Mindful Hypnosis Certification Training: Revolutionize Your Approach to ADHD, Anxiety, Trauma, and More

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Liz Slonena, PsyD, HSP, MSCP Related seminars and products

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Liz E. Slonena, PsyD, HSP-P, MSCP, is a licensed psychologist, consultant, and sought-after speaker based in Asheville, North Carolina. Dr. Liz is the founder of Mindful Hypnosis Counseling & Consulting PLLC and co-creator of Mindful Hypnosis, an innovative approach that blends mindfulness and hypnosis for rapid stress reduction. Her specialties include adult ADHD, perfectionism, burnout, endometriosis, and complex PTSD.

After facing chronic health challenges as a teenager, Dr. Liz discovered meditation as a transformative path to health and harmony. With over 20 years of practicing and leading meditations, she combines her lived experience with clinical expertise to create a compassionate, evidence-based approach to care.

Dr. Liz earned her Doctor of Psychology and Master of Science in Clinical Psychology from Baylor University. With over a decade of clinical research experience and more than a dozen publications, Dr. Liz has contributed to groundbreaking studies, including research at the National Institute of Mental Health on ketamine treatments for severe depression.

Beyond her clinical practice, Dr. Liz fosters the next generation of clinical hypnotherapists through mentorship and education with multiple leadership roles within the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis (SCEH). With a growing social media presence (@Dr.LizListens), Dr. Liz demystifies hypnosis and shares practical mind-body medicine skills with a global audience. When she’s not teaching or in the therapy room, you can find her kickboxing, painting, playing video games, or frolicking in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Elizabeth Slonena has an employment relationship with Mindful Hypnosis Counseling & Consulting PLLC. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Elizabeth Slonena is a member of the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis.

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Objectives

1. Identify three common misconceptions about clinical hypnosis.
2. Define the core principles of Mindful Hypnosis.
3. Determine how Mindful Hypnosis can enhance therapeutic effectiveness.
4. Identify three similarities between mindfulness and hypnotherapy.
5. Define the eight-session Mindful Hypnotherapy protocols, including the underlying principles that support adaptation for clinical populations.
6. Utilise three Mindful Hypnosis inductions to involve a trance.
7. Choose techniques, including deepening, post-hypnotic suggestions, and reawakening, to guide a Mindful Hypnosis experience.
8. Define how three hypnotic phenomena – sensory alteration, age regression, and future projection - can be used to address clinical symptoms.
9. Evaluate the clinical implications of research on the effects of Mindful Hypnosis practices for stress reduction.
10. Identify clinical presentations where use of Mindful Hypnosis may be contraindicated.
11. Use informal techniques to overcome barrierpractisingicing mindfulness.
12. Utilise Mindful Self Hypnosis to mitigate compassion fatigue.

Outline

• Myths and misconceptions
• Hypnosis and mindfulness: Similarities and differences
  • Philosophical
  • Neurobiological
• Why merge the two?
• Exciting clinical research
• Why mindful hypnosis increases therapists’ effectiveness
• Group experiential practice: Mindful hypnosis for calm confidence

• Tools for determining good candidates for mindful hypnosis
• Clinical presentations not recommended to use mindful hypnosis
• Limitations of the research and potential risks

• Natural unconscious trance
• Pre-trance discussion
• Leading & pacing
• Three simple induction scripts
  • Mudra induction
  • Singing bowl induction
  • ”The Light Within” induction
• Deepening a trance
• Ending a trance
• Group practice

• Metaphors, stories, analogies
• Direct and Indirect suggestion
• Paradoxical suggestions
• Post-hypnotic suggestions
• Ericksonian utilisation

• Adaptive dissociation
• Time distortion
• Age regression
• Future projection
• Ideo-motor response (IMR)
• Sensory alteration
• Catalepsy
• Analgesia/anesthesia
• Amnesia/hypermnesia
• Group meditation

• Review 3 and 8 session mindful hypnotherapy protocols
• How to enhance home practice
• Tailoring treatment to clients

• ADHD
• Burnout prevention and recovery
• Performance enhancement (exercise, public speaking, test taking)
• PTSD
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Weight and body image
• Pain management (migraines & chronic pain)
• Insomnia
• Substance use (alcohol & cigarettes)
• Medical hypnosis
• Pre/post-surgery
• Focused healing

• Mindful self-hypnosis
• Combine mindful hypnosis with:
  • ACT
  • EMDR
  • IFS
• Make mindful hypnosis MP3s for your clients

• Trance induction
• Trance deepening
• Suggestion
• Post hypnotic suggestion
• Coming out of trance
• Navigate resistance

• Principles to guide your mindfulness practice
• How to be a mindful hypnotherapist
• Cultural and ethical considerations
• Group meditation

Target Audience

• Counsellors
• Social Workers
• Addiction Counsellors
• Case Managers
• Psychologists
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Therapists
• Art Therapists
• Other Mental Health Professionals