ASH WA Clinical Hypnotherapy Course
(2-Part Course)
FOUNDATIONS OF CLINICAL HYPNOSIS
Syllabus Content
• The history and evolution of hypnosis
• Myths and misconceptions of hypnosis
• Client assessment, preparation, and contraindications
• Classical and Ericksonian models of hypnosis
• The hypnotic process: a practical clinical roadmap
- ASH WA training introduces a clear, clinically grounded model of the hypnotic process, taught as a practical roadmap rather than a rigid technique.
This model helps clinicians understand how hypnosis unfolds in practice — from preparation and engagement, through focused experiential work, to therapeutic integration and consolidation. Each stage serves a specific clinical purpose, supporting flexibility, responsiveness, and confident decision-making.
By learning hypnosis as a structured yet adaptable process, clinicians are better able to:
• recognise where they are in the therapeutic sequence
• select interventions purposefully rather than mechanically
• adapt hypnotic work to different clients and presentations
• integrate hypnosis seamlessly into their existing therapeutic frameworkThis roadmap reflects accumulated clinical experience and is designed to support safe, ethical, and effective hypnosis in real-world healthcare settings.
• Classical and contemporary induction techniques
• Deepening methods and stabilising hypnotic states
• Direct and indirect suggestion: principles and practice
• Utilisation, conversational hypnosis, and therapeutic metaphors
• Accessing internal resources and ego-strengthening strategies
• Ideomotor signalling, age regression, and affect / somatic bridge techniques
• Hypnosis in the treatment of addictive behaviours
• Integrating dream work and hypnosis as a pathway to deeper therapeutic work
- ASH WA training introduces clinicians to the integration of dream work and hypnosis as a powerful approach to deeper therapeutic engagement.When used together, hypnosis and dream exploration provide a bridge into symbolic, emotional, and somatic dimensions of experience that may be less accessible through purely cognitive or conversational methods. This integrated approach allows clinicians to work at a deeper level of consciousness-based processing.
In clinical practice, the combination of hypnosis and dream work often assists in resolving difficulties that have been resistant to traditional therapeutic approaches, supporting meaningful change at both conscious and deeper experiential levels.- enhance access to non-verbal and symbolic therapeutic content
- work through entrenched material that resists verbal processing
- facilitate integration of experiences at both cognitive and emotional levels
This material is taught within a clinically grounded and ethically informed framework, emphasising professional judgement, safety, and therapeutic relevance.