Our 72nd HIE (Hypnotic Idea Exchange)!

Around 50% of the adult population reports experiencing regular sleep disturbances. Those sleep problems impact or interact with a lot of other symptoms or conditions including anxiety, depression, daytime fatigue, cognitive disturbances, and more. 

 When designing hypnotic interventions for patients with sleep issues, it can be powerful to think of the specific presentation of symptoms as a metaphoric expression of the patient’s body and psyche. Addressing that symptom hypnotically by “speaking” its own metaphoric language can be transformational. 

 In this talk, Dyan will discuss common sleep problems including insomnia, hypersomnia, restless leg syndrome, nightmares, and snoring and how to view these symptoms in specific ways as metaphors, recognizing that each of these manifest symptoms is unique and may need to be addressed somewhat differently. She will then elaborate about how to use those metaphors in hypnotic inductions to speak to the patient’s unconscious to elicit healing. She will offer a demonstration and will engage with the group about how to apply these concepts with different sleep problems. 

More About Our Presenter:

Dr. Dyan Haspel-Johnson, Ph.D., S.E.P., maintains licenses from the California, Colorado and Texas Boards of Psychology, is a Consultant for the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, co-taught Clinical Hypnosis at UCLA through the Dept of Psychiatry, and is Past President and was the Vice President of Programs for the Southern California Society for Clinical Hypnosis. She additionally co-founded the Los Angeles Erickson Institute and is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. Although she continues to speak on a broad range of topics to professionals, to the public, in podcasts and summits, sleep has become her particular area of expertise and has led her to become a VIP contributor to Arianna Huffington’s wellness site, www.thriveglobal.com.

Once you receive your ticket for this event, it will give you a link to obtain your login credentials to the HIE!