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Digital Seminar

Healing Pain and Trauma with Hypnosis: Protocols for Relieving Pain and Empowering Clients

Faculty:
Courtney Armstrong, LPC, MHSP
Duration:
2 Hours
Copyright:
17 Mar, 2023
Product Code:
NOS096277
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
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Description

Trauma doesn’t just leave behind emotional pain—it can also manifest in physical pain that drives addictions, stalls progress in therapy, and fuels feelings of hopelessness within both the client and clinician. Clinical hypnosis can be a highly effective tool for relieving pain in trauma survivors. Learn a trauma-informed approach to hypnosis that allows you to safely evoke hypnotic states; relieve pain with evidence-based protocols; and elicit a greater sense of hope, well-being, and empowerment in survivors. In this recorded session, demonstrations and experiential activities will show you how to:

  • Incorporate clinical hypnosis into Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
  • Guide clients into hypnotic states, effectively frame suggestions, and activate innate healing responses
  • Utilize both direct and indirect suggestions for relieving anxiety and pain
  • Resolve subconscious beliefs that may be maintaining pain states
  • Demonstrate self-hypnosis techniques clients can use to evoke self-compassion, motivate themselves, and stop self-defeating behaviours

 

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Handouts

File type File name Number of pages
PDF Manual - Healing Pain and Trauma with Hypnosis (2.1 MB) 28 Pages Available after Purchase
PDF Transcript - Healing Pain and Trauma with Hypnosis (180.6 KB) 25 Pages Available after Purchase

Faculty

Courtney Armstrong, LPC, MHSP's Profile

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Courtney Armstrong, LPC, MHSP, is the founder of the Institute for Trauma Informed Hypnotherapy and author of Rethinking Trauma Treatment: Attachment, Memory Reconsolidation, and Resilience. She has over 25 years’ experience and is a board-certified Fellow in clinical hypnotherapy who has trained thousands of mental health professionals nationally and internationally in creative, brain-based strategies for healing trauma. She is a bestselling author of the book, The Therapeutic “Aha!”: 10 Strategies for Getting Clients Unstuck and Transforming Traumatic Grief and contributes to publications such as Psychotherapy Networker, Counseling Today, and The Neuropsychotherapist. She has been featured as a trauma and grief expert on national television and radio programs and is the owner/director of Tamarisk: A Center for Mind-Body Therapy in the state of Tennessee.
 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Courtney Armstrong is the founder and president of Courtney Armstrong Consulting and Training Services and the Institute for Trauma Informed Hypnotherapy. She is a consultant with the US Veterans Administration and receives royalties as a published author. Courtney Armstrong receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Courtney Armstrong serves on the Clinical Hypnosis Education and Training Committee of the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis. She is a member of the American Mental Health Counselor's Association, the Tennessee Licensed Professional Counselors Association, and the Chattanooga Area Psychotherapy Association.

Objectives

  1. Justify two ways that clinical hypnosis can enhance cognitive-behavioural therapy for pain management.
  2. Employ five basic steps for eliciting effective hypnotic inductions.
  3. Demonstrate at least one hypnosis technique to reduce pain and increase physical comfort.
  4. Appraise three types of hypnotic suggestions that can be used to reduce pain and promote a positive post-trauma identity.
  5. Evaluate at least two considerations for ethical and professional conduct when using clinical hypnosis as an adjunct to treatment for trauma and pain management.

 

Outline

  • The scientific foundation of hypnosis for clinical psychotherapy
  • Showing how hypnosis can be used in psychotherapy to calm anxiety, relieve pain, and elicit positive emotional states
  • The five basic steps for eliciting effective hypnotic inductions and how to safely use hypnosis with trauma survivors
  • Three hypnotic techniques that can be used to reduce pain and increase physical comfort
  • Three types of hypnotic suggestions that can be used to reduce pain and promote a positive post-trauma identity
  • A review of imitations of the research and potential risks of hypnosis

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Physicians
  • Physician Assistants
  • Nurses
  • Nurse Practitioners 
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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