COSPONSORS

North  Carolina Psychological Association

North  Carolina Psychiatric Association

National Association of Social Workers - North Carolina Chapter

Licensed Professional Counselors Association of North Carolina

North Carolina Society for Clinical Social Work

Psychotherapy Resources Network – www.psychotherapyresources.com

Bob Dick, Ph.D.

Pre-Conference  Institute

Introduction To Clinical Hypnosis

Friday  April 1,  2005

Chuck  Holton, LCSW and Mary Burns, LCSW

Applied  Hypnosis:

Clinical  Applications of Hypnosis in Everyday Practice

Saturday April 2, 2005

Hypnosis  in Psychotherapy and Medical Practice   Nicholas E. Stratas, MD, DLFAPA, FASCH.  

Trance as a learning experience facilitates access to feelings, thoughts, curiosity, creativity, goal clarification, personal growth  and development, and heightened performance. For discrete physical symptoms and problems, a range of outcomes can be realized ranging from simple symptom removal or substitution to self-mastery and  personal management.

The  Use  of  Hypnosis  in  a  Family Medicine Practice   Joseph Zastrow,  M.D.

Dr. Zastrow  will  review how hypnosis and therapeutic communication has been used in his practice with a variety of  illnesses, including  cancer, pain management, fracture setting, and psychological issues like treatment resistance, needle phobia, and habit  control. He will discuss how learning and using hypnotic communication has enhanced his communication with patients. 

Three-Point Attention and Insight Dialogue: Deepening the Hypnotic Conversation   

Mary Burns, MSW, LCSW, and Chuck Holton, LCSW 

The cultivating and deepening of the hypnotic and mindful conversation between therapist and client, between partners in couples therapy, and within the client’s relationship to their own experience is a goal of technique and an opportunity for therapeutic transformation. Mary and Chuck will share four experiential exercises they have found helpful in developing this capacity.

Faculty

Nicholas E.  Stratas, M.D., DLFAPA,  Board Certified,  Psychiatry.  45 years of clinical and administrative practice with individuals, couples, families, groups  and organizations. Senior Associate, Raleigh Psychiatric Associates; Clinical professor UNC; Clinical associate professor, Duke; Life Fellow of: American Psychiatric Assn, American Assn Psychosomatic Medicine, American Academy Pain Management, American Society of Clinical Hypnosis.

Joseph  F. Zastrow, M.D.

Dr. Zastrow received his M.D. from the medical College of Wisconsin in 1987. His residency training was completed at Carolinas medical Center in Charlotte. After ten years of practice in Charlotte, he left the city rat-race and settled into a hospital owned rural practice in Cooleemee North Carolina. He took this opportunity to become ASCH certified. He seamlessly integrates hypnotic techniques in his daily practice.  He also uses hypnosis for many specific medical conditions. He remains a part-time faculty member in the Oral Medicine department at CMC where he teaches dental residents hypnosis as well preoperative evaluation. He is also working on a research project for the use of hypnosis in Sjogren's disease for xerostomia.

Mary S. Burns, MSW, LCSW received her MSW  from UNC-CH in 1987. She has worked in both inpatient and outpatient environments  and has been in solo private practice since 1997. Her post graduate training has been focused on hypnosis, self-relations, mindfulness, mindfulness based stress-reduction, and mind-body practices of yoga and accupressure. She is Past President of  NCSCH.

Charles Holton, LCSW  received his MSW from UNC-CH. He is Past  President of NCSCH. He has taught psychotherapy to psychiatry residents at Duke and social work graduate students at UNC-CH, as well as supervised  gradate students from ECU and  psychotherapists in private practice. He  has studied intensively the self-relations approach to psychotherapy with Stephen Gilligan, Ph.D. and cosponsors an annual week-long residential training on the NC coast. He has led workshops in Ericksonian and narrative psychotherapy,  hypnosis, and self-relations.