BT10 Short Course 10 - Soothing Slumber: Tucking the Day's Pain Away - Deborah Beckman, MS

Description: How can therapists help their clients ease physical and emotional pain at night so sleep becomes restorative rather than another source of struggle? Using Ericksonian hypnosis, metaphor, and careful attention to pain language, this course shows how to soften arousal, shift the experience of discomfort, and support the nervous system’s natural settling. Through live demonstration and a structured sleep protocol, the work offers practical ways to “tuck the day’s pain away” with compassion, imagination, and clinical precision. 

Syllabus Description: Clients in pain yearn for sleep; comfort just out of reach. Focus first on establishing soothing sleep and encouraging nocturnal restorative functions. Treating remaining pain stays in the day’s domain. Hypnosis enlists the mind and body’s natural processes, restoring healthy sleep. Strategic protocols combine physiology of sleep and pain management with the client’s own experience. These are further reinforced by self-hypnosis techniques. Program includes demonstration, application of trance script protocols, and case study discussion. With Deborah Beckman.

Educational Objectives:

1. List the strategic criteria for applying the soothing sleep protocols with distressed clients.
2. Describe how to individualize the provided trance script protocols to address several combinations of disturbed sleep and pain. 

*Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality*