Recently I attended a workshop on Gastric Banding Hypnosis. The workshop was held in Brisbane, QLD and was run by Sheila Granger from the UK. Gastric Banding Hypnotherapy is extremely popular overseas and is only just beginning to become recognised …
Category: Hypnosis Training
“The greatest potential for prevention is in teaching people how to step outside their own thinking.” – Yapko.
Michael D. Yapko is a clinical psychologist and marriage and family therapist, residing in California. He is a national and international trainer in brief therapy approaches to psychotherapy and routinely addressed professional audiences all over the world. Yapko is internationally recognized for his work in the active treatment of depression, the strategic use of clinical hypnosis and his advancement of the use of outcome-focused, short-term psychotherapies.
He is the author of numerous books and articles including: Trancework (3rd Edition), Treating Depression With Hypnosis, Breaking the Patterns Of Depression, Hand-Me-Down Blues: How To Stop Depression Spreading In Families, Hypnosis And The Treatment Of Depressions. Dr. Yapko is a member of the American Psychological Association, a clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, a past fellow of the Royal Society Of Medicine’s Division of Hypnosis and Psychosomatic Medicine (in England), a member of the International Society of Hypnosis, and a fellow of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis.
Dr. Yapko presented a 2 day workshop in Sydney this past July: ‘Designing and Delivering Hypnotic Interventions’. I was fortunate enough to attend and would like to share some of it with you.








