offering hypnotic interventions to diverse populations and symptom presentations.

Whether your Fundamental – Level I (Basic) training in Clinical Hypnosis was six months or six years ago, this training will meet you where you are and help you build on to your “how to” techniques from the Fundamental course, and refresh, solidify, broaden, and refine your hypnotic skills and strategies.

This training is designed to enhance your knowledge and skills in clinical hypnosis. Prior clinical hypnosis training is required such as an approved ASCH Level I course. Focus will be placed on advancing skills and confidence with elicitations, reorienting, and integrating hypnotic applications into practice, along with several supervised practice opportunities. Hypnotic applications include exploratory strategies such as ideomotor signaling, an introduction to ego state therapy, applications for children or child states, trauma, habit disorders, anxiety, and somatic concerns including pain management.

Similar to the Fundamental training, the Level II course will offer you learning through didactic presentations, demonstrations and small-group practices, so that new information can be integrated and become available to you in your clinical practice. Your instructors will be ASCH approved consultants with decades of clinical experience offering hypnosis.

What is special about this training?

The ISSTD sponsored training in clinical hypnosis is a trauma and dissociative disorders informed training in clinical hypnosis. Not only is the content geared towards clinicians treating people with trauma and dissociation, but so is the process of teaching and inviting participation in hypnotic experiences.

The number of participants in the Small Group Practices is capped at 6 participants to allow for group cohesion and collaborative learning in a predictable enough environment.

The faculty and facilitators are experienced clinicians and trainers in Clinical Hypnosis, and long-standing members of the Clinical Hypnosis community.

ASCH Criteria for Eligibility for Training in Clinical Hypnosis

• Registrants must hold a Master’s degree or higher in a health care discipline deemed appropriate by the Society from a college or university accredited by its appropriate regional accrediting body. In addition, registrants must be licensed or certified in the state in which they practice.
• Registered Nurses with a Bachelor’s degree from a college or university accredited by its appropriate regional accrediting body who are licensed or certified in the state in which they practice are eligible to attend the Workshop Clinical Hypnosis.
• Students must be enrolled full-time in a Master’s level or higher program. Students must have completed a minimum of one full semester of the program and must submit proof of full-time enrollment at an ACE-approved institution of higher education on school letterhead that clearly identifies the individual’s program of study, area of concentration (if applicable), level of degree pursued and date of intended graduation.
• Full time residents or interns participating in a recognized residency or internship program may also register. Residents/interns need to submit correspondence from their supervisor on official letterhead explaining the nature of the residency/internship and date of intended completion of the program.
• ASCH recognizes a variety of health care disciplines as eligible for ASCH and ASCH-approved training, certification, and membership including medicine (physicians, physician assistants, advanced practice nurses, dentistry, psychology, social work, licensed professional counseling, licensed marriage and family counseling, and other licensed health care professionals, as well as persons actively enrolled in accredited training programs in these health care disciplines.
• Health care professionals with a Doctoral Degree in Medicine, Dentistry, or Psychology; persons holding a Master’s Degree in Social Work, Marriage and Family Counseling, or Clinical or Counseling Psychology who are licensed by the state/province in which they practice; Registered Nurses with advanced sub-specialty training and certification or a Master’s Degree; or students actively enrolled in a graduate program leading to a degree in any of the foregoing or a four-year bachelor’s degree that ends in certification in such a field. Master’s level, licensed health professionals (e.g., Occupational and Physical Therapists, Speech and Language Pathologists, et. al.) are also welcome and encouraged to attend.

Additional Workshop Information

• Detailed workshop schedules, faculty and other materials will be available to participants, online, two weeks before the start date.  Workshop materials will be available in electronic form only.
• Participants are encouraged to bring a laptop or notepad to access workshop material. Connection to WIFI will be available in the classroom.