Level 1 and 2 Training

Bianca Rucker, PhD, RN, RMFT

Clinical hypnosis can be applied to helping clients who present with sexual concerns. Learn a variety of specific hypnotic strategies that lend themselves well to sexual issues. Examples include: helping a client overcome past blocks, helping a client change negative sexual scripts to positive ones, helping a man deal with erectile dysfunction, helping a woman address painful intercourse, and helping couples move towards a better sexual connection together.

David Bowler, MD

Unraveling the mystery of gut-directed hypnotherapy (GDH) for functional gastrointestinal (GI) disorders, including irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).

Objectives:

After attending this presentation participants will be able to:

• Grasp the importance of the gut-brain connection in the context of functional GI disorders
• Be familiar with an approach to selection of appropriate patients/clients for GDH
• Outline a flexible proposed GDH treatment plan
• Access further resources for incorporating GDH into their practices.

James Stabler, Shelley Ugyan

Elaine Drysdale, BA (Psychology), MD, FRCPC (Psychiatry)

Dr. Drysdale will discuss use of hypnotic language and imagery for dying patients, with content influenced by themes and imagery described by people who have had “near death experiences”. These phenomena are spiritual experiences of people who have come as close as possible to dying, often with cardiac arrest, yet survived and been able to talk about what they have experienced.

She will share examples drawn from over 30 years of experience working with patients facing life-threatening or terminal illnesses, in her work as the primary psychiatric consultant to BC Cancer and to the Leukemia/Bone Marrow Transplant Programme of B.C.

Harry Stefanakis, PhD, RPsych

This 90-minute seminar explores the use of clinical hypnosis as a powerful tool in the treatment of depression. Participants will gain a understanding of how hypnosis can access the subconscious mind to reframe negative thought patterns, promote emotional resilience, and facilitate lasting change. Through a combination of theory and hands-on practice, attendees will leave with practical skills they can immediately integrate into their therapeutic work.

James Stabler, Shelley Ugyam

Davidicus Wong, MD

In this interactive and experiential session, we will explore:

• The common and unique features of mindfulness and clinical hypnosis
• Discuss a theory of what happens in mindfulness.
• Participate in group demonstrations of guided mindfulness meditation and the use of clinical hypnosis to enhance mindful states,
• And learn Dr. Wong’s Mindfulness-Centred Clinical Hypnosis – a practical way that will benefit both you and those whom you treat.

Lance M. Rucker, DDS, FACD, Saul Pilar, MD, Reza Nouri, DMD, FACD

This session will focus primarily on rapid access techniques to utilize and leverage hypnotic states already in progress when patients/clients present in emergency rooms, medical offices, dental clinics, and other health care settings.

Demonstration and guided practice breakouts will be included.

Module Objectives:

• Recognize and identify hallmarks of hypnotic states which are already underway when patients arrive for assessments or treatment interventions
• Recognize strategies for oblique hypnotic communication with clients which obviate formal or informal inductions
• Practice optimized language patterns for oblique hypnotic suggestions
• Rapid access hypnosis for child and adolescent patients

This session will be of particular interest to hands-on healthcare professionals.

Leora Kuttner, PhD (Clin. Psyc.)

Children are very receptive to Hypnosis as an approach to helping them resolve difficulties, activate their coping or reduce fears and pain. Teenagers depending on their maturity lean more towards to adult approaches that include relaxation as a component. Both children and teens appreciate an engaging and candid hypnotic style, and techniques that empowers them to use and develop their own inner resources. The younger the child the shorter, more dynamic and more playful and imaginative the hypnotic approach.

This workshop will show many video examples of children of different age and how to provide hypnosis that is effective across a range of common pediatric problems: sleep difficulties, enuresis, IVs and injections and abdominal pain and headaches.

James Stabler MSW, RCC & Shelley Ugyan RCC, MCC

This workshop is designed for both level 1 and 2 participants and has three sessions. Each session is independent and all three fit together. Participants can attend anyone, two or all three.

Format

1. Psychoeducation components regarding hypnosis, inductions, schemas, and intervention at symptom level and schema level.
2. Live demonstration by the presenters of an informal induction intervention.
3. Breakout session for participants to undertake an informal induction intervention as therapist and client.
4. Debrief breakout and question and answer time.

Case Examples

The three demonstrated case examples of Informal Inductions focus on the following.

1. Let the Induction do the work.
2. Let the Conversational Induction do the work.
3. Let the Dialogue induction do the work.

Davidicus Wong, MD