Clinical Hypnotherapy Certification Program: Levels 2 & 3 - 53 CE Hours

When and Where:

• Dates: Friday-Sunday, September 12-14 & 26-28, 2025
• Times: 10:00 a.m. – 6:15 p.m. Eastern Time each day
• CE Hours Included: 43 Core (Live-Synchronous) and 10 Independent (Asynchronous); the latter 10 hours are documented by practice session forms submitted (please see below for details)
• Location: Live “Synchronous” Interactive Webinars with Breakout Rooms
• Investment: $1799 before Friday, August 15th at 5:00pm Eastern Time, $1899 after. Payment plans available.
  • Click HERE for a special workshop bundle that will include ALL of your CEs for $1799! Offer expires July 15th at 5:00pm Eastern Time, so don't miss out!
• REQUIRED PREREQUISITE: Hypnotherapy with Memory Reconsolidation (Level 1) taught by Dr. Beaton-York (available on-demand HERE) OR Hypno-Counting with Memory Reconsolidation for Discrete Trauma Treatment (available on-demand HERE). Additionally, only mental health clinicians with a minimum of a master's degree may take this training. The master's or doctoral degree must be in counseling, mental health, social work, marriage and family therapy, or psychology.
• For planning purposes, please know that we only host this Certification Course once each year, and there is limited space.
• Presented by: Ellen Baker, LPC, CCH, NCC and course creation and demonstration session videos are by Becky Beaton-York, Ph.D., NBCFCH (see bios below)
• Instruction Level: Intermediate
• Target Audience: Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, and Marriage & Family Therapists
• 60 Hour Certification Course: This course, (Levels 2 & 3), along with the prerequisite, Hypnotherapy with Memory Reconsolidation (Level 1) OR Hypno-Counting with Memory Reconsolidation for Discrete Trauma Treatment, is a total of 60 hrs.

Educational Objectives:

In this workshop, you will learn how to:

First Weekend - Clinical Hypnotherapy Certification Level 2:

• Review the research regarding hypnotherapy efficacy for a variety of presenting concerns.
• Identify the role of the observer-self in hypnotherapy and describe how to assist the client with recognizing and accepting this aspect of the experience.
• Demonstrate how our five senses and intuition are enhanced by hypnotherapy and ways to utilize them to facilitate change.
• Define “early decisions” and introjections, explore ways to listen for them, and help the client to rewrite them into a more positive framework.
• Utilize the eight pillars that uphold lasting change and apply them to the Pre-Induction Interview to set up each hypnotherapy session for positive reinforcement.
• Summarize the cutting-edge research and principles of memory reconsolidation.
• Discuss how hypnotherapy combined with memory reconsolidation creates a more robust experience for new learning to take place.
• Outline how to use hypnotherapy to gently assist clients in allowing their own subconscious to guide their experience & create change they believe in.
• Demonstrate, experience, and practice utilizing a pre-induction interview to draw upon the client’s own resiliency, support factors, attachment figures, ego strength, wise self, and higher power (using the higher power only if the client chooses and only if the therapist is comfortable with incorporating this aspect – no pressure).
• Discuss the propensity for transpersonal experiences to emerge in hypnotherapy and how to manage them.
• Describe the importance of containment and ego strength, particularly with trauma clients.
• Review the containment and ego-strengthening scripts provided.
• Explain, demonstrate, and practice creating a hypnotherapy resource state that's client-specific (based on their words) for manifesting change, ego strengthening, and containment in addition to the scripts provided.
• Identify the three populations of clients with whom hypnotherapy could be contraindicated.
• Discuss the importance of the Window of Tolerance and activating a client’s parasympathetic nervous system while in trance to enhance safety and assimilation of new beliefs.
• Demonstrate the elements of prosody and your own breathing to gently guide clients while in trance.
• Apply induction deepening techniques.
• Review evidence regarding "HeartMath" training for distress tolerance, containment, stress management, and mind/body healing (and incorporate HearthMath principles into the induction and reinforcement section).
• Review the framework of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT).
• Describe how to take a client’s negative self-talk, negative schemas, and negative introjections and turn them into a positive script for healthy reinforcement utilizing the senses and other hypnotherapeutic principles for Hypno-Enhanced CBT.
• Explain, demonstrate, and practice incorporating hypnotherapy with imaginal & interoceptive exposure and response prevention (ERP) for anxiety and the OCD spectrum disorders = Hypno-ERP.
• Provide an overview of Michelle Craske's research on inhibitory learning and ERP, as well as ways to enhance new learning through her principles combined with hypnotherapy.
• Identify how to create a client hierarchy for exposure therapy.
• Explain the importance of encouraging a client to lean into anxiety and learn to tolerate and accept it as opposed to trying to relax it away or avoid it for lasting success.
• Identify evidence-based counting interventions that are used while clients recall a traumatic experience. This type of intervention helps clients process through the trauma vs. their amygdala being stuck at the most stressful peak, like many are.
• Describe how hypnotherapy combined with counting facilitates memory consolidation.
• Discuss the neurobiology of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in relation to the distortion of time and space, and how counting may help provide a linear experience to reduce distortion and bring clarity to an experience that indeed does have a beginning, a middle, and an end.
• Explain, demonstrate, and practice Hypno-Counting™ for discrete trauma.
• Manage note-taking during hypnotherapy with templates for each technique.

Second Weekend - Clinical Hypnotherapy Certification Level 3:

• Compare Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as defined in the ICD-10/DSM-5 with Developmental/Complex PTSD.
• Discuss research of the Alpha-Theta brain wave states (two predominant states in trance) and how intentionally accessing them may help “open the mind to new possibilities, so that the present is no longer interpreted as a continuous reliving of the past."
• Review the latest findings of the importance of engaging the emotional brain to facilitate change and how hypnotherapy is a perfectly suited intervention to do just this.
• Define hypnotherapeutic regression.
• Apply hypnotherapeutic regression to three groups of client presenting concerns:
  • 1) Emotional distress, which may or may not be related to complex/developmental trauma;
  • 2) Those who desire behavioral change (e.g., weight loss, smoking cessation, addictions, etc.);
  • 3) Somatic complaints (e.g., pain, mind/body communication)
• Review the importance of ego-strength prior to engaging in regression techniques and the populations of clients for whom regression is contraindicated.
• Explain, demonstrate, and practice using a hypnotherapeutic emotional bridge technique with regression for behavioral change and addictions.
• Explain, demonstrate, and practice using a hypnotherapeutic emotional bridge technique with regression for somatic complaints (pain and mind/body communication).
• Explain, demonstrate, and practice using a hypnotherapeutic emotional bridge technique with regression for finding the source of emotional distress.
• Explain, demonstrate, and practice using a hypnotherapeutic emotional bridge technique with regression for understanding complex trauma and rewriting early decisions/introjections surrounding it.
• Describe and demonstrate three ways to increase mind/body awareness: Ideo-motor finger symbols, applied kinesiology, and body scans.
• Practice six different types of hypnotherapy over six days to have a range of options with a multitude of presenting client concerns.
• Explain ways to incorporate rapid trauma resolution approaches such as EMDR, Brainspotting, tapping, Hypno-Counting™, etc., with hypnotherapy to prevent retraumatization & facilitate quicker healing.
• Discuss several ways to incorporate the principles of hypnotherapy into everyday practice, whether or not you initiate an official trance.
• Summarize the concept of “turbo trance” and discuss ways to utilize this when time does not permit a full hypnotherapy session or when a quick introspective experience could enhance talk therapy.
• Review which hypnotherapy technique to utilize with which presenting concern.

Workshop Description:

This unique program concludes with participants receiving the designation of Certified Clinical Hypnotherapy (CCH) and meets the training standards of the National Board for Certified Clinical Hypnotherapists for professionals seeking additional NBCCH certification. This course enables the trainee to develop practical skills through didactic teaching, observation of the instructor performing each technique, personal experience, and supervised hypnotherapy practice sessions. The training covers clinically targeted applications of several effective methods and techniques that combine hypnotherapy with several theoretical models.

Each day begins with a guided hypnotic experience. Next, your instructor will provide a didactic description of a new technique, followed by a demonstration of the technique. Next, participants break for lunch and then spend the afternoon practicing what they have learned during the morning session. This allows participants to really assimilate the information on both a cognitive and experiential level.

Your instructor and several licensed therapists certified in hypnotherapy will supervise sessions in virtual breakout rooms. The assistants will also be available for questions throughout the workshop and will convey important information in the chat during demonstrations, letting you know what to pay attention to.

Previous attendees have described the course as "life-changing" for them personally as well as professionally. The course includes lifetime access to all the materials with multiple interview templates, scripts, organized note-taking forms, and other resources. It also includes access to the training videos recorded during the workshop and bonus demonstration videos from previous workshops for review and deeper understanding.

*Certification requirements: 1) Having a graduate degree in mental health (as described above); 2) Attendance for the entire course (43 CE hours) and Level 1: Hypnotherapy with Memory Reconsolidation taught by Dr. Beaton-York (7 CE hours); 3) Completion of 10 practice sessions (for a total of 60 CE hours). Consultation is available after the course, but is not required.

Presented by: Ellen Baker, LPC

Ellen is a Licensed Professional Counselor and runs a solo private practice, Counseling with Heart, in the north metro Atlanta area. Ellen received her BA in Psychology from Emory University in 1989 and her MS in Community Counseling from Georgia State University in 1997. She began her career as a counselor working with youth in residential care, providing strengths-based, family-focused services. She later transitioned to foster care, working for a private agency as a program supervisor. After several years in this role, she became a state trainer for this same agency, providing training, clinical consultation, and program oversight for program employees and providers.

Ellen began her private practice in 2013. She enjoys helping clients who are managing symptoms of depression, anxiety, and the impact of trauma. She is also committed to supporting fellow therapists in their personal healing work. Ellen is an Advanced Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, received a Clinical Certification for Stress, Management, and Emotional Management from HeartMath, and is a HeartMath Certified Trainer. She has advanced training in Brainspotting, EMDR, EFT (tapping), and IADC therapy. She also provides coaching, training, and consultation. Ellen values the power of using brain/body approaches and energy psychology to facilitate healing and growth for her clients.

Ellen is known for her unusual combination of being extremely knowledgeable yet down-to-earth & easy to understand, while also being playful and humorous. Not only will you learn a ton, you'll have fun doing so.

Created and Demonstrations Provided by: Becky Beaton-York, Ph.D., NBCFCH

Dr. Beaton-York is a Licensed Psychologist and the Founder of The Knowledge Tree with over 34 years of experience. She is a National Board Certified Fellow in Clinical Hypnotherapy (NBCFCH) through the National Board for Certified Clinical Hypnotherapists (NBCCH). Dr. Beaton-York earned her Fellowship with NBCCH for her extensive years of training and experience in hypnotherapy since 1995. She has taught thousands of workshops both nationally and internationally. However, for many years, Dr. Beaton-York only taught hypnotherapy certification courses to mental health professionals all over the United States, Mexico, and South Africa. She designed this course 25 years ago and has continued to refine it. She is passing the baton to Ellen to teach, but has provided several demonstration sessions for you in this course.

Workshop Schedule (Each Day of the Training):

• 9:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Sign-In (Please be mindful that you will be on camera all day & need a quiet place for practice sessions :-)
• 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Workshop
• 12:00 p.m. – 12:15 p.m. Break
• 12:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. Workshop (Cont.)
• 1:45 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Lunch Break
• 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Workshop (Cont.)
• 4:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. Break
• 4:45 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. Workshop (Cont.)
• 6:15 p.m. – Continuing Education Certificates Available (day 3 of each weekend only)

What people are saying about this workshop series:

• "I would have to say this is probably the best, most powerful advanced training I have ever done. (And I have done many). I really think this is going to transform my practice. It has already infused me with more energy to go back to work. I feel excited and exuberant and confident about using ALL of the hypnotherapy approaches with my current and prospective clients." - CF, LPC
• This is the single best training that I've ever taken! C.C., Psychologist
• I cannot recommend this certification course highly enough. I left with so many new skills that I can use immediately. I didn't realize that I can combine hypnotherapy with other approaches I use, and it enhances their effectiveness. I feel like I've found a way to make a much greater impact on the quality of my clients' lives" A.G., LCSW
• This workshop changed my life both professionally and personally! The experiential exercises were amazing. Not only did I learn some incredible new approaches, I really found myself as a therapist." T.R., LMFT
• I LOVED this certification course! What can I say - Life-changing sums it up!. M.O., LPC

43 "Synchronous" and 10 "Asynchronous" Independent CEs Included - Details by License Type Below:

• PSYCHOLOGISTS: The Knowledge Tree is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Knowledge Tree maintains responsibility for this program and its content. For more detailed information on the current CE ruling in Georgia, or if you are licensed in another state or country, please click here.
• COUNSELORS: The Knowledge Tree has been approved by the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) as an Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP), ACEP No. 7153. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Knowledge Tree is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
  • Counselors licensed in Georgia: Although approval through the Licensed Professional Counselors Association of Georgia (LPCA-GA) is not required for CE credit since all our courses are NBCC-approved, TKT has applied for approval for this workshop through LPCA-GA.
  • Counselors licensed in another state: Please click here for more detailed information.
• SOCIAL WORKERS: This workshop is approved for 43 Core CE hours through the Georgia Society for Clinical Social Work (GSCSW), approval #053325. If you are licensed in another state or country, please click here for more detailed information.
• MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPISTS: This workshop is approved for 43 Core CE hours through the Georgia Association for Marriage & Family Therapy (GAMFT), approval #106-2025. If you are licensed in another state or country, please click here for more detailed information.

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