North Carolina Society of Clinical Hypnosis
Welcome to NCSCH
Welcome to the website of the North Carolina Society of Clinical Hypnosis, a component section of ASCH, the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis.
Whether, you are seeking a practitioner of hypnosis, or a practitioner seeking to hone your skills, this is the place for you!
For more than fifty years, NCSCH has been at the cutting edge of training, advocacy, and community for therapists, medical professionals, and scholars. We bring together a diverse group of practitioners of all levels to advance the use of Clinical Hypnosis, one of the world's oldest and most effective mental health treatments.
We've just concluded our widely acclaimed 2026 Annual Conference featuring speakers addressing the question: "Is Artificial Intelligence the New One-Way Mirror: Ethically Integrating AI into Hypnotherapy."
Each month we host one or more speakers for our free webinar, the Hypnotic Idea Exchange or HIE. It's open to anyone looking to advance their use of hypnosis.
And we will soon be adding new ways to support and enrich the hypnosis community.
So, look around our site and please let us know if you have any questions!
Sincerely,
Dana Lebo, PhD
President, Board of Directors
HIE Announcements
Our next HIE takes place April 13 from 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. featuring Douglas Flemons, PhD who will be presenting on "Adapting Tonglen Meditation for Hypnotic Change."
Tonglen is a Tibetan Buddhist meditation practice that involves warmly receiving—breathing in—the suffering of another; transmuting it into a visceral sense of relief; and then breathing out—sending back to the other—this reformulated feeling as an expression of compassionate care. At the beginning of his talk, Douglas will offer participants an opportunity to briefly test-drive this meditation practice for themselves, and he will touch on its application in burnout prevention. He’ll then highlight intriguing commonalities between Tonglen and Milton Erickson’s utilization approach to hypnosis and hypnotherapy. Utilization involves reconstituting threats to the development of the client’s hypnotic experience as contributions to the process. And it orients clinicians toward deriving resourceful elements from the client’s skill set and from the problem itself for use in the development of avolitional solutions. Tonglen is a prototypical exemplar of this acceptance-based, inclusion-focused commitment to change. Douglas will wrap up by detailing—and if there’s time, demonstrating—how an adapted form of Tonglen can be offered to clients as a self-hypnosis method for managing insomnia.
Douglas Flemons, PhD, is an emeritus professor of family therapy and the author of several books, including two on hypnosis—Of One Mind (Norton, 2002) and The Heart and Mind of Hypnotherapy (Norton, 2022). His most recent book is Empathic Engagement in Clinical Practice (APA, 2026). Douglas is an advisory editor for the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, which, in 2021, awarded him the Milton H. Erickson Award for Scientific Excellence in Writing on Clinical Hypnosis for his article, “Toward a Relational Theory of Hypnosis.” He presents nationally and internationally on a variety of topics, and, since 1993, has offered an (almost) annual Florida-Board-approved 50-hour hypnosis intensive, Inviting Connection, Inventing Change. Douglas and his wife live in North Carolina, co-directing their private practice and training institute, Context Consultants.
Who We Are
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 high membership retention because of our openness, friendliness, and support for the novice as well as the highly skilled and experienced clinician.
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The HIE is a collaborative effort of the North Carolina, Northern Virginia, Eastern Society, and New Jersey components of ASCH.
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“It is really, really encouraging for me to see such established and well known people as yourselves who have such a big, big heart and are willing to make it shown in such a setting as this!”
Simon
Member
“I am so glad that I attended this awesome learning opportunity. I always gain a great deal from these conferences and this exchange. Thank you for envisioning it, Dana and setting it up with John!”
Christie
HIE Attendee
“I feel uplifted and honored to be part of this learning and sharing cohort. Not honoring my ego, my proud self, but to share the presence, the co-presencing of being hypnotic together, continuing to deepen the agency that embeds and empowers new learning.”
Eric
Member
Benefits of Membership
Access
Training sessions for Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced certification for clinical hypnosis are scheduled throughout the year. These trainings, taught by experienced clinicians, certify clinicians for expertise in the field of hypnosis.
Opportunity
Membership provides opportunities leadership and teaching responsibilities, as well as eligibility for membership in, and certification by the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, and membership in the International Society of Hyposis.
Networking
NCSCH maintains an online directory enabling consumers to access information regarding clinicians trained in hypnosis. The online directory includes live links to email and website information for enrolled members.
Reduced Fees
Admission fees to our nationally recognized annual conferences is reduced for members. NCSCH offers two-day clinical conferences featuring many of the national leaders in clinical hypnosis. CEUs are included along with opportunities to network with professional peers from around the country.
We welcome qualified professionals to our collegial society.
"This is the best professional organization I have ever belonged to in my 32 years in practice."
-Jean Olson, LCSW(retired)
Become a Member
Annual Membership
80$Every year- Access to Training and Networking
- Discounted Annual Conference Fees
- Listing in the NCSCH Directory
Student Affiliate Membership
40$Every yearValid for 2 years- Access to Training and Licensure Pathways
- Discounted Annual Conference Fees
- Access to a Large Professional Network
Annual membership will renew automatically until canceled or rescinded. Student membership will renew automatically until canceled, rescinded, or member is no longer eligible for student membership level. Eligibility is evaluated every two years during re-application.
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Please feel free to reach out with questions, comments, or suggestions. Consider joining our organization to expand your experience with clinical hypnosis.