“Would you like to see demonstrations of how hypnosis and CBT might be artfully entwined so that one enhances the other?”
  
This presentation examines ways to incorporate hypnosis into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).
  
The basic goal of CBT is to effect a change in a client’s cognitive process that prompts emotional and behavioral changes leading to a reduction or cessation of symptoms.
  
One can use hypnotic techniques in numerous ways to enhance CBT:
  • developing a more thorough diagnostic understanding of the client’s mindset and behaviors;
  
  • formal trance induction and a focused hypnotherapeutic approach to help the client generate new cognitive and behavioral responses that reduce the need for symptomatic expression;
  
  • offer a greater likelihood of generative mind-body change.
  
Research strongly suggests that the addition of clinical hypnosis to CBT intensifies the therapeutic effect. 

Clinical hypnosis can be thought of as both a ‘meta’ and a foundational technique.
  
  • As a meta-technique, it is a collection of communicational concepts and practices that allow a clinician to access and influence a person at an unconscious level in a more direct and focused manner than is typical in normal conversation, regardless of the type or content of that interaction.
  
  • As a ‘foundational’ technique, it contains concepts and tools that offer communicational support to any type of therapeutic approach.
  
PRESENTER:
GEORGE P. GLASER, LCSW, BCD, DAHBCSW is currently in private practice as a licensed clinical social worker in Austin. George obtained his MSW from Ohio State University School of Social Work in 1975. He serves as adjunct field faculty and a lecturer for the University of Texas at Austin-School of Social Work. He is a co-founder and faculty member of the Milton H. Erickson Institute of Austin. Mr. Glaser has been a faculty member for the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, the Milton H. Erickson Foundation, and the American Association of Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback. He is a Board Certified Diplomate in Clinical Social Work, a Diplomate of the American Board of Hypnosis for Clinical Social Work, and an Approved Consultant and Fellow of The American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. Mr. Glaser is a Past President of ASCH.
  
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