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Medical Hypnotherapy (60 Hours)
Clinical Hypnotherapy Certificate Program Course
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Medical Hypnotherapy focuses on the medical applications of hypnotherapy and provides the student with a clinical perspective in the healing of imbalances, the process of self-discovery, and accessing body wisdom, to support clients in transforming their lives. Medical hypnotherapy utilizes illness as a signal that provides important information that can be used for creative growth experiences.

The course covers a variety of subjects including immediate induction, focusing, suggestibility tests, autogenic stress relief, smoking cessation, headaches, pain management, anxiety and phobia management, anxiety related sexuality problems, insomnia and sleep problems, hypnoanesthesia and strengthening the immune system. There will also be a bonus segments on facilitating peak performance, and administering hypnotherapeutic “first aid” in a medical emergency.

Objectives:

To describe a clinical model that embraces the realm of healing.
To learn direct and immediate inductions, as well as deepening techniques.
To learn how to use the focusing technique to facilitate clients' taking an active role in their learning process.
To learn how to use suggestibility tests to determine depth of trance state.
To learn how to utilize hypnosis in smoking cessation.
To learn how to teach autogenic stress relief.
To recognize pain as a signal, differentiate types of pain and learn how to evaluate a patient with pain.
To learn specific techniques to help clients manage pain.
To learn how to work with migraine headaches and muscle tension headaches.
To learn a protocol to increase immune system functioning.
Introduce hypnoanesthesia and learn how to create glove anesthesia and transfer it to a part of the body.
To utilize hypnosis as a technique in setting up weight loss programs.
To learn how to administer hypnotherapeutic “first aid” in an emergency.
To learn how to facilitate peak performance with hypnosis.

Primary Competencies: Successful completion is based on class participation, a session with the instructor or teaching assistant as the client, self-created script, completion of practice sessions and feedback forms, mastery of particular hypnotic phenomena, a self-hypnosis script, and a final exam.

The Medical Hypnotherapy course consists of hands-on experiential training where students either meet 1 time per month for a full weekend (Saturday and Sunday from 9:00 am to 5:30 pm) for 3 months or for 4 hours once per week for 12 weeks. Each training weekend, three to five protocols and/or inductions are focused on through didactic training, live demonstration of each protocol, supervised practice of each protocol where there are Certified Hypnotherapists supervising our student practice dyads. Full clinical debriefing sessions follow each lecture, demonstration and practice session

Student Attendance Policy: Punctuality and regular attendance are essential to do well in this course as your competency in hypnotherapy depends on practicing the basic concepts, taking the journeys yourself and guiding student-clients through their journeys.

Teaching Strategies: This class will be taught utilizing a variety of techniques including lecture for specific didactic information, discussion, demonstration of how to guide a client through each of the protocols plus a videotape of these demonstrations, student practice sessions with feedback from the student-client, teaching assistant and instructor, journeys for your own personal growth, group processing as needed, and a videotape for you to see both your strengths and challenges.

Textbooks: All students are required to purchase the books labeled " required texts " for this course. A list of recommended texts are also listed, though are not required. Please access our on-line bookstore for a complete list of texts for this class and links to purchase your texts through our on-line partner, Amazon.com.

On-line Labs: Each month consists of 15 "in-class" training hours and an additional 5 "on-line" training hours through the Healthy Hypnotherapy Institute's on-line Learning Labs . The on-line component offers continuing support to the student between the live trainings, focusing on homework assignments, reading assignments from the required reading lists and the HHI Text . Interactive quizzes further prepare the student for the CHCC Certification Examination. The Learning Labs also offer the students a way to easily stay connected to one another between training weekends and to interact with the instructors and assistants at any time via the secure message boards, live chat rooms or e-mail.

Prerequisites: Hypnotherapy Seminar: An Introduction to Clinical Hypnotherapy
Four hypnotherapy Courses are taken and an oral and written certification exam are successfully completed to satisfy the required 200 hours which certifies the student with the designation Certified Hypnotherapist (CHT). Both the oral and written exams are administered by Healthy Hypnotherapy Institute's CHCC Certified Administrators and Examiners. Students are fully prepared for these examinations throughout their 200 hours of training. The four required courses may be completed at whatever pace the student is comfortable pursuing. Most individuals complete the training between 10 and 12 months for the 200 hour certification level, including the examinations.

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Medical Hypnotherapy
60 Hours - 3 full weekends (Saturday and Sunday each weekend 9:00-5:30 PST)
$900.00

Course Dates :

The Clinical Hypnotherapy Certification Program consists of the following courses:

Course Sequence (200 Hour Certified Hypnotherapist Tract)

Clinical Hypnotherapy Seminar: An Introduction to Clinical Hypnotherapy
(14 Hours)
(Required as the first course; Students enrolling into the Clinical Hypnotherapy Program must take both days: Saturday and Sunday. This course is also approved for CE Credits for MFTs and LCSWs.)

Clinical Hypnotherapy Approaches & Application (80 Hours - 4 weekends)
(Can be taken in any order once the Clinical Hypnotherapy Seminar has been completed)

Ericksonian Hypnotherapy (60 Hours - 3 weekends)
(Can be taken in any order once the Clinical Hypnotherapy Seminar has been completed)

Medical Hypnotherapy (60 Hours - 3 weekends)
(Can be taken in any order once the Clinical Hypnotherapy Seminar has been completed)

Register for the Oral and Written Certification Examination Weekend.

Advanced Seminars (Advanced Training for the 300 Hour Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist Tract)

Choose from any of the advanced course to attain an additional 100 hours of classroom training towards the Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist (CCH) Certification.

Choose from any of our advanced workshops and seminars for specialization in a particular area of hypnotherapy training. These hours can also count towards fulfillment of your additional 100 CHCC hours.