Healing with Hypnosis

CPD

Faculty

Courtney Armstrong, LPC, MHSP Related seminars and products

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Courtney Armstrong, LPC, MHSP, has over 20 years’ experience and is a Board Certified Fellow in Clinical Hypnotherapy who has trained thousands of mental health professionals nationally and internationally in creative, brain-based strategies for healing trauma. She is a bestselling author of the book, The Therapeutic “Aha!”: 10 Strategies for Getting Clients Unstuck and Transforming Traumatic Grief and contributes to publications such as the Psychotherapy Networker, Counseling Today, and The Neuropsychotherapist. She has been featured as a trauma and grief expert on national television and radio programs and is the owner/director of Tamarisk: A Center for Mind-Body Therapy in the state of Tennessee.

 

Speaker Disclosure:

Financial: Courtney Armstrong is in private practice. She is an author for WW Norton and receives royalties. Ms. Armstrong receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.

Non-financial: Courtney Armstrong is a member of the Institute for Rapid Resolution Therapy.

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Program Information

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Objectives

1. Discover how to safely guide your clients into hypnotic states, effectively frame suggestions, and activate innate healing responses.
2. Discover how to provide clients with self-hypnosis techniques they can use to evoke self-compassion and stop self-defeating behaviours.
3. Discover how to craft direct and indirect suggestions for relieving anxiety, pain, and depression.
4. Discover how to resolve traumatic memories safely, using a simple five-step protocol that accesses clients’ strengths and leaves them feeling empowered, resilient, and uplifted.
5. Learn how therapeutic hypnosis can help heal traumatic memories by helping the patient reconsolidate their memory in way that reflects cortical processes.

Outline

• Expert definitions 
• Evidence-based research 

• Assessing if client is appropriate candidate 
• Tools for focusing attention 
• Deepening techniques 
• Effectively framing suggestions 
• Post-hypnotic suggestions 
• Re-alerting techniques 

• Suggestions for relieving anxiety 
• Suggestions for relieving pain 
• Suggestions for relieving depression 
• Suggestions for improving self-esteem and self-compassion 

• Preparation and resourcing techniques 
• Steps for memory reconsolidation 

Recall memory without reliving it 

Identify embodied beliefs 

Create new meaning experiences 

Retell story with new meaning/new ending 

Reinforce new meaning

Target Audience

• Psychologists
• Physicians
• Addiction Counselors
• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Nurses
• Other Behavioral Health Professionals.

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