Learn how to use hypnosis to treat acute and chronic pain — effectively, ethically, and confidently.
| 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. |
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Why This Workshop Matters
Chronic and acute pain are among the most common—and most challenging—clinical problems across all health disciplines. 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 new control over their symptoms.
In this highly practical, two-day live intensive, you will gain the skills and confidence to integrate clinical hypnosis into your work with pain patients—starting immediately.
What You Will Learn
By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:
- Understand and explain the neurophysiology and psychology of pain, including central sensitization and pain memory
- Induce hypnotic analgesia and sensory modulation in patients with acute and chronic pain
- Apply evidence-based hypnotic protocols for conditions like:
- Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
- Neuropathies
- Chronic low back pain
- Headaches & migraines
- 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
- Demonstrations of real-time hypnotic techniques
- 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
- Hypnosis fundamentals: suggestibility, absorption, dissociation
- Theories of hypnotic analgesia
Afternoon: Induction, Deepening, and Analgesia Techniques
- Rapid inductions
- Authoritative and permissive inductions
- Deepening techniques tailored to pain relief
- Techniques for sensory alteration: glove anesthesia, disassociation, numbness
- Reframing pain perception
- Live demonstration + practice: Hypnotic analgesia
Day 2: Clinical Applications and Advanced Techniques
Morning: Treating Specific Chronic Pain Conditions
- 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 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:
• 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.
• 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:
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.