North Carolina Society of Clinical Hypnosis
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HIE Announcements
Please join us Monday, December 8th, 7:30 – 9:30 PM EST for the 67th HIE (Hypnotic Idea Exchange), featuring Tobi Goldfus and friends, who will present on The Real Golden Standard of Care: How the Hypnotic Community and the Expansive Hypnotic Effects of Connection Have Helped Me Live With Uncertainty: My Journey with Cancer AND Living a Meaningful Life.
Tobi and friends will use personal narrative to inspire and encourage clinicians to create a healing hypnotic experience "outside the box" for those with chronic and difficult diagnoses. Ten minute contributions will include:
Michael Yapko: How to Deal with Ambiguity
Akira Otani: Four Steps of Curious Detachment
Dana Lebo: Metaphor as Hypnotic (the Babbling Brook)
Rick Miller: Making a Hypnotic Healing Circle
Wendy Lemke: The Magic Word of AND
More About the Presenter:
Tobi B. Goldfus, LCSW-C, BCD is a therapist, author and national/international speaker and trainer. She is an ASCH consultant with over 30 years of clinical hypnosis experience and is a certified EST therapist and consultant, national and international. In her book, From Real Life to Cyberspace and Back Again: Helping Our Young Clients Develop a Strong Inner Selfie (2017) and 2024 article in the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, she focuses on ego states being practiced, predicating factors that make young people on social media/gaming sites more vulnerable to negative or traumatic experiences, and those that build strong social networks, and provides assessment and psychotherapy techniques to promote balance between online and real life. Her recent article (August, 2024, The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis) “The Impact of Social Media Use on Depression, Anxiety and Well-Being for Teens/Young People: Using Hypnosis to Build a Strong Sense of Self” outlines how this issue has formed a global concern for mental heal and ways clinicians can intervene. She is a member and has presented frequently as faculty that includes the Milton H. Erickson Foundation conferences, ASCH ( the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis and a member at large 2025), ISH (International Society of Hypnosis), ESH (European Society of Hypnosis), MEISA (MHE Institute of South Africa), SCEH(Society of Experimental and Clinical Hypnosis), and key note speaker at NPHTI (National Pediatric Hypnosis Training Institute). She is often co-faculty for trainings for Ego State Therapy North America as well as ASCH approved hypnosis trainings; She is a member of NASW and GWSCSW, and a Board Certified Diplomat. Tobi is in private practice in Germantown, Maryland.
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
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“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
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Benefits of Membership
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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)
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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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