BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF WORKSHOP LEADER:

Dr. Ritterman., one of Milton Erickson’s foremost students, is an internationally recognized author and advocate of families. She is now teaching her own pioneering techniques with couples. She authored Using Hypnosis in Family Therapy, the first systematic integration of structural family therapy and Erickson Hypnosis. A new edistion of this book is now available. She also wrote Hope Under Siege--forwarded by Isabel Allende--on terror and terrorism, torture and human dignity. A new book, Woman's Wisdom, is soon to be released. Michele is known for her compassion, humor and enjoyable teaching style.

ABOUT THE COURSE:

With this exciting new Erickson Couples Therapy course, students will get continuity and depth of understanding of trance and hypnotic happenings in couples. Attendees will have ample opportunity to receive careful supervisory input as they practice truly innovative ways to heal others and love again.

ATTENDEES WILL LEARN:

• to identify shared trance states that couples enter into
• to work with reciprocity
• to recognize separate track trances couples may trigger in each other
• to work with synchronicity
• to awaken underutilized unconscious resources in couples
• to track symptom inductions couple style
• leave knowing something important about what they think about:

Couples Therapy: What’s Love Got To Do With It?

Comments by students who have taken her course:

“Michele is inspired and inspirational!”
“We want more!”
“I am already using this stuff, and it works!”
“Best CE course I’ve ever attended. No watching the clock with this instructor!”

Dr. Ritterman has written a new book based on post-it notes of aphorisms or therapy summations in stanza form that she has given clients  after hypnosis sessions. It includes lessons incorporated from her many teachers, including Milton Erickson, one of the greatest. It's called Woman's Wisdom. 

MICHELE'S PUBLISHED WORK

HYPNOSIS-BASED CD: Sessions for couples to listen to together.