Previous Presentations by Dr. Mau

Using Rapid Hypnotic Induction and Catalepsy to Treat Functional Neurological Syndrome Disorders

Friday, July 31, 2026, live in Columbia SC or virtual. 9:00 to 12:00 EDT Columbia and New York, 14:00 BST London, 15:00 CEST Europe

3 CEs

Something happens – I react. Something happens – I react! Something happens – I react!!

Your client has a medical symptom, but physicians have ruled out a medical cause. Functional Neurological Syndrome – or Conversion – disorders are a standard diagnosis, but there is no standard treatment.
We’ve been dealing with FNSD for a long time. In 1777, Franz Anton Mesmer cured Maria Theresia von Paradis, courtier of Empress Maria Theresa, of her blindness – this began the modern age of hypnosis. In 1882 Jean-Martin Charcot, the father of neurology, presented his findings relating hypnosis and hysteria to the Académie des Sciences, marking a significant moment in the scientific recognition of hypnosis.
Good news: hypnosis is a great neurological fit for treating FNSD. More interesting: Rapid hypnotic induction actually helps! We will explore how hypnosis works in the brain, how this relates to specific treatments, and how to perform and use rapid induction in your practice. The presentation will focus on practical demonstrations of the process.

HTL – HypnoThoughts Live

July 17 – 19, 2026, live in Las Vegas, NV

Victory Over Trauma: Solution-Focused Regression

Dr. Mau will present a one hour lecture.

This hands-on workshop will demonstrate a simple approach to regression that can work within a one hour client session. Instead of retraumatizing your client by having them repeat the destructive narratives and details of the past, this process centers on the reframing the destructive emotions in a practical and beautiful way that you can use with your clients as soon as you get home. Dr. Mau will also describe the neurological link between high hypnotizability and posttraumatic responses, which makes hypnosis a perfect approach to treating trauma.

Inter-Vision

Friday, July 10, 2026, virtual. 15:00 CEST Gibraltar, 9:00 a.m. EDT Columbia & New York, 14:00 BST London, UK, 21:00 SGT Singapore. CEs available.

Epigenetics: Nurture, Nature, Change, and Hope

Nurture wins so hard it tells nature what to do – for a long time we knew about inheritance via genes and memes, but 2004 marked the discovery of another way to inherit, and understanding how this works can give your clients a real sense of hope.

Behaviors and emotional orientation can be physically inherited. This soft inheritance is not via genetic changes; epigenetics refers to heritable chemical modifications to DNA that alter gene activity without changing nucleotide sequence. Your clients may believe that they have inherited a family curse like trauma or addiction. The good news that, unlike genetic inheritance, epigenetic inheritances are not destiny can be changed. We will review the current state of behavioral epigenetics with a focus on ways to help and encourage your clients as they create change.

Hypnosekongress Zürich

June 20 – 21, 2026; Live in Winterthur, Switzerland.

Live simultaneous translation into German will be provided at the conference via AI. Dr. Mau will present on several topics:

Gee Whiz! Hypnosis! Fun things, build your practice, and a bit of science!

Enjoy some fast fun hypnotic effects – if you’ve never seen hypnosis, you’ll enjoy this. If you’re a hypnotist we will explore ways to use all this fun to create networking interest and build your practice. And of course we will talk about a bit of leading edge science so you can see exactly how it works.

The Three Doors: a Protocol for Anxiety

Friday, May 29, 2026, live in Columbia SC or virtual. 9:00 to 12:00 EDT Columbia and New York, 14:00 BST London, 15:00 CEST Europe

Something happens – I react. Something happens – I react! Something happens – I react!!

The reactions feel unconscious, automatic, out of control. I try to not do it, and it happens. Even if I know it does not make sense.

Instead of symptom management – what if we could change experience? Do something that shifts things at a neurological level in the brain so that the solution also feels unconscious and automatic? The Three Doors process does just that! There are fundamental neurological reasons that make hypnotherapy a perfect treatment for any behavior that is driven by anxiety. If self discipline is not solving things, this is the way to go.

Whether you are new to hypnosis and just curious, or a seasoned practitioner who would like a fantastic new tool in your toolbox, you will enjoy this training!

“I recently attended The Three Doors: A Protocol for Anxiety training with Dr. Mau and was very impressed. The small group format made the experience very interactive and allowed plenty of time for discussion and questions. I have practiced hypnotherapy for years, and I was genuinely surprised by how much I learned in just three hours—honestly more than I have learned during some multi-day conference trainings. Dr. Mau provided excellent feedback and answered questions thoroughly throughout the training. What I especially appreciated is that this protocol is not only helpful for anxiety, but can be applied to a wide range of issues that are bothersome or distressing to clients. I would highly recommend this training to clinicians looking for practical tools they can immediately use in their practice.”

– Kassi L. Goodman, Ph.D., LAC, LPC, ICADC, NBCFCH

Hypnotic Conference

May 9 – 10, 2026, live in Antwerp, Belgium

Epigenetics: Nurture, Nature, Change, and Hope

Hypnotic

HypnoExpo Conference

May 1 – 3 2026, Live in Orlando FL

Up, Up, and Away! Hyperemperia – Not Hypnosis!

Dr. Mau will present a two hour workshop.

“Trance” describes a relaxed, dissociative state. But it also refers to the dissociation that goes with ecstatic dance! What if we go for greater emotional engagement – ramping everything up, instead of relaxing someone down? Hyperemperia looks like hypnosis, but there are no suggestions of relaxation, just heading up, up and away like Superman!

Depersonalization and derealization are mental disorders that involve a persistent feeling of detachment from your Self, your own body, or your surroundings, making the world seem unreal, strange, or dreamlike. Clinical depression can result in a dimming of sensory perception – recovering clients describe things like colors seeming brighter, sounds are clearer, and foods taste better. Hypnosis involves relaxation from Beta awareness to a Theta state, but hyperemperia goes the other way, creating more engagement up up into Gamma and ramping up sensory perception!

Quick Fun for Building your Practice

Dr. Mau is the speaker for the private networking luncheon.

Rapid induction and basic hypnotic phenomena are a great way to boost your networking effectiveness by making you stand out and establishing your skill as a hypnotist. Understanding a bit about how to talk about the neurological basis of hypnosis will establish you as a subject matter expert and allow you to talk more effectively with medical professionals and people in general. Join us for a fun and practical lunch on building your practice!

HypnoExpo 2026

Therapy Trauma Conference 2026

April 18, 2026, Live in Columbia, SC

The Neurology of Horror: Why Hypnosis is the Perfect Treatment for Trauma

Dr. Mau will give a one hour presentation (CEs are available for the conference).

Clinical posttraumatic responses create deep and visceral body experiences: intrusive thoughts, distressing dreams, dissociative reactions, intense psychological and physiological distress – from hypervigilance to depersonalization and derealization. And not just PTSD – the personality disorders are largely associated with trauma. Both susceptibility to posttraumatic responses and high hypnotizability involve a functionally more effective frontal-limbic system in the brain. Hypnotherapy uses the same brain functionality which created the posttraumatic responses to eliminate them. While most of our approaches to therapy are about symptom management, the goal of hypnotherapy is to change the client’s experience and eradicate the symptoms.

CareCola

April 7, 2026, 7:10 p.m. Live in Columbia, SC

The Neurology and Nature of Hypnosis

Dr. Mau will give a 1:15 minute presentation (1.5 CEs available for a $25 fee).

Hypnotherapy is the oldest Western conceptualization of psychotherapy. Modern neuroimaging shows exactly how the process works, and allows us to align it with specific DSM-5-TR diagnoses. This evidence-based therapy is excellent for treating posttraumatic, anxiety, dissociative, and somatic symptom disorders. Since 2019 it has been considered a best practice for physical pain relief. The workshop will include demonstrations of kyphotic processes, and a discussion of the neurology and nature of hypnosis.

British Society of Clinical & Academic Hypnosis

April 7, 2026, virtual at 6:00 p.m. BST London, UK, 1:00 p.m. EDT Columbia and New York. Ninety minute virtual workshop. CEs available.

Matching diagnosis and treatment: The neuroscience of hypnosis and
clinical practice

We have reached the point where neurological studies can indicate more effective means of therapy. Modern neuroimaging has shown exactly how hypnosis operates in the brain, and surprisingly this allows us to relate this treatment to specific diagnoses. While cognitive therapies tend to seek symptom management, hypnosis is about fundamentally altering experience, frequently with a goal of eliminating symptoms. This process is solution-focused, brief, and based on emotional rather than cognitive change. It is a standard of care process, not complimentary or alternative. Generally hypnosis is effective for posttraumatic disorders, anxiety and related disorders (such as tics and phobias), somatic symptom and functional neurological disorders, dissociative disorders and unipolar depression, as well as physical pain relief.

Mind Explorations Podcast

March 25, 2026, virtual at 3:00 p.m. BST London, UK, 11:00 a.m. EDT Columbia and New York, 4:00 p.m. CET Amsterdam, Netherlands. Ninety minute interview. CEs available.

Hypnosis – What’s it Good for and How Does it Work?

Join Dr. Mau and Dutch – German hypnotherapist Astrid Harms for a lively conversation about the neurology and nature of hypnosis, diagnoses where it is a good fit, some hypnotic processes, and even some ways to use fast hypnosis to build your practice.

Replay at Mind Explorations FB Page

Guild of Australian Hypnotherapists

Sunday, March 22, 2026, virtual at 11:00 a.m. AEDT Sydney, NSW, (Saturday, March 21, at 8:00 p.m. EDT Columbia and New York). Three hour virtual workshop. CEs available.

Hypnosis for Pain Relief: Practical, Ethical, Neurologically Powerful

Hypnosis to relieve physical pain is considered to be a medical best practice (not just a standard of care treatment) in the United States. It is arguably the most effective use of hypnosis. If your client suffers ongoing pain it will make any other issues they are facing worse. Hypnotic pain relief is so powerful that in clinical studies it is effective for even low-suggestible clients. Opioid blockers can block acupuncture- or placebo-based relief, but not hypnotic pain relief. Dr. Mau will demonstrate practical techniques you can use immediately with your clients and describe the neurological basis of pain relief. Hypnosis is a best practice – not complimentary or alternative – treatment for physical pain which can be safely and ethically administered by consulting hypnotists. You can understand it and do it!

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The Three Doors: a Protocol for Anxiety

Friday, March 13, 2026, live in Columbia SC or virtual. 9:00 to 12:00 EDT Columbia, 13:00 GMT London, 14:00 CET Europe

Something happens – I react. Something happens – I react! Something happens – I react!!

The reactions feel unconscious, automatic, out of control. I try to not do it, and it happens. Even if I know it does not make sense.

Whether you are new to hypnosis and just curious, or a seasoned practitioner who would like a fantastic new tool in your toolbox, you will enjoy this training!

Would you recommend this to others? “Yes! For sure – the training equips you to implement hypnosis immediately, and with confidence.” – Emilee Scruggs, LISW-CP.

Inter-Vision

Wednesday, March 11, 2026, virtual. 2:00 p.m. CET Gibraltar, 9:00 a.m. EDT Columbia & New York, 1:00 GMT London, UK, 9:00 p.m. SGT Singapore. CEs available.

A Practical Use for Instant Induction in Clinical Hypnosis

Good news: hypnosis is a great neurological fit for treating FNSD. More interesting: instant hypnotic induction actually helps! We will explore how hypnosis works in the brain, how this relates to specific treatments, and how to perform and use instant induction in your practice. The presentation will focus on practical demonstrations of the process.

Physician’s Lunch Lecture

Tuesday, March 3, 2026, live in Lexington, SC

Non-pharmacological Pain Management

Dr. Mau will present a lecture on non-pharmacological pain management for primary care physician residents and faculty at Lexington Medical Center.

Medical Seminar

Monday, February 23, 2026, live in Greenville, SC

Turning the Tide: Innovative Approaches to the Opioid Crisis & Emerging Alternative Therapies

Dr. Mau participate at a panel discussion at the SC Workers’ Compensation Educational Association Medical Seminar.

Hypnosis is the oldest Western conception of psychotherapy. Since 1995 the National Institutes of Health has strongly recommended hypnosis for pain relief, and since 2019 the Department of Health and Human Services has recommended hypnosis as not merely standard of care but actually a best practice for physical pain relief.

South Carolina Counseling Association Annual Conference

February 18 – 20, 2026, live in Myrtle Beach, SC

Relieving Physical Pain: Ethics and Practice

If you are familiar with guided imagery you can help your clients eliminate the experience of physical pain. Physical pain is debilitating, often creates cooccurring depression, and generally worsens other mental health and medical problems. Since 2019 the US Department of Health and Human Services has listed hypnotherapy and relaxation training not just as standard of care processes for physical pain relief, but as best practices. While most approaches to psychotherapy can help clients manage the experience of pain, a small group of psychophysiological therapies can actually eliminate the experience of pain. It is important to understand the ethical use of and neurological basis for these evidence-based processes. This hands-on workshop will demonstrate practical processes you can use immediately with your clients.

Brief Trauma Treatment: Solution-Focused Hypnotic Regression

There is a strong neurological and genetic link between susceptibility to clinical posttraumatic responses and high hypnotizability. Hypnotic regression offers a very brief, effective, evidence-based process to significantly alter intrusive, avoidance, mood, reactivity, and depersonalization and derealization symptoms which cause significant distress or functional impairment. Instead of retraumatizing your client by having them repeat the destructive narratives and details of the past, this structured procedure centers on the reframing the destructive emotions in a practical and beautiful way that you can use with your clients.

Watermark Counseling Professional Hypnosis Certification Course

Professional Hypnosis Certification by Dr. Mau

In person seating is limited (virtual attendance is unlimited). Early bird tuition will be available until December 31, 2026. The course provides up to 50 CEs (including 6 Ethics CEs and 1 Suicide Prevention CE), and a specialist certification in hypnotherapy. This course will be open to professional counselors and other licensed mental health and medical professionals, as well as clinical hypnotists who already hold a certification in hypnosis.

Live in Columbia SC (live virtual participation also available).

Would you recommend this to others? “Yes! For sure – the training equips you to implement hypnosis immediately, and with confidence.”

– Emilee Scruggs, LISW-CP

Hypnotherapy Certification – limited in person availability – up to 50 CEs – Early Bird Discounted Tuition

Don’t you want to do something more effective than teaching coping skills?

The goal of therapy using hypnosis is not to help clients manage symptoms more effectively, but to change their experience and eliminate the symptoms. The process neurologically aligns with trauma and stressor related disorders, anxiety and related disorders including unipolar depression, dissociative disorders, and somatic symptom disorders including functional neurological syndrome. It is recommended as a standard of care and best practice by the Department of Health and Human Services since 2019 for treatment of physical pain, and has been strongly recommended by the National Institutes of Health since 1995 to treat sleep disorders.

Just as these mental health issues feel out of control, hypnotherapy changes feel automatic, like something that is happening, not something the client is doing. Insights feel like realization, not decision. This is a solution-focused process designed to engage your client’s creativity and build practical self-efficacy. Do something different.

The course provides a solid neurological and genetic basis for hypnotherapy and its alignment with specific diagnoses. The goal of the course is to help you develop practical skills so you can actually do these processes with your clients to help them.

Dr. Fredric Mau is currently contributing to the upcoming fifth edition of Essential Psychopathology & its Treatment, published by Norton. He has served as Core Faculty for a Graduate Medical Education – Psychiatry Residency Training Program teaching this same material to psychiatric residents (physicians), and as a reviewer for the British Medical Journals. He is an international keynote speaker on hypnotherapy who has presented at professional conferences in Australia, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Germany, and across the United States. He is the author of three books. He has received several professional awards given in Switzerland and the United States, including recognition by the SC Counseling Association for Distinguished Professional Service in 2024 and as Outstanding Counselor in South Carolina in 2019.

Time: 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays (US EST; UK: 2:00 p.m./14:00 GMT until 7:00 p.m./19:00; Central Europe Time: 3:00 p.m./15:00 until 8:00 p.m./20:00).
Dates: The course dates will be weekends, mid-January through mid-February 2027 (exact dates to be announced).
Location: Watermark Counseling, 1705 Richland Street, Columbia SC 29201
You can attend in person or virtually from anywhere.
Tuition: Early bird tuition is $2,577 until December 31, 2026 (this may be changed without notice, but will be honored if you register before any change). Full tuition beginning January 1, 2027 is $2,777. Registration is $300, leaving a discounted tuition of $2,277 remaining (If registered by December 31, 2026). A payment plan is available at no interest and with no credit check.

The course includes certification as a hypnotherapist by the National Guild of Hypnotists. The course is also open to participants who do not hold a medical or mental health license – you will receive certification as a Consulting Hypnotist by the NGH.

Feedback from previous course participants:

Who might find this workshop valuable?

“Anyone that encounters other human beings. It helps you understand why people behave, and how to empathize and help them permanently.”

“A bunch of other therapists.”

Other comments:

“Still the best course I’ve taken! Changed how I practice social work. Have fun, friend!”

“I believe this training is career-changing for therapists seeking to use solution focused techniques in their practice.”

“This was a fun experiential workshop. This atmosphere was supportive, open, and nonjudgmental. It was safe to share.”

“Dr. Mau is a great instructor and creates a good learning experience in which students can feel comfortable, ask questions, and learn.”

“If you are considering hypnosis Dr. Mau is who you want training you. His experience and knowledge is second to none. The training helped me understand the people I help at a deeper level. I am more equipped and confident to make a positive impact on the people I serve.”

“I loved the idea that this workshop not only taught me a new skill, but also served as a refresher for my therapeutic style. It helped boost my confidence in the therapy space in ways I didn’t know I needed.”

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UK Hypnosis Convention

November 14 – 16, 2025, Live in London, England

A Practical Use for Rapid Induction in Clinical Hypnosis

Dr. Mau will present a one hour workshop. Your client has a medical symptom, but physicians have ruled out a medical cause. Functional Neurological Syndrome – or Conversion – disorders are a standard diagnosis, but there is no standard treatment.
We’ve been dealing with FNSD for a long time. In 1777, Franz Anton Mesmer cured Maria Theresia von Paradis, courtier of Emperess Maria Theresa, of her blindness – this began the modern age of hypnosis. In 1882 Jean-Martin Charcot, the father of neurology, presented his findings relating hypnosis and hysteria to the Académie des Sciences, marking a significant moment in the scientific recognition of hypnosis.
Good news: hypnosis is a great neurological fit for treating FNSD. More interesting: Rapid hypnotic induction actually helps! We will explore how hypnosis works in the brain, how this relates to specific treatments, and how to perform and use rapid induction in your practice. The presentation will focus on practical demonstrations of the process.

Presentation Description

Hypnosis Education Association

Live virtual presentation Sunday, November 9, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. EST

Keynote Address – Let’s Get Un-Hypnotized

Family history, culture tales, religious narratives, racial sagas, political fables, national stories – without even being aware of it we live our lives and find our meaning in the context of stories and narratives. A random word said by a parent or teacher, expectations by a partner, things we don’t even recall consciously, all these things create meaning in our lives. Even the Self is a story you are constantly telling yourself about who you are as a person. “The spoken word, so soon forgot By thee; but it has perished not; In other hearts ’tis living still; And doing work for good or ill.” It is time to own your own narrative, to create your best story, and your best life.

Deutsches Institut für Klinische Hypnose

October 13 – 15 & 17 – 19, 2025; Live in Magdeburg, Germany.

TWO Three-Day Workshops – Hypnosis for Pain Relief: Practical, Ethical, Neurologically Powerful

Dr. Mau will present two three-day intensive workshops live in English in Germany (live translation provided into German).

Physical pain relief may be the most effective use of hypnosis, and provides a tremendous benefit for your clients. Hypnosis is recognized in the United States not only as a medical standard-of-care therapy, but also as a best practice for nonpharmacological pain relief. The neurology of hypnotic pain relief is now well understood via neuroimaging. Dr. Fredric Mau has taught hypnotic pain relief for years to physicians, medical and mental health professionals, and clinical hypnotists. His two day workshop provides you with a neurological understanding of how hypnosis operates in the brain to eliminate the experience of physical pain, as well as practical techniques you can use with your clients to help them. The workshop focuses on developing practical skills you can use immediately in your practice to help your clients. Physical pain also makes all other medical and mental health issues more difficult, so this is a substantial benefit even for clients who come to you for other purposes.

Academy of Clinical Hypnotherapy (Canada) – Winter Speaker Series

Virtual presentation September 27, 2025, time 3:30 EDT (Montréal, Toronto, New York), 2:30 p.m. CDT (Winnipeg, MB), 1:30 p.m. CDT (Regina, SK), 12:30 p.m. PDT (Vancouver, BC), 4:30 p.m. ADT (Halifax, NS), 5:00 p.m. NDT (St. John’s, NL), 8:30 p.m. BST (London, UK), 9:30 p.m. (Zürich, CH).

First Session Sets the Pace: Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy & the Miracle Question

Have a rock solid first session that sets the pace for your subsequent sessions. The workshop will include a demonstration, and is focused on giving you practical skills for your first session which will lay the foundation for your client’s success. Most of the 400ish approaches to psychotherapy are problem-focused – the general idea is that insight into where problems came from somehow helps. How it helps is a little vague. Milton Erickson laid the foundation for solution-focused therapies with his realization that insight is not necessary for change. Solution-focused hypnosis is a practical and elegant approach that is significantly different from approaches that seek causes or initial events. Break free from listening to the destructive narratives of the past and do something that truly facilitates positive change. Whether you are new to the field or an experienced practitioner, you can also use this perspective to tweak most any approaches you currently use to make them more effective.

COMISS Network (Council on Ministry in Specialized Settings)

Virtual roundtable discussion, Thursday, September 4, at 10:00 a.m. EDT.

Pastoral Psychotherapy Roundtable Discussion: “Collaboration for the Integration of Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Development in Counseling and Psychotherapy.”

Dr. Mau will participate in this COMISS roundtable. The purpose of the meeting is to encourage dialogue among the major providers of therapy, therapy educators, and boards of the therapy disciplines. The discussion will focus on how groups can work together to address the shortage of trained therapists, explore the adequacy of education in spiritual competency, and address how faith-sensitive therapy can be fostered across the United States and perhaps other countries. In addition, Dr. Russell Siler-Jones will present a report on the efficacy of the Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy (SIP) training program.

The Collaboration is sponsored by the Pastoral Psychotherapy Roundtable, under the auspices of the Commission for Ministry in Specialized Settings Network (COMISS), a national organization that brings together representatives of national and state organizations that oversee mental and emotional healthcare and caregiver education.

Representatives from American Association of State Counseling Boards (AASCB), American Counseling Association (ACA), Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACEP), Association for Spiritual, Ethical and Religious Values in Counseling (ASERVIC), Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP), the Counseling Compact, National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC), Center for Credentialing and Education (CCE) and other cognate groups have been invited to attend.

COMISS

India Chapter – International Association of Counselors & Therapists

Virtual presentation Saturday, August 30, 9:30 a.m. EDT(South Carolina, New York), 7:00 p.m. (19:00) IST New Delhi, India (2:30 p.m. BST in the UK, 3:30 p.m. CEST in Europe, 7:30 a.m. MDT in Calgary, Alberta).

The Neurology of Hypnosis

How do we communicate effectively with physicians and medical professionals? For that matter, how do we communicate effectively with people in a world where empirical verification is simply the way people assess life? Can we do things with hypnotherapy which are different, or even better, than the results achieved with cognitive or talk therapies? Do hypnotherapy and cognitive therapies even share the therapeutic goal? Is hypnosis a state? Is there a particular reason why hypnotherapy is uniquely suited to treat trauma and anxiety disorders? How does hypnosis operate in the brain, anyway? Does knowing this help me be more effective with my clients? There are powerful answers!

National Guild of Hypnotists Convention

August 8 – 10, 2025, Live in Marlborough MA

Dissociative Confusion And The Creation Of Meaning—Sorting Out Hypnosis, Mindfulness, Psychedelics And Such

Dr. Mau presented a one hour seminar.

Superhero Regression—The Active Wiser You

Dr. Mau presented a two hour workshop.

What if the ways we think about hypnotic regression, and the expectations we create for our clients for this process, are really focused backwards when they can be powerfully focused forward? Regression is a fantastic way to address trauma, but does it have to be problem-focused? This fun, substantive, interactive workshop will explore fresh solution-focused approaches to a tried-and-true hypnotic technique, and open your eyes to new ways to engage your client’s active superhero creativity and self-healing.

HTL – HypnoThoughts Live

July 18 -20, 2025, live in Las Vegas, NV

A Practical Use for Rapid Induction in Clinical Hypnosis: Functional Neurological Syndrome Disorders

Dr. Mau presented a one hour lecture.

Your client has a medical symptom, but physicians have ruled out a medical cause. Good news: hypnosis is a great neurological fit for treating that. More interesting: Rapid hypnotic induction actually helps! We will explore how hypnosis works in the brain, how this relates to specific treatments, and how to perform and use rapid induction in your practice.

First Session Sets the Pace: Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy & the Miracle Question

Dr. Mau presented a one hour lecture.

HTLive

Hypnosekongress Zürich

June 21 – 22 2025; Live in Switzerland.

Live simultaneous translation into German will be provided at the conference via AI. Dr. Mau will present on several topics:

Keynote Address

It Just Feels Like it is Happening! Why the Neuroscience of Hypnosis is Important.

A Practical Use for Rapid Induction in Clinical Hypnosis: Functional Neurological Syndrome Disorders

Your client has a medical symptom, but physicians have ruled out a medical cause. Good news: hypnosis is a great neurological fit for treating that. More interesting: Rapid hypnotic induction actually helps! We will explore how hypnosis works in the brain, and how this relates to this specific treatment. This is literally a hands-on demonstration which will show participants exactly how to use this technique with clients.

Matching diagnosis and treatment: The neuroscience of hypnosis and
clinical practice

Epigenetics: Nurture, Nature, Change, and Hope

HypnoExpo Conference

May 16 – 18 2025, Live in Orlando FL

Rapid Hypnotic Induction in Clinical Hypnosis

Dr. Mau will present a two hour workshop.

Gee whiz! Rapid induction is so cool! Looks amazing! Nifty for your stage show. Is it useful for anything in clinical practice? Turns out the answer is Yes! There are client issues that involve physical sensations and behavior – many of which feel out of control, and some of which would count as medical symptoms yet without a medical cause. Rapid induction can be a critical part of your treatment plan to help these clients.

Hypnosis and Trauma

Dr. Mau will present a two hour workshop.

Disembodiment is the direct consequence of trauma. Whether we have survived abuse, or not, we’ve survived something – something we may not even recognize as trauma but which our body holds onto as such. As a result, many of us are somewhat disconnected from our bodies. Dissociation is one form of disembodiment a trauma response where the mind leaves the body in an attempt to keep us alive and to survive the pain of the trauma we’re experiencing. Hypnosis can help clients focus both on the resolution of trauma and the active development and integration of the self of the traumatized person. With hypnosis, we foster and encourage the gift of presence by developing a safe, secure, creative intrapersonal relationship. This workshop will present the process of applying hypnosis in dealing with trauma.

Do We have an Ethical Responsibility to Prevent PTSD?

Dr. Mau will present a one hour lecture.

Behavioral and genetic research now exists which indicates that an inexpensive and currently available genetic test may be able to determine which individuals are more likely to exhibit clinical responses to traumatic events, as well as an increased likelihood to experience chronic pain following injury.
If this can be validated, do we as a society have an ethical responsibility to screen applicants for jobs where trauma is likely (such as the military or first responders)? If so, how should the information be handled? Or do we even have a right to do this? Or liability if we don’t?

Irish Hypnotherapy Conference

April 5 – 6, 2025 live in Dublin, Ireland

A Practical Use for Rapid Induction in Clinical Hypnosis: Functional Neurological Syndrome Disorders

Arizona Society for Professional Hypnosis

March 4, 2025, live virtual 9:00 pm EST / 7:00 pm MST.

The Neurology of Hypnosis

South Carolina Counseling Association Annual Conference

February 26 – 28, 2025, Myrtle Beach, SC

Do We have an Ethical Responsibility to Prevent PTSD?

Using Rapid Hypnotic Induction to Treat Functional Neurological Syndrome Disorders

Your client has a medical symptom, but physicians have ruled out a medical cause. Good news: hypnosis is a great neurological fit for treating that, with a goal of mitigating rather than managing symptoms. More interesting: Rapid hypnotic induction actually helps! We will explore how hypnosis works in the brain, how this relates to specific treatments, and how to perform and use rapid induction.

American Legion

Live presentation Monday, February 3, 2025, 6:00 p.m.

Relief of Pain and Trauma

Dr. Mau will speak on hypnosis for the relief of physical pain as well as trauma, and demonstrate hypnotic pain relief.

Hypnosis Education Association

Live virtual presentation Wednesday, December 4, 2024, 6:30 p.m. EDT

HEA HypnoConnect on The Neurology of Hypnosis, Trauma, and Anxiety: Be More Effective Working with Clients and Talking to Doctors

Join Dr. Mau spoke for an hour: Join us for an enlightening session with Dr Fredric Mau , Clinical Mental Health Counselor and owner of Watermark Counseling. Dr. Mau will explore the fascinating connection between hypnosis, trauma, and anxiety—showing how hypnosis, a standard of care process, operates in the brain and why it’s uniquely suited for addressing trauma and anxiety.

UK Hypnosis Convention

November 15 – 17, 2024, Live in London, England

Hypnosis for Pain Relief: Practical, Ethical, Neurologically Powerful

Dr. Mau presented a one hour workshop. Physical pain relief is arguably the most effective use of hypnosis. If your client suffers ongoing pain it will make any other issues they are facing worse. Hypnotic pain relief is so powerful that in clinical studies it is effective for even low-suggestible clients. Opioid blockers can block acupuncture- or placebo-based relief, but not hypnotic pain relief. Dr. Mau will demonstrate practical techniques you can use immediately with your clients and describe the neurological basis of pain relief. Hypnosis is a standard of care process in the US – not complimentary or alternative – treatment for physical pain which can be safely and ethically administered by consulting hypnotists. You can understand it and do it!

Presentation Description

Beaumont Counseling Services

Live virtual podcast Friday, October 18, noon EDT. 2 CEs

Matching diagnosis and treatment: The neuroscience of hypnosis and clinical practice

We have reached the point where neurological studies can indicate more effective means of therapy. Modern neuroimaging has shown exactly how hypnosis operates in the brain, and surprisingly this allows us to relate this treatment to specific diagnoses. While cognitive therapies tend to seek symptom management, hypnosis is about fundamentally altering experience, frequently with a goal of eliminating symptoms. This process is solution-focused, brief, and based on emotional rather than cognitive change. It is a standard of care process, not complimentary or alternative. Generally hypnosis is effective for posttraumatic disorders, anxiety and related disorders (such as tics and phobias), functional neurological disorders, and unipolar depression, as well as physical pain relief. Join us for an overview of hypnosis, and what promises to be a lively discussion of the process and treatment! Anyone is welcome to join in. Two CEs are available for Licensed Professional Counselors (or 2 noncontact hours for Social Workers).

Australian Hypnotherapists Association

Live virtual presentation October 12 – 13, 2024, from 9:00 to noon AEDT, Sydney, NSW, Australia (that is October 11 – 12 from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m., EDT, Columbia, SC, USA).

Neurological Basis behind the Efficacy of Hypnosis as a Treatment for Anxiety

There are powerful answers!

CEs are available for professional counselors and social workers in the United States (1 Australian dollar is about 69 cents in US dollars, so that is a good conversion rate for us). The 140 Australian dollars non-member registration is about $96 in US dollars (exchange rates can vary).

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Australian Hypnotherapists Association

HypnoExpo Conference

May 17-19 2024, Live in Orlando FL

Sorting out Hypnosis, Mindfulness, Psychedelics and Such

Dr. Mau presented a two hour workshop.

The Client’s Vision: Clarifying, Motivating, Powerful

Dr. Mau presented a one hour lecture.

Using the client’s language to create personalized hypnotic processes from induction to emerging is incredibly powerful. Dr. Fredric Mau is a clinical mental health counselor who also serves on a medical faculty teaching hypnosis to psychiatrists. This workshop focuses on practical experiences with clients, modeled by a recognized master therapist. Whether you are crafting each process individually or heavily tailoring scripts – or you just want to do that, this workshop will make your processes more powerful. From pretalk through the entire process Dr. Mau demonstrates his solid approach to help clients create futures which are healed, bright, healthy, and joyful.

South Carolina Psychological Association Annual Conference

March 16, 2024, Columbia, SC

The Use of Hypnosis as a Therapeutic Tool

Dr. Mau presented a two hour seminar at the SC Psychological Association Annual Conference –

Hypnosis is the oldest Western conceptualization of psychotherapy, and is recognized as a standard of care process. Division 30 of the APA is devoted to exchanging scientific information, advancing appropriate teaching and research, and developing high standards for the practice of hypnotherapy. Neuroimaging has opened up our understanding of how dissociative therapeutic processes function, and provides us with a model for aligning these processes with many DSM-5-TR diagnoses. Hypnosis offers a methodology to change client experience and eliminate many symptoms, rather than simply managing these symptoms. Dr. Mau will present an overview of the nature of hypnosis and its uses as in psychotherapy.

Guild of Australian Hypnotherapists

Sunday, March 3, 2024 at 1:00 p.m. AEDT Sydney, NSW, (Saturday, March 2, at 9:00 p.m. EST Columbia, SC). Three hour virtual workshop.

Dr. Mau presented a two part workshop to kick off the GoAH’s 2024 Professional Development Program (Three hours).

Re-Visioning the Past: Solution-Focused Regression and Memory Reconsolidation to Treat Trauma

Problem-focused therapies focus on recalling past experiences to gain insight, however recent literature indicates this is not as therapeutically important as changing the current narratives about past happenings. Memory reconsolidation provides a powerful model to reactivate old memories and engage in new emotional experiences to create a new way of behaving and experiencing the world, and hypnosis is an excellent way to engage this process.

Envisioning the Future: Embracing Solution-Focused Treatment, Planning, and Motivation

Solution-focused therapies provide a distinct approach which is substantively different from both past- oriented therapeutic approaches and psychoeducation. This session is designed to draw a sharp contrast between problem- and solution-focused approaches, with a goal of empowering clients to build motivation for change and to release hypnotherapists from the heavy burden of the past.

South Carolina Counseling Association Annual Conference

February 21 – 23, 2024, Myrtle Beach, SC

Dissociative Confusion and the Creation of Meaning: Sorting out Hypnosis, Mindfulness, Psychedelics and Such

There are questions to be answered – there seems to be confusion about the distinctions between mindfulness, hypnosis, meditation, and contemplation and about how they are practiced. For example, the use of hypnotic induction in mindfulness exercises occurs with increasing frequency. How should these tools be utilized in clinical practice and what is the current understanding of how they work? Does psilocybin work by inducing a dissociative phenomenon similar to hypnosis? (One and a half hour workshop).

Nine Ethical Values of Master Therapists

Studying best practices can involve studying the best practitioners. A snowball sampling approach was used to identify a group of 10 therapists – holding a variety of licenses – identified by their professional peers as “master therapists.” This presentation focuses on the ethical commitments of these “best of the best” therapists. (One hour workshop).

Galaxy of Stars

February 17 – 18, 2024, Live Virtual

Leaving the 19th Century: Contemporary Language and the Neuroscience of Hypnosis

Dr. Mau presented a three and a half hour workshop

Advancements in neuroscience have opened up entirely new ways of understanding the process of hypnosis. A lot of the language we use to understand and describe hypnosis is not wrong, but is imprecise and based on experiential observations from before the advent of neuroimaging. Describing hypnosis using the latest findings and current terminology improves our understanding of our own process, increases our ability to be taken seriously by medical and mental health professionals, and makes our work more effective because it improves our client’s understanding of how our processes help them.

UK Hypnosis Convention

November 10 – 12, 2023, Live in London, England

Closing Keynote Address – The Brain Shows the Way

“The 2023 UK Hypnosis Convention will be the first time we will offer a closing keynote and it is going to be a regular feature at future events. We asked Dr Fredric Mau to deliver our inaugural closing keynote this year, we are delighted he accepted. Here is how we’ll be rounding things off…..

The Brain Shows the Way

We’ve known it works very efficiently for a long time. There is an entire language wrapped about the experience of hypnosis. The strangeness of the experience has led to stigma. Yet hypnosis is a neurological process that engages the body directly to create epiphany changes. Genetic factors can now tell us who is more likely to benefit from the process, and neuroimaging shows not only how changes are created but what sorts of issues are likely to be healed via our process. It is time to rethink our story and the ways we present what we do to the public, the medical community, and even ourselves. We offer a process for healing that is empirically validated, extremely effective, very fast, and solution focused.

Dr. Fredric Mau is a clinical mental health counselor in the U.S. He also serves as core faculty in a medical residency program teaching hypnosis to psychiatrists. As an investigator in a clinical trial his work has been published in the British Medical Journal.

Dr. Mau encapsulates the spirit of the UK Hypnosis Convention, and we are thrilled he is wrapping up this year’s fantastic conference. He is a regular and very popular presenter at our convention, understands our ethos, reflects our values, and supports our vision. This will be an engaging 30 minutes for Dr. Mau to promote the field and stamp some of his own thoughts and personality upon our closing, and for you to reflect upon the event.”

– Adam Eason, Conference President, UKHC

Superhero Regression: The Active Wiser You

Dr. Mau presented a one hour workshop. Regression is a fantastic way to address trauma, but does it have to be problem-focused? In this fun, substantive, interactive workshop Dr. Mau will demonstrate a regression process and will explore fresh solution-focused approaches to a tried-and-true hypnotic technique. Be prepared to open your eyes to new ways to engage your client’s active superhero creativity and self-healing.

National Guild of Hypnotists Convention

August 11 – 13, 2023, Live in Marlborough MA

Epigenetics: Nurture, Nature, Change, and Hope

Dr. Mau presented a two hour workshop.

Hypnosis for Pain Relief: Practical, Ethical, Neurologically Powerful

Dr. Mau presented a one hour lecture.

Pain relief is arguably the most effective use of hypnosis. If your client suffers ongoing pain it will make any other issues they are facing worse. Hypnotic pain relief is so powerful that in clinical studies it is effective for even low-suggestible clients. Opioid blockers can block acupuncture- or placebo-based relief, but not hypnotic pain relief. Dr. Mau will demonstrate practical techniques you can use immediately with your clients and describe the neurological basis of pain relief. Hypnosis is a standard of care – not complimentary or alternative – treatment for physical pain which can be safely and ethically administered by consulting hypnotists. You can understand it and do it!

HypnoExpo 2023 Conference

May 19-21, 2023, Live in Orlando FL

Hypnosis for Pain Relief: Practical, Ethical, Neurologically Powerful

Dr. Mau presented a two hour workshop.

Epigenetics: Nurture, Nature, Change, and Hope

Dr. Mau presented a one hour lecture.

USC School of Medicine, SC Department of Mental Health

& Prisma Health

March 17, 2023, live virtual via Zoom

Grand Rounds – Dissociative Confusion and the Creation of Meaning: Sorting out Hypnosis, Mindfulness, Psychedelics and Such

There seems to be confusion about the distinctions between mindfulness, hypnosis, meditation, and contemplation and about how they are practiced. For example, the use of hypnotic induction in mindfulness exercises occurs with increasing frequency. How should these tools be utilized in clinical practice and what is the current understanding of how they work? Does psilocybin work by inducing a dissociative phenomenon similar to trance?
Dr. Mau presented a one hour grand rounds session addressing these questions and exploring the nature and clinical uses of hypnosis for neuropsychiatry faculty from the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, staff psychiatrists from the South Carolina Department of Mental Health, and psychiatry residents from Prisma Health. At a fundamental level the creation of meaning is not a cognitive process. His presentation explored the uses of dissociation to create meaning, with a focus on clinical application.

South Carolina Counseling Association Annual Conference

February 23-25, 2023, Live on Hilton Head Island, SC

Physical Pain Relief: Standard of Care Relief You Can Provide

Dr. Mau presented a two hour breakout session.

Chronic physical pain is processed in the same brain regions as psychological pain like depression. Cooccurring chronic pain makes all mental health issues worse. Fortunately, there are a number of standard-of-care behavioral health approaches which can be used by counselors to help clients mitigate or even physical pain. We will consider these, and how they can be used effectively in your practice.

Epigenetics: Nurture, Nature, Change, and Hope

Dr. Mau presented a 90 minute breakout session.
Behaviors and emotional orientation can be physically inherited. This soft inheritance is not via genetic changes; epigenetics refers to heritable chemical modifications to DNA that alter gene activity without changing nucleotide sequence. Your clients may believe that they have inherited a family curse like trauma or addiction. The good news that, unlike genetic inheritance, epigenetic inheritances are not destiny can be changed. We will review the current state of behavioral epigenetics with a focus on ways to help and encourage your clients as they create change.

UK Hypnosis Convention

November 11 – 13, 2022, Live in London, England

Hypnotic Technology for Pain Relief at Home:

Virtual Reality Assisted Guided Imagery (VR-AGI) for Patients with Advanced Cancer

Dr. Fredric Mau and Dr. Teny Gomez, MD, PI, will described the first-ever randomized controlled human trial of virtual reality assisted guided imagery in a home setting. This process uses three hypnotic metaphors based on seasons to create numbness, alter pain perception by altering the associated learning channel, and reduce pain via reducing general anxiety. The goal is not mere distraction for a brief interval, but to diminish the patient’s ongoing perception of pain.

Prisma Upstate Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine

August 17, 2022, Live in Greenville SC

Hypnosis and Other Therapeutic Interventions for Pain

Dr. Mau presented an hour and a half training for psychiatric fellows on standard of care nonpharmacological pain relief.

National Guild of Hypnotists Convention

August 12 – 14, 2022, Live in Marlborough MA

The Client’s Vision: Clarifying, Motivating, Powerful

Dr. Mau presented a two hour workshop.

Using the client’s language to create personalized hypnotic processes from induction to emerging is incredibly powerful. Dr. Fredric Mau is a clinical mental health counselor, sought-after international keynote speaker, and winner of the 2016 Hypnosis Research Award. This workshop focuses on practical experiences with clients, modeled by a recognized master therapist. From pretalk through the entire process Dr. Mau demonstrates his solid approach to help clients create futures which are healed, bright, healthy, and joyful.

Speechless for Six Months

Dr. Mau presented a one hour seminar.

This is a case study of a 16-year-old client who was unable to speak for six months. You will hear audio recordings of the client as she recovers her voice within one hypnosis session. In this practical session, Dr. Mau will describe the techniques used as well as the rationale for his approach. There was no underlying medical problem – the difficulty was functional. Hypnosis is an excellent way to treat functional neurological issues.
Functional neurological disorder (FND) is a medical condition in which there is a problem with the functioning of the nervous system and how the brain and body sends and/or receives signals, rather than a structural disease process. For example, psychogenic seizures are functional (there is nothing to see on an MRI), while epileptic seizures are structural (the problem shows up on an MRI).

HTLX – HypnoThoughts Live, 10th Anniversary Conference

July 29 – 31, 2022, Live in Las Vegas NV

Superhero Regression: The Active Wiser You

Dr. Mau presented a two hour breakout session.

What if the ways we think about hypnotic regression, and the expectations we create for our clients for this process, are really focused backwards when they can be powerfully focused forward?

Regression is a fantastic way to address trauma, but does it have to be problem-focused? This fun, substantive, interactive workshop will explore fresh solution-focused approaches to a tried-and-true hypnotic technique, and open your eyes to new ways to engage your client’s active superhero creativity and self-healing.

Traumatic or anxiety disorders engage the same neurological functionality as high hypnotic suggestibility. While talking about trauma in waking state tends to reinforce emotions of horror – usually a bad idea – dealing with them in relaxed state takes advantage of the brain’s function to mute out emotions of horror.

Medical Panel Discussion

Dr. Mau led and participated in the Medical Panel Discussion.

EDRA53 Conference

June 1-4, 2022, Live in Greenville SC

Seasonal Changes in Virtual Natural Landscapes and Pain Reduction: Piloting Virtual Reality Assisted Guided Imagery (VR-AGI) for Patients with Advanced Cancer

Dr. Mau is the psychological investigator in a human trial of Virtual Reality Assisted Guided Imagery (VR-AGI) for Patients with Advanced Cancer. This research is being conducted by a multidisciplinary team from Clemson University and Prisma Health. Dr. Mau represented the research team at EDRA and gave an individual presentation. The goals of the presentation were to:

Describe the nature and advantages of non-pharmacological pain relief.
Recognize the environmental factors taken into consideration in designing Virtual Reality Assisted Guided Imagery (VR-AGI) as a viable at-home solution for advanced cancer patients experiencing pain.
Identify psychosocial and psychosomatic avenues that VR-AGI can help with in advanced cancer patients.
Illustrate VR-AGI as a potential intervention in the struggle against opioid use dependency in cancer associated pain.

Environmental Design Research Association
EDRA’s purpose is to advance and disseminate research, teaching, and practice toward improving an understanding of the relationships among people, their built environments, and natural eco-systems.

The mission of EDRA is to provide a collaborative, multidisciplinary community to connect theory, research, teaching, and practice to recognize, create and advocate for environments that are responsive to diverse human needs. EDRA is committed to equity, inclusion, and respect for all persons.

Paper: Seasonal Changes in Virtual Natural Landscapes and Pain Reduction

The EDRA abstract as submitted

HypnoExpo 2022 Conference

May 11 – 15, 2022, Live in Orlando FL

Superhero Regression: The Active Wiser You

Dr. Mau presented a two hour breakout session.
What if the ways we think about hypnotic regression, and the expectations we create for our clients for this process, are really focused backwards when they can be powerfully focused forward?

Your First Session: Seeking Solutions, not Finding Problems

Dr. Mau presented a 45 minute breakout session.
Your client’s healing does not lie in their history! This quick fun presentation focuses on using the first session to stir the client’s creativity to give you the information you need for your entire course of work with that client. Since Freud many approaches to both hypnotherapy and psychotherapy focus on the past, discovering how things went off the rails, and cultivating client insight. Milton Erickson recognized the truth, that insight is not necessary for change. It’s time to really let go of the past and see clear ways to move forward.

South Carolina Counseling Association Annual Conference

February 17-20, 2022, Live on Hilton Head Island, SC

Re-Visioning the Past: Guided Imagery and Memory Reconsolidation to Treat Trauma

Dr. Mau presented a two hour breakout session.
Problem-focused therapies focus on recalling past experiences to gain insight, however recent literature indicates this is not as therapeutically important as changing the current narratives about past happenings. Memory reconsolidation provides a powerful model to reactivate old memories and engage in new emotional experiences to create a new way of behaving and experiencing the world, and guided imagery is an excellent way to engage this process.

Envisioning the Future: Embracing Solution-Focused Treatment, Planning, and Motivation

Dr. Mau presented a 90 minute breakout session.
Solution-focused therapies provide a distinct approach which is substantively different from both past- oriented therapeutic approaches and psychoeducation. This session is designed to draw a sharp contrast between problem- and solution-focused approaches, with a goal of empowering clients in personalized treatment planning, building client motivation for change, and releasing counselors from the heavy burden of the past.

Watermark Counseling Professional Hypnosis Certification Course

Professional Hypnosis Certification by Dr. Mau

January – February, 2022, Live in Columbia SC

Dr. Mau taught this course, which leads to certification as a Certified Hypnotist or Hypnotherapist by the National Guild of Hypnotists (NGH). The course is open to members of the public as well as mental health and medical professionals. This course is taught beginning in January each year, and can be attended live or via live interactive virtual.

Professional Hypnosis Certification Course

Australian Hypnotherapists Association Pain Relief Workshop

Hypnosis: Standard-of-Care Relief for Physical Pain

October 15-16, 2021, Live interactive virtual for Australian participants

Dr. Mau presented a two-day workshop on Hypnosis: Standard-of-Care Relief for Physical Pain for the Australian Hypnotherapists Association

Brain U Turn – Head Off Problems Before They Happen

NGH 2021 Virtual Convention

August 13-15, 2021, Prerecorded virtual

Dr. Mau presented a one hour seminar on Brain U Turn—Head off Problems Before They Happen.

Speechless for Six Months: Hypnosis to Change Physical Symptoms

July 30 – August 1, 2021, Live in Las Vegas NV

Dr. Mau presented a two hour workshop on Speechless for Six Months: Hypnosis to Change Physical Symptoms at HypnoThoughts Live.

Future Now: 300 Milliseconds and the Failure of Cognitive Change

May 21 – 23, 2021, Live interactive virtual

Dr. Mau gave a lecture on Future Now: 300 Milliseconds and the Failure of Cognitive Change and a workshop on The Power of Your Client’s Words, at HypnoExpo 2021.

The Neurology of Horror: Why Hypnosis is the Perfect Trauma Treatment

April 10 – 11, 2021, Live interactive virtual for Australian participants

Dr. Mau presented a two day training on The Neurology of Horror: Why Hypnosis is the Perfect Trauma Treatment.

South Carolina Counseling Association Annual Conference

February 18 – 21, 2021, Live in Hilton Head, SC (also available via live interactive virtual)

Dr. Mau presented at the SCCA Annual Conference with the following presentations:

Presidential Breakfast plenary session on Gandalf’s Ring
Preconference workshop on Future Now: 300 Milliseconds and the Limits of Cognitive Change
Motivational Interviewing (90 minutes)
The Client’s Vision: Clarifying, Motivating, Powerful (2 hours)

Professional Hypnosis Certification Course

January – February 2021, Columbia, SC, Live and live interactive virtual

Dr. Fredric Mau presented his Professional Hypnosis Certification Course over five weekends beginning January 23, 2021.

Click here to register for our upcoming course

Flying Reindeer & Magical Corn: The Winter Warlock’s Counseling Counsel

December 18, 2020, Live interactive virtual

Dr. Mau spoke on Flying Reindeer and Magical Corn: The Winter Warlock’s Counseling Counsel for the South Carolina Counseling Association’s CE Roundtable.

Counseling in the Aftermath of the Election

December 2, 2020, Live interactive virtual

Dr. Mau participated in a panel discussion on Counseling in the Aftermath of the Election for the South Carolina Counseling Association’s SC Counselors Care series.

Hypnosis in Psychiatric Treatment

August 5, 2020, Greenville, SC, Live

Dr. Mau presented to Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Fellows on Hypnosis in Psychiatric Treatment for Prisma Upstate’s Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Medicine.

300 Milliseconds: The Flash Future and Real Change

August 14 – 16, 2020, Las Vegas, NV, Live

Dr. Mau live in Las Vegas on 300 Milliseconds: The Flash Future and Real Change at HypnoThoughts Live!

HypnoExpo 2020

March 27 – 29, Live interactive virtual

Dr. Mau presented workshops on COVID-19, Cytokine Storms and Psychoimmunology and Meaning and the Brain: The Neuropsychology of Story and Change at the International Association of Counselors & Therapists / International Association of Professional Hypnotists annual HypnoExpo 2020 International Hypnosis Conference.

Prisma Health Seminars

March 31, 2020, Greenville, SC, Live interactive virtual

Dr. Mau presented MIPH Resident Seminars on Psychiatry and Spirituality I and on Hypnosis I for Prisma Upstate’s Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Medicine.

MUSC Workshops

March 12 – 13, 2020, Charleston, SC, Live

Dr. Fredric Mau presented a two-day workshop on Relaxation-Based Pain Relief at the Medical University of South Carolina.

South Carolina Counseling Association Annual Conference

February 20 – 22, 2020, Hilton Head Island, SC, Live

Dr. Mau presented sessions on Magic Movies & Smoke Detectors: Hypnosis for Phobia and Panic and Brain U-Turn: Head off Problems Before They Happen at the South Carolina Counseling Association Annual Conference.

Professional Hypnosis Certification Course

January – February 2020, Columbia, SC, Live and live interactive virtual

Dr. Fredric Mau presented his Professional Hypnosis Certification Course over five weekends beginning January 2020.

Click here to register for our upcoming course

The Three Doors: The Core Protocol to Treat Anxiety

November 8, 2019, London, England

Dr. Mau presented The Three Doors: The Core Protocol to Treat Anxiety (1 hour, 45 minutes) at the UK Hypnosis Convention.

Click here to view Dr. Mau’s UKHC pre-conference speaker interview (recorded from Australia):
https://ukhypnosisconvention.co.uk/ukhc-2019-speaker-interviews-fredric-mau/

Meaning and the Brain: The Neuropsychology of Story and Change

November 1 – 3, 2019, Zürich, Switzerland

Dr. Mau spoke on Meaning and the Brain: The Neuropsychology of Story and Change, at the international Hypnosekongress.

Secondary Benefit Traps: Emotional and Social Obstacles to Stroke and Head Injury Recovery

October 30 – 31, 2019, Zürich, Switzerland

Dr. Mau presented two day training on Secondary Benefit Traps: Emotional and Social Obstacles to Stroke and Head Injury Recovery for the International Forced Use Specialist Association (IFUSA) a group which specializes in stroke and head injury recovery.

70th Anniversary Australian Hypnotherapists Association World Conference

September 13 – 15, 2019, Brisbane, Australia

Dr. Mau presented the keynote address Speechless for Six Months: Hypnosis, Cognition and Body Effects at the 70th Anniversary Australian Hypnotherapists Association World Conference.

National Guild of Hypnotists Convention & Educational Conference

August 9 – 11, 2019, Marlborough, MA

Dr. Mau presented two 1 hour seminars, on Speechless for Six Months: Hypnosis for Functional Neurological Issues and Body Effects, and on Opioid Alternative: The Neuroscience and Practice of Hypnotic Pain Relief at the National Guild of Hypnotists Convention & Educational Conference.

Removing The Family Curse – Epigenetics and A Message Of Hope

May 18, 2019, Daytona Beach, FL

Dr. Mau presented a two hour workshop on Removing The Family Curse – Epigenetics and a Message Of Hope at the International Association of Counselors & Therapists / International Association of Professional Hypnotists annual HypnoExpo 2019 International Hypnosis Conference.

Removing The Family Curse – Epigenetics and A Message Of Hope

May 18, 2019, Daytona Beach, FL

Relaxation-Based Pain Relief at the Southeastern Symposium

May 17, 2019, Greenville, SC

Dr. Mau presented an Overview of Relaxation-Based Pain Relief at the Southeastern Symposium on Mental Health Annual Conference psychiatric conference.

Relaxation-Based Pain Relief at the Caring Connections Conference

April 25, 2019, Florence, SC

Dr. Mau presented an Overview of Relaxation-Based Pain Relief at the Caring Connections Conference organized by the Clemson Office of Research & Organizational Development (OROD) and the SC Dept of Health and Human Services (SCDHHS).

Nonpharmacological Approaches to Pain Management

March 5, 2019, Greenville, SC

Dr. Mau presented Nonpharmacological Approaches to Pain Management at Greenville Health System’s Pain Collaborative for nurses.

Removing the Family Curse: Epigenetics as a Message of Hope

February 22, 2019, Hilton Head Island, SC

Dr. Mau presented a one hour breakout session on Removing the Family Curse: Epigenetics as a Message of Hope at the South Carolina Counseling Association Annual Conference.

Relaxation-Based Pain Relief

February 21 and 23, 2019, Hilton Head, SC

Dr. Mau presented the Relaxation-Based Pain Relief workshop the South Carolina Counseling Association Conference.

Spirituality in Counseling

February 12, 2019, Greenville, SC

Dr. Mau presented overviews on Spirituality in Counseling for second, third, and fourth year psychiatric residents at the Greenville Health System Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Medicine.

Hypnosis for Second and third year psychiatric residents

January 22, 2019, Greenville, SC

Dr. Mau presented overviews of Hypnosis for second and third year psychiatric residents at the Greenville Health System Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Medicine.

National Guild of Hypnotists

January – February, 2019, Columbia, SC

Dr. Fredric Mau presented the National Guild of Hypnotists’ Professional Hypnosis Certification Course.

Medicine-Palmetto Health CME Organization

January 12, 2019, Columbia, SC

Dr. Mau presented at the USC School of Medicine-Palmetto Health CME Organization’s 26th Annual Alcohol and Drug Issues Conference for Clinicians. He gave a one and a half hour presentation: Addiction – It’s (not) What You Think: Biochemistry, Meaning, and Resilience, and a one hour presentation: Relaxation-Based Pain Relief Overview.

Speechless for Six Months

November 2, 2018, London, England

Dr. Mau spoke on Speechless for Six Months: Hypnosis for Conversion Disorders and Body Effects.

Note: Conversion disorder is an older and alternate name for functional neurological disorder. It is not related to so-called “conversion therapy,” which is an unethical approach used to attempt to change an individual’s gender identity or sexual orientation. Although conversion disorder is still acceptable terminology in the DSM-5, I am using functional neurological disorder going forward to distinguish this from unrelated and unethical practices which share a similar and confusing name. A functional neurological disorder is a condition in which clients experience neurological symptoms where a physiological cause cannot be identified. Functional neurological disorders are contrasted with structural neurological disorders or organic brain syndromes where a medical basis for the symptoms can be identified. Examples would be epileptic seizures which have a physical neurological cause identifiable with MRI verses psychogenic seizures, where no physical cause can be identified. Functional neurological issues are not related to gender identity or sexual orientation.

Dr. Mau also participated in a panel discussion at the UK Hypnosis Convention.

Relaxation-Based Pain Relief

November 2, 2018, London, England

Dr. Mau presented a special one day training of Relaxation-Based Pain Relief at the UK Hypnosis Convention.

Speechless for Six Months

October 26-28, 2018, Zürich, Switzerland

Dr. Mau presented two 2 hour workshops at the international Hypnosekongress on Speechless for Six Months: Hypnosis for Conversion Disorders and Body Effects, and Introduction to Relaxation-Based Pain Relief (RBPR).

Chillin’ Through the Challenges: Hypnotic Stress Relief for Life and Work

October 3, 2018, Columbia, SC

Dr. Mau spoke at the Palmetto Health Foundation Women’s Leadership Circle on Chillin’ Through the Challenges: Hypnotic Stress Relief for Life and Work.

Mirror Neurons And Metaphors —Physical Bases For Crafting Powerful Hypnosis

August 10-12, 2018, Marlborough, MA

Dr. Mau presented a one hour seminar on Mirror Neurons And Metaphors —Physical Bases For Crafting Powerful Hypnosis and a two hour workshop on Removing The Family Curse—The Biology Of Passing On Emotional Memory at the National Guild of Hypnotists Convention in Marlborough, Massachusetts.Click here to see Dr. Mau interviewed by Paul Ramsay regarding the Removing the Family Curse epigenetics workshop: https://www.facebook.com/besthypnosistraining/videos/1854647431500094/?fref=gs&dti=112901375463270&hc_location=group

Click here to see Dr. Mau interviewed by Paul Ramsay regarding the Mirror Neurons And Metaphors —Physical Bases For Crafting Powerful Hypnosis seminar: https://www.facebook.com/besthypnosistraining/videos/1887633464868157/?fref=gs&dti=112901375463270&hc_location=group

Panel Discussion on Opioids, Opportunities, and Optimal Care

July 18, 2018

Dr. Mau participated in a panel discussion on Opioids, Opportunities, and Optimal Care in the Upstate at the Upstate Mental Health Showcase sponsored by GHS Academic Department of Psychiatry. This event provided 2.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

12 hour Relaxation-Based Pain Relief Workshop

June 26-27, 2018, Columbia, SC

Dr. Mau taught a two day, 12 hour Relaxation-Based Pain Relief workshop, in partnership with the University of South Carolina School of Medicine – Palmetto Health Continuing Medical Education Organization. This transdisciplinary activity was open to all licensed mental health and medical practitioners and was approved for: AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ for physicians, National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) CEs for professional counselors, Category A CEs for psychologists, non-contact CEs for social workers, and SC Nurse Association contact hours for nurses.

The Perfect Healing for Trauma

May 19-20, 2018, Daytona Beach, FL

Dr. Mau presented a one hour lecture on Hypnosis: The Perfect Healing for Trauma, and a two hour workshop on Speechless For Six Months: Hypnosis For Conversion Disorder at HypnoExpo 2018: the International Association of Counselors & Therapists / International Association of Professional Hypnotists Conference in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Speechless for Six Months: Hypnosis for Conversion Issues and Body Effects

May 18, 2018, Greenville, SC

Dr. Mau spoke on Speechless for Six Months: Hypnosis for Conversion Issues and Body Effects at the Southeastern Symposium on Mental Health Annual Conference in Greenville, SC.

Interviewed by Selena Valentine for HypnoBiz New York

April 3, 2018

Dr. Mau was interviewed by Selena Valentine for HypnoBiz New York.
To see the interview visit the podcasts page.

Hypnosis for Pain Alleviation

February 27, 2018

Dr. Mau provided a demonstration of hypnosis and spoke on Hypnosis for Pain Alleviation: Enchanting Relief Without Medication at the SC Workers’ Compensation Educational Association Medical Seminar in Charleston, SC.

Hypnosis is the oldest Western conception of psychotherapy. Substantive research including modern neuroimaging reveals why it is successful in the treatment of numerous psychological and medical conditions including pain management. During this session, Dr. Mau demonstrated hypnosis and share how it is used with injured workers.

The Three Doors

Speechless for Six Months

February 22-24, 2018

Dr. Mau presented one hour breakout sessions on The Three Doors: Hypnosis for the Emotional Treatment of Anxiety Disorders and Speechless for Six Months: Hypnosis for Conversion Issues and Body Effects, and a two hour breakout session on Opioid Alternative: The Neuroscience and Practice of Hypnosis & Mindfulness in Pain Relief at the South Carolina Counseling Associations’ conference in Myrtle Beach, SC.

Note: Conversion disorder is an older and alternate name for functional neurological disorder. It is not related to so-called “conversion therapy,” which is an unethical approach used to attempt to change an individual’s gender identity or sexual orientation. Although conversion disorder is still acceptable terminology in the DSM-5, I am using functional neurological disorder going forward to distinguish this from unrelated and unethical practices which share a similar and confusing name. A functional neurological disorder is a condition in which clients experience neurological symptoms where a physiological cause can be identified. Functional neurological disorders are contrasted with structural neurological disorders or organic brain syndromes where a medical basis for the symptoms can be identified. Examples would be epileptic seizures which have a physical neurological cause identifiable with MRI verses psychogenic seizures, where no physical cause can be identified. Functional neurological issues are not related to gender identity or sexual orientation.

Ines Simpson on Voice America

February 14, 2018

Dr. Mau was the Valentine’s Day guest with internationally respected hypnotist Ines Simpson on Voice America. To listen visit the podcasts page.

National Guild of Hypnotists’ Professional Hypnosis Certification Course

January-February, 2018

Dr. Fredric Mau taught the National Guild of Hypnotists’ Professional Hypnosis Certification Course.

The Neurology of Horror

November 3-5, 2017

Dr. Mau spoke on The Neurology of Horror: Why Hypnosis is the Perfect Trauma Treatment, at the UK Hypnosis Convention in London, England.

The Neurology of Horror

October 27-29, 2017

Dr. Mau spoke on The Neurology of Horror: Why Hypnosis is the Perfect Trauma Treatment, and The Three Doors: The Creative Subconscious Evaporates Stress, Anxiety & Anger at the international Hypnosekongress in Zürich, Switzerland.

Effective Opioid Management

October 10, 2017

Dr. Mau participated in a panel discussion on Effective Opioid Managment: Balancing New Strategies with Rising Costs at the SC Workers’ Compensation Educational Association Annual Educational Conference in Myrtle Beach, SC.

The panel will considered new tools and strategies continue to emerge in the quest to more effectively manage opioid use. This session explored the appropriate use of drug testing and other tools to assess and manage opioid risk.

Moderator: Ann Margaret McCraw, Midlands Orthopaedics and Neurosurgery, LLC, Columbia, SC

Participants:

Shailesh Patel, MD, Lowcountry Orthopaedics, Charleston, SC

Fredric Mau, NCC, Watermark Counseling LLC, Columbia, SC

Changes in Brain Function:

September 30, 2017

Dr. Mau presented the keynote speech, Changes in Brain Function: Clinical Pain and Anxiety Relief via Hypnosis and Mindfulness, at the Second Annual Palliative Care Symposium: Essential Steps to Comprehensive Management for Seriously Ill Patients.

The Biology of Passing on Emotional Memory

August 26, 2017

Dr. Mau spoke on Epigenetics: The Biology of Passing on Emotional Memory at HypnoThoughts Live 2017 in Las Vegas, NV

The Creative Subconscious Evaporates Stress, Anxiety & Anger

August 11-13, 2017

Dr. Mau will presented a one-hour seminar on The Three Doors—The Creative Subconscious Evaporates Stress, Anxiety & Anger and a two hour workshop on Genes, Memes & Epigenetics—A Message Of Hope For Your Clients at the National Guild of Hypnotists Convention in Marlborough, Massachusetts.

To hear a promotional interview with Dr. Mau about the Genes, Memes & Epigenetics workshop click here.

The Three Doors – A Metaphor for Treating Stress and Anxiety

May 21, 2017

Dr. Mau presented The Three Doors – A Metaphor for Treating Stress and Anxiety at the International Association of Counselors & Therapists / International Association of Professional Hypnotists HypnoExpo 2017 International Hypnosis Conference in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Hypnosis for the Emotional Treatment of Anxiety Disorders

May 12, 2017

Dr. Mau presented The Three Doors: Hypnosis for the Emotional Treatment of Anxiety Disorders at the Southeastern Symposium on Mental Health Annual Conference in Greenville, SC.

Depression: Unringing the Fire Alarm

April 27, 2017

Dr. Mau presented a directed meditation experience Depression: Unringing the Fire Alarm as part of the Hurdling Through Happiness series commemorating Counseling Awareness Month. The goal of the series is to highlight counseling as a process for life enhancement. Location: Richland Public Library. The program was free and for the public.

Hypnosis, Directed Mindfulness & CBT Guided Imagery for Trauma & Phobia

April 21, 2017

Dr. Mau presented a 6-CEU workshop for the SC Association of Licensed Professional Counselors
Horror Unwound: Hypnosis, Directed Mindfulness & CBT Guided Imagery for Trauma & Phobia at the Dorchester County Council Chambers, 500 North Main St., Summerville, SC 29203.

Conversion, Dissociation, Hypnosis & The Meaning and Treatment of Mental Disorder

February 23-25, 2017

Dr. Mau presented two workshops at the South Carolina Counseling Associations’ conference in Charleston, SC: “Conversion, Dissociation, Hypnosis & The Meaning and Treatment of Mental Disorder,” and “Addiction It’s (Not) What You Think: Biochemistry, Meaning, and Resilience.”
https://sccounselor.org/

Professional Hypnosis Certification Course

January – February, 2017

Dr. Fredric Mau taught the National Guild of Hypnotists’s Professional Hypnosis Certification Course.

Addiction: It’s (Not) What You Think

November 5-6, 2016

Dr. Mau presented a two hour workshop on Addiction: It’s (Not) What You Think, a one hour workshop on Hypnosis: State of the Art and Science, and a two hour workshop on Sexual Power, Predilections, and Preferences. Kongress information is at HypnoseKongress.net

Eliminate Anxiety: Four Powerful Metaphors

November 4, 2016

Dr. Mau presented a pre-conference workshop, Eliminate Anxiety: Four Powerful Metaphors that teach the Subconscious to Defeat Stress, at the International Hypnosekongress in Berlin, Germany.

Addiction: It’s (Not) What You Think

October 28-30, 2016

Dr. Mau spoke at the International Hypnosis Convention in London, England. Click here for a promotional video.
Saturday, October 29, 2016, Dr. Mau presented a two hour workshop on Addiction: It’s (Not) What You Think, and a two hour workshop on Hypnosis: State of the Art and Science. Sunday, October 30, Dr. Mau presented a two hour workshop on Sexual Power, Predilections, and Preferences.

Human Motivation–Mind Over Matter

October 18, 2016, 6:00 p.m.

Dr. Mau will presented Human Motivation–Mind Over Matter at the Run for God group at Riverland Hills Baptist Church, 201 Lake Murray Blvd, Irmo, SC 29063, Room 212.

It’s Distress – Treat the Stress

October 14, 2016

Dr. Mau presented a workshop for the SC Association of Licensed Professional Counselors:
It’s Distress – Treat the Stress: From depression to Tourette to eating disorders to phobias to trauma, Anxiety is the problem, and a creating a different reality is the solution.

Removing The Family Curse

August 12-14, 2016

Dr. Mau spoke on Removing The Family Curse—The Biology Of Passing On Emotional Memory at the National Guild of Hypnotists Convention in Marlborough, Massachusetts.

Depression with Delusions & Hallucinations

May 13-15, 2016

Dr. Mau spoke on Depression with Delusions & Hallucinations: A Case Study at the International Association of Counselors & Therapists / International Association of Professional Hypnotists HypnoExpo 2016 International Hypnosis Conference in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Physical Pain Alleviation

May 6 & 7, 2016

Dr. Mau spoke on Physical Pain Alleviation: Effective Hypnotic Treatments at the Southeastern Symposium on Mental Health in Greenville, SC.

Human Motivation–Mind Over Matter

April 5, 2016

Dr. Mau presented Human Motivation–Mind Over Matter at the Run for God group at Riverland Hills Baptist Church, 201 Lake Murray Blvd, Irmo, SC 29063, Room 212.

Hypnotic Regression

March 31 and April 1, 2016

Dr. Mau was the keynote speaker for the Tennessee Licensed Professional Counselors Association meeting in Nashville.
Friday, April 1, Dr. Mau presented the Keynote address, “The Three Doors – Practical Guided Imagery for the Emotional Treatment of Anxiety Disorders.”
Thursday 31, Dr. Mau taught a pre-conference session on “Hypnotic Regression – An Emotion-Based Process for Treating Trauma.” Tlpca.net

Hypnosis for the Emotional Treatment of Anxiety Disorders

February 25, 2016 and February 26, 2016

Dr. Mau also presented a Preconference workshop at the SCCA conference on Hypnotic Regression for the Treatment of Trauma.

Dr. Mau was the featured plenary speaker at the South Carolina Counseling Associations’ conference Awards Luncheon on Hilton Head. He spoke on The Three Doors – Hypnosis for the Emotional Treatment of Anxiety Disorders.

Distance Consulting & Technology

February 5, 2016, February 12, 2016, February 19, 2016

Dr. Mau presented a 4 CEU workshop on Distance Consulting & Technology in Counseling.

Dr. Mau presented a 4 CEU workshop on Pain Alleviation: Effective Hypnosis Techniques.

Dr. Mau presented a 4 CEU workshop on Motivational Interviewing and Waking State Hypnosis.

The Three Doors

January 13, 2016

Dr. Mau presented “The Three Doors: A Practical Guided Imagery for the Emotional Treatment of Anxiety Disorders” at Three Rivers Behavioral Health’s Food for Thought, 2900 Sunset Blvd, West Columbia, SC 29169.

Removing the Family Curse

November 20-23, 2015

Dr. Mau spoke on “Removing the Family Curse: The Biology of Passing on Emotional Memory,” and “Mirror Neurons & Metaphors: Physical Bases For Crafting Powerful Hypnosis” at the international Hypnosekongress in Zürich, Switzerland.

Creating Creativity

November 3, 2015, 6:00 p.m.

Dr. Mau presented “Creating Creativity: A Joyful Guided Imagery to Engage Your Creative Unconscious” at the Fairfield Arts Council. Meeting at The Century House, Town Hall, 270 S Dogwood Ave, Ridgeway, SC. 29130.

Mental Strength for Physical Performance

October 27, 2015

Dr. Mau presented “Mental Strength for Physical Performance” at the Run for God group at Riverland Hills Baptist Church, 201 Lake Murray Blvd, Irmo, SC 29063, Room 212.

The Three Doors

October 16, 2015

Dr. Mau presented “The Three Doors: A Practical Guided Imagery for the Emotional Treatment of Anxiety Disorders” at the Greenville Health System Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds.

Addiction – It’s (not) What You Think

October 14, 2015

Dr. Mau gave the keynote address at the Addiction Professionals of North Carolina conference in Wrightsville Beach, on “Addiction – It’s (not) What You Think: Biochemistry, Meaning, and Resilience.” Dr. Mau also presented a workshop on “Creating Different Realities: Interactive Workshop on Postmodern Approaches to Addiction Treatment.”

August 8, 2015
“Removing the Family Curse: The Biology of passing on Emotional Memory” Convention workshop, National Guild of Hypnotists convention.

August 7, 2015
“Mirror Neurons And Metaphors —Physical Bases For Crafting Powerful Hypnosis” Convention seminar, National Guild of Hypnotists convention.

June 13, 2015
“The Three Doors – Practical Guided Imagery for the Emotional Treatment of Anxiety Disorders,” Conference presentation, South Carolina Association of Licensed Professional Counselors.

February 27, 2015
“Hypnotic Regression for Trauma Release,” Conference presentation, South Carolina Counseling Association.

February 28, 2015
“Pain Alleviation: Effective Hypnosis Techniques,” Conference presentation, South Carolina Counseling Association.

November 23, 2014
Removing the Family Curse: The Biology of Passing on Emotional Memory.” Convention presentation, International Hypnosekongress, Zürich, Switzerland.

November 23, 2014
Mau’s Metaphors for Stress Relief.” Convention presentation, International Hypnosekongress, Zürich, Switzerland.

November 22, 2014
Mirror Neurons and Metaphors,” Convention presentation, International Hypnosekongress, Zürich, Switzerland.

November 21, 2014
Mau’s Metaphors for Stress Relief.” One day pre-convention workshop, International Hypnosekongress, Zürich, Switzerland.

October 28 2014
“Chillin’ Through the Challenges: Stress Relief for Life and Work.” Richland County Library staff development conference presentation.

August 10, 2014
“Mirror Neurons And Metaphors —Physical Bases For Crafting Powerful Hypnosis” Convention seminar, National Guild of Hypnotists convention.

December 1, 2013
“Mirror Neurons And Metaphors —Physical Bases For Crafting Powerful Hypnosis.” Convention presentation, International Hypnosekongress, Zürich, Switzerland.

December 1, 2013
“Static Cling & Deep Clean: Behavioral Epigenetics.” Convention presentation, International Hypnosekongress, Zürich, Switzerland.

November 30, 2013
“Coping: Depression – Addiction – OCD – Anger.” Convention presentation, International Hypnosekongress, Zürich, Switzerland.

November 9-10, 2013
Solution-Focused Regression & Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.” Two day training, Washington DC Hypnosis Center.

November 8 2013
“Static Cling & Deep Clean: Behavioral Epigenetics.” Meet and Greet presentation, Washington DC Hypnosis Center.

August 8 2013
“Mirror Neurons And Metaphors —Physical Bases For Crafting Powerful Hypnosis.” Convention seminar, National Guild of Hypnotists convention.

March 4, 2014
“Chillin’ Through the Challenges: Stress Relief for Life and Work.” Presentation, Sertoma Club.

February 22, 2013
“Performance & Emotion: Hypnosis and Relaxation to be Stress Free.” Presentation, Salem College.

August 12, 2012
“Mirror Neurons And Metaphors: Physical Bases For Crafting Powerful Hypnosis.” Convention seminar, National Guild of Hypnotists convention.

August 10, 2012
“Body Work: From Pain Alleviation to Parkinson’s Disease.” Convention seminar, National Guild of Hypnotists convention.

June 13, 2012
“Hypnosis in Healthcare.” SC Area Health Education Consortium (AHEC). Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC.

Aug 14, 2011
“Mirror Neurons & Metaphors: Physical Bases for Crafting Powerful Hypnosis .” Workshop, National Guild of Hypnotists Convention, Marlborough, MA.

April 7, 2011
“Hypnotic Processes for Cancer Patients.” Workshop at The Women’s Diagnostic Center, Rock Hill, SC.

Aug 15, 2010
“Mirror Neurons & Metaphors: Physical Bases for Crafting Powerful Hypnosis .” Workshop, National Guild of Hypnotists Convention, Marlborough, MA.

June 25, 2010
“Stress Reduction.” Staff Lunch and Learn at University of Phoenix, Columbia, SC.

June 16, 2010
“Hypnosis in Healthcare.” SC Area Health Education Consortium (AHEC). Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC.

Oct. 7, 2009
“Dealing with Employee Stress during a Down Economy.” South Carolina Manufacturers Alliance Conference, Spartanburg, SC.

Sept. 18, 2009
“Dealing with Employee Stress during a Down Economy.” South Carolina Manufacturers Alliance Human Resource Managers Meeting, Myrtle Beach, SC.

July 10, 2009
“Hypnosis in Counseling.” Day Treatment mental health program, counselor intern supervision session, Lynchburg, VA.

June 28, 2009
“Hypnosis.” Chapin Rotary Club, Chapin, SC.

June 11, 2009
“Hypnosis and Your Health Care Career.” Two presentations. 2009 South Carolina AHEC Health Careers Summer Institute, Lander University, Greenwood, SC.

Dec. 11, 2008
“It’s Beginning to Look a lot Like Crunch Time: How Santa Gets it Done” (Time Management). Greater Columbia Chamber of Commerce, Columbia, SC.

Oct. 22, 2008
“Chillin’ Through the Challenges: Stress Relief for Life and Work.” Shaw Industries, Columbia, SC.

Oct. 8, 2008
“Creating a Climate for Thriving Employees.” South Carolina Manufacturers Alliance Southeastern Workforce Protection Conference, Spartanburg, SC.

Sept. 12, 2008
“Hypnosis and Self-Hypnosis: Unleashing Your Other-Than-Conscious-Mind to Achieve Amazing Things.” Three-hour workshop, Believe SC, Columbia, SC.

April 24, 2008
“Basics of Hypnosis.” For Your Health series, Capitol City Club, Columbia, SC.

March 17, 2008
“Dental Uses of Hypnosis.” Columbia Dental Association, Columbia, SC.

March 3, 2008
“Creating a Climate for Thriving Employees.” South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation Department Annual Convention, Myrtle Beach, SC.

Feb. 12, 2008
“Chillin’ Through the Challenges: Stress Relief for Life and Work.” Carolina State Department of Labor, Licensing & Regulation, Business Partnership Network Conference, Columbia, SC.

Jan. 9, 2008
“Uses of Hypnosis.” Columbia Executives and Owner’s Association, Columbia, SC.

Jan. 8, 2008
“Cultivate the Climate for Growing Business and Thriving Employees.” Three-hour workshop. Small Business Development Center of University of South Carolina’s Moore School of Business, Columbia, SC.

Jan. 7, 2008
“Chillin’ Through the Challenges: Stress Relief for Life and Work.” Columbia Sertoma Club, Columbia, SC.

September 19, 2007
“Chillin’ Through the Challenges: Stress Relief for Life and Work.” Capital Rotary Club, Columbia, SC.

June 28, 2007
“Chillin’ Through the Challenges: Stress Relief for Life and Work.” Greater Columbia Chamber of Commerce, Columbia, SC.

March 23, 2007
“Chillin’ Through the Challenges: Stress Relief for Life and Work.” Vista Evening Rotary Club, Columbia, SC.

May 21, 2007
“The Highlands Ability Battery.” University of South Carolina Career Center staff in-service.

March 23, 2007
“Chillin’ Through the Challenges: Stress Relief for Life & Work.” Five Points Rotary Club, Columbia, SC.

Jan. 25, 2007
“Chillin’ Through the Challenges: Stress Relief for Life and Work.” The Columbia Chapter of Credit Unions, Columbia, SC.

Jan. 25, 2007
“Medical Uses of Hypnosis.” Palmetto Health Baptist, Physician’s Continuing Medical Education Activity, Columbia, SC.

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Previous Presentations by Dr. Mau

Using Rapid Hypnotic Induction and Catalepsy to Treat Functional Neurological Syndrome Disorders

3 CEs

HTL – HypnoThoughts Live

Victory Over Trauma: Solution-Focused Regression

Inter-Vision

Epigenetics: Nurture, Nature, Change, and Hope

Hypnosekongress Zürich

Gee Whiz! Hypnosis! Fun things, build your practice, and a bit of science!

The Three Doors: a Protocol for Anxiety

Hypnotic Conference

Epigenetics: Nurture, Nature, Change, and Hope

HypnoExpo Conference

Up, Up, and Away! Hyperemperia – Not Hypnosis!

Quick Fun for Building your Practice

Therapy Trauma Conference 2026

The Neurology of Horror: Why Hypnosis is the Perfect Treatment for Trauma

CareCola

The Neurology and Nature of Hypnosis

British Society of Clinical & Academic Hypnosis

Matching diagnosis and treatment: The neuroscience of hypnosis andclinical practice

Mind Explorations Podcast

Hypnosis – What’s it Good for and How Does it Work?

Guild of Australian Hypnotherapists

Hypnosis for Pain Relief: Practical, Ethical, Neurologically Powerful

The Three Doors: a Protocol for Anxiety

Inter-Vision

A Practical Use for Instant Induction in Clinical Hypnosis

Physician’s Lunch Lecture

Non-pharmacological Pain Management

Medical Seminar

Turning the Tide: Innovative Approaches to the Opioid Crisis & Emerging Alternative Therapies

South Carolina Counseling Association Annual Conference

Relieving Physical Pain: Ethics and Practice

Brief Trauma Treatment: Solution-Focused Hypnotic Regression

Watermark Counseling Professional Hypnosis Certification Course

Professional Hypnosis Certification by Dr. Mau

UK Hypnosis Convention

A Practical Use for Rapid Induction in Clinical Hypnosis

Hypnosis Education Association

Keynote Address – Let’s Get Un-Hypnotized

Deutsches Institut für Klinische Hypnose

TWO Three-Day Workshops – Hypnosis for Pain Relief: Practical, Ethical, Neurologically Powerful

Academy of Clinical Hypnotherapy (Canada) – Winter Speaker Series

First Session Sets the Pace: Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy & the Miracle Question

COMISS Network (Council on Ministry in Specialized Settings)

Pastoral Psychotherapy Roundtable Discussion: “Collaboration for the Integration of Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Development in Counseling and Psychotherapy.”

India Chapter – International Association of Counselors & Therapists

The Neurology of Hypnosis

National Guild of Hypnotists Convention

Dissociative Confusion And The Creation Of Meaning—Sorting Out Hypnosis, Mindfulness, Psychedelics And Such

Superhero Regression—The Active Wiser You

HTL – HypnoThoughts Live

A Practical Use for Rapid Induction in Clinical Hypnosis: Functional Neurological Syndrome Disorders

First Session Sets the Pace: Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy & the Miracle Question

Hypnosekongress Zürich

Keynote Address

A Practical Use for Rapid Induction in Clinical Hypnosis: Functional Neurological Syndrome Disorders

Matching diagnosis and treatment: The neuroscience of hypnosis andclinical practice

Epigenetics: Nurture, Nature, Change, and Hope

HypnoExpo Conference

Rapid Hypnotic Induction in Clinical Hypnosis

Hypnosis and Trauma

Do We have an Ethical Responsibility to Prevent PTSD?

Irish Hypnotherapy Conference

A Practical Use for Rapid Induction in Clinical Hypnosis: Functional Neurological Syndrome Disorders

Arizona Society for Professional Hypnosis

The Neurology of Hypnosis

South Carolina Counseling Association Annual Conference

Do We have an Ethical Responsibility to Prevent PTSD?

Using Rapid Hypnotic Induction to Treat Functional Neurological Syndrome Disorders

American Legion

Relief of Pain and Trauma

Hypnosis Education Association

HEA HypnoConnect on The Neurology of Hypnosis, Trauma, and Anxiety: Be More Effective Working with Clients and Talking to Doctors

UK Hypnosis Convention

Hypnosis for Pain Relief: Practical, Ethical, Neurologically Powerful

Beaumont Counseling Services

Matching diagnosis and treatment: The neuroscience of hypnosis and clinical practice

Australian Hypnotherapists Association

Matching diagnosis and treatment: The neuroscience of hypnosis and
clinical practice

Matching diagnosis and treatment: The neuroscience of hypnosis and
clinical practice