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SUMMARY:2026 Level II Workshop in Clinical Hypnosis (NESCH)
DESCRIPTION:Organization: New England Society of Clinical Hypnosis  \nWebsite: www.nesch.org   \nEvent Title: 2026 Level II Workshop in Clinical Hypnosis  \nAgenda:  NESCH_Level_II_April__2026_Syllabus_3-18-26.docx \nDates: April 11\, 12\, 25\, & 26\, 2026  \nLocation: Virtual  \nCE: 20  \nContact : Staisha Santungwana\, neschMSC@gmail.com   \nDescription: Participants in this 20-hour Intermediate Workshop will build on and refine their skills in Clinical Hypnosis. The focus will be on the practical application of hypnosis.   \nTopics to include:   \n\n Advanced and specialized hypnosis elicitations\n\n\n Useful Hypnotic tools for psychotherapy: anchoring\, age progression and age regression. Discussion of hypnosis and memory. \n\n\n Neurobiology and the use of hypnosis\n\n\n Pediatric hypnosis\n\n\n Using hypnosis to resolve problems of anxiety\n\n\n Habit control using hypnosis\n\n\n Treating functional disorders with hypnosis\n\n\n Using hypnosis to relieve pain.\n\n\n Using hypnosis to deal with suffering around medical procedures.\n\n\n Hypnosis in the treatment of trauma.\n\n\n Constructing metaphors in hypnosis\n\n\n Hypnosis for Creativity \n\nLearning Objectives:  \n\nObserve an advanced elicitation. \n\n\nObserve a hypnotic technique for intensification of trance. \n\n\nDescribe three examples of the use of hypnotic language and suggestions in this demonstration and clarify three conditions under which each may be indicated. \n\n\nDiscuss three aspects of the importance of re-orienting. \n\n\nEstablish rapport with a subject. \n\n\nDemonstrate use of an advanced elicitation. \n\n\nDemonstrate an intensification technique. \n\n\nDescribe three clinical applications of the techniques in mind-body healing. \n\n\nDiscuss biological design based on gene expression and three ways that design can be affected by clinical hypnosis. \n\n\nDescribe three characteristics of culture that can overwhelm biological design. \n\n\nDescribe three components of a healing relationship that support biological design. \n\n\nDescribe four components of pain biology. \n\n\nIdentify three techniques for using hypnosis for pain management. \n\n\nDescribe three differences between acute and chronic pain. \n\n\nDefine ideomotor phenomena/signaling as a form of body language. \n\n\nIdentify two clinically appropriate times to utilize ideomotor strategies. \n\n\nName seven common causes of functional disorders that can be accessed using ideomotor signaling. \n\n\nDemonstrate a hypnotic trance as the operator and describe the experience as the subject. \n\n\nDemonstrate one new hypnotic skill or application learned from the preceding material. \n\n\nList at least three ways in which working with children differs from working with adults. \n\n\nIdentify three developmental tasks of childhood. \n\n\nDemonstrate two hypnotic techniques that are effective with children and vary based on developmental level. \n\n\nDescribe how adverse childhood events affect neurodevelopment. \n\n\nExplain the difference between informative and evocative communication. \n\n\nState two functions of metaphors in psychotherapy. \n\n\nState two functions of metaphors in hypnotic elicitation. \n\n\nDescribe the six stages of change and three methods of assessing a client’s readiness for change. \n\n\nDescribe a multiphase treatment plan for change. \n\n\nIdentify four key hypnotic tools for an effective habit change intervention. \n\n\nFormulate an approach for recognizing functional symptoms. \n\n\nDescribe two examples of functional symptoms as metaphors for interpersonal conflicts and emotions. \n\n\nIdentify three ways that hypnosis can be integrated into the treatment of patients with psychophysiological disorders. \n\n\nDescribe five symptoms of dissociation and three disturbances in self-organization in cPTSD. \n\n\nDescribe current treatment guidelines for cPTSD. \n\n\nIdentify hypnotic tools to improve self-organization\, facilitate trauma processing\, and decrease dissociative symptoms. \n\n\nDescribe the principle of utilization\, incorporating both clinician and client contributions to the session. \n\n\nDescribe three characteristics of metaphors and storytelling and their clinical indications. \n\n\nDescribe how creativity and laughter function as mechanisms of healing and change. \n\nSpeaker info: Harvey Zarren\, MD ZarrenCV \n 
URL:https://asch.net/event/2026-level-ii-workshop-in-clinical-hypnosis-nesch/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Component-Sponsored CE
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260417
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260420
DTSTAMP:20260521T020506
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SUMMARY:Level 2 Clinical Hypnosis (OSCH)
DESCRIPTION:Organization: Oregon Society of Clinical Hypnosis  \nWebsite: https://www.oregonhypnosis.org/event-6581833   \nEvent Title: The 63rd Annual Level 2 Clinical Hypnosis Course  \nAgenda:   Agenda and LOs \nDates: 04/17/26 – 04/19/26  \nLocation: Virtual  \nCE: 21  \nContact : debbenweb@gmail.com \, Debbie Bensching  \nDescription: This course is designed for licensed health care professionals and students who have completed the Level 1 training in clinical hypnosis and wish to expand their competence in using clinical hypnosis. This course builds on foundational knowledge from Level 1 and emphasizes the development of practical skills\, clinical decision-making\, and ethical application of hypnosis.  \n  Participants will review current perspectives on the neurophysiology of hypnosis and refine core hypnotic competencies\, including advanced elicitation and intensification strategies\, therapeutic hypnotic language\, utilization\, and the use of suggestion. Instruction includes demonstrations and discussion of hypnotic techniques such as ideomotor signaling\, metaphor development\, and exploratory approaches.  \n Clinical applications of hypnosis are presented across several common treatment concerns\, including anxiety\, sleep problems\, depression\, pain management\, and habit disorders. The course also addresses ethical and professional issues relevant to hypnosis practice\, including considerations related to memory\, informed consent\, and scope of practice.  \nExperiential learning allows participants to engage in structured mentored small-group practice with faculty guidance to strengthen their ability to use hypnosis\, apply therapeutic techniques taught\, and integrate hypnosis into treatment. This training is intended to deepen clinical confidence and expand the ethical use of hypnosis.  \nLearning Objectives: *see agenda*  \nSpeaker info: Debbie Bensching\, LCSW\, LICSW\, MSWAC Bio \nDave Boyer LMFT Bio \nLinda Nishi-Strattner PHD Bio
URL:https://asch.net/event/level-2-clinical-hypnosis-osch/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Component-Sponsored CE
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260419
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260420
DTSTAMP:20260521T020506
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SUMMARY: Integration of Mindfulness and Clinical Hypnosis (CHSNJ)
DESCRIPTION:Organization: Clinical Hypnosis Society of New Jersey  \nWebsite: https://www.clinicalhypnosisnj.org/event-6605471  \nEvent Title: Integration of Mindfulness and Clinical Hypnosis  \nAgenda:  4.19.26_Timed_Agenda \nDate: 04/19/2026;  11-1pm ET \nLocation: Virtual  \nCE: 2  \nContact : Virginia Dinsmore\, ginnydinsmore@gmail.com  \nDescription: Mindful Hypnosis is an evidence-based modality for integrating mindfulness and hypnosis into clinical and personal practice. Attendees of this experiential workshop will learn the core principles of mindfulness\, the similarities and differences between meditation and hypnosis\, understand the existing research supporting the effects of Mindful Hypnotherapy\, and have an opportunity to experience a group Mindful Hypnosis meditation. Brief clinical vignettes and clinical anecdotes will be incorporated to ignite imagination and discussion. Practical strategies for integrating mindfulness-based inductions and suggestions into hypnosis and establishing a mindful self-hypnosis practice will be presented.  \nLearning Objectives:  \n1) Describe two foundational principles for integrating mindfulness into hypnotherapy.  \nOlendzki\, N.\, Elkins\, G. R.\, Slonena\, E.\, Hung\, J.\, & Rhodes\, J. R. (2020) \n  2) Identify three ways that mindfulness and hypnotherapy traditionally diverge\, and three ways they can converge.   \n Slonena\, E. E.\, & Elkins\, G. R. (2021)  \n  3) Define the eight sessions of Mindful Hypnotherapy as a manualized intervention\, as well as the underlying principles that enable adaptation.    \nPadilla\, V. J.\, Muñiz\, V.\, Scheffrahn\, K.\, & Elkins\, G. (2026)  \n  \nSpeaker info: Liz E. Slonena\, PsyD\, HSP-P\, MSCP\, CMIP – Bio; \n Nicholas (“Nik”) Olendzki \, Psy.D  – Bio \n 
URL:https://asch.net/event/integration-of-mindfulness-and-clinical-hypnosis-chsnj/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Component-Sponsored CE
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260419
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260420
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SUMMARY:Utilizing Hypnosis in the Treatment of Narcissistic Wounds in Psychotherapy: A Relational Approach (GPSCH)
DESCRIPTION:Organization: Greater Philadelphia Society of Clinical Hypnosis  \nWebsite: https://gpsch.org/  \nEvent Title: Utilizing Hypnosis in the Treatment of Narcissistic Wounds in Psychotherapy: A Relational Approach  \nAgenda:  Eric_Spiegel_Timed_Agenda \nDates: April 19\, 2026  \nLocation: Webinar- Virtual  \nCE: 3  \nContact : Marcy Nadel\, marcy1116@aol.com  \nDescription: The dimension of narcissism influences a wide-range of character presentations and treatment issues occurring in psychotherapy in our modern age. Although clinical and public attention is often focused on the categorically-derived DSM-V diagnosis of Narcissistic Personality Disorder\, narcissistic wounds stemming from attachment failures are a more frequent occurrence in the development of the self. These arrests in the full formation of the self and their subsequent re-appearance in later relationship interactions are often referenced in a wide range of treatments.  \nIn this workshop\, we will consider how Kohut’s self psychology and current innovations in attachment theory can help us understand narcissistic wounds and treatment issues across the dimension of narcissism. Further\, we will focus on the role that hypnosis can play in a relationally attuned therapeutic relationship towards facilitating attachment repair in patients with developmental arrests associated with narcissistic wounds (e.g. false-self identity formation\, affect dysregulation\, boundary difficulties\, etc.). Through a mixture of didactic and experiential training\, participants will develop increased competency in (1) understanding how the therapeutic relationship in general\, and clinical hypnosis from an attachment frame in particular\, can be utilized to re-build developmental structure and re-engage reflective functioning in this population of patients\, and (2) utilizing specific applications of clinical hypnosis towards this aim.  \nAt the end of this learning experience\, participants will be able to: \n1. Identify the diagnostic features of narcissistic wounds. [Choi-Kahn\, L.W.\, Simonsen\, S.\, Euler\, S. (2022)\, and Wall\, T.W. (2018)]\n2. Explain how to implement a relational approach featuring hypnosis towards treating narcissistic wounds. [Choi-Kahn\, L.W.\, Simonsen\, S.\, Euler\, S. (2022); Spiegel\, E.B. (2016); and Weinberg\, I. (2023)] \n3. Utilize 3 hypnotic interventions to regulate affect during “triggers” of narcissistic wounds. [Baker\, E.L.\, & Spiegel\, E.B. (2020); Spiegel\, E.B. (2016); and Wall\, T.W. (2018)] \n4. Develop 3 hypnotic scenes that fit narcissistic identity presentation (e.g. false self) and facilitate developmental repair. [Baker\, E.L.\, & Spiegel\, E.B. (2020); Spiegel\, E.B. (2016); and Wall\, T.W. (2018)]  \nSpeaker info: Eric Spiegel\, Ph.D. _5_-_CV__Spiegel__short_ \n 
URL:https://asch.net/event/utilizing-hypnosis-in-the-treatment-of-narcissistic-wounds-in-psychotherapy-a-relational-approach-gpsch/
CATEGORIES:Component-Sponsored CE
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260422
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260423
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SUMMARY:Hypnotherapy for Wellbeing: Integrating Positive Psychology into Clinical Practice (NTSCH)
DESCRIPTION:Organization: North Texas Society of Clinical Hypnosis  \nWebsite: https://www.northtexashypnosis.org/   \nEvent Title: Hypnotherapy for Wellbeing: Integrating Positive Psychology into Clinical Practice  \nAgenda:  NTSCH_4.22.26 \nDates: 4/22/26  \nLocation: Virtual  \nCE: 1.5  \nContact : Tracy Payton Watson\, LPC tracypaytonwatson@gmail.com   \nDescription: This presentation explores the use of Hypnotic Relaxation Therapy for Wellbeing (HRT-WB) as an evidence-informed approach to enhance psychological\, emotional\, and social wellbeing. Drawing from positive psychology principles\, HRT-WB emphasizes building strengths and fostering resilience rather than solely addressing symptoms. The session will review conceptual foundations of wellbeing\, outline the structure of HRT-WB sessions\, and share findings from a pilot study demonstrating its feasibility\, acceptability\, and potential impact on life satisfaction\, affect\, and psychological distress.  \nLearning Objectives:   \n\nBy the end of the training\, participants will be able to list and explain at least three reasons for addressing wellbeing in addition to pathology in clinical practice and identify two clinical examples where a wellbeing focus is indicated\, achieving 80% accuracy on a post-training quiz or written response.\n 
Participants will be able to outline the structure of Hypnotic Relaxation Therapy for Wellbeing (HRT-WB) by accurately naming at least four key components or session elements and placing them in the correct sequence on a training worksheet or case exercise\, with 80% accuracy.\n Given a summary of the HRT-WB pilot study\, participants will be able to describe at least three findings related to feasibility\, acceptability\, and impact on subjective wellbeing and psychological distress\, and correctly interpret one outcome measure\, scoring at least 80% on a post-training quiz or group case review rubric.\n\nSpeaker info: Hyeji Na\, Psy.D. Na_CV_FY25
URL:https://asch.net/event/3122/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Component-Sponsored CE
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260424
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260425
DTSTAMP:20260521T020506
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SUMMARY:Therapeutic Hypnosis: Discovering Inner Resources – The Cell as a Metaphor (CTSCH)
DESCRIPTION:Organization: Central Texas Society of Clinical Hypnosis  \nWebsite: https://www.ctsch.com/   \nEvent Title: Therapeutic Hypnosis: Discovering Inner Resources – The Cell as a Metaphor (Advanced Workshop)  \nAgenda:  Agenda \nDates: 04/24/2026; 1-3pm CT \nLocation: Virtual  \nCE: 2  \nContact : CTSCH@CTSCH.com  \nDescription: Each of us carries millions of cells within us\, tirelessly working to keep our bodies healthy and functioning — without us needing to understand exactly how they do it. These cells are not only responsible for our physical health but can also inspire us as metaphors and serve as models for our inner strength. Through inner images and metaphors\, trance enables experiences that can lead to lasting change. Personal resources can be discovered\, resilience strengthened\, self-efficacy experienced\, and healthy boundaries consciously perceived. Case examples illustrate how easily and effectively these abilities can be activated through trance.  \nThis lecture offers a practical demonstration\, using real cases\, of how hypnotherapy can help strengthen self-efficacy and enable individuals to move safely and confidently through a complex world.    \nParticipants will be able to:   \n\nDescribe how to elicit at least two client resources and identify one problem-maintaining pattern using a cell-based metaphor  \nName and describe at least two techniques to facilitate client experiences of self-efficacy\, resilience\, or boundary awareness in clinical and high-performance contexts \nExplain at least two approaches for facilitating transitions from a problem-maintaining state to an adaptive resource states \n\nSpeaker info:  Dr. Stella Nkenke\, MD  –Stella_Nkenke_CV_updated
URL:https://asch.net/event/therapeutic-hypnosis-discovering-inner-resources-the-cell-as-a-metaphor-ctsch/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Component-Sponsored CE
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