Three Day Masterclass: Treating Anxiety and Depression with Experiential and Hypnotic Strategies

Three Day Masterclass: Treating Anxiety and Depression with Experiential and Hypnotic Strategies

When clients seek our help, they often know what they should do but somehow don't; or have tried approaches to eliminate symptoms, only to make the problem worse. How can we get clients headed in the right direction and offer them something different? In this three day, in-person advanced masterclass, attendees will learn how to precisely determine the treatment targets for anxious and depressed clients. Then, knowing the target, we'll create interventions that go after the ineffective patterns and help create and activate new ones. The goal is to have a roadmap that directs therapy by understanding:

• The patterns that keep our clients stuck, despite their desire to feel and do better  
• How they "do the disorder" by inadvertently falling into the most common depressive, anxious, and obsessive traps
• How to use hypnotic strategies, homework assignments, and other active interventions that are the opposite of what these passive disorders demand

Day One will focus on the skill of determining the treatment target, recognizing the pattern of the disorders, and how to intervene quickly to disrupt them.

Days Two and Three will focus on creating hypnotic interventions that combine suggestion, expectation and seeding with active homework assignments. 

This is a small group, interactive workshop with time to learn, practice, and create. Some experience with hypnosis is recommended but not required. Preparing by reading Using Hypnosis with Children is highly recommended. Space is limited.