Foundation Course in Cognitive Hypnotic Psychotherapy

Cognitive Hypnotic Psychotherapy is a brief therapy that advocates the need for customizing treatments for each individual and follows a Person-centric solution focused approach. The therapy systematically works with the conscious and unconscious processes affecting a person’s physical, emotional and mental health. Elements of different therapeutic modalities like:

• Positive Psychotherapy
• Solution focused brief therapy
• CBT & REBT
• Neuro Linguistic Programming
• Clinical Hypnotherapy, including guided imagery, Free association

are integrated so that participants can learn to work with the conscious and unconscious processes affecting a person’s physical, emotional and mental health.

Objectives of the course:

• Understanding
  • Different models of working of mind
  • How & why the mind creates & sustains problems
  • Spirituality & new age philosophies as aid and a hindrance to therapy.
  • Understanding hypnosis and its relationship with Meditation, EFT, Transactional analysis, Gestalt, Free association, EMDR, Psychoanalysis, NLP, Visualisation, Guided imagery……
• Learning
  • Effective questioning & interviewing techniques for diagnosing issues
  • Non-invasive ways of helping clients define the objective of therapy
  • Techniques of catharsis along with positive & negative effects of the same
  • Different ways of creating changes (moving clients from current state to desired state)
  • Direct & indirect (Ericksonian) approaches to Hypnotherapy
  • NLP change processes and why these processes work or don’t work
  • Regression techniques along with understanding the positive and negative consequences associated with them

Areas of application

Cognitive Hypnotic Psychotherapy can be used resolve problems related to or improve: