Ericksonian Hypnotherapy Training

With the Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy of Milton H. Erickson, M.D., health professionals can add these skills to their existing practice and treat a wider range of individuals. These trainings have a structured format that includes hands-on practice of easy-to-learn techniques. This will be supervised by your instructor, Kenneth Tetreault, MA. Ken has been using these approaches and teaching them for over thirty years.

Continuing Education Units: Approval to provide credits is applied for.

Fundamental Level Class: This is for professionals who 1) are new to hypnosis or 2) want to strengthen their basic hypnosis skills, or 3) want to learn Ericksonian approaches to inducing therapeutic trances for basic client problems. Click here for outline of initial class content.

Intermediate Class: This is for professionals who already have a bit more experience and/or training with hypnosis who want to learn more specific hypnotic applications for particular clinical issues. These include how to make direct and indirect suggestions using the subtleties of hypnotic language. Classes include hands-on learning. Click here for outline of intermediate class content.

Advanced Class: This class helps professionals 1) gain rapport with clients by understanding their values and the different ways they may perceive and process information, 2) map a treatment plan, and 3) use various hypnotic phenomena such as catalepsy, amnesia, and anesthesia as they relate to treatment. Classes include hands-on learning. Click here for outline of advanced class content.

Upcoming Start Dates

FUNDAMENTAL LEVEL STARTS APRIL 7, 2023

TO REGISTER

Register online or feel free to call 503-481-9008 for more information.

TUITION

Each online 8-week course is $499. $250 NOW FOR FUNDAMENTAL LEVEL The course consists of eight 2-hour classes. All sessions are online for two hours once a week. Pay online or mail a check to the following:

Pacific Brief Therapy Center
120 W. Casino Rd., Suite 28D
Everett, WA 98204

Pacific Brief Therapy Center

FUNDAMENTAL LEVEL CLASS This 16-hour training is for professionals who 1) are new to hypnosis or 2) want to strengthen their basic hypnosis skills, or 3) want to learn Ericksonian approaches to inducing therapeutic trances for basic client problems.

 Participants will experience hypnosis and learn Self-Hypnosis. The emphasis is on learning to help clients experience hypnotic trances and utilize those states in treatment.

 The format is didactic-demonstration and experiential with practice in couples or small groups, with participants being both therapist and subject. Classes are from 6PM -8PM each Friday.

 SEMINAR TOPICS INCLUDE

  •         Speaking the Client’s Language

  •        The Language of Hypnosis

  •        Hypnotic Phenomena: amnesia, analgesia, anesthesia, catalepsy, hallucination

  •       Induction Approaches

  •        Participants experience hypnosis with instructor

  •       Self-hypnosis instruction and practice for participants

  •        Giving Suggestions, Direct and Indirect

  •       Medical applications of hypnosis: lower blood pressure, pain relief, emergencies

     

Dates:         6PM-8PM

 April 7, 2023

April 14, 2023

April 21, 2023

April 28, 2023

May 5, 2023

May 12, 2023

May 19, 2023

May 26, 2023

 

CLASS CREDITS:  16 Continuing Education Units Approved by the Washington Association of Marriage and Family Therapists for each level: total of 48 CEUs for Marriage and Family Therapists, Professional Counselors, and Social Workers.

TUITION: $499. $250 NOW FOR FUNDAMENTAL LEVEL Send payment to: Pacific Brief Therapy Center, 120 W. Casino Rd., 28D, Everett, WA 98204

 

By the end of this fundamental level seminar participants will be able to:

  •    Define the conscious and the unconscious mind and discuss their differences.

  •    Identify and offer three basic hypnosis inductions.

  •    Identify seven specific forms or structures of indirect suggestions.

  •    Name seven hypnotic phenomena (anesthesia, analgesia, age regression…)

  •   Discuss the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis Code of Conduct ethical principles, ethical standards,

    professional responsibility, public and media presentation, prohibitions and enforcement.   

  • Name two post-hypnotic suggestion methods.

  •   Name the four criteria for choosing hypnotic treatment enumerated by Joseph Barber, PhD.

  •   Explain conclusions of at least one recent neuroscientific peer-reviewed article on hypnosis efficacy.

  •   Assess basic values, beliefs, goals of clients to enhance understanding of the experiential life of clients.

  •   Discuss the need to meet clients where they are and understand their world view.

  •   Demonstrate the use of metaphor to aid client understandings.

  •   Experience hypnosis themselves.

  •   Learn and practice self-hypnosis

  •   Apply hypnosis to lower patient blood pressure and reduce pain.

  •   Apply hypnotic learnings to better influence and manage emergencies.

  

MORE-DETAILED OUTLINE

 

WHAT IS UNIQUE ABOUT ERICKSONIAN HYPNOSIS

 1.   INDIRET FORMS OF SUGGESTION

According to Ernest Rossi, PhD, Indirect forms of suggestion and the Utilization Approach are major aspects of Dr. Erickson’s work.

A.     Not knowing, not doing. “This involves the use of suggestions for allowing, rather than making things happen.”

B.     Open-ended suggestions. “The therapist offers a variety of possible responses and validates all as hypnotic.”

C.     Covering all possibilities of a class of responses. “The restricts the range of possible responses, but accepts and validates all possibilities within that range.”

D.     Questions that facilitate new response possibilities.

1. Questions to focus associations

2.    Questions for trance induction by association

3.  Questions facilitating therapeutic responsiveness.”

  E.     Binds—“The therapist offers a free, conscious choice of two or more alternatives and whichever choice is made leads behavior in the desired direction.

F.      Double binds—The therapist offers possibilities of behavior that are outside the patients’s usual range of conscious choice and control:

1.   Time double bind;

2.   Conscious-unconscious double bind;

3.   Double-dissociation double bind;

4.   Reverse set double bind;

5.   Non sequitur double bind

G.    Practice Exercise

 2.   THE UTILIZATION APPROACH

This means accepting as valid the behaviors, ideas, responses, resistances, and symptoms of clients, whatever they bring to treatment, and using them to help bring about change and achieve therapeutic goals.

 3.   DEVELOPING RAPPORT

A.   Speaking the client’s language

B.   Mirroring or matching client vocabulary, tone, cadence, body position, beliefs, values, needs, interests.

C.  Handout on assessment of client values

D. Practice exercise

 4.   COMMUNICATING IN METAPHOR

A.  Teacher demonstrates the use of metaphors as suggestion with a volunteer student who presents a minor problem that he or she does not mind sharing with the participants.

  B.  Students then divide into pairs to do the same and then change roles so each is both a therapist and a client.

C.  Practice exercise

 5.   HYPNOTIC INDUCTIONS

A.  Talking in Metaphor Induction

B.  Hand Levitation Induction

C.  Direct Suggestions

D.  State three truisms then a suggestion

E.  Practice exercises

 Utilizing the hypnotic state to help client to bring about change in the presenting problem.

The Secret that will give potency to your inductions: Use the presenting problem, i.e. the thing that the client wants and came to see you about, as the content for your induction.

  6.   POST-HYPNOTIC SUGGESTIONS

A.  Serial post-hypnotic suggestions

B. Covering all possibilities of a class of responses

 7.   HYPNOTIC PHENOMENA FOR DIAGNOSIS, INDUCTIONS, AND TREATMENT

A.  Analgesia

B.   Anesthesia

C.   Time Distortion

D.   Hallucinations positive and negative, visual or auditory

E.   Catalepsy

F.    Age Regression

 8.   HYPNOSIS FOR HABIT CONTROL SUCH AS TOBACCO USE

Why Take Ericksonian Hypnotherapy from Ken Tetreault, MA, MFT 

I have presented Dr. Erickson’s approaches to Hypnosis to therapists, physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals for many years, throughout Western United States, in Peru and, for the Milton H. Erickson, MD Foundation Affiliate in

Buenos Aires, Argentina. In the 1980’s and 1990’s, I taught these ideas to therapy interns and others seeking training and license hours while clinical director at counseling agencies in San Diego, CA and in Santa Ana, CA.

 As a learner, I have always been interested in and fascinated with what is most effective, whatever the subject. As a therapist interested in positive outcomes, I focused on Brief Therapy and Ericksonian Hypnotherapy, and primary sources.

 I have trained 92 hours at the Milton H. Erickson Foundation in Phoenix, Arizona and online from 2010 to 2021.

 Further Hypnotherapy and Brief Therapy training came from my mentor Dr. William E. Aubry during over 20 years of study with him. He trained extensively with Dr. Erickson and also extensively at the Brief Therapy Center.

I was fortunate to also have studied extensively at the Brief Therapy Center of the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto, CA, with John Weakland, ChE, Paul Watzlawick, PhD, and Richard Fisch, MD, and with Jay Haley, all who studied for many years with Dr. Erickson.

Finally, from the beginning, I had a knack for applying Dr. Erickson’s methods with clients and getting deep trances. Automatic writing, amnesia, pain control, hallucinations and specific therapeutic applications of hypnosis such as phobias, smoking cessation and depression came easily for me.

I love learning and continuing to improve and enjoy passing on Dr. Erickson’s approaches to others.

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