Specialist training

Cancer and pain management training

Rick Collingwood's mind-body healing training for cancer and pain management. It is delivered through the student training and resource centre, and it comes with both training manuals.

What the training covers

The cancer and pain management lectures

Rick's lecture series on mind-body healing, covering how hypnosis is used alongside medical treatment for people living with cancer and with ongoing pain.

Mesmerism for pain management

The mesmerism for pain management sessions, which apply the non-verbal work to pain specifically rather than to the general case.

Both training manuals

The written manuals for both parts are included, in eBook format, and stay available in the portal after you finish.

Where it sits

It is a specialist training rather than a qualifying one. The Diploma of Clinical Hypnotherapy comes from the hypnosis training, in class or online.

What this training does not claim

This is training in hypnosis technique for practitioners and students. It is not a cancer treatment and it is not offered as one. The Academy's position is that hypnosis is used alongside medical care, never in place of it, and any work with a person under treatment is done with their medical team informed.

Rick Collingwood ran a quality of life trial in Perth in 2005 with pharmacist Nathan Elliott. The full report is published on this site so you can read the method and the results yourself.

The 2005 trial report Ask about enrolling