• Online Via ZOOM Video Workshop
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• Friday, August 1 4:00 pm - 9:00 pm
• Saturday, August 2: 8:30 am - 5:30pm
• Sunday, August 3: 8:30 am - 5:30 pm

Louis Damis, PhD, ABPP, FASCHP

Louis Damis, PhD, ABPP, FASCH, is a Diplomate with the American Board of Professional Psychology, a Fellow of the American Academy of Clinical Health Psychology, the Biofeedback Certification International Alliance, and the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. He is an Assistant Professor at the UCF College of Medicine and an ESTI-accredited Ego State Therapist. Dr. Damis is a licensed psychologist with ASCH Consultant Status and Certification in Clinical Hypnosis. He is a Past President of ASCH and the Florida and Washington DC Societies of Clinical Hypnosis. He has taught hypnosis for over 25 years for the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, the Florida Society of Clinical Hypnosis, and the Society of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. Dr. Damis maintains a private practice and works as an instructor, author, and consultant.

Workshop Details:

• Intermediate Workshop - ASCH Level 2
• Presented By Louis Damis, PhD, ABPP, FASCH
• 20 Florida CEU’s and credit toward ASCH certification

The second step in certification training is to strengthen skills, strategies, and applications of clinical hypnosis. Part one taught “how to” do clinical hypnosis, and part two builds on this skill set and refines and furthers development to add when, why, and where to the “how-to”.

Advantages:

• Introduction to a wider range of topics on the utility of clinical hypnosis (e.g., Pain Management; Anxiety and Sleep Disorders; Habit Disorders).
• Learn more techniques for the creative use of the language of suggestion to facilitate change.
• Learn specific tools (complex inductions and intensification techniques) for specific populations (children).
• More practice with the feedback of expert faculty.

The Level 2 workshop increases skills and builds confidence in the use of hypnosis. It prepares the workshop participant to move on to the Advanced Workshop level and Individual Consultation with a strong basis of skills and understanding of the principles and practice of clinical hypnosis.

Workshop Schedule:

This workshop will begin promptly at 4:00 pm on August 1.There will be a break during all sessions with a lunch breaks on Saturday and Sunday.

Friday, August 1:

• 4:00 pm - Welcome to Level 2
• 4:15 pm - Adverse Reaction to Hypnosis & Howard Alertness Scale 
• 5:00 pm - Refining Skills of Elicitation and Intensification
• 5:30 pm - Refining Skills of Hypnotic Communication and Suggestion 
• 6:30 pm - Break
• 6:45 pm - Demonstration and/or Group Experience and processing
• 7:30 pm - Insight and Exploratory Techniques
• 8:15 pm - Applications of Hypnosis: Ego Strengthening 
• 9:00 pm - Adjourn

Saturday, August 2:

• 8:30 am - Practice 1 Demonstration
• 9:00 am - Small Group Practice 1
• 11:00 am - Applications of Hypnosis: Habits
• 12:00 pm - Lunch
• 12:30 pm - Applications of Hypnosis: Pain with Glove Anesthesia with Demonstration
• 2:00 pm - Applications of Hypnosis: Anxiety, Fears & Phobias
• 2:45 pm - Break
• 3:00 pm - Small Group Practice 2
• 5:30 pm - Adjourn

Sunday, August 3: 

• 8:30 am - Skill Development with Metaphorical Approaches
• 9:15 am - Group Practice Developing Metaphors
• 10:00 am - Applications of Hypnosis: Sleep 1
• 10:45 am - Break
• 11:00 am - Treatment Planning
• 12:00 pm - Lunch
• 1:00 pm - Treatment Planning Practice
• 1:30 pm - Small Group Practice 3
• 3:30 pm - Break
• 3:45 pm - Ethics
• 4:30 pm - Certification, Training, and Wrap-up
• 5:30 pm - Evaluations, Adjourn

Eligibility

Health professionals holding doctoral degrees in medicine, dentistry, podiatry and psychology, or doctoral or masters degrees in social work, marriage and family therapy, mental health counseling, or nursing, licensed in the state in which they practice; degree graduates receiving documented clinical supervision toward licensing, and graduate students in eligible disciplines with documentation of their student status from the Chairperson of their graduate program. All registrants must have completed the ASCH-approved Level 1 workshop.

Continuing Education Credit

We offer 20 Florida CEU's for licensed psychologists under 490 (Provider #50-774, Exp. 5/26); clinical social workers, mental health counselors, and marriage and family therapists under 491 (Provider #50-774, Exp. 3/27), and all our workshops count toward ASCH certification requirements. All ASCH-approved workshops are eligible for APA and CME credits. We automatically report to CEBroker.

Mutter Scholarships

Mutter Scholarships are available to 6 student/intern FSCH members who will receive a 40% discount off the registration fee. Student memberships are $25 and entitle you to student rates at our Spring and Fall workshops as well. Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to inquire about availability of scholarships.

Location

From the comfort of your home via Zoom!

Registration 

Registration for this workshop is very limited, and we are highly motivated to fill the class early.  Please register by July 30, click the orange registration button on this page, or by sending a check to FSCH, 13705 SW 91 CT, Unit C, Miami, FL 33176, that reaches us by July 30. Registration is not complete until we have received payment and a completed registration page. Click the orange "REGISTER ONLINE NOW" button on this page.