Description

Course Details

This course is intended for the experienced professional hypnotherapist, mental health clinician, and health care provider who may or may not be familiar with hypnosis and the application of this treatment method to chronic pain. Whether you have experience with hypnosis or you are looking to add it to your practice, this course will provide you with a thorough introduction so that you can begin to use it in your practice for chronic pain management.

This course will provide you with a tool box of techniques for helping your clients get realistic relief from chronic pain. You will learn how to gather maximum information from a brief intake interview, to assess client suitability for hypnosis for pain control, and to develop client centered hypnotic strategies for taming pain. This course covers direct suggestion in hypnosis pain transformation strategies, as well as hypnoanalysis techniques for discovering and releasing emotional factors blocking lasting pain relief. You will learn effective ways to use hypnosis to help your clients reduce pain intensity when appropriate, and to reduce unnecessary emotional suffering.

Video Details

Total Run Time –

This is the latest video course by Dr. Bruce Eimer on hypnosis and hypnotherapy for pain recorded live at “HypnoThoughts Live” in Las Vegas, Nevada on August 18th and 19th, 2015. This 2-day 15-hour workshop is condensed into nine hours of video. Now you can learn everything just is if you were there without the airfare, the expenses, and the hassles. And you can watch the course over and over again.

This exciting didactic and experiential course covers the applications of hypnosis to controlling and relieving persistent pain. There is never a dull moment as Bruce conducts lectures, demonstrations with live volunteers, experiential exercises, and small group practice sessions. Didactic lectures cover types of pain problems, pain mechanisms, the “pain interview”, how to conduct a “hypnosis pre-talk” with clients who have chronic pain, choice of hypnosis induction for pain reduction, using direct suggestions in hypnosis to construct personalized hypnotic pain relief strategies, teaching self-hypnosis, using post-hypnotic suggestions to imprint instant pain relief strategies, how to “play” with pain sensations, using hypnoanalysis and hypnotic regression therapy to uncover, reframe and release the emotional causes of persistent pain, and how to use “Parts Therapy” to help clients remove emotional blocks to pain relief so they can achieve inner harmony and more control over their pain.

Clinical and ethical indications and contra-indications for using hypnosis for pain control are covered. You will learn the how-to’s of helping clients get measurable pain relief. Equipped with the techniques you will learn in this course, you will be able to help your pain clients discover pain relief more effectively. Psychologists can earn 16 CE credit hours when they complete this program. Bruce N.Eimer PhD and The Behavior Therapy Center are approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor this CE program and they are responsible for the contents of this program.