Clinical Hypnotherapy Training

The London College of Clinical Hypnosis
Available in UK, Europe and Asia
Accredited by the University of Greenwich / RCN
Thames Valley University

Lecturer: Christa McKinnon

Clinical Hypnotherapists usually have a repertoire of effective techniques and approaches to help those clients, which present clearly defined clinical and non-clinical conditions. Insecurities can arise when the client’s issues are more complex, when cho-sen treatment approaches fail to resolve the condition and/or when the therapeutic process, which is set in motion via tech-niques, gets ‘stuck’ and doesn’t lead to a solution. The unique-ness of the great masters in the field (e.g. Erickson, Rossi, Yapko) seems not only to lay in their ability to therapeutically encourage and utilize the client’s unique way of processing, but also to facilitate it, often through minimal verbal and non-verbal input, towards a transformational solution.

This Masterclass will look at the concept of therapeutic proc-esses, defined as journeys of exploration, release and transfor-mation, and their application in a clinical hypnotherapy practice. Process-orientated therapeutic work can be applied to any symp-tom or condition although within a clinical hypnotherapy setting processes are often set in motion by employing a certain concept or technique (e.g. parts–or ego state techniques, inner child, regression, visualization, mind-body approaches), or by focusing the client’s attention on the presenting symptom, issue, memory etc. When working in a process-orientated way the therapist facilitates a space where the client can access an open, unde-fined field to explore the problem, symptom or condition (Ernest Rossi). During the process underlying aspects of the symptom in form of images, related memories, emotional states, thought pat-terns, behavioural responses, bodily sensations and especially dysfunction al beliefs are perceived, processed and brought to an adaptive solution.

This Masterclass is highly experiential. It will provide you with a general framework for assisting clients in their unique processes, which can be applied to any symptom, condition or issue. It will teach you how to stay in contact with your client’s process, how to pick up verbal and non-verbal clues about the issue and how to ethically construct your responses and inputs so that they facilitate the process towards a positive and ecologically sound solution.

Syllabus:

• What is a process
• Pre-requirements for the therapist
• The therapist’s role and state during process-orientated work
• Process communication: entering the client’s world ethically sound, resourceful facilitating processing and transformation
• Process expressions: Images, Metaphors, Associations, Memories Emotional states, Beliefs, Physical sensations, Body language
• Process-orientated work with: Techniques (e.g: Parts, Ego-states, Inner Child, Dissociations Regressions).
• Physical / Psycho-somatic Symptoms: Mind/body processes
• Other issues: (e.g. emotional, trauma related, relationships).
• Following on: Implementing solutions and changes

CHRISTA MCKINNON MSc. (Psych), DFCouns., PDCHyp, DipITEC, FBSCH, FBAMH Christa is a Social Psychologist, Family Counsellor, Group facilitator and Hypnotherapist. She took her Masters degree in Psychology at Berlin University, where she also trained in Family Counselling and ther-apeutic work with groups. Christa functions as the South West course director for the London College of Clinical Hypnosis and is one of their senior lecturers and trainers. She lectures and trains internationally for different organisations on child abuse, trauma and PTSD and serves as an expert witness for the CPS. She furthermore is an Honorary Fellow and lecturer in Special Study Units at Peninsula Medical School, Plymouth and Exeter University and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.

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