Integrating Hypnosis with Relational Psychotherapy: Clinical Applications for Attachment Trauma, Chronic Pain & Functional Disorders, Advanced Workshop (Attune Therapy Group PC)

Event Title: Integrating Hypnosis with Relational Psychotherapy: Clinical Applications for Attachment Trauma, Chronic Pain & Functional Disorders, Advanced Workshop 

Organization: Attune Therapy Group PC / CE Learning Systems LLC 

Website: www.ericspiegelphd.com/training 

Agenda: attached 

Dates: 10/10/25 – 10/11/25 

Location: Hybrid 

CE: 12 

Contact: espiegelphd@gmail.com 

Speaker: Eric Spiegel, PhD. 

Abstract: This is a workshop for therapists who enjoy the subtle, nuanced, and beautiful complexities of therapeutic work, and want to practice rich, integrative psychotherapy that incorporates clinical hypnosis with a relational treatment approach. In this workshop, we address two key clinical areas – pain and trauma – and discuss how relational and experiential facets of treatment can be incorporated with sophistication. The workshop leader will teach an attachment-focused relational method and help participants learn how they can evoke hypnosis as part of this approach. In addition to becoming more grounded in the principles of such an approach, participants will learn specific skills of how to utilize relational hypnosis in the treatment of attachment trauma, chronic pain, and functional disorders. Although this is an advanced workshop, participants of all experience levels are welcome. For example, you might be experienced with hypnosis but want to learn more about working with pain & trauma. Alternatively, you might be a skilled practitioner in one or both of those treatment areas, but want to learn more about hypnosis and how it could be integrated into the treatment you provide. 

Learning Objectives: Day One: Attachment-Focused Hypnosis & Developmental Repair of Trauma

Upon completion of this session, participants will be able to… 

• Define mentalization and explain how it develops during a healthy attachment process. 

• Differentiate between contingent and marked mirroring 

• Integrate polyvagal and neurological phenomena into a conceptual framework for how trauma disrupts development. 

• Conceptualize the use of hypnosis to treat trauma from a relational model 

• Summarize how hypnosis can be incorporated into trauma treatment by theoretical orientation & by phase of treatment 

• Formulate and deliver 2 hypnotic suggestions for enhancing attunement in the hypnotherapeutic relationship 

• Formulate and deliver 2 hypnotic suggestions for developing mental representation of a secure attachment figure or ego state 

• Formulate and deliver 2 hypnotic suggetions for increasing self & object constancy across divergent experiential, mental, and ego states 

• Offer an indirect and direct hypnotic suggestion for the purpose of developing mentalization. 

• Formulate and deliver 2 hypnotic suggestions for increasing the capacity for reflective awareness about mental states in developmentally arrested patients 

Day Two: Relational Hypnosis for Chronic Pain and Functional Disorders

Upon completion of this session, participants will be able to… 

• Utilize principles of attachment & relationship to create a hypnotic scene for the purpose of modulating pain 

• List 5 questions from a relational assessment of chronic pain Explain how to integrate principles of relational alliance-building & active-alert hypnosis in the treatment of chronic pain. 

• Explain how to directly or indirectly utilize the therapeutic alliance in creating a hypnotic suggestion of safety in the treatment of a functional disorder. 

• Differentiate hypnotic treatment of complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) from traditional chronic pain. 

• List one relational hypnotic suggestion each in the treatment of a functional gastrointestinal disorder (FGID) & functional neurological disorder (FND) (respectively).