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Hypnosis for Trauma I: Comprehensive Stabilization (Integrative Health Psycology, PA)

August 31

Organization: Integrative Health Psychology, PA 

Website: www.LouisDamisPhD.com 

Event Title: Hypnosis for Trauma I: Comprehensive Stabilization, Advanced Workshop 

Agenda:  Agenda_Hypnosis_for_Trauma_I_Damis

Dates: 08/31/2025 

Location: Virtual 

CE: 5 

Contact: Louis Damis, Ph.D DrDamis@LouisDamisPhD.com 

Abstract:

This workshop focuses on the use of stabilization, the initial phase of the Phase-Oriented Treatment of Trauma (Brown & Fromm, 1986). This phase of treatment is often quite complex, including the development of arousal reduction and anxiety management skills, internalization of an implicit sense of safety and security, self-soothing, control of dissociation, readiness for assertiveness skills, improvement in self-regard/esteem, cognitive modification, sleep promotion/reduction in nightmares, and prerequisite skills for trauma processing. The majority of the session will be dedicated to training techniques, with an emphasis on demonstrations that will be recorded for distribution to participants. The Normative Implicit Clinical Hypnosis approach taught facilitates modification of implicit memory and Internal Working Models that underlie Complex PTSD. This workshop is a prerequisite for the Trauma II (Attachment Repair) and Trauma III (Integration and Self-Development) workshops. 

Learning Objectives:  

Educational Objectives: 

  • Participants will be able to describe the three components of the phase-oriented trauma treatment. 
  • Participants will be able to outline and apply two strategies for establishing a neuroception of safety. 
  • Participants will be able to delineate three criteria for adequate acquisition of an internalized sense of safety and security. 
  • Participants will be able to describe and train self-soothing and two dissociation control techniques. 
  • Participants will be able to describe and apply one or more strategies for ego-strengthening, sleep promotion, nightmare resolution, and cognitive modification. 

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