ALTERNATIVE THERAPY
by Arthur R. Worrell
APH Newsletter, The Association of Professional
Hypnotherapists
The New Jersey Chapter of the National Guild of Hypnotists
Vol 2, Issue 7, March 1993
Last year I participated in a 6-day training program of about 60 hours, upon completion of which I graduated with a certification in Holistic Health Counseling and a diploma in ASAT™ C.O.R.E. Counseling from the Institute of Transformational Studies.
The single most important difference between this course and the hundreds of hours I'd previously spent in mainstream hypnosis training is that, when I was finished processing all of the new information, I felt qualified; I knew I was ready to do the job for which I trained.
I went into the course looking for another tool to enhance my hypnotherapy practice but, instead, emerged with a whole new healing modality in which hypnosis, as I customarily practiced it, played a very small role.
While there are arguably some areas of similarity between hypnotherapy and ASAT™ C.O.R.E. Counseling, they are not the same. The methods of entering trance and stripping away layers of the subconscious in order to promote healing, are obliquely different.
I would urge all therapists, of whatever persuasion, to seek the alternative therapy training offered elsewhere in this newsletter, by the American Society of Alternative Therapists.
With the general public's ever-widening acceptance of alternative therapy as an affordable way to achieve and maintain physical and emotional health, therapists who intend to be seriously engaged in their profession will need to increase their arsenal of skills dramatically to meet the demands of clients who will be seeking their services. Also, you can bet that any future legislative process designed to legitimize what we do will have a "scope-of-skill" component as one of its considerations. It will be simply a case of the more skills you have, the more qualified you will be considered to be.
In summary, I need to mention that Dr. Martin Hart, the founder of ASAT, and its principal instructor, will carry you through the high drama and deep pathos of the analytical process with such intense fervor that you, too, as did I, will emerge from his training confident in your ability to satisfy the needs of any category of client you may accept. You will be left with a base of information and techniques which can only expand.
