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Digital Seminar

Mindful Hypnosis Certification Training: Revolutionize Your Approach to ADHD, Anxiety, Trauma, and More


Faculty:
Liz Slonena, PsyD, HSP, MSCP
Duration:
13 Hours 05 Minutes
Copyright:
07 Apr, 2025
Product Code:
POS150112
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Access:
Never expires.


Description

As clinicians, you don’t doubt the power of mindfulness. But traditional mindfulness therapies can be time-consuming and challenging for your clients to integrate into everyday life.

Facing relentless demands on their time and energy, clients increasingly seek methods that offer quick relief.

This isn’t your typical mindfulness course.

Watch Dr. Liz E. Slonena, PsyD, HSP-P, MSCP for this revolutionary training to learn to elevate your treatments with mindful hypnosis – an evidence-based approach that combines the benefits of mindfulness and hypnosis for clinical and personal practice.

Through this comprehensive, interactive workshop, you’ll gain the ability to feel calm and confident in sessions through:

  • Practical techniques, specific strategies, and group practice that will allow your clients to leave feeling refreshed and invigorated
  • Step-by-step scripts to make mindfulness accessible and impactful
  • 3-session and 8-session protocols for rapid stress relief
  • Clinical applications for ADHD, burnout, PTSD, anxiety, depression, substance use and more
  • Strategies to easily integrate mindful hypnosis into your existing practice modalities including EMDR, ACT, and IFS

Whether you are new to hypnosis or an experienced hypnotherapist, PURCHASE TODAY to experience mindful hypnosis to transform your practice, stress less, and live more mindfully.

CERTIFICATION MADE SIMPLE!

  • No hidden fees – PESI pays for your application fee (a $99.99 USD value)*!
  • Simply complete this live event and the post-event evaluation included in this training, and your application to be a Certified Mindfulness-Informed Professional (CMIP) through Evergreen Certification is complete.*
  • Attendees will receive documentation of CMIP designation from Evergreen Certifications 4 to 6 weeks following the program.

    *Professional standards apply. Visit au.evgcert.com/cmip for professional requirements.

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 13.25 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.



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Liz Slonena, PsyD, HSP, MSCP's Profile

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Liz E. Slonena, PsyD, HSP-P, MSCP, is a licensed psychologist, consultant, and sought-after speaker based in Asheville, North Carolina. Dr. Liz is the founder of Mindful Hypnosis Counseling & Consulting PLLC and co-creator of Mindful Hypnosis, an innovative approach that blends mindfulness and hypnosis for rapid stress reduction. Her specialties include adult ADHD, perfectionism, burnout, endometriosis, and complex PTSD.

After facing chronic health challenges as a teenager, Dr. Liz discovered meditation as a transformative path to health and harmony. With over 20 years of practicing and leading meditations, she combines her lived experience with clinical expertise to create a compassionate, evidence-based approach to care.

Dr. Liz earned her Doctor of Psychology and Master of Science in Clinical Psychology from Baylor University. With over a decade of clinical research experience and more than a dozen publications, Dr. Liz has contributed to groundbreaking studies, including research at the National Institute of Mental Health on ketamine treatments for severe depression.

Beyond her clinical practice, Dr. Liz fosters the next generation of clinical hypnotherapists through mentorship and education with multiple leadership roles within the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis (SCEH). With a growing social media presence (@Dr.LizListens), Dr. Liz demystifies hypnosis and shares practical mind-body medicine skills with a global audience. When she’s not teaching or in the therapy room, you can find her kickboxing, painting, playing video games, or frolicking in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Elizabeth Slonena has an employment relationship with Mindful Hypnosis Counseling & Consulting PLLC. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Elizabeth Slonena is a member of the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis.


Additional Info

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.

 For a more detailed outline that includes times or durations of time, if needed, please contact cepesi@pesi.com


Objectives

  1. Identify three common misconceptions about clinical hypnosis.
  2. Define the core principles of Mindful Hypnosis.
  3. Determine how Mindful Hypnosis can enhance therapeutic effectiveness.
  4. Identify three similarities between mindfulness and hypnotherapy.
  5. Define the eight-session Mindful Hypnotherapy protocols, including the underlying principles that support adaptation for clinical populations.
  6. Utilise three Mindful Hypnosis inductions to involve a trance.
  7. Choose techniques, including deepening, post-hypnotic suggestions, and reawakening, to guide a Mindful Hypnosis experience.
  8. Define how three hypnotic phenomena – sensory alteration, age regression, and future projection - can be used to address clinical symptoms.
  9. Evaluate the clinical implications of research on the effects of Mindful Hypnosis practices for stress reduction.
  10. Identify clinical presentations where use of Mindful Hypnosis may be contraindicated.
  11. Use informal techniques to overcome barriers to practising mindfulness.
  12. Utilise Mindful Self Hypnosis to mitigate compassion fatigue.

Outline

Day One

Define Mindful Hypnosis
  • Myths and misconceptions
  • Hypnosis and mindfulness: Similarities and differences
    • Philosophical
    • Neurobiological
  • Why merge the two?
  • Exciting clinical research
  • Why mindful hypnosis increases therapists’ effectiveness
  • Group experiential practice: Mindful hypnosis for calm confidence
When and when Not to Use Mindful Hypnosis
  • Tools for determining good candidates for mindful hypnosis
  • Clinical presentations not recommended to use mindful hypnosis
  • Limitations of the research and potential risks
Invoke Trance with Inductions
  • Natural unconscious trance
  • Pre-trance discussion
  • Leading & pacing
  • Three simple induction scripts
    • Mudra induction
    • Singing bowl induction
    • ”The Light Within” induction
  • Deepening a trance
  • Ending a trance
  • Group practice
The Power of Suggestion
  • Metaphors, stories, analogies
  • Direct and Indirect suggestion
  • Paradoxical suggestions
  • Post-hypnotic suggestions
  • Ericksonian utilisation
The Hypnotic Phenomena
  • Adaptive dissociation
  • Time distortion
  • Age regression
  • Future projection
  • Ideo-motor response (IMR)
  • Sensory alteration
  • Catalepsy
  • Analgesia/anesthesia
  • Amnesia/hypermnesia
  • Group meditation
Day Two

Mindful Hypnosis Session by Session
  • Review 3 and 8 session mindful hypnotherapy protocols
  • How to enhance home practice
  • Tailoring treatment to clients
Part I: Clinical Applications with Case Examples
  • ADHD
  • Burnout prevention and recovery
  • Performance enhancement (exercise, public speaking, test taking)
  • PTSD
  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Weight and body image
  • Pain management (migraines & chronic pain)
  • Insomnia
  • Substance use (alcohol & cigarettes)
  • Medical hypnosis
  • Pre/post-surgery
  • Focused healing
Part II: Integration into Your Practice
  • Mindful self-hypnosis
  • Combine mindful hypnosis with:
    • ACT
    • EMDR
    • IFS
  • Make mindful hypnosis MP3s for your clients
Small Group Review and Practice
  • Trance induction
  • Trance deepening
  • Suggestion
  • Post hypnotic suggestion
  • Coming out of trance
  • Navigate resistance
Clinical Considerations
  • Principles to guide your mindfulness practice
  • How to be a mindful hypnotherapist
  • Cultural and ethical considerations
  • Group meditation

Target Audience

  • Counsellors
  • Social Workers
  • Addiction Counsellors
  • Case Managers
  • Psychologists
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Therapists
  • Art Therapists
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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