NPHTI: National Pediatric Hypnosis Training Institute, 717 SE Delaware Street, Minneapolis, MN (2025)

11/21/2025

The holiday season is often depicted as a time of joy and celebration - but for many, it can bring stress, anxiety, and feelings of isolation. Balancing social obligations, financial pressures, and personal expectations can leave even the most resilient individuals feeling overwhelmed. During these challenging times, practicing gratitude can be a powerful tool to cultivate emotional balance, foster resilience, and reframe the way we experience the season.
Gratitude is more than a polite “thank you”; it is a deliberate practice of noticing and appreciating positive aspects of life, even amidst challenges. Reflecting daily on what is meaningful - whether a supportive friend, a small act of kindness, or a quiet moment of peace - can shift attention away from worries and toward what is working well. Consistent gratitude practice can reduce stress, improve mood, and strengthen connections with others, all of which are especially valuable during a season that can otherwise feel overwhelming.
For those navigating particularly difficult holidays, gratitude can act as a stabilizing force. Small, intentional practices - like keeping a gratitude journal, expressing thanks to loved ones, or mentally acknowledging minor joys - can cultivate perspective and emotional resilience. Mind-body techniques, such as brief mindfulness exercises or guided visualizations centered on gratitude, can enhance these benefits.
It is also important to recognize that some people may require extra support from both themselves and others during the holidays. Reaching out to friends, family, or colleagues, sharing moments of connection, or simply offering empathetic listening can reinforce a sense of belonging and safety. Gratitude practiced collectively - through community service, giving, or shared celebrations - can amplify its impact, reminding us that even small silver linings matter.
Ultimately, cultivating gratitude during the holiday season is about intentionally focusing on what we can appreciate, rather than what is lacking or stressful. By making gratitude a consistent practice, we can navigate the holidays with greater emotional resilience, perspective, and capacity to find hope, warmth, and meaning all season long.

11/14/2025

Fall is in full swing, and with it comes busier clinics, shifting schedules, and heightened demands on pediatric healthcare providers. Even clinicians experienced in self-hypnosis and mind-body techniques can feel the cumulative strain of a full patient load. Maintaining resilience, focus, and emotional balance during this season requires intentional, advanced strategies for self-care.
Structured self-hypnosis inductions can be a powerful tool. Taking just a few minutes to close your eyes, attune to your body, and anchor a sense of professional mastery or inner calm can recalibrate your nervous system. Layering in somatic imagery—like visualizing tension melting from your shoulders or a warm wave of calm flowing through your body—supports both mental clarity and physical relaxation, helping you transition smoothly from one patient or task to the next.
Short, micro-practices throughout the day can sustain energy and focus. A brief self-hypnosis pause between patient visits, a reflective visualization after a challenging encounter, or a quick mental rehearsal before a high-stakes discussion allows you to reset your state, reinforce confidence, and cultivate presence in your work. Even a few minutes of guided mental rehearsal can strengthen resilience and reduce professional fatigue.
Remember, prioritizing self-care isn’t just about your own well-being—it directly affects your ability to provide compassionate, focused care to your patients. This fall, invest in your mind-body connection. Integrating small, intentional self-hypnosis practices into your daily routine can help you navigate the season with clarity, energy, and calm.

11/07/2025

Fall is the peak season for many youth sports, including soccer, football, cross-country, and field hockey. While these sports provide incredible opportunities for growth, teamwork, and physical development, they also bring new stressors: performance pressure, early-morning practices, travel, and balancing schoolwork with athletic commitments. For teens, these demands can lead to anxiety, self-doubt, or difficulty focusing—challenges that can impact both their performance and overall well-being. Pediatric clinical hypnosis offers evidence-based, mind-body strategies to help athletes navigate these pressures effectively.
Hypnosis can help teens develop mental routines that optimize focus, regulate arousal, and foster resilience. Techniques such as guided imagery allow athletes to visualize successful plays, anticipate challenges, and rehearse positive responses to mistakes before they occur. Pre-game self-hypnosis routines, including breathwork and the use of focus anchors, help teens calm nerves, increase concentration, and enter competitions with confidence. Short, personalized hypnotic scripts can reinforce self-efficacy, encourage positive self-talk, and build coping strategies for managing setbacks—skills that extend beyond the field into academics, social situations, and daily life.
In addition to individual practice, parents and coaches play a critical role in supporting mind-body skill development. Encouraging regular use of visualization or self-hypnosis, modeling calm and positive responses to stress, and creating a supportive environment where mistakes are seen as learning opportunities all reinforce the effectiveness of these techniques. Teens can also benefit from journaling experiences, reflecting on both physical and mental progress throughout the season, and identifying personal triggers or challenges that may require additional focus during self-hypnosis sessions.
By integrating these approaches, young athletes can cultivate not only peak performance but also mental resilience, emotional regulation, and confidence that lasts well beyond the fall sports season. Mind-body techniques, such as self-hypnosis, are a versatile toolkit, empowering teens to manage stress, sharpen focus, and fully enjoy the satisfaction and growth that come with competitive athletics. This fall, give your teen the tools to thrive both on and off the field.

10/25/2025

Big news from NPHTI! After 15 incredible years in Minnesota, our Annual Pediatric Clinical Hypnosis Skills Development Workshops are hitting the road for the very first time. We’re thrilled to announce that our 16th Annual Workshops will be hosted October 15–17, 2026 at the Q Center in St. Charles, Illinois!
Just outside Chicago, this beautiful and centrally located venue makes travel easier than ever for clinicians across the country. Attendees can expect the same intensive, hands-on learning experience NPHTI is known for—live demonstrations, case discussions, and abundant small group practice with a high faculty-to-trainee ratio. Our three-tiered structure (Fundamentals, Utilization & Expanded Clinical Applications, and Individualized Consultation) ensures that whether you’re brand new to pediatric hypnosis or ready for advanced consultation, you’ll leave with skills you can immediately integrate into your practice.
This new chapter is an exciting opportunity to bring our renowned faculty and transformative training to an even broader community of healthcare providers passionate about mind-body care for children and teens.
Mark your calendars now—registration will open in 2026, and we can’t wait to welcome you to St. Charles for another unforgettable NPHTI experience!

10/18/2025

At NPHTI, our mission would not be possible without the extraordinary dedication of our founders, faculty, and teaching team. These leaders bring their knowledge, wisdom, and compassion into everything they do—whether it’s teaching at our annual workshops, leading webinars throughout the year, mentoring colleagues, or advancing the field of pediatric clinical hypnosis through research, publications, and clinical practice.
From developing textbooks and research that shape the way hypnosis is taught, to creating innovative programs for children and families, to volunteering countless hours preparing curricula and guiding learners—our faculty continually go above and beyond.
Their commitment doesn’t end when workshops close; many continue to provide mentorship, direct care, and community service across the globe. The ripple effect of their work extends far beyond NPHTI, shaping pediatric care and enriching the lives of countless children and families.
Today, we extend our deepest gratitude to these remarkable educators and clinicians for their passion, leadership, and generosity.

10/11/2025

As we wrap up NPHTI’s 15th Annual Pediatric Clinical Hypnosis Skills Development Workshops, we want to extend our deepest gratitude to both our extraordinary faculty and our dedicated attendees. This weekend has been filled with energy, growth, and connection—reminding us why this gathering is so transformative year after year.
Looking back at the praise from last year, participants described NPHTI as “a positive and safe space for learning and growth,” a place where like-minded professionals could come together and practice skills in real time. Many noted the surprising amount of practice opportunities in just three days, supported by “qualified and gifted faculty” who generously shared their expertise. Others called it “the best investment” in their professional development, highlighting how the workshops gave them implementable tools that reshaped their entire approach to patient care.
Clinicians consistently share that this training is more than a conference—it’s “a professional and personal retreat,” where laughter, connection, and inspiration blend with intensive, hands-on learning. Words like empowering, eye-opening, transformative, and invaluable appear again and again in past testimonials. As one attendee put it, “Just learning the language changed my entire practice.”
This weekend, we know many of you have experienced the same: practicing in small groups, stretching yourselves to try new strategies, and walking away with the confidence to integrate hypnosis into your care with children and adolescents. Thank you for your openness, curiosity, and commitment to this work. And to our passionate faculty—your generosity and teaching continue to inspire us all. Together, you’ve made these three days unforgettable.

10/04/2025

The countdown is on—NPHTI’s 15th Annual Pediatric Clinical Hypnosis Skills Development Workshops are just days away! Happening October 9–11 in Minneapolis, this three-day training offers an unparalleled opportunity for healthcare providers working with children and adolescents to gain hands-on skills in pediatric clinical hypnosis.
Led by nationally recognized faculty, the workshops combine live demonstrations, interactive case discussions, and small group practice to give you practical, evidence-based strategies you can bring directly into your clinical work. With three distinct levels of training—Fundamentals, Utilization & Expanded Clinical Applications, and Individualized Consultation—you’ll receive instruction and guidance that matches your experience and clinical goals.
Clinicians consistently describe these workshops as transformative, providing not only new techniques for supporting children with pain, anxiety, sleep issues, and self-regulation, but also reshaping how they approach therapeutic care overall.
There’s still time to join this extraordinary community of professionals committed to advancing pediatric care through mind-body interventions—but space is limited. Secure your seat today at www.nphti.org/workshops and be part of this transformative weekend.

09/25/2025

Just 2 Weeks Away- Don’t Miss NPHTI’s 15th Annual Pediatric Clinical Hypnosis Workshops!
On October 9 - 11, 2025, healthcare professionals will gather in Minneapolis for three transformative days of immersive, hands-on training in pediatric clinical hypnosis. If you work with children or adolescents, this is your chance to gain evidence-based, practical skills that can immediately elevate your clinical practice.
Our workshops are designed to meet you where you are, with three levels of training:
Fundamentals: build a strong foundation in hypnosis as therapeutic communication and adjunctive care for challenges like pain, sleep, anxiety, and fear.
Utilization & Expanded Clinical Applications: refine and expand your skills with Ericksonian utilization, goal-driven strategies, and mini-intensive skill-building sessions.
Individualized Consultation: a unique, invitation-only mentoring experience where participants receive personalized consultation from senior faculty.
What makes NPHTI workshops different? More than 50% of your time is spent in supervised small-group practices (which boast a 6:1 trainee-to-faculty ratio), ensuring you leave with confidence and real-world skills. Alongside interactive lectures and faculty demonstrations, you’ll learn how to use guided imagery, goal setting, and therapeutic communication to help children and teens build resilience and self-regulation.
Your registration includes CME/CEU credit, comprehensive training materials, access to an extensive bibliography, and daily breakfast and refreshments. More than just a workshop, this is a community of clinicians who share your commitment to advancing care with developmentally informed, mind-body interventions. Join us in Minneapolis and experience three days that will not only sharpen your skills but change the way you approach therapeutic care with children and teens.

09/18/2025

Back-to-school season brings excitement- but also stress- for children and adolescents of all ages. Whether it’s a preschooler stepping into pre-K or kindergarten for the first time, a middle schooler navigating complex social dynamics, or a high school student facing the pressures of grades, testing, and college planning, these transitions can trigger anxiety and overwhelm. Clinical hypnosis offers age-appropriate strategies to help young people calm their minds, regulate emotions, and enter the school year with confidence.
For younger children, techniques like the “magic bubble” allow them to visualize a safe, protective space as they face the new experience of going to school alone. Middle school students can use quick self-hypnosis cues- like, for instance, pairing a calming word with slow, steady breathing- to manage stress in challenging social situations, giving them a sense of control and ease. High schoolers benefit from focused breathing and positive imagery to reduce performance-related stress, helping them approach academic and extracurricular challenges with clarity and resilience.
These hypnotic strategies do more than alleviate anxiety; they teach children and teens to actively self-soothe, strengthen their coping skills, and build confidence in their ability to handle change and challenge. By integrating clinical hypnosis into back-to-school routines, families and clinicians can provide young people with practical tools that support emotional well-being throughout the year.
Clinical hypnosis is about empowering students at every developmental stage to face the school year with calm, focus, and resilience. From imaginative visualization to structured self-regulation exercises, these evidence-based techniques help children and teens thrive, no matter what the new school year brings.

09/10/2025

As autumn approaches, pediatric clinicians see a familiar surge in patients experiencing seasonal allergies. Beyond the physical symptoms—sneezing, itchy eyes, and congestion—many children struggle with stress, irritability, and sleep disturbances triggered by chronic discomfort. Pediatric hypnosis offers a valuable, evidence-based approach to complement traditional allergy care, helping young patients manage both physiological reactions and emotional distress.
Hypnotic techniques can be tailored to support children in calming the body’s reaction to allergens. Guided imagery exercises, such as imagining a gentle, protective shield against allergens or visualizing the sinuses clearing like a gentle breeze, can help reduce the perception of discomfort. Deep breathing combined with progressive muscle relaxation allows children to regulate tension and anxiety, which in turn may reduce inflammatory responses and improve overall well-being during peak allergy months.
For children receiving allergy immunotherapy or other injections, injection anxiety can be a significant barrier to care. Hypnotic strategies—such as guided imagery, distraction techniques, and pre-procedure relaxation scripts—allow children to shift attention, imagine a comforting scenario, and feel a sense of control over the experience. Clinicians might encourage the child to visualize a favorite safe place, practice slow, rhythmic breathing, or imagine the shot as a quick, painless “magic zap” that strengthens their body. These approaches not only improve the child’s experience but can also enhance adherence to critical allergy treatments.
Integrating pediatric hypnosis into seasonal allergy care provides a holistic, child-centered approach that addresses both mind and body. By combining traditional medical management with hypnotic techniques, clinicians can reduce stress, enhance comfort, and improve quality of life for children during allergy season—supporting not only their physical health but also emotional resilience.

09/04/2025

Healthcare providers working with children and adolescents—don’t miss the chance to attend NPHTI’s 15th Annual Pediatric Clinical Hypnosis Skills Development Workshops!
This immersive, three-day training is designed to equip you with hands-on skills and evidence-based strategies that can transform your clinical practice, featuring a dynamic mix of live demonstrations, interactive case discussions, and small group practice led by some of the most respected leaders in pediatric clinical hypnosis. Training is offered across three levels: Fundamentals (ideal for clinicians new to pediatric hypnosis), Utilization & Expanded Clinical Applications (for those ready to refine and apply their skills in more complex scenarios), and Individualized Consultation (personalized mentoring for advanced practitioners). This tiered structure ensures every participant receives instruction tailored to their experience and needs. Attendees consistently report that the workshops not only add new tools but also shift how they approach pediatric care.
Don’t wait—discounted hotel block registration ends September 15- less than two weeks away! Secure your room at the Minneapolis Marriott Northwest before it’s too late.
Join a network of professionals committed to enhancing mind-body interventions for youth. Reserve your spot today at www.nphti.org/workshops and make this transformative training part of your professional journey.

08/25/2025

Over the last decade, mindfulness has become a cornerstone of emotional well-being programs for children and adults alike. Today, our schools, workplaces, and healthcare settings embrace mindfulness as a proven tool for stress management and self-regulation. But as NPHTI Board of Directors President Dr. Lisa Lombard, PhD points out in her 2024 publication, the practices people attribute to “mindfulness” often overlap with another evidence-based tool: clinical hypnosis. In fact, you could say they’re the same skillset- just framed through different lenses.
Both hypnosis and mindfulness ask us to focus our attention intentionally. Both encourage imagination, emotional regulation, and the ability to observe one’s inner world with curiosity. Dr. Lombard’s paper highlights how pediatric hypnosis builds the same self-regulation skills found in mindfulness programs but takes it one step further, teaching children to use guided imagery, storytelling, and positive suggestions to actively change how they feel.
So why does this distinction matter? Because while mindfulness programs are thriving- appearing in many schools in the U.S.- hypnotic practices remain underutilized, often misunderstood due to outdated myths. Yet clinical hypnosis can fit seamlessly into the same spaces where mindfulness has flourished, offering children and adolescents another layer of support for anxiety, pain, and emotional challenges.
At NPHTI, we are passionate about changing the conversation. We train clinicians to use hypnosis in developmentally appropriate ways that meet children where they are- building confidence, resilience, and a sense of control. Want to learn how hypnosis can complement the mindfulness practices you may already use in your work? Visit www.nphti.org to explore our annual workshops and webinar series and join the growing community of clinicians integrating hypnosis into their practice. Interested in reading Dr. Lisa Lombard’s full article? Visit https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00029157.2024.2317790 to learn more.

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