FARMINGTON — A new school in Farmington is preparing students for a career in hypnotherapy.
Certified Hypnotherapy Training School’s Advanced Health Clinic will begin classes Jan. 6. Students are trained to help patients with an array of problems including self-confidence, self-discipline, impulse control, anger management, pain control, painless childbirthing, sports performance enhancement, weight loss, smoking, bed-wetting and self-control.
“We teach and train hypnotherapists how to challenge and change self-defeating habits and develop impulse control within their clients as well as control other areas of their lives,” said W. Dennis Parker, certified clinical hypnotherapist and instructor.
The fees for training vary depending on the level of certification required.
To become a certified hypnotherapist takes 200 hours of training. The total cost is $2,940, with a 5 percent discount for prepaid fees. A certified clinical hypnotherapist requires 300 hours of training. The cost for the additional 100 hours is $1,570, with the prepayment discount possible. Classes are taught at Parker’s offices at 722 Sheppard Lane.
A certified clinical hypnotherapist chooses a specialty to focus on such as pain management, birthing, weight loss and smoking cessation. Once certified, a hypnotherapist can make $30 to $60 per hour, Parker said.
In addition, the school also teaches people self-hypnosis skills so they can help themselves with various problems they might be struggling with in their lives.
“Hypnosis or trance is natural and we teach the six observable trance states to students and the therapeutic advantages of each state for behavior modification,” Parker said. “Our students will understand the workings of the mind and the various parts of internal functioning, so that we free up the minds of clients so they can accomplish their own mind management, becoming their own best behavioral therapists.”
Parker said it may take four to six sessions to overcome a particular self-defeating habit or alter strongly held limiting beliefs and fears. However, most issues are accomplished in just one to two sessions with ongoing CD listening for predominant thought reinforcement and maintenance.
According to WebMD, hypnosis or hypnotherapy “uses guided relaxation, intense concentration, and focused attention to achieve a heightened state of awareness that is sometimes called a trance.”
Hypnosis is not dangerous, according to the website, but should not be used on people who are delusional or on someone using drugs or alcohol.
“Everyone can benefit from doing hypnotherapy to clear up personal sensitizing events such as unresolved death of a friend or loved one, or any other experience that may come up from the subconscious that is still causing feelings of distress, anger, fear and so forth,” Parker said. “Just a couple of sessions normally clears these types of events and leaves the person’s mind and emotions clear and free.”
The school teaches coping skills and elimination of emotional content with desensitizing techniques combined with relaxation principals and concepts. It also teaches hypnotherapists to work with various specialties such as sports and golf mind management, goal setting and achievement, study habits and test taking relaxation and public speaking.
In addition, Parker said, hypnotherapists may work in all medical settings as pain-control specialists through trance utilization.
“A certain level of trance called and identified as the Esdale state is utilized for pain control when a patient may be allergic to anesthesia and so forth,” he said. “Birthing programs teach this state of trance for painless child birthing. Doctors, dentists and nurses additionally trained as hypnotherapists utilize hypnotherapy in similar ways for pain control.”
Parker said all hypnosis is a choice and no one is ever hypnotized against their will. He said the illusion of mind control has been perpetrated for a long time by stage hypnotists.
“My wife made the best rebuttal to the mind-control issue one Sunday in church years ago with someone who just found out that I had gone to hypnotherapy school,” Parker said. “They asked her, ‘What is Dennis doing getting into hypnosis and mind control?’ She responded, ‘If it were mind control, we would have perfect children.’ We had 11 rambunctious children at home at the time and that seemed to resolve the mind control question.”
To sign up for classes, go to http://certifiedhypnotherapytraining.com/SchoolForms.html.
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