I have recently had two people who have told me that they did the Six-Day certification training and went home to begin using the hypnotherapy with their clients. One question that comes up is who should I use the Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy with? And what about people who don’t want to go so deep or who are really afraid of their deeper feelings? My response is this:
1) It is important to understand that some people are ready to go deep and want to move through their healing process faster than others. Each person has their own rate of healing.
2) People that have a lot of shock due to the abuse and trauma they experienced in their childhood may not be ready to do anger release work.
3) In our Internship program, we are teaching students how to recognize shock and how to differentiate it from trauma. Some of the release work that we do which empowers trauma victims, will only put shock victims deeper into dissociation. This is one reason why joining the Internship is so important after completing the Six-Day Training.
Because shock is a very complex experience, it is best treated over a period of time rather than in a weekend workshop. Also when clients have complex PTSD, the shock must be treated before you can do the release work with them. They need to feel safe, to trust and to learn how to titrate or slowly reduce the amount of stored-up shock in the client’s system.
There is going to be a new category in the next DSM called CPTSD or Complex PTSD. This is another term for what we call shock. It applies to clients or therapists who experienced any type of abuse as a child, victims of domestic violence and returning Iraqi soldiers. We must remember that shock is very contagious and therapists must heal their own before they can sit in the presence of clients in shock. Like all other issues, we can not effectively treat anything that is untreated in us.
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