Hypnosis for Pain: Principles and Practice (Course & Video)

This course is intended for psychologists, professional hypnotherapists, mental health clinicians, physicians and other health care provider who may or may not be familiar with the applications of hypnosis in treating chronic pain. This course will provide you with a thorough introduction so that you can begin to use it in your practice for chronic pain management.

You will acquire a tool box of techniques for helping people get realistic pain relief. You will learn how to gather maximum information from a brief intake interview, to assess suitability for hypnosis for pain control, and how to develop individualized hypnotic strategies for taming pain. This course covers direct suggestion in hypnosis, pain transformation strategies, as well as hypnoanalysis techniques for uncovering and releasing emotional factors blocking lasting pain relief. You will learn effective ways of using hypnosis to reduce pain intensity when appropriate, and to alleviate unnecessary emotional suffering.

Dr. Bruce Eimer, the course author, is a board certified licensed clinical psychologist in Florida, a Fellow and of the American Psychological Association and the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, and a Certified Hypnotherapist and Master Hypnotherapy Instructor with the International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association. Bruce has been helping chronic pain patients since 1985. He has written several well received published books on hypnosis for pain control. From 2011 until 2017, he was the Director of Pain Psychology at a large hospital pain center in Philadelphia. He has had his own successful hypnotherapy and psychotherapy practice since 1989. Dr. Eimer teaches Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy around the country. Bruce Eimer, Ph.D., ABPP is an Approved Sponsor with the American Psychological Association of continuing education credits for psychologists. Completion of this course will provide psychologists with 16 CE hours.

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