From Spiraling to Unraveling: The Hypnotherapeutic Treatment of Anxiety (Greater Philadelphia Society of Clinical Hypnosis)
March 16
Organization: Greater Philadelphia Society of Clinical Hypnosis
Website: https://gpsch.org/
Agenda: https://asch.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Flemons_Timed_Agenda.docx
Event Title: From Spiraling to Unraveling: The Hypnotherapeutic Treatment of Anxiety
Dates: 3/16/2025
Location: Virtual
CE: 3.0
Contact: marcy1116@aol.com
Abstract:
The feral feel of anxiety tends to inspire antagonistic efforts to rein it in. Clients may initially seek you out because they’re hoping hypnosis will help them conquer their tachycardia, worried thoughts, fainting, IBS, excessive sweating, or panic attacks. However, hypnosis is best employed not to try to dominate or banish such symptoms, but, rather, to invite their unraveling and dissolution through the facilitation of effortless—avolitional—shifts and alterations in how clients make sense of and respond to anxious experience.
In this three-hour webinar, we’ll tease out some of the common intra- and interactive patterns of anxiety and illuminate key hypnotic strategies for therapeutically altering them. You will learn how to approach hypnosis as a vehicle not for enhanced control but, rather, for inviting curiosity, creative collaboration and coordination, and extemporaneous invention and discovery.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of the program, participants will be able to:
- Contrast control- and coordination-based approaches to treating anxiety.
- Outline the self-referential spiraling inherent in anxiety and panic.
- Identify 3 symptoms of anxiety as the result of mind-body efforts to meet a challenge.
- Describe 2 ways to alter symptoms of anxiety.