Hypnotherapy Training Part 1

Hypnotherapy Training Part 1

1. What's the secret

   • 100% confidence
   • Clients outcome and wellbeing is the key
   • Be as professional as you can at all times
   • Work with/ Know your limitations

2. Stage Hypnosis

   • Entertainment

3. Hypnotherapy

   • Therapeutic intervention

4. Both use the same tools

5. UK Law

   • 1952 Stage Hypnosis Act
     • Stage hypnosis
   • Hypnotherapy
     • Unregulated

6. Insurance

   • Public liability
   • Professional Indemnity
   • Therapy insurance

7. Keeping Records

   • Data Protection Act

8. Contraindications When NOT to use hypnosis

   • • Epilepsy, Bi-Polar, narcolepsy or patients exhibiting suicidal tendencies
   • • Persons with a history of mental health issues
   • • Persons on medication for any mental illness
   • • Persons under the influence of alcohol or drugs
   • • Persons with a heart complaint
   • • Persons under 18 without a parents' consent and with an adult present at all times
   • • Hyper suggestible persons
   • • Physical problems (without advice/permission from the clients GP)
   • If in doubt: GP Referral

9. History of hypnosis

   • Hippocrates (460-377 BC)
     • Galen of Pergamum (129-1999 AD)
       • Athanasius Kircher (16th Century)
         • Franz Anton Mesmer (1734 -1815)
           • James Braid (1795- 1860)
             • Josef Breuer (1842 -1925)
               • Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
                 • Milton Erickson (1901 –1980)
                   • George Estabrooks
                     • Dave Elman

10. Trance Definition

    • "The bypass of the critical factor of the conscious mind and the establishment of acceptable selective thinking. "
    • " An altered state of awareness, where the senses are heightened".
    • Levels of trance
      • Light
        • Relaxation, eye lock, (eyelids won’t open upon suggestion).
      • Light/Medium
        • Heavy or floating feeling, locking of isolated muscle groups (Such as the arm.)
      • Medium
        • Smell and taste changes, number block (aphasia).
      • Medium / Deep
        • Response to post hypnotic suggestions, analgesia (no pain).
      • Deep
        • Positive Hallucinations, (Seeing something that is not there).
      • Somnambulistic
        • Negative Hallucinations,(Not seeing something that is there).

11. What do Clients Need?

    • Belief and Expectancy
    • Disorientation and confusion
    • conscious Fatigue
    • Conscious overload
    • Suggestion and repetition

12. Deepening Trance

    • Count down from high to low
    • Fractionation
    • Utilisation
    • Stock phrases

13. I.I.C. Principle

    • Intelligence
    • Concentration
    • Imagination

14. Suggestibility tests

    • Arm Drop
    • Magnetic fingers
    • Interlocked hands
    • Light / Heavy hands
    • Eye lock
    • When ?

15. Types of induction

    • Progressive
      • Total body relaxation
    • Permissive
      • Milton language
    • Authoritarian
      • Rapid and instant inductions
    • As If