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Digital Seminar

Creative Ways to Introduce and Use Hypnosis and Visualization to Clients


Faculty:
Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C, DAPA
Duration:
1 Hour 01 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
18 Jun, 2025
Product Code:
POS150248
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Access:
Never expires.


Description

Guided Imagery, Visualization, and Hypnotic Inductions can all be extremely effective adjunctive techniques that can enhance the therapeutic relationship while resourcing clients with strategies that comfort, soothe, empower, and heal. Participants will learn how to introduce these techniques in a therapy session and integrate them into other treatment paradigms. We will also identify a wide range of cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and somatic symptoms and struggles that can be significantly mitigated with the use of auto-hypnotic techniques.

CPD

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



CPD

PESI Australia, in collaboration with PESI in the USA, offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognized by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation. This program is worth 1.25 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.



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The Ferentz Institute


Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C, DAPA, is a recognized expert in the strengths-based, de-pathologized treatment of trauma and has been in private practice for over 40 years. She has been an adjunct faculty member at several universities, and is the founder of The Ferentz Institute, now in its seventeenth year of providing continuing education to mental health professionals and graduating several thousand clinicians from her two certificate programs in advanced trauma treatment. In 2009 she was voted the “Social Worker of the Year” by the Maryland Society for Clinical Social Work. She is the author of Treating Self-Destructive Behaviors in Trauma Survivors: A Clinician’s Guide, now in its second edition, Letting Go of Self-Destructive Behaviors: A Workbook of Hope and Healing and Finding Your Ruby Slippers: Transformative Life Lessons from the Therapist’s Couch.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Lisa Ferentz maintains a private practice and is the Founder and President of the Ferentz Institute. She receives royalties as a published author and is a consultant for Northwest Hospital. Lisa Ferentz receives a speaking honorarium and product royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Lisa Ferentz is a member of the National Association of Social Workers and the American Psychotherapy Association.


Additional Info

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.

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Objectives

  1. Define and distinguish between hypnosis, mindfulness, visualisation, and guided imagery.
  2. Describe a process of assessing for client hypnotizability.
  3. Describe and implement at least three ways that hypnosis can be introduced into therapy sessions.
  4. Identify at least five clinical issues that would benefit from the application of hypnosis, guided imagery, or visualisation techniques.

Outline

  • Sorting out the differences between hypnosis, mindfulness, visualisation, and guided imagery
  • How to assess for client openness to hypnotic suggestion
  • How to introduce hypnosis into therapy sessions
  • How to apply visualisation techniques to five common problems in therapy
  • Risks and limitations of hypnosis with trauma survivors

Target Audience

  • Counsellors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Physicians
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Nurses

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