A Two-Day Intensive Workshop
Learn how to use hypnosis to treat patients suffering from chronic pain — confidently, ethically, and effectively.
| Dates: | Sunday, October 5 to Monday, October 6, 2025 9:00 am (EST) to 5:00 pm (EST) |
| Instructor: | Bruce Eimer, PhD, ABPP |
| Audience: | Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Licensed Social Workers, Mental Health Professionals, Physicians, Nurses, Dentists |
| CE: | 14 Continuing Education Credits for Licensed Psychologists, Social Workers and Mental health Counselors. |
| Location: | Live, online using Zoom. |
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Why This Workshop Matters
Chronic pain is one of the most common—and most challenging—clinical problems that health care professionals encounter. Persistent pain affects the body, the brain, and the spirit. Standard treatments often fall short, particularly when pain becomes entrenched, complex, or medically unexplained.
Clinical hypnosis offers a powerful, evidence-based tool to relieve suffering, change pain processing, and empower patients with greater control over their symptoms. But it can be challenging to employ effectively.
In this practical, two-day live intensive course, you will gain the skills and confidence to integrate clinical hypnosis into your work with pain patients to help them get pain relief—starting immediately.
What You Will Learn
You will learn how to help pain patients stop fighting their pain and teach them how to tame it instead so that they can get pain relief.
By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:
- Evaluate patients to determine which hypnotic strategies to employ
- Induce hypnotic analgesia and sensory modulation in patients with acute and chronic pain
- Induce hypnotic analgesia and sensory modulation in patients with acute and chronic pain
- Utilize behavioral, affective, sensory, imagery, and cognitive techniques to help pain patients improve their functioning and get pain relief
- Apply evidence-based hypnotic protocols for persistent pain syndromes that include:
- Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
- Neuropathies
- Chronic low back pain
- Chronic headaches
- Fibromyalgia
- Pelvic pain
- IBS
- Post-surgical pain syndromes
- And other pain syndromes
- Tailor techniques to different patient populations (e.g., trauma survivors, medically complex patients)
- Conduct safe, ethical hypnosis sessions for pain management
Workshop Format
This workshop is immersive, interactive, and skills-based. You will experience:
- Lectures grounded in current science and clinical wisdom
- Live demonstrations of various hypnotic techniques for pain control
- Video case examples illustrating diverse applications
- Hands-on practice in a supportive, supervised setting
COURSE OUTLINE
Day 1: Foundations of Hypnosis in Pain Management
Morning: Understanding Pain and the Hypnotic Framework
- The biopsychosocial model of pain
- Acute vs chronic pain: what’s happening in the brain?
- Central sensitization, neuroplasticity, and pain memory
- Pain control hypnosis fundamentals: suggestibility, absorption, dissociation
- Theories of hypnotic analgesia
- Pain assessment to formulate hypnotic analgesia strategies
- The BASIC ID and AWARE assessment and treatment models
Afternoon: Hypnotic Induction, Deepening, and Analgesia Techniques
- The NINE D’s of portable pain control
- Rapid and instant inductions
- Authoritative and permissive inductions
- Ideomotor signaling techniques
- Deepening techniques tailored to pain relief
- Using hypnotic pain control strategies
- Techniques for sensory alteration: direct awareness, deep relaxation, distraction, distortion, displacement, and dissociation
- Reframing pain perception
- Live demonstration + practice: Hypnotic analgesia
Day 2: Clinical Applications and Advanced Techniques
Morning: Treating Specific Chronic Pain Conditions using the BASIC ID, AWARE and NINE D’s modelsv
- Fibromyalgia and diffuse pain syndromes
- Complex regional pain syndrome and neuropathic pain
- Chronic back pain
- IBS, interstitial cystitis, and pelvic pain
- Chronic headaches and migraines
Afternoon: Integrating Hypnosis into Practice
- Hypnotic ego strengthening for chronic pain resilience
- Managing pain-related fear and catastrophizing
- Hypnotic homework and portable self-hypnosis
- Ethical and clinical considerations
- Live demonstration + practice
- Case consultation & treatment planning
DAILY COURSE SCHEDULE
Day 1: The Hypnotic Foundations of Pain Control
| TIME: | TOPIC: |
| 8:30 – 9:00 am | Registration / Welcome |
| 9:00 – 10:15 am | Understanding Pain: Brain, Body, and Belief |
| 10:15 – 10:30 am | Break |
| 10:30 – 12:00 pm | The Science of Hypnosis for Pain: Theory and Mechanisms |
| 12:00 – 1:00 pm | Lunch |
| 1:00 – 2:30 pm | Hypnotic Induction & Deepening Techniques for Pain |
| 2:30 – 2:45 pm | Break |
| 2:45 – 4:15 pm | Hypnotic Analgesia: Techniques and Demonstration |
| 4:15 – 5:00 pm | Supervised Small Group Practice |
Day 2: Precision Hypnosis for Chronic Pain Syndromes
| TIME: | TOPIC: |
| 9:00 – 10:30 am | Clinical Applications: CRPS, Back Pain, Neuropathy, Fibromyalgia |
| 9:00 – 10:15 am | Break |
| 10:45 – 12:00 pm | Hypnotic Protocols for Headaches, Pelvic pain, Interstitial cystitis, IBS |
| 12:00 – 1:00 pm | Lunch |
| 1:00 – 1:30 pm | Unexplained pain |
| 1:30 – 2:30 pm | Self-Hypnosis, Ego Strengthening, and Pain Resilience |
| 2:30 – 2:45 pm | Break |
| 2:45 – 3:45 pm | Case Consultation: Live Treatment Planning with Attendee Examples |
| 3:45 – 4:15 pm | Advanced Hypnosis: Tailoring to Trauma, Dissociation, and Anxiety |
| 4:15 – 5:00 pm | Final Q&A and Wrap-Up |
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
This workshop is ideal for:
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Psychologists and psychotherapists treating trauma, anxiety, depression, or somatization
• Medical doctors, pain specialists, and anesthesiologists looking for integrative tools
• Nurses and nurse practitioners working in chronic illness and palliative care
• Dentists and oral surgeons dealing with TMJ and procedural pain
• Any licensed clinician ready to expand their toolbox with ethical, evidence-based hypnosis
📌 Registration Information
• Dates: Sunday, October 5 to Monday, October, 6th, 2025
• Location: Live online using Zoom
• Tuition: $595.
• Format: Online with Zoom
• CE Credits: 14 Continuing Education Credits for Licensed Psychologists, Social Workers and Mental health Counselors. Physicans, dentists and nurses check with your board.
• Register Now: Taming Pain: A Two-Day Intensive Workshop on Clinical Hypnosis | Bruce Eimer Ph.D. LLC
Psychologists who complete this two-day course will be awarded 14 continuing education credit hours, which are recognized by the APA and most state psychology licensing boards.
Bruce Eimer, Ph.D., LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Bruce Eimer, Ph.D., LLC maintains responsibility for this Continuing Education program and its content.
Bruce Eimer, Ph.D., LLC is approved by the International Medical & Dental Hypnotherapy Association (IMDHA) to sponsor continuing education for IMDHA certified hypnotherapist members.
🧠 Instructor: Bruce Eimer, PhD, ABPP
Dr. Bruce Eimer is a board-certified licensed clinical psychologist, certified hypnotherapist, pain psychologist, and author of multiple books on hypnosis and pain management. With decades of clinical experience and a teaching style that is both practical and compassionate, Dr. Eimer brings hypnosis to life for healthcare professionals who are serious about relieving suffering and restoring function.
Course materials
Participants will receive e-copies of Bruce’s books, Taming Chronic Pain: A mindful approach and Hypnotize Yourself Out of Pain Now! You will also receive a detailed course manual.