NPHTI IN AUSTRALIA

NPHTI (National Pediatric Hypnosis Training Institute) is the world’s premier resource for the highest quality pediatric clinical hypnosis training for licensed health professionals.

SPANZA hosted the inaugural NPHTI workshop outside the USA in Sydney and Adelaide in 2023. After the overwhelming success of these workshops, SPANZA are delighted to announce 2025 dates in both Australia and NZ.

Who is NPHTI?

It is a non-profit organisation with a vision that children will develop skills to regulate and control their emotions, behaviour and mind-body reactions, and be confident in their capabilities.

NPHTI's mission is to be an educational and communication resource for health professionals and parents regarding therapeutic hypnosis to maximise the overall well-being of children and teens.

NPHTI is the premier resource for:

the latest information in the field of paediatric clinical hypnosis for licensed professionals, patients, and families
a social media hub for consultation, discussion, and exchange of ideas among clinicians who have trained with us
a resource for the public to learn about paediatric clinical hypnosis

The courses being held in 2025 are the second time these will be run in Australia.

Dates and Locations

Brisbane

Location: Rydges Southbank
Dates: 1 - 3 November 2025

Both levels of workshops available

Melbourne

Location: Oaks on Market
Dates: 7 - 9 November 2025

Both levels of workshops available

Auckland

Location: Rydges Auckland
Dates: 14 - 16 November 2025

Only Fundamentals available

Why Attend?

These intensive workshops feature a combined lecture-demonstration-experiential training format with a developmental perspective in the use of clinical hypnosis & its empirically supported applications for children and teens with various medical & mental health conditions and challenges. Both research-based and pragmatic hypnotic interventions are taught.

Cutting edge presentations: (including VIDEOS of faculty cases) highlight therapeutic communication, goal setting and goal-driven suggestions and other hypnosis strategies.

Faculty: The multi-disciplinary, seasoned paediatric clinician-teachers with expertise in paediatric hypnosis include the most renowned leaders-teachers-researchers-authors in this field.

Two levels of workshop on offer: Fundamentals and Utilisation and Expanded Clinical Applications. Consultation offered to licensed paediatric professionals with advanced clinical degrees and to full-time trainees working toward an advanced clinical license.

Extensive experiential learning: Activities during presentations, and abundant supervised practice of hypnotic techniques within supportive small groups with a high faculty to trainee ratio

Please refer to registration tab for full details

ELIGIBILITY AND TARGET AUDIENCE

For either course:

NPHTI workshops are ideal for skill development for anyone who has a clinical interest in paediatric health with:

Doctoral Degree in Medicine, Psychology, Nursing, or Dentistry

Medical Practitioners - including Paediatric Anaesthetists, Intensivists, Emergency Physicians, Paediatricians and Sub-Speciailty Paediatricians, Family Medicine Practitioners.

Masters Degree in Social Work, Marriage and Family Counseling, or Clinical or Counseling Psychology

Masters Degree in Nursing or a Registered Nurse with a Masters Degree and subspecialty training or certification (e.g. APRN, CPNP, CNS)

Other Advanced degree clinicians (e.g. Occupational & Physical Therapists, Speech & Language Pathologists, et al.)

Child Life Specialists and Music Therapists holding a relevant degree and working with children.

Full-time Interns/residents/Fellows or graduate students in accredited programs leading to these clinical degrees above will be accepted when they supply a letter from their department on letterhead stationery, attesting to their current full-time status, specifying timing of training (month and year).

To register for the Fundamentals Workshop, all you need to do is complete the online registration, under 'registration tab'.

Eligibility for the Utilisation and Expanded Clinical Applications (intermediate) Workshop

Participants must have completed either the NPHTI Fundamentals Workshop or an equivalent paediatric-specific hypnosis training workshop (20+ hours) and are using clinical hypnosis with paediatric patients on a frequent basis.

A prior training and clinical experience application (see below) is required & reviewed prior to acceptance for this workshop.

This is NOT a beginning level course.

The questions need to be completed during registration for the Utilisation and Expanded Clinical Application Workshop. Once your registration is submitted, your answers to questions will be reviewed before your registration is able to be confirmed. Your place will be held whilst your responses are being reviewed.
CLICK HERE to view the questions for the application (but answer them during registration).

To register, please go to 'Registration' tab to submit your application.