Welcome to my website, for prospective clients, hypnosis students, and colleagues
HYPNOSIS TRAINING FOR PROFESSIONALS
Next Cohort Planned for 2027
I offer a comprehensive, experiential 100-hour Hypnosis Certification Training Program for clinicians, counselors, and healthcare professionals seeking advanced skills in clinical and therapeutic hypnosis.
This in-depth training is offered periodically and is currently being planned for 2026.
Details and dates will be announced when finalized.
If you are interested in participating or would like to be notified when enrollment opens, you are welcome to contact me or request to be placed on the interest list.
A TRANSFORMATIVE TRAINING EXPERIENCE
I provide individual psychotherapy for adults age 18 and older, integrating evidence-based treatment with advanced clinical hypnotherapy to support emotional healing, personal growth, and mind-body wellness.
My areas of interest and specialization include:
• Psychotherapy enhanced by the study and practice of hypnosis
• The therapeutic use of film to illuminate life themes and promote insight
• Grief, loss, and the process of emotional acceptance
• Aging with resilience, meaning, and grace
• Understanding how modern culture shapes relationships and emotional well-being
In addition to my clinical practice, I have trained clinicians and wellness professionals in hypnosis for many years, emphasizing ethical practice, experiential learning, and immediately usable clinical skills.
In March 2025, three new Certified Consulting Hypnotists successfully completed this program.
ABOUT THE HYPNOSIS CERTIFICATION PROGRAM
This comprehensive certification course blends clinical depth with hands-on skill development. Over 100 hours, participants learn how to use hypnosis to support clients with anxiety, trauma, habits, health challenges, pain management, emotional regulation, grief, and life transitions.
In this training, participants will:
• Learn modern, ethical, research-informed hypnosis methods
• Practice inductions, deepening techniques, guided imagery, regression work, and ego-strengthening
• Receive individualized feedback within a supportive professional cohort
• Build skills that can be integrated immediately into clinical or wellness practice
• Earn hypnosis certification upon successful completion
WHO THIS TRAINING IS FOR
This program is designed for mental health professionals, social workers, counselors, nurses, physicians, and experienced healing practitioners seeking a practical, clinically grounded approach to hypnosis.
If you are seeking psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, or professional training, you will find a warm, confidential, and supportive environment here.
James M. Hislop, LCSW-R
939 Route 146, Building 200
Clifton Park, NY
James M. Hislop, LCSW, BCH, Certified Instructor
NYS Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Board Certified Hypnotherapist and Hypnotherapy Instructor through the National Guild of Hypnotists
Now available for telephone and audio-visual consultations and in-person psychotherapy consultations. Have your session from where you are most convenient and safe. Call my private cell phone, 518-577-8367, and leave a message with your preferred availability. Leave your phone number, and I will do my best to return your call by the next business day. For emergencies, go to your appropriate hospital emergency room.
Psychotherapy • Hypnotherapy • Stress Management
I help adults reduce anxiety, ease emotional overwhelm, and build a calmer, more confident way of living. Through a blend of psychotherapy and clinical hypnotherapy, I offer a warm, supportive, and respectful space where you can heal, gain clarity, and move forward with strength.
For more than twenty-five years, I’ve worked with individuals facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, relationship challenges, and long-standing emotional patterns. My approach is compassionate, collaborative, and paced gently according to your needs.
Psychotherapy for Adults
I provide individual psychotherapy for clients age 18 and older. Together we work to reduce anxiety, navigate life transitions, strengthen emotional resilience, and understand recurring patterns.
Hypnotherapy & Mind–Body Wellness
Clinical hypnosis can support:
Stress reduction
Anxiety relief
Weight and body-image concerns
Motivation and focus
Improved sleep
Emotional balance
Releasing unhelpful habits
Many clients describe feeling calmer, clearer, and more grounded after each session.
Stress Management & Deep Relaxation
Using hypnosis, guided imagery, breathwork, and mind–body techniques, I help clients develop healthier responses to stress and restore emotional steadiness.
Hypnotist Certification Training (100 Hours)
I also teach a 100-hour Hypnotist Certification Training Program for clinicians and wellness professionals. Workshops, group meetings, and ongoing mentorship are offered throughout the year.
Ready to Begin?
If you’re seeking emotional clarity, stress relief, or a new approach to personal change, I’m here to help.
Call or text:
518-577-8367
Or reach out through the Contact page.
Hello, World!
“It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames. We all do things, both awake and asleep, which surprise us. Perhaps we have co-tenants in this house we live in…”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, quoted in The Myth of Sanity, by Martha Stout, PhD
“We humans are anatomically and behaviorally two different people, in constant conflict...”
— Stephen Wolinsky, PhD., Trances People Live
Hypnosis is an especially effective influence technology that is at the heart of advertising, religion, politics, courtship, and psychotherapy.
Consulting hypnotists are non-licensed professionals who offer important client services, including smoking cessation, weight management, and stress reduction to individuals, groups and corporations. Other services include attention training, self-hypnosis, theatre techniques, confidence building, public speaking, spirituality, and many others.
Hypnotherapists, [MSW, PhD, RN, LMHC, MD], as licensed therapists, may use the same hypnosis theory and techniques for diagnostically appropriate mental health services including age-regression, parts therapy, Gestalt therapy, and other techniques.
“The job of the hypnotist was no longer to induce a trance, but rather to dehypnotize the individual out of the trance he/she was already experiencing...”
— Stephen Wolinsky, PhD., Trances People Live