October 23-25 and November 6-8, 2025

The Central Texas Society of Clinical Hypnosis invites you to join us for a hybrid training in hypnosis. The Level 1 Hypnosis Training Program is a comprehensive introduction to Psychological and Medical Hypnosis, designed for professionals in the psychotherapeutic and medical fields. This structured, incremental training, the first part of a series of workshops in the certification program for clinical hypnosis, supports the progressive development of clinical competence and practical skills in hypnosis and has been approved by the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis for 22 hours toward certification.

Starting in October, this training provides an opportunity to develop clinical hypnosis skills, a treatment approach with expanding applications in psychotherapy and integrative medicine. Participants will gain hands-on experience through interactive lectures, live demonstrations, and supervised practice, ensuring a strong foundation in clinical hypnosis.

Mastery and Skill Development

This training will equip you with essential techniques to confidently apply hypnosis within your professional scope. You will gain mastery in:

Various elicitations, including Breathing, Eye Fixation, and Eye Roll Elicitation

Assessing alertness before and after hypnosis and recognizing differences if present

Methods to build attunement (rapport) with patients and clients

Demonstrating Arm Levitation and/or Reverse Levitation Elicitation

Implementing at least one deepening (intensification) method

Crafting simple, subject-specific ego-strengthening suggestions

Applying at least one reorientation method

Eliciting at least one example of hypnotic phenomena

What You’ll Learn

Core principles and applications of clinical hypnosis

Techniques for inducing, deepening, and emerging from trance states

How to craft effective therapeutic suggestions for change

Ways to integrate hypnosis into clinical and research settings

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November 21, 2025
1:00-3:00 PM US Central
2-hour webinar with Cameron Alldredge, Ph.D.

Program Description

This presentation will explore a recently proposed theory of hypnosis called the adaptive experiential theory. This new theory is a dual-process model that provides a comprehensive understanding of the rational system and the experiential system. While these two systems work together in synergy, they function quite differently in terms of their characteristics and methods. The rational system is influenced by logic and reason, demands significant cognitive resources, and operates with concentrated effort. On the other hand, the experiential system is powered by emotions, relies on associations, and encodes reality through images and feelings effortlessly. According to the adaptive experiential theory, the ability to engage in complex hypnotic responses can be attributed to an individual's capacity to adaptively shift from processing predominantly via rational system to the experiential system. Having a stronger association with the experiential system leads to changes in how reality is processed, enabling hypnotic suggestions to be internalized, reified, and put into action with less interference from the rational system. This presentation will focus on the implications this theory has for the clinical use of hypnosis emphasizing the idea that content and language of hypnotic suggestions matter.

Registration available