Featured Events
Transforming Traumatic Memories with Hypnosis + Memory Reconsolidation
Hypnosis for Trauma and Chronic Pain
March 2020
Awakening Positive Emotional States
Research from brain science and positive psychology shows that awakening positive emotional states through experiential tools such as imagery, music, movement, and play is the fastest route to shift mood, decrease anxiety, and stimulate creative problem solving. But how do you help clients access resourceful states when they’re feeling hopeless and helpless? Discover how to help troubled clients reclaim inner states of peace, strength, joy, and vitality. Moreover, you’ll have opportunities to evoke your own uplifting states through experiential activities.…
Find out more »Rethinking Personality Disorders
What’s going on when your best efforts to establish a secure therapeutic alliance with a personality-disordered client aren’t working? Before you proclaim a “bad fit” and refer them out, consider changing your approach. Learn why personality disorders may not be disorders at all, but creative ways of coping with painful attachment trauma. Understanding this often-ignored factor can help you more easily develop rapport with challenging clients, avoid frustration, and increase positive outcomes. You’ll discover how to: Navigate the emotional defenses…
Find out more »April 2021
Webinar: Rethinking Personality Disorders– The Search for Secure Attachment
Personality disorders may not be disorders at all, but creative ways of coping with early attachment trauma. In this webinar, you’ll discover how to:
Find out more »August 2021
Rethinking Personality Disorders: The Search for Secure Attachment
Take a deep dive into just how attachment trauma affects the developing brain and contributes to the development of characterological disorders. Drawing from research that that has found an association between attachment trauma and personality disorders, Courtney will help you work effectively with and master the association between attachment trauma and these often recalcitrant patients. In this stimulating workshop, you will learn evidence-based treatment strategies that will give you the skills to create a stronger therapeutic alliance, reduce your frustration,…
Find out more »October 2021
Trauma Informed Hypnotherapy Online Course
Discover how to use clinical hypnosis to help your clients relieve anxiety, ease pain, reclaim a positive identity, and heal the negative effects of trauma in shorter periods of time. Trauma Informed Hypnotherapy is a positive, uplifting approach that is grounded in neuroscience and addresses the mental, emotional and physical effects of trauma by updating memory networks and learned patterns at both conscious and subconscious levels. In this unique training program developed by Courtney Armstrong and recognized by organizations like the Veterans Administration and the National Board for Certified…
Find out more »January 2022
Adversity, Dysregulation, and Personality Disorders: Search for Secure Attachment
This 3 hour, 3CEU seminar will be held live at The Hanley Learning Center in West Palm Beach. Personality disorders may not be disorders at all, but creative ways of coping with early attachment trauma. Understanding this often ignored factor can help you more easily build rapport with troubled clients, avoid frustration, and increase positive treatment outcomes. In this presentation, you’ll discover how to: Identify research that has found a correlation between early attachment trauma and the later development of…
Find out more »February 2022
Trauma Informed Hypnotherapy Level 2: Techniques for Working with Complex Trauma
In this eight-week virtual course Courtney Armstrong teaches you how to use clinical hypnosis to heal issues related to complex trauma.
Find out more »March 2022
Transforming Traumatic Memories with Hypnosis and Memory Reconsolidation- ASCH ASMW Conference
Can traumatic memories really be changed so they no longer haunt a person emotionally? Courtney Armstrong will get you up to date on this exciting discovery, explain why clinical hypnosis is a natural tool for eliciting memory reconsolidation, then demonstrate a simple five-step protocol you can use that integrates clinical hypnosis with cognitive-behavioral techniques to safely resolve traumatic memories and foster client resilience.
Find out more »Hypnosis for Trauma and Chronic Pain: Psychotherapy Networker Annual Symposium
Clinical hypnosis can be a highly effective tool for relieving pain in trauma survivors. In this presentation, Courtney Armstrong teaches a trauma-informed approach to hypnosis that allows you to safely evoke hypnotic states; relieve pain with evidence-based protocols; and elicit a greater sense of hope, well-being, and empowerment in survivors.
Find out more »May 2022
Trauma Informed Hypotherapy Level 1: Foundational Skills
Did you know integrating clinical hypnosis into your work can improve therapy outcomes by as much as 66%-- and more important, clients enjoy it! If you'd like to get skilled in a Trauma Informed Hypnotherapy, join us for our Level One course this spring.
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