About NCSCH

“This is the best professional organization I have ever belonged to in my 32 years in practice.”

Jean Olson, LCSW (retired)

The North Carolina Society of Clinical Hypnosis is a community of dedicated health care and mental health care providers committed to the competent, effective and ethical use of clinical hypnosis.

NCSCH has long been recognized as the premier organization for training in clinical hypnosis, for the quality of our education and training, as well as for the high caliber of professionals who comprise the membership of the organization. However, we also enjoy a high membership retention because of our openness, friendliness, and support for the novice as well as the highly skilled and experienced clinician.

We welcome new participants and hope you will consider exploring membership, even as we celebrate the many enduring friendships and collegial relationships that have developed over the past 40 years.

Providing superior training with national and internationally respected speakers and talented clinicians from NC as well, NCSCH is a volunteer-run grassroots organization founded in 1970 by Nicholas Stratas, M.D. and Vladimir B. Bensen, MD, as a component society of the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis (ASCH), created by Milton Erickson, Kaye Thompson, and others.

Please take a few minutes to review our recent past activities, being assured by the impressive list of training and consultation activities, and the history of conferences taught by the best in our field, that our commitment to high quality education is strong. The trainings and consultants listed are by independently operating therapists who are solely responsible for content. Contact them with your questions and please share this information with your colleagues.

We welcome your inquiries or suggestions.