A six-day clinical certification in integrative hypnotherapy for psychotherapists and prescribers.
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Integrative Hypnotherapy is a clinical method built from more than two decades of practice. It brings somatic healing, transpersonal work, heart coherence, neuroscience and psychotherapy skills into one approach, and it teaches you to use that approach with your clients.
Six days, in person. For clinicians ready to go beyond traditional strategies and into the depth of integrative healing.
Who it's for
Licensed psychotherapists: social workers, counselors, marriage and family therapists, and psychologists.
Master's-level psychotherapists.
Prescribers: nurse practitioners and other medical providers.
No prior hypnosis training is required.
What you'll learn
- How hypnotic states work in the brain and nervous system
- Trauma-informed stabilization, titration and resourcing
- Somatic, body-based approaches to regulation
- Assessment, contraindications, and when hypnosis is not the right tool
- Ethics, informed consent and scope of practice
- IFS-informed parts work within hypnotherapy
- Prenatal and perinatal imprinting and early attachment
- Applying the method to trauma, anxiety, grief, codependency and addictions
- Building hypnotherapy into your existing practice
Format and certification
Six full days, in person.
You'll learn through teaching, live demonstration, and supervised practice in small groups. Most of the work is done, not watched.
To certify, you'll complete all six days, take part in the experiential practice, and pass a final written exam.
Continuing education
Social work continuing education credit is being applied for. Approval is pending, and CE credit is not guaranteed until approval is granted. Certification is available to all eligible participants; CE credit applies to social workers. Prescribers and other medical providers will receive certification but not nursing or medical CE credit.
Faculty
NADIA AHRENS, LICSW
Seattle-based psychotherapist and hypnotherapist with 25 years of clinical hypnotherapy practice. Former teacher of the Wellness Institute's six-day clinical hypnotherapy certification seminars and group clinical supervisor for therapists completing certification. Specializes in trauma, grief, anxiety, and existential and spiritual concerns. Also facilitates ketamine-assisted psychotherapy.
MELISSA RATLIFF-SORRELL, LCSW, NBCFCH
Licensed clinical social worker and National Board Certified Fellow in Clinical Hypnotherapy, with more than 20 years of clinical experience in trauma, forensic and family work. Has taught hypnotherapy certification since 2011 and has held the Master Clinical Hypnotherapy Trainer credential since 2013. Lead teacher for six-day certification cohorts in Tupelo, Chicago and New York. Presents on hypnotherapy and ethics at NASW and state social work conferences. Founder of the Center for Holistic Transformation.
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Dates, location and tuition go to the waitlist first.
Questions
Do I need hypnosis experience?
No.
Will I get CE credit?
Social work continuing education credit is being applied for. Approval is pending, and CE credit is not guaranteed until approval is granted. Certification is available to all eligible participants; CE credit applies to social workers. Prescribers and other medical providers will receive certification but not nursing or medical CE credit.
When and where?
In person. Dates and location will be announced to the waitlist first.
How much is tuition?
Tuition will be announced to the waitlist first.
Questions?
Email [email protected].
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