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Advanced Trainings
CH offers an Advanced
Certification as a Clinical Hypnotherapist for
completion of a total of 250 training hours. The following courses will provide hours
towards the Clinical Hypnotherapist Certification and are designed for hypnotists with at
least 150 hours of training. All courses are approved for CE credits for RNs, MFTs &
LCSWs.
To apply call (925)283-3941 or send in deposits and/or application fees to:
HCH Institute, 3702 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Lafayette, CA 94549
Calender of Events for 2011/2012 |
| Past-Life Therapy: April 28, 29, 2012 10:00AM-5:00PM |
| Spirit Releasement: September 29, 30, 2012 10:00AM-5:00PM |
| Sandplay Training: To be scheduled |
| HCH Clinical Internship: on-going, by application |
| HCH Clinical Externship: on-going, by application |
Advanced Training Course Descriptions
Sandplay Training
Instructor: Holly Holmes-Meredith, MFT, CCHT
To be scheduled
Cost: $45.00 week.
HCH Institute invites you to come play in the sand while you explore your creative resources for problem solving, gaining insight, moving mental blocks and energetic obstacles and expanding your sense of Self. Play while you learn more about sandplay and how to incorporate it into your practice with clients. Sandplayers with all levels of experience are welcome. Sandplay brings focus and insight to questions and personal problems.
Your instructor is Holly Holmes-Meredith, MFT, Clinical Director of HCH. Holly has been learning about sandplay since 1982 both as a client and a facilitator of the sandplay process. She has studied both the Jungian approach of Dora Kalff and the Worldplay method of Margaret Lowenfeld and spent 1000's of hours experiencing and witnessing the healing and empowerment of this magical and powerful therapeutic modality.
Students are requested to bring a camera or video recorder for photographing their own sandtrays. The group costs $45 wk. Students must agree to attend all classes or pay for any classes missed. Approved for CE credits for MFTs, LSCWs and RNs. Advanced Training credit available for Certified Hypnotherapists.
Ericksonian Hypnotherapy for Pain Management
Instructor: John Parke, PsyD
To be scheduled.
Cost: $250.00
This four session workshop will explore various hypnotic techniques for working with chronic pain. People who suffer from chronic pain are often sleep deprived and mentally exhausted from coping with their symptoms. Any relief of pain is both welcomed and empowering for them. This workshop will cover approaches used by Milton H. Erickson to hypnotically treat pain. Erickson himself suffered from chronic pain and knew how to successfully work with it. Various Ericksonian approaches to hypnosis will be explored including how to produce analgesia; how to distract a client from their pain, how to train pain patients to use self hypnosis, ways to improve for pain patients and ways to prepare clients for surgery. In addition to Ericksonian techniques, the workshop will provide foundational knowledge of various types of chronic pain and their psychological effects. You will leave the seminar entranced, inspired and revitalized to find new aspects of yourself coming forward in your practice and work work with clients in pain.
Week One: 1) Participants will learn to use suggestion to induce analgesia. 2) Participants will learn to induce dissociation as a pain coping technique.
Week Two: 1) We will review various types of pain and pain syndromes. 2) You will learn about typical psychological sequelae for chronic pain patients
Week Three: Participants will gain experience preparing clients for surgical procedures and Recovery.
Week Four: Participants will learn to assist patients in the use of self-hypnosis as a pain coping technique.
John brings more than 20 years of experience into his work with hypnotherapy. He began his practice in Massachusetts, where he provided hypnotherapy for artists and other clients interested in using creativity to solve problems. He specializes in the treatment of post traumatic stress disorder and chronic pain. John also frequently treats, Depression and Anxiety disorders He has provided psychological consultation for the Pain Management Clinic at Stanford University, and is currently a psychologist on staff at the Native American Health Center in Oakland, CA. He holds a bachelor's degree in fine art, a master's degree in counseling psychology and a doctorate in clinical psychology. He holds a diplomat in pain management from the American Academy of Pain Management, and is a qualified medical examiner. John uses teaching techniques found in oral traditional cultures where trance, storytelling and healing are often combined. He has a long standing interest in using poetic descriptions to pull people into trance. He often blends techniques from oral cultures with poetic description to evoke trance states in his seminars. He considers this type of direct experience to be a most effective way to learn hypnotherapy.
Dr. Parke is a licensed psychologist in the State of California.
Approved for CE credits for MFTs, LSCWs and RNs. Advanced Training credit available for Certified Hypnotherapists.
Spirit Releasement Intensive
Instructor: Holly Holmes-Meredith, MFT, CCHT
Saturday and Sunday. September 29, 30, 2012 10AM-5PM.
Cost: $250.00
Through this training students will learn techniques for diagnosis, induction, hypnotic strategies for dealing with attachments, processes for protection and for releasing the entities into the Light. There will be lectures, demonstrations, case presentations and supervised partner practice.
Past-Life Therapy
Instructor: Holly Holmes-Meredith, MFT, CCHT
April 28, 29, 2012 10:00AM to 5:00PM
Cost: $250.00
This course will instruct hypnotherapists in induction techniques, theoretical views of past-life therapy, and the stages or components of a past-life regression, how to work with client resistance, and tools for integration of material gained in past-life regressions. Students will observe demonstrations and also participate in a supervised hands-on practicum.
Clinical Internship
Facilitator: Holly Holmes-Meredith, MFT, CCHT
Credit: 100 hours Cost: $750
Open only to HCH grads, this is an on site internship program where Certified Hypnotherapists see clients in our low-fee clinic. Weekly supervision groups insure that students build skill and confidence. Six month commitment. Acceptance into program is by application.
Meetings for two hours/week to be arranged.
Clinical Externship
Facilitator: Holly Holmes-Meredith, MFT, CCHT
Credit: 100 hours Cost: $600
This six month 100 hour program is open to Certified Hypnotherapists who have had 200 hours or more of training. While students conduct their own private practices and receive group supervision twice a month, students accumulate and log client and supervision hours working towards the Clinical Hypnotherapist Certification. Non HCH grads may also apply but are required to submit a video or audio tape of a session for review as a part of the application process.
Meetings for supervision to be arranged.
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3702 Mt Diablo Blvd Lafayette, California 94549
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