Where
- Online Via ZOOM Video Workshop
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Details
Building upon foundational hypnosis skills, this workshop focuses on anxiety disorders, stress-related conditions, and pain. Participants will learn advanced induction and deepening techniques, methods for enhancing autonomic regulation, and strategies for fostering resilience and self-efficacy. Emphasis is placed on tailoring interventions to individual patient presentations.
Online Registration
The cost of the training is $650 and cost includes the 3 day training, resulting in 20 CEs. Once approved for ASCH sponsorship, it will include credit towards ASCH certification.
Payment is required to secure your seat for this training. There are limited seats available for this training and early registration is encouraged.
Meet the Instructors
Dr. Mary Wells is a licensed clinical psychologist who has been in practice for over 30 years in the areas of rehabilitation and pain management. She completed her graduate work at The George Washington University and started her career at the Washington Pain and Rehabilitation Center in Washington DC. She went from there to VCU Health System in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation as a rehab psychologist, providing services to a full range of rehabilitation patients on both the inpatient and outpatient service. She left VCU to work in an interdisciplinary pain clinic in the community, and later went into private practice.
In 2000, she joined the medical psychology department at Sheltering Arms Hospital, first as a staff psychologist and later as director of the department, a post she held for 10 years. She has recently returned to the VCU Dept. of PMR and is currently working as part of an interdisciplinary team of medical professionals at Virginia Commonwealth University Health System to provide services to patients with chronic pain due to a variety of medical conditions. She provides evaluations and psychological treatment for management of chronic pain.
She has been using clinical hypnosis for treating chronic pain and other medical illness issues, has been an ASCH member since 2004 and has been teaching with ASCH since 2009, first as a small group facilitator and later as faculty in Level 1, Level 2 and Advanced workshops. She has been a board member of ASCH episodically over the last 10 years.
David Gaffney has 40+ years of clinical social work experience, serving in positions from line staff to Director of Behavioral Health before arriving at the VA, where he has served for 21 years.
He currently is a Clinical Social Worker at the Aleda E Lutz VAMC in Saginaw, Michigan, providing psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, biofeedback and mindfulness training in the MH Integrated Pain Clinic. He also runs a private practice in the Mid-Michigan area.
David serves with the VA National Office of Mental Health as consultant for the VA CBT-Chronic Pain program and serves for the VA OPCC&CT (Office of Patient-Centered care and Cultural Transformation) in the IHCC (Integrative Health Coordinating Center) as the VA National Champion for hypnosis and guided imagery and national subject matter expert for biofeedback, hypnosis and guided imagery.
David is also the Director of Training at D. K. Associates, a Midwest-based behavioral healthcare training
organization, and has served on the board for the MidWest Society of Behavioral Medicine and Biofeedback.
David has been teaching psychotherapy hypnosis and guided imagery for over 40 years as well as acting as field instructor and lecturer for multiple Michigan colleges and universities. He is a frequent presenter
and trainer for multiple national professional organizations.
He is co-developer of the VA national basic, intermediate and advanced Clinical Hypnosis courses and co-designer of the VA national Guided Imagery certification course and the VA “Guided Imagery for Well-Being” course.
Dr. Navidi is a licensed clinical psychologist with over 15 years of active membership in the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis (ASCH), where he is also an ASCH-approved consultant. He is a co-founder and past president of the Northern Virginia Society of Clinical Hypnosis, demonstrating his longstanding commitment to the field.
In the last four years, Dr. Navidi has dedicated himself to training mental health providers in advanced hypnotic techniques specifically designed to treat gastrointestinal (GI) disorders and chronic pain. His expertise in this area is further evidenced by his role as a founder of GI Psychology, a private practice focused on helping patients with these conditions. At GI Psychology, he oversees training and outreach, ensuring the highest standards of care and education.
Dr. Navidi is a respected speaker, having delivered talks on GI disorders and chronic pain at prestigious institutions such as the UNC School of Medicine, George Mason University, Georgetown University, and INOVA. His insights have also been shared through various podcasts, television appearances, and the Virginia Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
Dr. Ali Chadderdon is a licensed clinical psychologist and a recognized leader in clinical hypnosis, currently serving as Co-Chair of the Intermediate Workshop Program for the Society of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis (SCEH) Annual Conference, a role she has held since 2020. In recognition of her contributions to the field, she has received SCEH’s Presidential Award for Service and Commitment to Training in 2022, 2023, and 2025.
Dr. Chadderdon’s hypnosis training began at Vanderbilt University’s Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, where she received direct mentorship from renowned hypnosis experts Drs. Dave Patterson and Lindsey McKernan, focusing on hypnosis for pain management and complex trauma. She went on to deepen this expertise during her postdoctoral fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic’s Chronic Pain Rehabilitation Program, where she provided group clinical hypnosis for pain control alongside an integrated medical team.
Before joining GI Psychology, Dr. Chadderdon integrated clinical hypnosis into her work with military veterans through the VA Eastern Colorado Healthcare System, and offers hypnosis services to clients across all PSYPACT states through Attune Philadelphia Therapy Group. She has provided formal supervision and mentorship in clinical hypnosis since 2021, and has presented on complex applications of hypnosis, including trauma, obsession, and complex pain, at multiple SCEH Annual Conferences. She has also been invited to peer review upcoming hypnosis literature, including a second edition text on clinical hypnosis for pain control. Currently, she is a clinical psychologist with GI Psychology providing specialized, evidenced based treatments for disorders of the gut brain interaction and other complex medical conditions.
Tell Me More
- Utilize advanced induction and deepening techniques to address anxiety symptoms in clinical presentations. (Applying: Intermediate)
- Construct two or more indirect suggestion or utilization-based interventions for patients presenting with pain or stress-related conditions. (Applying: Intermediate)
- Develop a self-hypnosis protocol suitable for integration into an individualized treatment plan. (Creating: Advanced)
- Modify hypnotic intervention strategies to address at least three distinct clinical populations (e.g., pediatric, chronic pain, trauma-related presentations). (Creating: Advanced)
This workshop is intended for licensed healthcare professionals practicing within their scope of licensure, including psychologists, clinical social workers, and other eligible clinicians. Content is presented at an Intermediate-to-Advanced instructional level, building directly on foundational hypnosis skills.
Prerequisite: Completion of an ASCH-approved Level 1 course in clinical hypnosis.
Graduate students must have completed at least one full semester and provide proof of full-time enrollment at an accredited institution. Residents, interns, and fellows must submit documentation from a supervisor confirming program participation.
Attendance for the entire duration of the training is required for any CEs or credit. Partial attendance is not allowed.
Refunds will not be granted. However, registration may be transferred to another eligible
If you have additional questions, please reach out to our administrative team at level2@gipsychology.com or call 703-910-2577.
Our team will confirm registration and send the required forms that must be completed prior to the start of the training. These include an Acknowledgement and Release and a Small Group Rapport form for the facilitators. We will also require a letter of completion from Level I.
This program follows the ASCH Level II curriculum in clinical hypnosis and is designed to meet the training requirements for ASCH certification. Completion of an ASCH-approved Level I course is a prerequisite for attendance. This training is pending ASCH approval.
Participants who are fully present and actively engaged for the duration of the workshop are eligible for 20 hours of APA continuing education credit for psychologists. Certificates of attendance will be issued the week of October 26, 2026.
Additional Information
As an APA-approved sponsor of continuing education, GI Psychology is committed to offering high-quality continuing education programming that adheres to the Standards and Criteria for Approval of Sponsors of Continuing Education for Psychologists, the Policies and Procedures Manual, and the Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct.
Participants with a grievance regarding a CE program, including concerns about a speaker, program content, level of presentation, or facilities , are asked to submit their complaint in writing to level2@gipsychology.com, including the presenter’s name, program title, event date, and a detailed description of the concern.
- If the grievance concerns a presenter or the content presented, the complaint will be shared with the presenter, and the confidentiality of the individual filing the grievance will be maintained.
- If the grievance concerns the workshop’s content, level, or accessibility, Dr. Tiffany Duffing, Co-Founder & President, will review the concern and may offer a resolution, which could include a partial or full refund, transfer to a future program, or other appropriate remedy.
- If the complaint pertains to the scientific accuracy of content presented, the complainant is asked to provide supporting justification, including peer-reviewed references.
GI Psychology will comply with all legal and ethical responsibilities to be non-discriminatory in promotional activities, program content, and treatment of program participants. GI Psychology maintains written records of all complaints and their resolutions for a minimum of 3 years.
If a complaint cannot be resolved through this internal process, participants may contact the APA Office of CE Sponsor Approval at cesaoas@apa.org.
A written copy of this grievance procedure is available upon request.
GI Psychology is committed to ensuring this program is accessible to all participants. Individuals who require accommodations to fully participate, including but not limited to captioning, materials in alternate formats, or accommodations related to the virtual platform, are asked to contact level2@gipsychology.com at least 10 business days prior to the workshop so that reasonable accommodations can be arranged.
Requests will be handled confidentially and in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
GI Psychology is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. GI Psychology maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
GI Psychology has not received any commercial support for this program or its contents and will not receive any commercial support prior to or during this program.