CLINICAL HYPNOSIS

ADVANCED PRACTITONERS CERTIFICATE

Level Three Modules

MODULE 1

ADVANCED ASSESSMENT & INCLUSIVE THERAPY

• Recognising negative trance states
• Assessment (First stage BASIC ID)
• Symptomatic patterns
• Second stage BASIC ID Tracking order)
• Symptom development (Firing sequence)
• Third Stage Basic ID Symptomatic Trance States
• Inclusive Therapy
• Ericksonian Psychotherapy
• Symptom utilisation
• Respectfully resolving resistance
• Quantum spatial temporal patterns

MODULE 2
ADVANCED HYPNOTHERAPEUTIC STRATEGIES

• Inductions utilising the symptom
• Symptom signalling induction
• Symptom scaling induction
• Polarity four stage approach
• Apposition of Opposites / Erickson & Rossi
• Miscellaneous Resynthesis techniques
• Hypnotic Processing questions
• Hypnotic change focused Questions
• Hypnotic Free Association
• De-hypnotisation of negative trance states
• Ericksonian ambiguous functional assignments
• Quantum psychology
• Dissociative symptom expansion

MODULE 3

BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF HYPNOTIC STATES / MEMORY & BEHAVIOUR

• Recap on the autonomic nervous system
• Importance of limbic structures in memory
• Ultradian cycles/Biological basis of hypnotic states
• Neuro transmission
• Parasynaptic transmission theory/Biological basis of symptoms

• Homeostasis/Arousal-Relaxation/

• The mind body link /Cellular Communication

• Implicit and episodic memory

• Basic/ advanced concepts of state dependent memory

MODULE 4

EYE MOVEMENT THERAPIES WITHIN CLINICAL HYPNOSIS

• Symptom pattern interruption
• Theoretical aspects of EMDR
• Accelerated Information Processing (AIP)
• Eye movement inductions

• Sensory stimulation inductions

• Alert hypnosis induction and deepening
• Methods to facilitate AIP

• Eye movements

• Tactile processing

• Auditory processing

• Utilising the patient's response

• Working through/ Anxiety/ Resistance

• Trauma

• Self application

• Symbolic Strategies

MODULE 5

PARADOXICAL APPROACHES IN HYPNOTHERAPY  

• Dealing with non compliance
• Symptom Utilisation
• Paradoxical Homework
• First order change/ Problem maintenance
• Second order change/ Meta changes
• Specific paradoxical manoeuvres
• Continually utilising the patient's response

MODULE 6

POSSIBLE CLINICAL

APPLICATIONS

• Symptomatic Trance States
• Ultradian Stress Syndrome
• Generalised anxiety disorder
• Agoraphobia
• Phobic social anxiety
• Stress reactions and associated phenomena
• Post traumatic stress
• Advanced Pain control