Healing with Hypnosis

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Courtney Armstrong, LPC, MHSP Related seminars and products

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Courtney Armstrong, LPC, MHSP, is the founder of the Institute for Trauma Informed Hypnotherapy and author of Rethinking Trauma Treatment: Attachment, Memory Reconsolidation, and Resilience. She has over 25 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 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 Disclosures:
Financial: Courtney Armstrong is the founder and president of Courtney Armstrong Consulting and Training Services and the Institute for Trauma Informed Hypnotherapy. She is a consultant with the US Veterans Administration and receives royalties as a published author. Courtney Armstrong receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Courtney Armstrong serves on the Clinical Hypnosis Education and Training Committee of the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis. She is a member of the American Mental Health Counselor's Association, the Tennessee Licensed Professional Counselors Association, and the Chattanooga Area Psychotherapy Association.

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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 behaviors.
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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