Courtney Armstrong – Breaking Habits With Hypnosis

Powerful Tools to Help Clients Stop Smoking, Lose Weight, & Curb Cravings

Banish Bad Habits for Good!
Spring is coming– and thousands of people are looking to stop smoking, lose weight, and eliminate unwanted habits. If you’d like to create a new niche and an additional stream of income for your practice, this is the course for you!

As you know many people develop unwanted habits as a way to cope with depression, anxiety, & trauma. Not only will this course give you evidence-based interventions for helping people change habits, but it will also provide protocols for updating emotional memories and triggers driving these unwanted behaviors.

What You’ll Learn In Breaking Habits With Hypnosis

Course Objectives and Schedule
After completing this course you’ll be able to:

1. Assess client readiness using Prochaska and DiClemente’s 5-Stages of Change.
2. Explain three aspects of a habit loop.
3. Use at least 3 hypnosis techniques to reduce unwanted behaviors.
4. Use at least 3 hypnosis techniques to increase motivation and desired behaviors.
5. Create a smoking-cessation treatment plan for a client.
6. Create a behavioral weight loss plan for a client.
7. Apply at least 1 technique to reduce the intensity of a craving.

Module 1: Smoking Cessation

• Part 1: Assess & Break Habit Loops
  Prepare your client for success by assessing their readiness using the 5-stages of change, and explain three aspects of the habit loop.
• Part 2: Use Targeted Inductions & Suggestions
  Craft personalized protocols for each client, selecting from several inductions & dozens of suggestions that banish cravings, reduce stress, and boost motivation.
• Part 3: Reinforce Success + Demo
  Explain how to use follow-up and maintenance sessions to increase client success. Review video demonstration utilizing hypnotherapy for smoking cessation.

Module 2: Weight Loss

• Part 1: Explore the Function of the Food
  Assess emotional needs clients are trying to meet with food. Teach new self-care strategies with self-hypnosis. Craft suggestions that build from each client’s strengths.
• Part 2: Create a Healthy Mindset
  Create suggestions that promote a healthy relationship with food, boost motivation to exercise, and decrease cravings for unhealthy foods.
• Part 3: Review a Demonstration Video
  Review and discuss a video demonstration using hypnosis techniques to enhance healthy eating, increase motivation to exercise, & nurture the self.

Module 3: Curb Cravings

• Part 1: Reduce Drug Cravings with Memory Reconsolidation
  Apply new insights from memory reconsolidation research to reduce drug cravings, and review video of a research experiment designed to weaken cravings for alcohol.
• Part 2: Curb Cravings with NLP Techniques
  Demonstrate how to alter imagery, heighten sensory awareness, and use role-play games to disrupt patterns, condition new responses, and teach clients new coping strategies.
• Part 3: Explore the Root of a Craving
  Identify emotional memories driving unwanted patterns and use Courtney’s RECON protocol to update core beliefs, change emotional responses, and resolve inner conflicts.

About Courtney Armstrong

Courtney Armstrong, LPC/MHSP, NBCFCH

Courtney Armstrong, LPC/MHSP

National Board Certfied Fellow in Clinical Hypnosis

COURTNEY ARMSTRONG is the developer of Trauma Informed Hypnotherapy a respectful, strengths-based approach that focuses on helping clients reclaim a positive identity, repair attachment wounds, and reconsolidate traumatic memories with empowering new endings. A Fellow of the National Board for Certified Clinical Hypnotherapists, she has studied hypnosis under masters such as Bill O’Hanlon, Steve Andreas, and Jon Connelly.

In her 20 years of practice as a licensed professional counselor, certified hypnotherapist, and grief and trauma specialist, she trains mental health professionals nationally and internationally and is the author of Rethinking Trauma Treatment: Attachment, Memory Reconsolidation, and Resilience (2019), The Therapeutic “Aha!”: 10 Strategies for Getting Your Clients Unstuck (2015) and Transforming Traumatic Grief (2011).

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