Invisible Therapy:Helping Couples Co-create Positive Change
In this workshop for therapists, educators, bodyworkers and other mental health professionals, practitioners learn how to recognize and track the stuck physiological states, or negative trances, that couples can’t stop triggering in each other every day. In fact, practitioners can utilize these negative trances as the precise point for their subtle healing interventions, including shared reveries.
Invisible Therapy taps into body knowledge to sidestep habitual patterns of dialogue that prevent growth. Using hypnosis, the body leads, and the brain follows. Couples experience the process itself as pleasurable, thus the treatment models the delight they will know once they are liberated from their sticky patterns.
Invisible Therapy uses the couple’s unique language, images, and expressions, so it is minimally invasive, exploring only what is necessary without needlessly disturbing other aspects of their personalities or cognition. This seamless approach helps your clients feel comfortable and elicits maximal receptivity. The method is based on the idea that just because people come to us for help doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with them. It involves more fun, and less burnout.
Learning activities include role playing, live demonstrations, experiential practice, and lectures. You will leave the workshop with new tools for catching these transformative moments to help each member of the couple shift spontaneously from their perplexed state into a neutral meditation and then into an alternative state of mind. ﻿
When they both shift simultaneously: the magic begins! 

Maximizing the Healing Power of Human Connection

In this workshop, therapists, educators, body workers and other mental health professionals will learn how to track the subtle, naturally occurring sequences of conscious and unconscious behaviors in client interactions, both with the therapist and with each other, in couples or families. They will learn how to help clients awaken their own alternative dormant patterns of relating and how to guide clients toward spontaneous healing states.

Dr. Ritterman’s premise is that therapy can help a client shift from a symptomatic mental set to a creative meditation. She will demonstrate that there is a stream of life that runs through even the worst human dilemmas. If therapists enter that flow, like Goldsworthy does with art, or like a chi master does with the body, they may help individuals, couples and families to re-balance their behaviors and feelings.

Workshop attendees will learn that truly every human challenge is unique, and that it is in the details of this uniqueness that they will discover what Borges called the astonishment and the wonder needed for their clients (and themselves!) to produce transformation and healing.

Many hard problems can be resolved, while clients feel comfortable, laughing and chatting. This workshop will consist of lecture, the experiential and role-playing and will describe three basic steps all healers need to do with clients. No knowledge of hypnosis is necessary to attend this training. All levels accepted.

What's Love Got to Do With It?

An intensive 3-Day workshop of advanced study where clinicians learn how to recognize couple symptoms as shared or separate-track trances. 

Through demonstration and entrancing role plays, Dr. Ritterman impart methods of identifying and interrupting destructive communication patterns and demonstrates effective hypnotherapeutic counter-inductions. 

The workshop focuses on the use of synchronicity and reciprocity in couples' development and provides supervisory input for innovative ways to help couples heal each other and love again.

Syncronicity and Informal Hypnosis
The Use of Informal Hypnotic Principles in Therapeutic Work

This workshop, initially given at SHINUI: the Israel Institute for Family Therapy, focuses on Dr. Ritterman's special methods of employing states of mind instead of individual diagnostics in therapy with couples and families. 

Attendees are taught to track the family interactions that culminate in symptoms in their members, and to produce therapeutic counter-inductions that employ other members as healer for their intimates. 

Dr. Ritterman discusses the symptom as a gift and therapy as a reciprocally dignifying series of cooperative exchanges between clients and therapist. The applications of this approach to larger social problems are addressed as well.