The participant will receive over 400 scripts, electronic records, & many articles on hypnosis and pain. PowerPoint presentations and “How to start a practice” will also be included. This USB Memory Card alone is worth the price of the Seminar.
Hypnosis for Pain Management Course Information
Continuing education credits for CRNAs, RNs, and CHs:
Approved by the National Guild of Hypnotists for
16 Continuing Education Credits
This program has been prior approved by the American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology for 16.00 Class A CE credits; Code Number 1044130; Expiration Date 8/8/2025
Nurses, hypnotists and other healthcare providers are taught how to use clinical hypnosis for pain management. Certified hypnotists earn a Hypnosis Pain Management Certification.
The 3-day workshop teaches how to develop a hypnotic session plan including HypnoAnalgesia, metaphors and self-hypnosis for clients of all ages.
Hypnotists and non-hypnotists healthcare providers learn healing language, hypnotic techniques and mind/body response for pain-free living.
This hypnosis pain certification workshop was designed specifically for hypnotists and healthcare providers.
It is taught by a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, Board Certified Hypnotists, with many years of pain clinic experience.
This course is open for anyone interested in how Hypnosis works for Pain Management.
Each pain course is composed of the same information with small variables in live, on-line or USB format.
The live course agenda is shown below. The on-line and USB courses are videos of the live course.
Day One and Two (8:00 AM to 5:00 PM)
Module 1
Certification process
The foundation for hypnosis in pain management with video – Lecture, Pain Brain Connection and the role of depth during hypnosis for pain management
Q & A
Module 2
Client multi-technique video
Q&A
Module 3
The adverse effects of chronic pain.
Overcoming resistance and self sabotage
Q&A
Module 4
A magic use of convincers and using hypnosis to put the imagination to work in multi-levels of pain management
Q & A
Module 5
The art of scriptwriting with Practicum
Q&A
Module 6
4-case presentations and practice techniques from the interview
Q&A
Module 7
Mindfulness techniques in the relief of stress and pain & glove analgesia
Q&A
Module 8
Designing, developing, and marketing your hypnosis business to cover all issues.
Closing
Q&A
Michael R “Ron” Eslinger, Captain, USN, Retired RN, CRNA, MA, APN, BCH, CMI, FNGH Registered Nurse, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, Master of Arts, Advanced Practice Nurse, Board Certified Hypnotherapist, Certified Master Instructor of Hypnosis, Fellow National Guild of Hypnotists
After this training the attendee will be able to:
- List the 6 stages of hypnosis.
- Explain the history of hypnosis in pain management.
- Compare the differences of what hypnosis is and is not.
- Discuss 9 reasons why hypnosis should be used.
- List the parts of the Limbic system.
- Describe the function of each part.
- List the 4 areas of the multifactor pain experience.
- Describe the 3 types of pain.
- List the 21 steps to the 1st session.
- List 6 applications that enhance hypnosis.
- Demonstrate 2 hypnotic convincers.
- Determine issues and metaphors to enhance pain management.
- Discuss how to use the patient’s pain description.
- Demonstration pain altering breath.
- Demonstrate glove anesthesia.
- Identify proper metaphors for pain management.
- List 4 mindfulness techniques in pain management.
- Experience 2 mindfulness techniques.
- List the physical, emotional and behavioral components of stress.
- Discuss the role of stress and sleep in pain management.
- Demonstrate rapid induction.
- Illustrate a model for hypnotic language.
- View Phantom Limb Pain patient session video.
- Discuss symptoms, hypnotic induction, and techniques used to manage phantom limb pain.
Hypnosis for Pain Management Course By Ron Eslinger
Demonstration of Glove Anesthesia
Pain Course Take Homes
Four session model
This course will show you how to successfully perform hypnotic intervention sessions for patients in four sessions using a comprehensive step-by-step model.
1st session: Developing client rapport, managing client expectations, client intake,contracts, inductions, scripts, success formula & ego states, and much more to ensure success during the first interaction.
2nd session: Step-by-step dynamic process (most important of the sessions); homework, prep on self talk, Coue’, glove anesthesia, control techniques.
3rd session: Client directed, imagery, visualization, metaphors, demonstration, discussion.
4th session: Client controlled with reinforcement and monitored practice; case studies and actual recordings of client sessions are included!
Work with medical professionals
The door for hypnotists to work with multi-disciplinary pain management teams has been opened by the Joint Commission for Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations set standards for the assessment of pain and states that alternative non-pharmacological methods for pain management will be used by all hospitals.
I will show you how to introduce hypnotic techniques to multi-disciplinary pain clinics and hospital health promotion departments.
Reviews
“I feel fortunate to have received this training so early in my hypnosis career. Ron brilliantly summarizes many years of experience with diverse clients, in ways that are easy to understand. Workshop materials included a vast amount of useful information. I have gained so much new information about transforming chronic pain & new tools for hypnosis in general. Loved this class – so valuable! Want more info on approaches to trauma and addiction.”
– Cindy Schaefer
“Lots of wonderful information! Ron’s course really expanded my vision of the possible scope of my practice.”
– Sarah Becker
“Yours was the most important seminar I have ever taken regarding hypnosis and healing. Little did I imagine the many uses it would have. I can’t thank you enough.”
– Joyce Flynn, St. Louis
“The seminar was well structured but with enough flexibility to provide needed customization for the participation of the students. I thoroughly enjoyed the approach with stories and jokes. The technical terminology explanations provided me with an excellent tool for my marketing to the medical and therapy industry. Thank you Ron for the opportunities you have opened for my practice.”
– William A. Edwards
“Excellent presentation. This course was one of the most informative, well presented programs I have ever attended. Ron shared his experiences openly with the participants. His resource materials are abundant. I especially recommend this program to other nurses and health care providers. I know it will greatly influence my practice. Thank you.”
–Maryann Boulton
“I initially attended this course in attempts to gain new and effective communication techniques to assist my patients in gaining self control over their pain. Much more than this was accomplished. I am walking away from this course with a new found appreciation for my own ability to control my own perception of pain .”
– Jennifer Green, CRNA
“I truly enjoyed the course. It was a very informative weekend. I truly believe it will be helpful with my everyday work at the hospital . I also am looking forward to begin working with its chronic pain patients”
– Donald W. Brant
This course covers the study of hypnotic techniques for the treatment of
- Stress Induced Headaches
- Vascular Headaches
- Migraine Headaches
- Chronic Post Surgical Pain
- Cancer Pain
- Labor & Delivery Pain
- Fibromyalgia
- Back and Neck Pain
- Tic Douloureux
- Post Surgical Pain; why it occurs and how to manage it
- Back and Neck Pain
- Temporomandibular Disorders
- and other specific pains.
This pain management course will help you
- Increase the breadth of your practice by helping your clients to overcome chronic pain.
- Increase the profitability of your practice.
- Position yourself as an expert in pain management.
- Work with physicians and other health professionals, getting you more referrals for other issues as well.
- Working with just one client should cover the entire cost of this course.
The end result
- You’ll learn a step-by-step blue print for sessions one through four for working with clients and/or groups.
- You’ll learn the use of hypnosis in a clinical practice.
- You’ll learn to have your client/patient demonstrate the physiologic effect of hypnosis.
- You’ll learn a four-step model for pain management.
- You’ll learn the importance of cell memory and regression in pain management.
- You’ll learn the importance of varied hypnotic inductions in pain management.
- You’ll learn the value of the word “comfort.”
Learn Hypnosis for Pain Management from a Certified Master Instructor

Michael R “Ron” Eslinger, Captain, USN, Retired RN, CRNA, MA, APN, BCH, CMI, FNGH Registered Nurse, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, Master of Arts, Advanced Practice Nurse, Board Certified Hypnotherapist, Certified Master Instructor of Hypnosis, Fellow National Guild of Hypnotists
Ron Eslinger is a retired Navy Captain. He is owner and CEO of Healthy Visions in Clinton, Tennessee; President of the American School for Clinical Hypnosis, International; and President and Founder of the American Association for Moderate Sedation Nurses.
Eslinger became a Certified Hypnotherapist in 1978 and opened the Knoxville Center for Clinical Hypnosis in 1979. He became a Certified Instructor for the National Guild of Hypnotists in 1999, received Board Certification in 2001, Certified Master Instructor in 2006 and Fellow National Council for Hypnotherapy United Kingdom in 2007.
His hypnotherapy awards include Researcher of the Year 2003, Presenter of the Year in 2004, Achievement Award 2005, Lifetime Achievement 2007 and Educator of the Year 2008.
The participant will receive over 400 scripts, electronic records, & many articles on hypnosis and pain. PowerPoint presentations and “How to start a practice” will also be included. This USB Memory Card alone is worth the price of the Seminar.