Ericksonian Hypnosis and Psychotherapy Masterclass
Ericksonian hypnosis is a powerful transformational tool for any clinician desiring to make a profound difference in the lives of clients and your own as well. This course is designed for both the beginner and more advanced clinician using hypnosis, delivers dynamic content and the most advanced and in-depth tools and strategies for clinicians who want to become proficient in using hypnosis in psychotherapy.
Milton Erickson was a master therapist and promoted the philosophy, “Whatever you can imagine, you can accomplish.” He personally knew that to be true when he overcame polio twice in his life and discovered the amazing abilities all people have to recover from pain, illness, trauma, and create the life they want.
More recent advancements in the research on hypnosis and the brain reveals a deeper understanding of the remarkable ability of the mind and body to heal and move into states of thriving for longer periods of time. By accessing and building the needed resources to overcome overwhelming events, past difficulties, and old programming, clinicians can help their clients recover themselves, create their best possible future, and assist in emotional charge disappearing.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Implement the Power to Reprogram the Mind, Release the Past, and Create a New Destiny with Hypnosis
- Understand How Life Patterns Connect to Habitual States of Trance
- Expand the Results of Therapy by a New Understanding of the Conscious and Unconscious Minds
- Recruit More Positive Emotion Before Interventions to Condition Them for Client Healing
- Employ Novelty and Curiosity to Motivate Client Change
- Recognise Tipping Points in Client Growth: When the Desire for Change is Greater than the Distress
- Identify Signs of Trance Trauma and the Effect on the Brain for Better Interventions
- Understand How Trauma Results in Epigenetic Effects
- Links Between Stress, Illness, Mood, and Thought
- Demonstrate Milton Erickson’s Powerful Approach to Healing
- Explore Simple Inductions Using the Language of the Unconscious Mind
- Identify Advanced Inductions Using the Power of the Designed Story
CPD Information For Mental Health Professionals
Enjoy complete flexibility with 100% self-paced learning you can access anytime, anywhere, and on any device. Pay once for lifetime access.
Course Duration: 12 learning hours
Certificate and CPD hours: On completion you’ll receive a Certificate of Completion to support your CPD records.
Assessment: Complete a short quiz at the end (80% pass mark), which you can resit as many times as needed.
Lifetime Access: Your access to the course does not expire, so you can revisit key concepts anytime you want a refresher for practice.
CPD Eligibility: This program may be suitable for CPD for professionals such as:
- Psychologists
- Counsellors and Psychotherapists
- Social Workers
- Community Workers
- Mental Health Nurses
- General Practitioners (GPs)
- Occupational Therapists
CPD requirements vary between professional bodies, so please check with your association or credentialing body to confirm you can claim CPD hours/OPD points for this program and what evidence they require.
Bill Wade, Ph.D. is Co-Director of the Milton H. Erickson Institute of Houston, and is accredited as both a marriage and family therapist and professional counsellor, holding supervisory status with both capacities.
He is a Clinical Fellow with the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and is a member and Approved Consultant with the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. Dr Wade is co-author of Brain Change Therapy: Clinical Interventions for Self-Transformation, published by WW Norton and The Worry-Free Mind, published by Career Press.
He is a long-time student of meditation and has taught at several Buddhist temples. He has presented workshops in Spain, Italy, and across the United States. He has been utilizing psychotherapy and clinical hypnosis for over 35 years.
Carol Kershaw, Ed.D. is Co-Director of the Milton H. Erickson Institute of Houston. She is an international trainer, author and psychotherapist running her private practice in Houston, Texas, USA. She is a member of the American Psychological Association, and an Approved Consultant for the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis.
She is board certified with the status of Fellow in EEG Biofeedback and the author of The Couple’s Hypnotic Dance and co-author of Brain Change Therapy: Clinical Interventions for Self- Transformation published by WW Norton and The Worry-Free Mind published by Career Press. She has been invited to speak for NASA, and she also presented in Saudi Arabia, Chile, Mexico, Spain, Canada, Italy as well as in the United States and in Australia.
Course Content
Meet Your Instructor
When clients feel trapped in cycles of anxiety, trauma, or depression, small shifts in brain and body can open the way to real change. Bill Wade helps clinicians use clinical hypnosis, neuroscience, and meditation-informed approaches to create those shifts safely and effectively in everyday practice.
Dr Wade is a psychotherapist and international trainer known for integrating the neuroscience of psychotherapy with practical hypnosis skills. He is co-director of the Milton Erickson Institute of Houston and practices in Houston, Texas, where he works with individuals and couples on anxiety, depression, panic, trauma, relationship enhancement, divorce recovery, parenting, and peak performance. Trained in psychiatry and religion at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, he brings a thoughtful, mind-body-spirit perspective to his clinical and teaching work.
Clinically, Dr Wade focuses on how targeted hypnotic interventions and experiential methods can help clients regulate arousal, shift rigid patterns, and build new responses. His work draws on current understandings of the brain in psychotherapy while staying grounded in what actually helps clients feel and function better. In his Houston practice and training roles, he uses hypnosis, meditation, and brief, focused strategies to address anxiety, depression, panic disorder, trauma and post-traumatic stress, and relational distress. He also works with couples and families to improve communication, rebuild trust, and support healthier patterns after rupture or divorce.
Dr Wade has presented workshops throughout the United States and internationally on clinical hypnosis, meditation, overcoming anxiety and depression, panic disorder, relationship enhancement, divorce recovery, parenting, and peak performance. He is a regular faculty member for Milton H. Erickson Foundation events, including Erickson Congresses and specialty panels such as “Meditation and Hypnosis.” He also teaches experiential courses on hypnosis for trauma and post-traumatic stress, and has offered trainings on hypnosis and mood and anxiety difficulties.
For your practice, Dr Wade’s teaching is highly applied. Clinicians learn concrete hypnotic language, ways to weave meditation and focused attention into sessions, and strategies to calm the “stress spin cycle” that keeps clients stuck in worry and reactivity. His work is designed to help you strengthen your clients’ self-regulation, deepen their access to internal resources, and support lasting self-directed change.
A key theme in his writing and teaching is that when clients understand how their brains and minds work, they can become active partners in change rather than passive recipients of treatment. His co-authored books, Brain Change Therapy: Clinical Interventions for Self-Transformation and The Worry-Free Mind: Train Your Brain, Calm the Stress Spin Cycle, and Discover a Happier, More Productive You, translate neuroscience and hypnosis into step-by-step clinical applications.
Qualifications
- Master of Divinity (MDiv), Psychiatry and Religion; Union Theological Seminary, New York City, USA; year unverified
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD); field, institution, and year unverified
- Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC); Texas, USA
- Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT); Texas, USA
- Clinical Member and Approved Supervisor, American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT)
- Member and Approved Consultant, American Society of Clinical Hypnosis
- Member, International Society of Hypnosis and American Counseling Association
Selected Books
- Brain Change Therapy: Clinical Interventions for Self-Transformation (2012); Co-author; W.W. Norton & Company
- The Worry-Free Mind: Train Your Brain, Calm the Stress Spin Cycle, and Discover a Happier, More Productive You (2017); Co-author; Career Press
Teaching & Roles
- Co-Director, Milton Erickson Institute of Houston; Houston, Texas, USA
- Psychotherapist, Institute for Family Psychology; Houston, Texas, USA
- International trainer in neuroscience of psychotherapy and clinical hypnosis; workshops throughout the United States and abroad
- Former review editor, Milton Erickson Foundation Newsletter; Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Consider joining Dr Wade’s course if you want clinically grounded, neuroscience-informed hypnosis tools you can use immediately to help clients calm distress, process trauma, and build more flexible, resilient lives.
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This course includes:
- Lessons 1
- Topics 8
- Duration 12 hours
- Quizzes 1
- Language English