Somatic Hypnotherapy — Practitioner Training
Certification program: Somatic Hypnotherapy 101
A training for those who want results they can see in the room — not after months of talk.
If you already work with people
You've seen it yourself. The body changes faster than the story does. A client can talk about the same tension for a year. Or the shoulders can drop in the first twenty minutes.
You may have looked at hypnosis — and found it complicated, scripted, and built on authority: the hypnotist commands, the client obeys. It doesn't suit everyone, and it doesn't suit every client.
You may have looked at retraining — and found years, a master's degree, and tens of thousands of dollars.
Somatic Hypnotherapy is the combination in between. Trance reached through the body — breath, touch, voice — not through commands. Gentle, non-directive, and fast to learn, because it rests on physiology, not on years of verbal technique.
If you've always wanted to work with people
If you're fascinated by the body, by trance, by what consciousness can do — and always assumed that working in this field meant a degree and a license you don't have.
There is a legal path. In Pennsylvania, hypnotherapy and somatic coaching are not separately licensed. Non-clinical work with the state of the nervous system — relaxation, regulation, recovery — can be practiced within the law, if it is described correctly and backed by the right documents.
This program teaches you the method and gives you those documents.
Certificate on March 21. You can start practicing after Module 2 — from February 21.
Four Sundays starting February 7, Huntingdon Valley, three online evenings and a video library to study at your own pace. Exactly what you can and cannot do with clients without a US clinical license is part of the course — and we can discuss it before you enroll.
78 Tomlinson Rd, Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006 · minutes from Northeast Philadelphia · free parking
Why this method — and not classic hypnosis or bodywork
A training for those who want results they can see in the room — not after months of talk.
If you already work with people
You've seen it yourself. The body changes faster than the story does. A client can talk about the same tension for a year. Or the shoulders can drop in the first twenty minutes.
You may have looked at hypnosis — and found it complicated, scripted, and built on authority: the hypnotist commands, the client obeys. It doesn't suit everyone, and it doesn't suit every client.
You may have looked at retraining — and found years, a master's degree, and tens of thousands of dollars.
Somatic Hypnotherapy is the combination in between. Trance reached through the body — breath, touch, voice — not through commands. Gentle, non-directive, and fast to learn, because it rests on physiology, not on years of verbal technique.
If you've always wanted to work with people
If you're fascinated by the body, by trance, by what consciousness can do — and always assumed that working in this field meant a degree and a license you don't have.
There is a legal path. In Pennsylvania, hypnotherapy and somatic coaching are not separately licensed. Non-clinical work with the state of the nervous system — relaxation, regulation, recovery — can be practiced within the law, if it is described correctly and backed by the right documents.
This program teaches you the method and gives you those documents.
Certificate on March 21. You can start practicing after Module 2 — from February 21.
Four Sundays starting February 7, Huntingdon Valley, three online evenings and a video library to study at your own pace. Exactly what you can and cannot do with clients without a US clinical license is part of the course — and we can discuss it before you enroll.
78 Tomlinson Rd, Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006 · minutes from Northeast Philadelphia · free parking
Why this method — and not classic hypnosis or bodywork
- Works through the body, not through conversation. Less depends on words — yours or the client's.
- Works with the "unhypnotizable," with people who need to stay in control, and with resistance.
- Fast to learn. Built on physiology — trance, breath, touch, voice.
- Gentle and non-directive. No commands, no authority games. The client stays in charge — which is exactly why they let go.
- Results you can see immediately. Noticeable relief in the first session.
- Works with non-verbal clients.
- Works in groups. One hour of your time can be one client — or eight.
About your instructor
André Fleshel — 25+ years of practice, 38,000+ hours with clients, in the US since 2000.
Outpatient therapist, mobile therapist, behavior specialist, family-based crisis interventionist; work with trauma survivors and with offenders (NHS/Merakey, PATH, JJPI). Hypnotherapy, somatic therapy, Bodynamic, Body Synergy, breathwork.
What kept me in this field is exactly what this course teaches: hypnosis, the body, neurophysiology, a tangible effect from the first session, and clients who come back grateful.
In four Sundays you'll leave with four things
One: the method.
Two: the EEAHP certificate — East European Association of Hypnotherapists and Clinical Psychologists. Awarded March 21, after assessment.
Three — and this matters: legality and documents.
You leave with a folder: Scope of Practice, client agreement, informed consent with a separate clause on touch, referral protocol to licensed professionals, and a checklist for verifying the rules in your state.
Four: where do clients come from?
A method without clients is a hobby. So we cover it separately: who exactly you should work with, whose problem you solve better than anyone, where those people are, and what to say so they recognize themselves.
Which ad formats work and how to use advertising tools.
Not "everyone who's stressed," but a narrow segment that pays and brings the next one. In twenty-five years in this market I've seen what works and what doesn't — and most often it's not the method, it's who you tell and how.
We work through the fear of starting, of being visible, and impostor syndrome.
Individually, with each participant: your style, your audience.
You can start practicing after Module 2 — from February 21.
Program
Preparation
History and theory of body-oriented psychotherapy — texts and video, self-study.
Online — video lessons and evening sessions
At your own pace and in evening meetings between modules.
In person — four Sundays
February 7 and 21, March 7 and 21 · 10 AM – 6 PM · Huntingdon Valley
Assessment — at the final module, March 21.
André Fleshel — 25+ years of practice, 38,000+ hours with clients, in the US since 2000.
Outpatient therapist, mobile therapist, behavior specialist, family-based crisis interventionist; work with trauma survivors and with offenders (NHS/Merakey, PATH, JJPI). Hypnotherapy, somatic therapy, Bodynamic, Body Synergy, breathwork.
What kept me in this field is exactly what this course teaches: hypnosis, the body, neurophysiology, a tangible effect from the first session, and clients who come back grateful.
In four Sundays you'll leave with four things
One: the method.
- The complete protocol for individual and group sessions and courses
- Reading the body and the breath
- Somatic trance — its types and stages
- The art of hypnotic touch
- Boundaries with medicine and clinical care
- Catalepsy and other hypnotic phenomena
- Working with the client's request and with character
Two: the EEAHP certificate — East European Association of Hypnotherapists and Clinical Psychologists. Awarded March 21, after assessment.
Three — and this matters: legality and documents.
You leave with a folder: Scope of Practice, client agreement, informed consent with a separate clause on touch, referral protocol to licensed professionals, and a checklist for verifying the rules in your state.
Four: where do clients come from?
A method without clients is a hobby. So we cover it separately: who exactly you should work with, whose problem you solve better than anyone, where those people are, and what to say so they recognize themselves.
Which ad formats work and how to use advertising tools.
Not "everyone who's stressed," but a narrow segment that pays and brings the next one. In twenty-five years in this market I've seen what works and what doesn't — and most often it's not the method, it's who you tell and how.
We work through the fear of starting, of being visible, and impostor syndrome.
Individually, with each participant: your style, your audience.
You can start practicing after Module 2 — from February 21.
Program
Preparation
History and theory of body-oriented psychotherapy — texts and video, self-study.
Online — video lessons and evening sessions
At your own pace and in evening meetings between modules.
- Visual assessment and body reading. The 5 body languages
- Problem anatomy — how the body reflects core psychological conflicts
- Grounding, centering, fluidity, revitalization
- Stress responses in the body: tension, freeze, collapse, restlessness
- Breath regulation
- Hypnotic phenomena
- The tree of body psychology: stressors — triggers — reactions — symptoms — trauma — character — regression — core of trauma — core conflicts — basic well-being
- Working with symptom and character
- Stress responses: neurophysiology and psychology — cognition, emotion, behavior, character, defenses
- Psychosomatic, anxious, depressive and panic-type stress responses — their physiology and nervous-system regulation
- Mental health conditions, scope boundaries, and working alongside licensed mental health professionals
- Recovery through relaxation, somatic regulation, release of held tension, and reset
- Direct and indirect suggestion in SGT; using hypnotic phenomena
- Working with groups
- Setting up your practice and legal protection
In person — four Sundays
February 7 and 21, March 7 and 21 · 10 AM – 6 PM · Huntingdon Valley
- Somatic trance — how to use it for regulation and recovery. Types and stages of somatic trance in SGT
- Catalepsy and other hypnotic phenomena — to induce and deepen somatic trance and to work with specific requests
- Body and breath reading in practice
- Session directions: relaxation — letting go — plasticity — vitality — revitalization — contact
- The art of touch. The synergy of touch, trance, voice, language, and awareness
- Breath for grounding, relaxation, releasing holding patterns, productive trance, and reset
- Body work: releasing control — releasing and redistributing tension — unlocking holding patterns — grounding — trance — basic well-being
- Working through the body with the request and with character
- Building neuroplastic flexibility of body and mind — resetting protective habits: tension, freezing, rushing, shutting down
Assessment — at the final module, March 21.
Cohort schedule
In person — Sundays, full day. Online — Mondays, 6–8 PM, roughly halfway between modules.
Plus the video library — at your own pace, no schedule.
What's included
Price
$499 per module — $1,996 for the program.
Your seat is reserved with a $299 deposit, credited toward Module 1.
Two ways to look at this number
Against a US license: an LPC means a master's degree, tens of thousands of dollars, years of supervision, and an exam. Here — four Sundays and six weeks.
Against your future sessions: at $80–120 a session, the program pays for itself in about twenty sessions.
This is the founding cohort — six seats at founding pricing. Future cohorts will start at $3,000.
If you don't start now, you won't lose $1,996. You'll lose a year — the one where you'll "figure it out and start" again. A year costs more.
In person — Sundays, full day. Online — Mondays, 6–8 PM, roughly halfway between modules.
- February 7 · Sunday · Module 1 · in person 10 AM – 6 PM
- February 15 · Monday · online 6–8 PM
- February 21 · Sunday · Module 2 · in person 10 AM – 6 PM
- March 1 · Monday · online 6–8 PM
- March 7 · Sunday · Module 3 · in person 10 AM – 6 PM
- March 15 · Monday · online 6–8 PM
- March 21 · Sunday · Module 4 · in person 10 AM – 6 PM · assessment
Plus the video library — at your own pace, no schedule.
What's included
- 32 hours of in-person practice — 4 Sundays, 10 AM – 6 PM
- 3 online sessions — Mondays, 6–8 PM
- Video library with demonstrations and theory — 5–20 hours, depending on how deep you go
- The legal part — what to call your services, what to write and what never to write, which documents you need
- Document package — Scope of Practice, informed consent, referral protocol, state checklist
- EEAHP certificate — after assessment on March 21
Price
$499 per module — $1,996 for the program.
Your seat is reserved with a $299 deposit, credited toward Module 1.
Two ways to look at this number
Against a US license: an LPC means a master's degree, tens of thousands of dollars, years of supervision, and an exam. Here — four Sundays and six weeks.
Against your future sessions: at $80–120 a session, the program pays for itself in about twenty sessions.
This is the founding cohort — six seats at founding pricing. Future cohorts will start at $3,000.
If you don't start now, you won't lose $1,996. You'll lose a year — the one where you'll "figure it out and start" again. A year costs more.
Try it first
I won't ask you to take my word for it, and I don't offer refunds — there are six seats, and a taken seat can't go to someone else.
Instead, something simpler: come to the open class on November 8. Four hours, $50. Try it, and take a look at the instructor.
Decide there. You don't have to enroll afterward, and I won't push.
Open class · Sunday, November 8 · Huntingdon Valley
Registration and questions: WhatsApp · Telegram
Limited to six participants.
I work with every participant directly: I adjust your hands, point out the phenomena, catch the mistakes, and help you find your own style and your own niche — who exactly you work best with.
Applications close January 31. After that — the next cohort only.
I won't ask you to take my word for it, and I don't offer refunds — there are six seats, and a taken seat can't go to someone else.
Instead, something simpler: come to the open class on November 8. Four hours, $50. Try it, and take a look at the instructor.
Decide there. You don't have to enroll afterward, and I won't push.
Open class · Sunday, November 8 · Huntingdon Valley
Registration and questions: WhatsApp · Telegram
Limited to six participants.
I work with every participant directly: I adjust your hands, point out the phenomena, catch the mistakes, and help you find your own style and your own niche — who exactly you work best with.
Applications close January 31. After that — the next cohort only.
How to join
In twenty-five years I've learned I can't help everyone equally well. So it's not open enrollment — it's a conversation.
Who it's for
No degree or license is required. What matters is a real wish to work with people and readiness to learn through your own body.
A background in psychology, education, healthcare, social work, coaching, yoga, or any helping work is an advantage. We decide together in a twenty-minute conversation.
If you already work with your hands — massage, bodywork, somatic therapy — the full scope of the method is open to you, including parts other participants can't use.
Questions: WhatsApp · Telegram
This course is not for you if:
you're looking for a way around the law — we don't go around it, we use the corridor that exists; you expect to treat disorders after four days — you won't, and you won't have the right to, and I'll say so on day one as plainly as I write it here; you're not ready to lie on the floor and let another person put a hand on your shoulder — this is a tactile method, and it's learned only through your own body.
Questions
What exactly will I be able to do without a US license?
In Pennsylvania, hypnotherapy and somatic coaching are not separately licensed — we go through this in detail, with the actual statutes and documents. But the line depends not on what you call your service, but on what you do and how it's described: working with a person's state and teaching self-regulation is one thing; diagnosing and treating a disorder is another, and that requires a license in every state. For other states you get a verification checklist, not a ready answer: promising the same rules across fifty states would be untrue.
The method uses touch. Isn't that massage?
No — and there's a dedicated block on this. Touch in SGT is informational, not manipulative: grounding, support, orientation, hypnotic phenomena such as arm catalepsy. The practitioner doesn't knead, press, or work soft tissue — the change is produced by the client. You'll leave knowing this boundary by heart.
Will I know the whole method after the course?
No, and I'm telling you before you pay, not after. This is Level 1 — 101. It's enough to get certified and start working. But the method is larger, and there are techniques and strategies that open at the next level. A course that promises everything in four days is promising something untrue.
I work on Sundays. Can I miss a module?
No. The four days are one connected sequence; missing one breaks it for you and for your practice partner. If your Sundays are taken, join the next cohort.
What should I bring?
Clothes you can lie down and move in. Socks. Water. Everything else is here.
You're reading this because some part of you already wants to do this work
The only question is which year you start.
February 7, 10 AM, Huntingdon Valley.
Questions: WhatsApp · Telegram
Training in non-clinical hypnotherapy does not confer the right to diagnose or treat any disorder and is not a substitute for mental health or medical treatment. A graduate's legal scope of practice is determined by their own license, if any, the laws of their jurisdiction, adherence to professional boundaries, and proper business setup and documentation. Course materials are not legal advice.
This is not treatment of illness. It's a method for health.
Somatic Hypnotherapy does not treat disease and does not diagnose. It does something else: it calms the nervous system and restores its capacity for self-regulation.
It's a reset. The body comes out of constant readiness, held tension lets go, and the normal cycle of load and recovery returns.
And it helps exactly where people struggle: with stress responses of every kind — anxious, panicky, low, psychosomatic; with poor sleep; with the after-effects of hard experiences.
Because all of these are, first of all, states of the nervous system — and a state can be regulated. People feel noticeable relief in the first session.
Where the line is — and we don't cross it
Working with a stress response and treating a disorder are different things — and not only legally.
If a person has a diagnosis, we don't cancel their treatment or replace their provider. We work with the state of the nervous system — alongside, not instead. Very often that's exactly what gives the relief that talk or medication alone don't.
If signs appear that call for a physician or a licensed professional, the graduate refers. They have a ready referral protocol and a checklist for recognizing those signs. Scope boundaries with medicine are a full topic of the course, not a footnote.
What people come with
Tension that won't leave. Shoulders, jaw, diaphragm. Rest doesn't help; massage helps for two days.
Inability to switch off. The body is charged; the mind keeps processing problems without a break.
Trouble falling asleep — not only from thoughts, but because the body won't let go of tone. Restless legs. Shallow sleep that doesn't restore.
Losing touch with yourself. "I don't feel my body," "I don't know what I want," everything as if behind glass.
The habit of holding everything under control — and being unable to let go even where control isn't needed.
Fatigue that neither sleep nor vacation restores.
Freezing and restlessness — two sides of one stress response: a person either turns to stone or can't stop.
Bodily echoes of past events — what stayed in the body after everything has already been said in words.
Which states regulate hypnotherapy separately
Pennsylvania does not separately license hypnotherapy or somatic coaching, and properly framed practice is legal without additional registration. But the US has fifty jurisdictions, and in some of them the rules differ.
As of 2026, separate regulation of hypnosis practice exists or has existed in Connecticut, Washington, Colorado, Indiana, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, and California. The forms vary: in some it's registration; in some, therapeutic use of hypnosis is limited to licensed professionals or their referral; in some, you must disclose your status to the client in writing.
This isn't a list of bans — it's a list of states where you need to check separately, and where the answer may be "yes, on different terms." Rules change: Colorado, for example, abolished its registry of unlicensed psychotherapists in 2020, and some online lists still don't reflect that.
What we do about it in the course: Pennsylvania in detail, with statute texts and ready documents. For any other state you get a verification checklist — which acts to read, which wording to look for, and what question to ask an attorney so the answer costs one consultation, not three.
Promising the same rules across fifty states would be untrue. Teaching you to check your own — that we can do.
Course materials are not legal advice.
In twenty-five years I've learned I can't help everyone equally well. So it's not open enrollment — it's a conversation.
- Step 1. If you're sure and don't want to miss the seat — reserve it with a $299 deposit
- Step 2. If you'd like to look first — register for the open class on Sunday, November 8
- Step 3. We talk for twenty minutes. I'll tell you honestly whether this is right for you now
- Step 4. $299 deposit — your seat is secured
Who it's for
No degree or license is required. What matters is a real wish to work with people and readiness to learn through your own body.
A background in psychology, education, healthcare, social work, coaching, yoga, or any helping work is an advantage. We decide together in a twenty-minute conversation.
If you already work with your hands — massage, bodywork, somatic therapy — the full scope of the method is open to you, including parts other participants can't use.
Questions: WhatsApp · Telegram
This course is not for you if:
you're looking for a way around the law — we don't go around it, we use the corridor that exists; you expect to treat disorders after four days — you won't, and you won't have the right to, and I'll say so on day one as plainly as I write it here; you're not ready to lie on the floor and let another person put a hand on your shoulder — this is a tactile method, and it's learned only through your own body.
Questions
What exactly will I be able to do without a US license?
In Pennsylvania, hypnotherapy and somatic coaching are not separately licensed — we go through this in detail, with the actual statutes and documents. But the line depends not on what you call your service, but on what you do and how it's described: working with a person's state and teaching self-regulation is one thing; diagnosing and treating a disorder is another, and that requires a license in every state. For other states you get a verification checklist, not a ready answer: promising the same rules across fifty states would be untrue.
The method uses touch. Isn't that massage?
No — and there's a dedicated block on this. Touch in SGT is informational, not manipulative: grounding, support, orientation, hypnotic phenomena such as arm catalepsy. The practitioner doesn't knead, press, or work soft tissue — the change is produced by the client. You'll leave knowing this boundary by heart.
Will I know the whole method after the course?
No, and I'm telling you before you pay, not after. This is Level 1 — 101. It's enough to get certified and start working. But the method is larger, and there are techniques and strategies that open at the next level. A course that promises everything in four days is promising something untrue.
I work on Sundays. Can I miss a module?
No. The four days are one connected sequence; missing one breaks it for you and for your practice partner. If your Sundays are taken, join the next cohort.
What should I bring?
Clothes you can lie down and move in. Socks. Water. Everything else is here.
You're reading this because some part of you already wants to do this work
The only question is which year you start.
February 7, 10 AM, Huntingdon Valley.
Questions: WhatsApp · Telegram
Training in non-clinical hypnotherapy does not confer the right to diagnose or treat any disorder and is not a substitute for mental health or medical treatment. A graduate's legal scope of practice is determined by their own license, if any, the laws of their jurisdiction, adherence to professional boundaries, and proper business setup and documentation. Course materials are not legal advice.
This is not treatment of illness. It's a method for health.
Somatic Hypnotherapy does not treat disease and does not diagnose. It does something else: it calms the nervous system and restores its capacity for self-regulation.
It's a reset. The body comes out of constant readiness, held tension lets go, and the normal cycle of load and recovery returns.
And it helps exactly where people struggle: with stress responses of every kind — anxious, panicky, low, psychosomatic; with poor sleep; with the after-effects of hard experiences.
Because all of these are, first of all, states of the nervous system — and a state can be regulated. People feel noticeable relief in the first session.
Where the line is — and we don't cross it
Working with a stress response and treating a disorder are different things — and not only legally.
If a person has a diagnosis, we don't cancel their treatment or replace their provider. We work with the state of the nervous system — alongside, not instead. Very often that's exactly what gives the relief that talk or medication alone don't.
If signs appear that call for a physician or a licensed professional, the graduate refers. They have a ready referral protocol and a checklist for recognizing those signs. Scope boundaries with medicine are a full topic of the course, not a footnote.
What people come with
Tension that won't leave. Shoulders, jaw, diaphragm. Rest doesn't help; massage helps for two days.
Inability to switch off. The body is charged; the mind keeps processing problems without a break.
Trouble falling asleep — not only from thoughts, but because the body won't let go of tone. Restless legs. Shallow sleep that doesn't restore.
Losing touch with yourself. "I don't feel my body," "I don't know what I want," everything as if behind glass.
The habit of holding everything under control — and being unable to let go even where control isn't needed.
Fatigue that neither sleep nor vacation restores.
Freezing and restlessness — two sides of one stress response: a person either turns to stone or can't stop.
Bodily echoes of past events — what stayed in the body after everything has already been said in words.
Which states regulate hypnotherapy separately
Pennsylvania does not separately license hypnotherapy or somatic coaching, and properly framed practice is legal without additional registration. But the US has fifty jurisdictions, and in some of them the rules differ.
As of 2026, separate regulation of hypnosis practice exists or has existed in Connecticut, Washington, Colorado, Indiana, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, and California. The forms vary: in some it's registration; in some, therapeutic use of hypnosis is limited to licensed professionals or their referral; in some, you must disclose your status to the client in writing.
This isn't a list of bans — it's a list of states where you need to check separately, and where the answer may be "yes, on different terms." Rules change: Colorado, for example, abolished its registry of unlicensed psychotherapists in 2020, and some online lists still don't reflect that.
What we do about it in the course: Pennsylvania in detail, with statute texts and ready documents. For any other state you get a verification checklist — which acts to read, which wording to look for, and what question to ask an attorney so the answer costs one consultation, not three.
Promising the same rules across fifty states would be untrue. Teaching you to check your own — that we can do.
Course materials are not legal advice.
