Description: Trance can be deepened through simple experiential techniques such as hand levitation, focused breathing, and sensory imagery. As volunteers enter trance, the session illustrates classic hypnotic phenomena while exploring how pleasant memories and imaginative suggestions can strengthen relaxation, learning, and emotional processing. The demonstration also shows how these experiences can become practical tools, helping clients access trance more easily in the future and apply hypnotic skills for comfort, insight, and self-regulation.
Betty Alice Erickson, MS, LPC, LMFT, is a psychotherapist in Dallas (for over 20 years) and the middle daughter of Dr. Milton H. Erickson. She is an international teacher of hypnosis and specifically the conversational approach pioneered by her father. Betty Alice has authored articles, chapters and books on the subject.