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Case Conference with Cheryl O'Neil on 10/19/2006

HMI Instructor: Cheryl O'Neil, C.Ht.
Production Date: 10/19/2006

Case 1: IMAGERY FOR SCALP-PICKING. 36yr f. Issue: Picking her scalp since 4 years old. Mrs. Cheryl O’Neil suggests an interesting imagery technique and stress-reduction tools.

Case 2: IMAGERY FOR PAIN-CONTROL. Male. Issue: Has pain causing nerve damage in his arm; wants to do imagery work. Mrs. O’Neil suggests several imagery techniques for pain-control including “Image of Discovery” and the “3 Windows of Pain.”

Case 3: QUESTIONS FOR CHERYL O’NEIL: INNER-GUIDE. Intern asks Cheryl questions about the “Inner Guide” imagery process.

Case 4: LIGHTENING THE HYPNOTIC STATE. 17yr f. Issue: Weight-gain; forgets to eat. Intern is doing experiential work with client but cannot hear what client says in hypnosis. Cheryl O’Neil suggests a strategy to lighten hypnotic depth.

Case 5: IMAGERY, BODY SYNDROMES, & AFFIRMATIONS. Mrs. Cheryl O’Neil reviews body syndromes and imagery techniques to remedy them. Cheryl also shares unique affirmations and how to phrase them depending on E&P suggestibility types.

Case 6: CHERYL O’NEIL ON DEHYPNOTIZING. Male. Somnambulist. Issue: Intern wants to dehypnotize him. Mrs. O’Neil shares a case from her own practice, recommends a special Dr. John Kappas case history, and shares an Alex Kappas’ dehypnotizing technique.

Case 7: BELIEF SYSTEMS & BIPOLAR DISORDER. Male. Issue: was in a satanic cult; can’t sleep because of horrific memories; bi-polar; history of meth-amphetamine abuse. Mrs. Cheryl O’Neil discusses working within our client’s belief systems, and she defines the main goal of Kappasinian Hypnosis. Cheryl provides information on bi-polar disorder, medication, and meth-amphetamine addiction.

Case Conference with Lisa Machenberg on 10/18/2006

HMI Instructor: Lisa Machenberg, C.Ht.
Production Date: 10/18/2006

Case 1: HYPNOTIC SUGGESTIONS FOR EMOTIONAL FEMALE. 31yr f. Emotional. Issue: Confidence; communication; happier. Mrs. Lisa Machenberg discusses the importance of integrity in the therapeutic relationship, and she explains why the client is “shy and quiet.” Mrs. Machenberg shares a hypnotic strategy for replacing “shyness” and “trusting one’s voice.” Lisa describes the “Staircase” for emotional sexual women including hypnotic suggestions.

Case 2: BOUNDARIES FOR TEENAGE CLIENTS. Teenage females; don’t stop talking when the session is over. Lisa Machenberg shares a strategy for setting boundaries.

Case 3: HYPNOTHERAPY & ANTIDEPRESSANTS. Intern asks questions about initial intake and antidepressants. Mrs. Lisa Machenberg suggests how to do an intake with new clients and discusses antidepressants and referrals.

Case 4: RESTORING INTIMACY IN MARRIAGE. Male. Issue: Had an exciting sexual experience outside his marriage; wants to transfer these sexual feelings to his wife. Mrs. Machenberg suggests a strategy including lingerie, massage, and other techniques to restore intimacy.

Case 5: CORRECTING MASOCHISTIC-REPETITION. 32yr m. Issue: Wants to get along better at work; stop interrupting people in conversation. Lisa defines masochistic-repetition as she explains why the client interrupts people. Mrs. Machenberg shares hypnotic anchors and suggestions to correct this behavior including “storytelling:” hypnotic metaphors.

Case 6: REQUIREMENTS FOR MARIJUANA ADDICTED CLIENTS. 21yr m. Issue: Marijuana addict. Intern asks if she can see this client. Mrs. Machenberg names two requirements to work with this client, and she suggests a hypnotic strategy.

Case 7: HYPNOTHERAPY FOR CHILD OF BROKEN HOME. Mom wants to bring her 11yr daughter for Hypnotherapy; father in jail for spousal abuse. Mrs. Lisa Machenberg suggests working with a licensed M.F.T, and she suggests hypnosis for constructive channeling of the child’s anger.

Case Conference with Marc Gravelle on 10/17/2006

HMI Instructor: Marc Gravelle
Production Date: 10/17/2006

Case 1: FEAR OF AGING. 84yr f. Lives in retirement home; takes 15 different medications. Issue: Fear of aging. Mr. Mark Gravelle shares ideas on “staying young” and provides a hypnotic suggestion for “worrying.”

Case 2: HYPNOTIC SUGGESTIONS FOR WEIGHT-LOSS. 69yr m. Issue: Wants to lose 40lbs. Mr. Gravelle discusses weight-loss and shares excellent hypnotic suggestions.

Case 3: ADOPTED CHILD. 16yr f. Issue: She just discovered she was adopted. Mr. Mark Gravelle suggests a “good approach” to this case.

Case 4: THE RUNNING SYNDROME. 45yr m. Issue: Numbness in legs; can’t walk. Mr. Gravelle suggests the “Body Syndrome” approach, and Mark explains the “Running Syndrome” and several strategies to remedy it.

Case Conference with Lisa Machenberg on 10/12/2006

HMI Instructor: Lisa Machenberg, C.Ht.
Production Date: 10/12/2006

Case 1: WEIGHT LOSS & HYPNOTHERAPY. Issue: Weight-Loss. Also, weight-gain for an emotional female. Lisa Machenberg’s expertise in child/parent hypnotherapy provides a special metaphor for weight management. She shares several unique hypnotic interventions: one, consisting of a ‘hunger-scale’ installed hypnotically and taking a food/hunger “inventory”. This case is spectacularly informative and important for any therapist working with weight-management and weight-loss clients. Also, Lisa shares personal anecdotes to show the successful application of these interventions.

Case 2: EMOTIONAL FEMALE THERAPY. F. Emotional Sexual and Suggestible. Issue: Wants to love again. Lisa lists the positive characteristics of emotional females and ingeniously utilizes them as hypnotic suggestions. Listen to this case to elaborate your understanding of the emotional female and how to empower them with their own unique characteristics through hypnosis.

Case 3: ADD & HYPNOSIS. M. 12yr. Issue: School insists he be on Ritalin. Mrs. Machenberg touches upon the loaded subject of Ritalin. Mostly, she shares useful ways to address child learning problems in the school classroom and how to transform problems into benefits. With her hypnotic gift of metaphor and humor Lisa shares a child/parent project that teaches “sequencing” and effective strategies to special-needs children, and Lisa suggests hypnosis to enhance focus with a creative technique.

Case 4: HYPNOTHERAPY FOR ABUNDANCE & EMPOWERMENT F. 47yr. Low Emotional Suggestibility. Issue: Unhappy being a “people-pleaser” she wants to stand-up for herself and accept “abundance”. Lisa paints an enlightening picture of this particular client’s psychology in consideration of her interesting childhood as #9 of 12 kids. After uncovering “why” her behavior is such, Lisa brilliantly suggests how to modify it with a hypnotic suggestion so potent you will want to write it down immediately. Following, Lisa outlines clearly the course of hypnotherapy including hypnotic suggestions and cognitive approaches.

Case Conference with Lisa Machenberg on 10/11/2006

HMI Instructor: Lisa Machenberg, C.Ht.
Production Date: 10/11/2006

Case 1: CONFIDENCE-BUILDING IN HYPNOTHERAPY. F. 17yr. Issue: Sports performance; confidence. Mrs. Lisa Machenberg explains “borrowing” or “channeling” confidence from an admired figure in hypnosis. She continues by asking for characteristics of confidence while describing it behaviorally. This discussion provides the content for a successful hypnotherapy.

Case 2: SPECIAL HYPNOSIS FOR CHILDREN. F. 7yr. Issue: Fear of Halloween. Mrs. Machenberg broadens the issue to family-systems and explains “cognitive-behavioral therapy” for 7yr olds including art-therapy and its application in hypnosis. Lisa outlines the hypnotherapy session for children including fun hypnotic-inductions and creative deepening techniques. She shares exactly what to say in hypnosis: the words to a suggestive guided fantasy any child will enjoy while overcoming their issues. This is a remarkably useful case that will give you excellent ideas and a powerful hypnosis-script for children.

Case 3: HYPNOTHERAPY FOR WEIGHT & EATING PROBLEMS. F. Issue: Weight-Loss. Lisa begins a discussion with examples and techniques for clients whose “actions are opposite of their goals.” In this particular case Lisa addresses eating and weight: cognitive strategies and hypnotic suggestions. Lisa suggests a specific “challenge” to employ in hypnosis that is extremely effective, and she digs into the motivations behind behaviors that reinforce weight-gain, obesity, or are counter-productive to desired change.

Case 4: A DISCUSSION ON SMOKING & THE BENEFITS OF HYPNOSIS. Mrs. Machenberg leads a discussion on smoking with a profound metaphor for addiction partners- such as “drinking-buddies”. Listen for an interesting opinion about the potential of AA to promote smoking. But most importantly Lisa explains how hypnosis can help and ways to apply it for smokers and overeaters.

Case Conference with George Kappas on 10/10/2006

HMI Instructor: George Kappas, M.A., M.F.T.
Production Date: 10/10/2006

Case 1: KAPPAS ON BUILDING A HYPNOTHERAPY PRACTICE. Mr. George Kappas gives valuable advice for meeting clients- suggesting the Practice Starter Kit and how to use it, while sharing some of his own experience with meeting hypnotherapy clients. Mr. Kappas makes powerful observations about “self-improvement investing” in regards to clients, who need help, but are unwilling to pay for therapy. He continues discussing resources for establishing a hypnotherapy practice- a useful listen for those of us trying to make a career with hypnosis.

Case 2: BODY-SYNDROMES: EAR-INFECTIONS. F. Issue: Ear-infection. George insightfully offers hypnotic suggestions to facilitate healing through the mind/body connection; and Mr. Kappas reviews Body Syndromes- identifying which syndrome is active- and using hypnosis to address the “emotional cause”.

Case 3: ADOPTED CHILD & HYPNOTHERAPY. F. 16yr. Issue: Nightmares after recently discovering she is an adopted child. Mr. George Kappas cautions regarding the ethics of adopted children and their birth-parents. He relates a personal and very funny story about the anger following deception. George importantly explains what the goal of therapy should be- including a review of stages of loss and the uses of hypnosis. In conclusion George brings up some thought-provoking ideas about “being born” and the myriad of circumstances each of us has avoided and been born into.

Case 4: JACK NICOLSON, LAUGHTER & HYPNOSIS. M. Issue: He is concerned that his laugh is “evil”, and he wants to change it with hypnosis. This is a humorous case wherein George displays more of his comical wit and superior knowledge of hypnosis, personality, and therapy. He explains “laughing” as a permanent trait of character, and Mr. Kappas specifies the direction of therapy for this client including hypnotic suggestions. Listen for George’s infamous “Jack Nicolson Story”-to hear your own laugh.

Case Conference with Marc Gravelle on 10/9/2006

HMI Instructor: Marc Gravelle
Production Date: 10/9/2006

Case 1: ANCHORS IN HYPNOSIS. F. Physical Suggestible. Issue: Stress-reduction. Mr. Mark Gravelle defines “anchors” - how to build and apply them. Mark explains “emotional”, “physical”, and “intellectual” key-words, eliciting a specific memory-state, and using breathing. He also provides the hypnotic suggestions to reinforce the “anchor”, and Mr. Gravelle elaborates on hypnotherapy for stress: identifying stressors, the use of hypnosis and specific suggestions for reduction and reaction change. If you need more information on the essential hypnotic technique of “anchoring” listen to this case from one of the masters of Kappasinian Hypnosis.

Case 2: SPORTS PERFORMANCE & HYPNOSIS .17yr. F. Issue: Sports client: anxiety. Mr. Mark Gravelle uncovers the “real” problem explaining what the client needs. He gives powerful hypnotic suggestions for anyone in competitive sports. Mark gives a useful analogy about “outcome” vs. “performance”, and he shares the “Law of Detachment”.

Case 3: NAIL-BITING & HYPNOSIS. 36yr. F. Emotional suggestible. Issue: Nail-biter. Mr. Gravelle suggests what to do: systematic-desensitization, hypnotic suggestions, replacement behavior, and distinguishing between “anxiety response” and “nervous habit”. He concludes with useful information about E&P behavior.

Case 4: BINGE-DRINKING & HYPNOSIS. 67yr. M. Emotional suggestible. Issue: Binge-drinker wants to “fix” relationship with wife. Mr. Mark Gravelle explains why people drink alcoholically and the use of hypnosis to help. Mark suggests explaining E&P behavior, identifying what the client wants, and finding an effective replacement behavior or alternative activity. It becomes clear during the case that the client’s wife has problems to be addressed, and Mr. Gravelle gives great hypnotic suggestions.

Case 5: PHONE CLIENTS & HYPNOTHERAPY. Phone client: 19yr. F. Emotional sexual. Issue: Wants to be comfortable with her body. Mr. Gravelle explains the importance of identifying exactly what the client is uncomfortable with. He describes one of the major characteristics of human nature that “work against us”, and Mark suggests ways to truly discover sexuality with phone clients.

Case Conference with John Melton on 10/5/2006

HMI Instructor: John Melton, C.Ht.
Production Date: 10/5/2006

Case 1: HOW TO GET HYPNOTHERAPY CLIENTS FROM ADULTS TO CHILDREN. Children. Issue: Hypnosis for children. Intern asks questions about the American Cancer Society, which he has joined. Mr. John Melton answers the intern while sharing how to start working with children- from parent’s permission to the importance of a hypnosis that involves the highly imaginative faculties of children. Following is a discussion between interns and Mr. Melton about public presentations and other advertising campaigns to get adult and child clients- including what to share, such as Theory of Mind, definitions of hypnosis, and speaking within scope.

Case 2: ADHD, HYPNOSIS & NEURO-FEEDBACK. 10yr M. Issue: Diagnosed ADHD; does not want to take his medication. John Melton suggests going to the doctor for guidelines and referral to practice hypnotherapy with this client. He continues with useful self-hypnosis techniques to teach the child. Another intern suggests Neuro-Feedback, and Mr. Melton elaborates on the therapeutic benefits of this technology- especially for ADHD.

Case 3: MARKETING A HYPNOTHERAPY PRACTICE. John Melton suggests very useful ways to market your hypnotherapy practice. An informative discussion follows about marketing and John suggests the HMI class “Advertising & Promotion”.

Case 4: GAG-REFLEX & HYPNOSIS. Elderly F. Emotional suggestible and sexual. Issue: Her dentures invoke a gag reflex; asthmatic and C.O.P. Disorder for 18yrs. Mr. John Melton suggests a powerful hypnotic technique, and he looks into blood-sugar and/or psychological stress as trigger of fight/flight response. Mr. Melton suggests searching out history for “secondary-gain” and explains her issue as “cyclical” and a “double-bind”. This is a very interesting case and John Melton, as a brilliant and successful hypnotherapist/instructor, shares much of his genuine knowledge of helping clients with hypnosis. He follows with several other methods to apply in this client’s therapy. John concludes with a personal anecdote about how he helped, with hypnosis and a tape, one of his clients and “secondary-gain’.

Case 5: HYPNOSIS & MULTIPLE SYMPTOMS. M. Issue: Multiple symptoms. Mr. John Melton discusses how certain client’s seem to generate one problem or symptom after another. John explains why this might occur and how to treat it with hypnosis. Also, John touches on the possibility of some client’s to develop dependency on therapy thus creating symptoms out of no “real” cause.

Case Conference with Lisa Machenberg on 10/4/2006

HMI Instructor: Lisa Machenberg, C.Ht.
Production Date: 10/4/2006

Case 1: LISA MACHENBERG ON DEPRESSION. 29yr f. Emotional. Issue: She believes she made a wrong choice in relationships and is “stuck;” depression. Mrs. Lisa Machenberg discusses depression and scope. Lisa provides questions for determining if a client is depressed, and Mrs. Machenberg lists the symptoms of depression. Lisa demonstrates a useful chart about “turning anxiety into action,” and she describes a unique art-therapy technique. Mrs. Machenberg answers questions from interns about family/friend clients and depression in men.

Case 2: HYPNOSIS FOR SPORTS PERFORMANCE: VOLLEYBALL. 17yr f. Intern inquires about parental consent. Issue: Nationally competing volleyball player- believes her practice game is better than real game. Mrs. Lisa Machenberg provides a hypnotic process for improving muscle-memory including hypnotic suggestions.

Case 3: HYPNOTHERAPY & ABORTION. 29yr f. Issue: Sexual guilt after an abortion. Mrs. Machenberg defines “forbidden grief” and suggests a special process for helping women manage emotions after an abortion.

Case Conference with George Kappas on 10/3/2006

HMI Instructor: George Kappas, M.A., M.F.T.
Production Date: 10/3/2006

Case 1: TRIBUTE TO CANDACE BROWN. Mr. George Kappas shares about HMI instructor, mentor, and hypnotherapist Candace Brown.

Case 2: MEDICAL-REFERRAL & SMOKING-CESSATION. 61yr f. Issue: Does intern need a doctor’s referral to help client stop smoking? Mr. Kappas answers questions and suggests his preferred Smoking-Cessation Method.

Case 3: DIFFICULT CLIENT. Female. Intern is having difficulty putting client in “state” (hypnosis) because he reminds client of her father. Mr. George Kappas addresses this with his blunt sense of humor.

Case 4: POST SURGICAL HYPNOSIS: SEX-CHANGE. Issue: Post sex-change- male to female; not comfortable in “new body.” Mr. Kappas questions scope of practice (vocational or avocational self-improvement) and advises the intern to contact client’s previous therapist. There is a discussion on trans-gender people.

Case 5: GEORGE KAPPAS ON SMOKING & ADDICTION. Male. Issue: Stop smoking. Intern shares his experience with a smoking-cessation client. Mr. George Kappas discusses addiction and reasons to stop smoking. George shares a useful addiction metaphor and suggests taking client back to the first time he smoked. Listen for George’s personal experience with smoking and the tragedy of lung-cancer. Listen for various smoking-cessation techniques from HMI interns and especially an educating "out-burst" from George.

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