Overview of Workshops

These intensive workshops feature a combined lecture-demonstration-experiential training format with a developmental perspective in the use of clinical hypnosis & its empirically supported applications to children and teens with various medical & mental health conditions and challenges. 

• Cutting edge presentations include faculty videos, highlighting therapeutic communication, goal setting and goal-driven suggestions, and other hypnosis strategies.

• Faculty: Our multi-disciplinary, seasoned pediatric clinician-educators have expertise in pediatric hypnosis and are considered the most renowned leaders-teachers-researchers-authors in this field.

• Three levels of workshops: Fundamentals; Utilization & Expanded Clinical Applications; and Individualized Consultation.

• Extensive experiential learning: activities during presentations, and abundant supervised practice of hypnotic techniques within supportive small groups with a high faculty-to-trainee ratio (1:6).

• Registration fees include: presentations materials, online syllabus, small group exercises, CME/CEU credit (at no extra charge), comprehensive bibliography, generous breakfast and morning and afternoon refreshments. Special needs such as dietary restrictions, lactation room, etc. should be indicated in advance. Requests cannot always be honored on site.​​

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Eligibility and Target Audience

An active clinical license AND one of the following is required for NPHTI workshop participation:

• Doctoral Degree in Medicine, Psychology, Nursing or Dentistry

• Masters Degree in Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, Clinical or Counseling Psychology

• Masters Degree in Nursing or Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (i.e. APRN, CPNP, CNS)

• Other Advanced degree clinicians (e.g. Occupational & Physical Therapists, Speech & Language Pathologists)

• Child Life Specialists holding a Doctoral, Masters, or Bachelors degree

• Music Therapists who hold MT-BC board certification

• Registered Art Therapist (ATR) or Board Certified Art Therapist (ATR-BC)

• Full-time Interns/Residents/Fellows or Graduate Students enrolled in an accredited program leading to these clinical degrees will be accepted when they provide a letter from their department on letterhead, attesting to their current full-time status, specifying timing of training (month and year).

• Relevant clinical pediatric training and experience will also be considered for attendance on an individual basis. Please contact tTrainWithNPHTI@gmail.com for more information. Our goal is to be inclusive while providing the most up-to-date training in pediatric hypnosis so that it can be taught safely and effectively for the benefit of children and adolescents. 
   

Registration

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Fundamentals or Utilization and Expanded Clinical Applications Workshop

 MSCH Members/U of MN Faculty/Staff

Grad/Res/Fellow​​

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Individualized Consultation Workshop registration fee is $1,100. Registration for Individualized Consultation must be completed by July 15, 2025. Registration for Individualized Consultation is by invitation only.

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Fundamentals Workshop

This workshop is for clinicians who have not yet completed a pediatric-specific hypnosis training (20+ hours) and for clinicians wanting to refresh or solidify their confidence in fundamental pediatric hypnosis skills.

• Foundational skill-building in hypnosis as therapeutic communication and adjunctive intervention for children/teens with various health and behavioral problems.

• Clinical focus: hypnosis adjunctive management of pain, anxiety, fear, and sleep issues for children and teens at differentdevelopmental stages.

• State-of-the-art presentations include instructional videos (faculty cases) and case vignettes.

• Experiential learning is our wonderful key element! Over half of total workshop time is spent in very small group practice (6:1 trainee:faculty ratio) and large group exercises focused on the structure and elements of clinical hypnosis with children/teens, using therapeutic language, explaining hypnosis to parents and children, delivering goal-directed hypnotic suggestions, and the use of self-hypnosis.

 

Utilization and Clinical Applications Workshop

NOTE: We welcome any and all licensed health professionals who have completed a Fundamentals all pediatric-specific hypnosis training workshop (20+ hours) with NPHTI, SDBP, or equivalent approved pediatric hypnosis training and who are using clinical hypnosis with pediatric patients on a regular basis. Please indicate the year of your Fundamentals or Introductory/Basic Pediatric Hypnosis Workshop on your Registration.

• Workshop emphasizes experiential learning and how to set personalized hypnosis goals and create appropriate hypnosis suggestions.

• Learn how to incorporate Ericksonian Utilization principles in your hypnosis approach.

• Refine and expand existing hypnosis skills and develop individualized hypnotic treatment approaches for your patients.

• Faculty videos and case vignettes are integral throughout the workshop.

• Supervised exercises: augment your confidence and utilization skills (conversational invitations, pacing & leading, constructing goal-driven suggestions, talking in trance, self-regulation strategies, and other person-centered strategies) within thoughtfully clustered small groups (with high faculty to trainee ratios).

• Select two “mini-intensive” (90 minutes each) clinical applications for Hypnosis Skill Development.

 

Individualized Consultation Workshop: Personalized and Peer Mentoring

• Provides extensive half day dedicated  individualized mentor consultation to clinicians ready to enhance their knowledge and expertise in the use of pediatric hypnosis.

• Fulfills partial requirements for attaining ASCH Certification in Clinical Hypnosis and/or an ASCH-Approved Consultant.

• Unique format: Clinicians consult in a small group (max = 6) with faculty who are matched to the case. 

In addition to thoughtfully-matched faculty consultation, this model expects participants to learn from one another and to have their own expertise affirmed and expanded. During the consultation sessions, the focus is on issues unique to each practitioner’s practice as reflected in their video submissions. Participants must submit a video recording of hypnotic work with a pediatric patient and case history. A firm deadline for video submission is July 15, 2025. See instructions here.

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Registration for the Individualized Consultation Workshop is by invitation only. Those invited to participate in this workshop will be sent a registration link.

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Accommodations

NPHTI has a block of hotel rooms available at the Minneapolis Marriott Northwest to book at a reduced rate, but the block is only available until September 15. If you have not booked your hotel reservation, please do so as soon as possible. In order to get the reduced rate of $159 per night plus tax, reservations must be made directly with the hotel by September 15. You may reserve your room with these steps:

1. Copy/paste the link here to make online reservations: https://www.marriott.com/event-reservations/reservation-link.mi?id=1721335719257&key=GRP&app=resvlink
2. Instructions:
- Copy/paste the link above into your browser.
- Enter arrival and departure dates
- Select a room type and complete the reservation.

Or you can call the hotel and book directly at 763-536-8300 and request the NPHTI Room Block to receive the group rate.

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Please support NPHTI by booking your reservation at the hotel. NPHTI has a contract with several rooms on hold for our attendees at the discounted rate. Penalties to NPHTI apply if we do not meet this commitment. THANK YOU!

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Reservations will be accepted based on space and rate availability. Parking is complimentary and adjacent to the facility. 

 

Attendee Safety Plan

The NPHTI Board of Directors recognizes that public health recommendations for COVID-19 safety have changed, especially in light of the May 11, 2023 end of the US COVID-19 public health emergency, and the WHO declaring the end of the COVID-19 global health emergency in May 2023. We recognize that many individuals are prepared to accept the risks of COVID, influenza or other infectious diseases during travel and meeting attendance. Accordingly, we have revised our health and safety guidelines for NPHTI workshop attendance.

NPHTI is committed to the health and safety of all workshop attendees, faculty, and staff. To that end, we strongly encourage all
attendees to be up to date on their COVID-19 vaccinations and boosters per current CDC guidance, and follow current recommendations for influenza vaccines. International attendees, please refer to guidelines from the World Health Organization.

If you are feeling ill

We also ask registrants who are not feeling well not to travel to the workshops and to notify NPHTI as soon as possible should you
believe that you will not attend due to illness. Should an attendee become ill during the workshops, we will have COVID-19 rapid tests available and will ask persons feeling unwell to test and then to quarantine for the remainder of the workshops if they test positive.

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Continued Health and Safety Measures

We also encourage masking as a means of reducing the risk of transmission of COVID-19 and other illnesses, but NPHTI will not
require masks. Remember that you mask to protect others around you more than yourself.

 

NPHTI will continue to monitor the CDC’s travel guidelines as well as state and local guidelines in Minneapolis. These health and
safety guidelines may be revised at any time as the NPHTI Board of Directors deems appropriate. International attendees should always check current travel restrictions to the U.S. to make sure you will be able to enter the U.S.

If you have any questions or concerns about this policy, please email trainwithnphti@gmail.com. We appreciate your cooperation and diligence to the disclosed safety plan in advance and during the NPHTI Workshops.

 

2025 Teaching Faculty

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ANDREW J. BARNES, MD, MPH, FAAP
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Adolescent Health, Fellowship Director for Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics, and Clinical Director for Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN​

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CHERYL S. BEMEL, PhD, LP
Secretary, NPHTI Board of Directors; Adjunct Faculty, University of Minnesota School of Dentistry; Health Psychologist in private practice, St. Paul MN; Pre-surgical Psychological Diagnostician: Allina Health; MN Behavioral Health Unit Medical Reserve Corps (MN BHMRC); Minneapolis Police Department's Child Development Policing Project Crisis Responder to 911 calls; Former Crisis Psychologist, United Hospital Emergency Room, St. Paul, MN; Former Child Psychologist, University of Minnesota Hospitals and Clinics Inpatient Units; Past President & Faculty, MSCH; Board Member and Faculty ASCH; MN Certified Tobacco Treatment Specialist (C-TTS), Nationally Certified Tobacco Treatment Practitioner (NCTTP); Approved Consultant, ASCH; Certified School Psychologist, MN Dept of Education; Licensed Early Childhood Teacher, MN Dept. of Education.​

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CAMILLA G. CEPPI COZZIO, MD, FMH
General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine Physician, Private Practice, Dübendorf, Switzerland; Member of Swiss Society of Pediatrics; Certified Physician, Swiss Academy of Psychosomatic and Psychosocial Medicine (SAPPM); Certificate of Competence of SMSH (Swiss Medical Society in Hypnosis), Member Swiss Medical Society of Hypnosis; ASCH, International Member

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LYNN GERSHAN, MD

Member, NPHTI Board of Directors, Dr. Gershan is a graduate of McGill University School of Medicine and completed her pediatric residency at the University of Michigan and McGill University Faculty of Medicine. She completed her Neonatal-Perinatal fellowship at McGill and St. Louis Universities. Her career started at the Medical College of Wisconsin before she transitioned to private General Pediatric practice and then began her training in Integrative Health. Dr. Gershan returned to academics in 2010 and started the Integrative Health program at the University of Utah- Primary Children’s Hospital. She has recently retired as the founding Medical Director of Pediatric Integrative Health and Wellbeing at the University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital. She is board certified in Medical Acupuncture and certified in clinical hypnosis, medical herbalism, pediatric massage therapy, and aromatherapy.

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MELANIE A. GOLD, DO, DABMA, DMQ, FAAP, FACOP
Professor, of Adolescent Medicine, at Columbia University Medical Center; Professor, in the Department of Population & Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health and Medical Director, School Based Health Centers at New York Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Gold is the president and founder of Renaissance Research and Educational Consulting, Inc. (RRECI), a consulting firm offering health care professional training, mentoring, and research consultation for various current life style and health-related issues.

 

ANYA GRIFFIN, PhD
Pediatric Psychologist working in chronic pain management and a special focus on Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) and Sickle Cell Disease acute and chronic pain management.

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ADAM KEATING, MD, FAAP*
Co-chair of Education, NPHTI; General Pediatrician, Section Head, Community Pediatrics, Cleveland Clinic Children’s, Wooster, OH; Medical Director, Longbrake Student Wellness Center, College of Wooster; Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine; Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine

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DANIEL P. KOHEN, MD, FAAP, ABMH

Co-Founder, National Pediatric Hypnosis Training Institute; NPHTI Co-director of Education & Training (2010-2023); NPHTI Treasurer 2010-2022; Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics, Medical Hypnosis & Self-Regulation, Kohen Therapy Associates, Golden Valley, MN (retired); Former Director: Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics and Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota (retired); Former Director of Education and Training, Minnesota Society of Clinical Hypnosis (MSCH); Past President, MSCH; Past President, American Board of Medical Hypnosis; Past Vice-President, Fellow, and Approved Consultant, ASCH; Fellow, SCEH

 

HARRIET KOHEN, MA, MSW, CPT
Therapist, Kohen Therapy Associates; Past-President and Fellow, MN Society for Clinical Social Work; Credential Chair, International Federation of Biblio/Poetry Therapy; Faculty, NPHTI, MSCH

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LEORA KUTTNER, PhD*
Co-chair of Education, and Member of the Board of Directors, NPHTI; Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia, and British Columbia Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada; Clinical Pediatric Pain Practice (retired). Canadian Society of Clinical Hypnosis (BC Division); International Society of Hypnosis (ISH); Scientific Planning Committee for ISH World Congress of Hypnosis, Montreal, 2018; Approved Consultant, ASCH

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LISA LOMBARD, PhD
President, Board of Directors NPHTI; Clinical Psychologist - Private Practice Chicago IL; Former Research Assistant Professor at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine; Former Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology (Child and Adolescent Track) at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Past-President of the Chicago Society of Clinical Hypnosis; Former Clinical Section Head, Illinois Psychological Association; Approved Consultant, ASCH; Founder, Comfort Kits for Children (nonprofit)

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ROBERT PENDERGRAST, MD, MPH, FAAP
Treasurer, Board of Directors, NPHTI; Professor of Pediatrics, Medical College of Georgia, at Augusta University; Director, Adolescent Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Georgia, Augusta, GA; Aiken- Augusta Holistic Health, North Augusta, SC; Approved Consultant, ASCH

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TERESA QUINN, MD, ABMH
Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota; Methodist Hospital Family Medicine Residency, CAQ Geriatrics

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ALEJANDRA SENCION, MD
Co-Director of the “Centro de Hipnosis Uruguay” and Co-Founder of Método Abrigo and Co-Founder of the Pain Committee at the Uruguayan Society of Pediatrics. She works in private practice with children, adolescents, and adults with a special focus on anxiety and pain.

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JODY THOMAS, PhD
Clinical Psychologist, Private Practice in Denver, Colorado; Former Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine; Former founding Clinical Director, Pediatric Pain Rehabilitation Program at Stanford Children’s Health; Member, ASCH

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*denotes planning committee member

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