HMI Resident School

Clinical Hypnosis 201

• Prerequisite: Completion of Hypnosis 101
• Length: 8 Weeks, 66 Hours, 2.2 Credits
• Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
• Attend: Two Classes per week, plus 6 Practicum Workshops over the 8 week course.
• Awarded: 201 Certificate of Completion
• Instructor/Student Ratio: 1:60

The 201 course is two months in length, and is divided into two sections, each section one month long. These sections rotate monthly, and students may begin at either section. There is a new start day for 201 approximately every four weeks, so 101 students rarely have to wait more than a week before the next 201 class begins.

The Clinical Hypnosis 201 course begins with the premise that the student, having successfully completed the 101 course, possesses knowledge of testing the individual suggestibility of their subjects and hypnotizing them accordingly. Utilizing the skills learned in the 101 Class, the 201 student is then introduced to a broad array of styles and strategies available to them in guiding the hypnotized client. To properly accomplish this, the 201 course features a different instructor for each topic listed in the 201 outline.

There is perhaps no field of study more diversified and divided on what is the best approach in theory and application, than the field of counseling. Because of this, HMI’s 201 course provides a different instructor for each night of the course, thus acquainting the student with a wide variety of clinical orientations to hypnotherapy. HMI’s instructors include Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Counselors who specialize in working with children, NLP Trainers, Imagery Specialists and Hypnotherapists of diverse orientations. In learning from each of these different specialists, the 201 student develops the ability to match his or her therapeutic style and strategy to the individual needs of the client or case.

The 201 students continue to attend practicum workshops throughout their 201 course. Students are encouraged to attend approximately one per week, or as many workshops as their time permits.

Clinical Hypnosis 201 Class Outline

Class 1 - Hypnotic Modalities

• Models and Paradigms
• Modality Overview
• Chronological Growth

Class 2 - Neuro Linguistic Programming 1

• Pacing and Leading
• Anchoring
• Reframing

Class 3 - Neuro Linguistic Programming 2

• Outcomes
• Sensory Acuity
• Behavioral Flexibility
• States of Excellence

Class 4 - Ericksonian Hypnosis

• Use of Metaphors
• Use of Paradox
• Indirect Inductions

Class 5 - Hypnotic Regressions

• Age Regression
• Past-Life Regression
• Spontaneous Regression

Class 6 - Dream Therapy

• Hypnosis and Dreams
• Psychodynamics of Dreams
• Dream Interpretation

Class 7 - Hypnotic Extinction of Fears and Phobias

• Fears, Phobias and Anticipatory Anxiety – Defining Differences
• Circle Therapy
• Systematic Desensitization
• Free-Floating Anxiety
• Static Anxiety

Class 8

• Course Review
• Exam

Class 9 - Kappasinian Hypnosis

• History of Dr. John Kappas
• Development of the Model
• Foundations of Hypnotic Technique

Class 10 - Therapeutic Imagery 1

• Defining Visualization and Imagery
• Imagery in Relation to Hypnosis
• Creating Imagery Constructs

Class 11 - Therapeutic Imagery 2

• Suggestibility and Imagery
• Imagery in Health
• Mind/Body Connection

Class 12 - Hypno-Diagnostic Tools A

• Stages of Development
• Hypno-aids, Biofeedback, Pendulum, Light, Hypnodisc
• Ideomotor Response

Class 13 - Hypno-Diagnostic Tools B

• Handwriting Analysis
• Corrective Therapy
• Body Syndromes
• Contradiction Square
• Paris Window

Class 14 - Medical Model of Hypnosis

• Need for Referral
• Analgesia vs. Anesthesia
• Childbirth with Hypnosis
• Pain Control

Class 15 - Practice, Law and Ethics

• Scope of Practice
• California Law
• Disclosure Requirements
• Ethical Business Practices

Class 16

• Course Review
• Exam

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