Ben Pomerantz, MSW, LCSW

Healing Strategies teaches health care professionals how to induce hypnotic trance states in themselves and their patients. They also learn the basics of hypnotic phenomena, the ethical uses of hypnosis, the contraindications of its use, practical applications, and much more. The teaching takes place in seminars with anywhere from 4 to 45 participants. The healthcare professionals who participate in the seminars are in graduate or professional training programs for medicine, dentistry, psychology, social work, and marriage and family counseling. These seminars are also taught in psychiatric clinics as well as various departments in hospitals. Look in Ben's Biography to see a partial list of the many seminars that have been presented over the years.

Ben Pomerantz, MSW, is a past President of the Southern California Society for Clinical Hypnosis and is a member of the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis. He has worked in the Los Angeles therapeutic community for over 40 years as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. He is also the founder of Healing Strategies, which teaches hypnotherapeutic techniques to clinical social workers, psychologists, physicians, dentists, nurses, and MFTs to improve patient outcomes as well as foster clinicians' health and well-being. These skills are most often used with patients in addition to standard therapeutic interventions such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), medications, etc. They also often provide clinicians themselves with simple, effective, and valuable self-regulation tools to skillfully manage their own anxieties.