PTSD Home Study Program

Pre-requisite: Hypnotherapy Training | Credits: 10 CE hours

Course Description:

PTSD is fast becoming a buzz word these days, not just in therapeutic settings but in our everyday lives. Just what is PTSD? What are the hallmarks for causing this condition? How do you as a hypnotherapist identify when someone has this malady? What specifically do you do then? How are pacing and other factors important to working with this group of clients?

By the time you complete this training, you will be able to:

• Define PTSD
• Know the causes of PTSD
• Learn where hypnotherapy and Neuro Linguistic Programming can help
• Recognize the most common symptoms as they arise
• Determine the appropriate process needed
• Pace and time the process for the best outcome
• Establish client independence for the future

Each process presented will be explored and demonstrated. This course is practical,
enabling you to work with your PTSD clients as soon as you complete the course.

Included in Your Course:

Workbook, audio lecture CD, and DVD of processes

• PTSD Introduction
• PTSD Background/Behavioral Areas
• PTSD Intake/Rapport/Creating Safety
• Easily Creating Change
• Technique: Map Across
• Grief, Anxiety, Guilt
• Anger and Forgiveness
• Releasing Worry
• Changing Troubling Verbal Messages
• Phobias/Panic Attacks
• Moderating Relapses
• Healing Imagery: Dissociation, Shame

The audio and video for this course is from the Hypnotherapy for PTSD: Discovering and Resolving the Symptoms workshop held November 9-10, 2013 at Katherine Zimmerman’s California Hypnotherapy Academy. The workbook has been expanded.

About Your Instructor:

Joan Courtney is a Clinical Hypnotherapist and a Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) Practitioner. She’s certified by four major national hypnotherapy associations and is also certified in advanced NLP training. Joan is a presenter at the American Council of Hypnotist Examiners International Hypnotherapy Conference. Having over 25 years of experience in this field, Joan specializes in clinical and medical aspects of hypnosis. Throughout her practice, she has worked with veterans and others affected by symptoms of PTSD related to fire, earthquakes, and physical/sexual abuse.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
PTSD: Defined
PTSD: What It Is and Is Not
Behavioral Areas of PTSD
Possible Traumas and Stressors
Rapport Building Techniques
Developing Rapport
Developing Objectives
Pacing and Timing the Process for the Best Outcome
Light Trance Script and Count Back to Normal State of Awareness Script
Color Green and Your Are Unique Scripts
Being Safe Script
Six-Step Reframe – overview
Six-Step Reframe Script
Map Across – overview
Map Across Script
Submodalities Checklist
Grief, Guilt, Regret/Remorse
Resolving Grief – overview
Resolving Grief Script
Reverse Spinning – overview
Reverse Spinning Script
Letting Go of Regret – overview
Letting Go of Regret Script
Letting Go of Anger – overview
Letting Go of Anger Script
Forgiveness–Resolution – overview
Ring of Forgiveness and Healing – overview
Ring of Forgiveness and Healing Script
Release of Worry – overview
Release of Worry Script
4 Questions: Releasing Worry or Anger – overview
4 Questions: Releasing Worry or Anger Script
Phobia Model – overview
Phobia Model Script
Changing Negative Verbal Internal Communication – overview
Changing Negative Verbal Internal Communication Script
Gestalt Technique – overview
Gestalt Technique Script
Integration of the Younger Self – overview
Integration of the Younger Self Script
Characteristics of Dissociation
Further Integration: Round Table (with Inner Parts) – overview
Further Integration: Round Table (with Inner Parts) Script
Moderating Relapses
Developing Resilience
Reference Materials and Forms
CD, DVD, and Workbook Guide
Certification Test
Practice Log