--- product_id: 3762489 title: "Integrative Hypnosis: A Comprehensive Course in Change" price: "€ 76.15" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.at/products/3762489-integrative-hypnosis-a-comprehensive-course-in-change store_origin: AT region: Austria --- # Integrative Hypnosis: A Comprehensive Course in Change **Price:** € 76.15 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Integrative Hypnosis: A Comprehensive Course in Change - **How much does it cost?** € 76.15 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.at](https://www.desertcart.at/products/3762489-integrative-hypnosis-a-comprehensive-course-in-change) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Winner of the prestigious I.M.D.H.A Pen and Quill Award for 2011 This book will change your mind, your practice and your clients. Melissa Tiers has mastered the art of making the complicated simple, the magical practical and learning delightful. Drawing directly from her dynamic live teaching sessions, A Comprehensive Course in Change takes you on an inspirational and practical journey through the most powerful change techniques, combining: Classical and Ericksonian hypnosis, Neuro Linguistic Programming, Cognitive, Behavioral and Energy Psychology. The latest research in neuroscience, mind/body medicine and unconscious processing is integrated to guide you and your clients through real life changes on multiple levels. Containing demonstrations, metaphors and hypnotic language patterns, this single, simple, easy-to-follow book brings to life Melissa's exciting and infectious teaching approach. A must read for anyone in the fields of mental health, hypnosis, coaching, and alternative healing. Review: Very useful book for aspiring hypnotherapists - The book Integrative Hypnosis is written as a transcript from a workshop. Perhaps about 80% of this book consists of NLP techniques, so if you have attended NLP training, they will not be new to you. However, since NLP is generally thought through NLP workshops, and most hypnosis courses teach only classical hypnosis techniques, if you've only learned classical hypnosis, then this book will open a new world for you. Some of the NLP techniques covered in this book are calibration, eye accessing cues, submodalities, pacing, leading, anchoring, stacking anchors, collapsing anchors, swish, time-lines, few hypnotic language patterns and meta model, backward spin, reframing, future pacing, and of course an overview of NLP presuppositions. Even NLP training programs tend to teach you just techniques, not necessarily offer suggestions for different situations where you may use them. The author of this book, Melissa, on the other hand, shares with you varieties of techniques she picked up, from hypnosis, NLP, EFT and few other places and then opens you up to brainstorm the possibilities of techniques you may use to help a client to stop smoking, lose weight, manage pain, engage the body to heal itself, deliver a child, explore past lives, transform emotions like anger and fear, even explore spiritual questions like "who am I?" You'll also learn different ways of inducing trance in Ericksonian hypnosis, including arm catalepsy, handshake induction, hand drop induction, a review of an induction from Bandler's book Trance-formations, as well as the fact that sometimes you don't need to use any formal induction because simply directing the client's attention to a subjective experience, will guide the client into a trance. The essence of Ericksonian approach to hypnosis is utilization - utilizing what is already present in a client to help the client solve the problem. For that reason, you will not find hypnotherapy scripts in this book, though you will find hypnotic suggestions interspersed throughout the book, giving you an idea of possible ways in which you may use hypnotic language to help the client get desired outcomes. This book is only a start. Its purpose being to elicit curiosity in you to learn more. Some techniques in this book may help you to get even instant results in some situations, while other techniques you may need to practice perhaps for months or maybe even years to develop the mastery, and the learning really never stops. The more techniques you have under your belt, the more you experiment, the more skillfully you'll be able to deal with any situation, because if one thing doesn't work, you'll always be able to try something else. Review: Pragmatic and inspiring - I'm not a specialist. I'm a philosopher and I study consciousness; after a surprisingly effective experience with hypnotherapy I wanted to learn more about it. I read for a living, so I did what I always do: I indiscriminately read a bunch of books in the order available (from Milton Erickson to Richard Bandler, through some less prominent names like McKay, Hewitt or Friesen and everything kindle-available on desertcart). I can definitely say that I benefited the most from Melissa Tiers' "Integrative Hypnosis". The book is a polished transcript from a class Tiers was teaching. Whether it's about her way of teaching or the skill of the editor, the book manages to take you inside the seminar room, and experience the content of the course as an unfolding dialog of sorts. What made it so useful to me is Tiers' ability to synthesize a variety of metods I've read about elsewhere, give them a personal touch and integrate them into a comprehensive, sensible attitude that I ended up admiring. Here is one way in which this specific attitude comes through. Where other hypnotists would always say things like "you now feel that your arms are heavy", Tiers would prefer saying "You *might notice* that your arms are heavy", or "You have perhaps already succeeded in making your arms feel heavy". This is not an actual example (I don't have the book with me writing the review), but it illustrates her determination to shift the power from the therapist to the client whenever possible. You get the impression that she is not teaching you how to be a great hypnotist; she's teaching how to make your clients feel good and in control. It's a skill of "modest hypnosis", where the healer is conceived as a facilitator and a companion rather than a savior or a healer. Bandler tries to do that sometimes, but he's so full of himself that it's very unconvincing—you know that he is always thinking "But I'm so damn awesome, and it really helps". Another good thing about Tiers is her flexible approach to 'method'. Where others would try to sell you the limited toolbox (of, say, NLP or Time Line therapy), she tells you: here is a bunch of methods. Here is how I used them; here is what I changed and why. This worked, and this didn't. Take it all and use it creatively; try to not get stuck. One more thing: I'm incredibly sensitive to unwarranted, exaggerated statements and unreflective 'spiritual enthusiasm'. This is why I loathed most of the readings on hypnosis (from the outside of the proper 'Ericksonian' tradition). Past lives regression? Universal consciousness? Please! I had to use so much of my energy to drag the useful stuff from underneath the craziness. Tiers finds a way to talk about some beliefs associated with particular hypnotic practices with commonsensical arguments; she is calm and non-judgmental. When asked about past lives regression, for instance, she said "Well, the unconscious mind speaks in metaphors". It's a great way to both, defend the practice and put it in perspective. About one other thing she said something along the lines of "If it really worked it would probably be on CNN, but I like to think it's true". This kind of honesty about one's longing for spirituality (whatever 'spirituality' is, but you get my point, I hope) wins me over immediately; a commitment to spirituality that lacks reflection, on the other hand, makes me want to rip my arm off and beat myself with it real hard. I didn't have to do it with Tiers once. She's teaching in NYC and she knows how to deal with her audience. So, if you're interested in hypnotherapy, you should get this book. It's a good one. ## Features - Used Book in Good Condition ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #1,205,772 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #222,178 in Religion & Spirituality (Books) #680,699 in Literature & Fiction (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 191 Reviews | ## Images ![Integrative Hypnosis: A Comprehensive Course in Change - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51ZdlL9fN7L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very useful book for aspiring hypnotherapists *by L***O on November 18, 2011* The book Integrative Hypnosis is written as a transcript from a workshop. Perhaps about 80% of this book consists of NLP techniques, so if you have attended NLP training, they will not be new to you. However, since NLP is generally thought through NLP workshops, and most hypnosis courses teach only classical hypnosis techniques, if you've only learned classical hypnosis, then this book will open a new world for you. Some of the NLP techniques covered in this book are calibration, eye accessing cues, submodalities, pacing, leading, anchoring, stacking anchors, collapsing anchors, swish, time-lines, few hypnotic language patterns and meta model, backward spin, reframing, future pacing, and of course an overview of NLP presuppositions. Even NLP training programs tend to teach you just techniques, not necessarily offer suggestions for different situations where you may use them. The author of this book, Melissa, on the other hand, shares with you varieties of techniques she picked up, from hypnosis, NLP, EFT and few other places and then opens you up to brainstorm the possibilities of techniques you may use to help a client to stop smoking, lose weight, manage pain, engage the body to heal itself, deliver a child, explore past lives, transform emotions like anger and fear, even explore spiritual questions like "who am I?" You'll also learn different ways of inducing trance in Ericksonian hypnosis, including arm catalepsy, handshake induction, hand drop induction, a review of an induction from Bandler's book Trance-formations, as well as the fact that sometimes you don't need to use any formal induction because simply directing the client's attention to a subjective experience, will guide the client into a trance. The essence of Ericksonian approach to hypnosis is utilization - utilizing what is already present in a client to help the client solve the problem. For that reason, you will not find hypnotherapy scripts in this book, though you will find hypnotic suggestions interspersed throughout the book, giving you an idea of possible ways in which you may use hypnotic language to help the client get desired outcomes. This book is only a start. Its purpose being to elicit curiosity in you to learn more. Some techniques in this book may help you to get even instant results in some situations, while other techniques you may need to practice perhaps for months or maybe even years to develop the mastery, and the learning really never stops. The more techniques you have under your belt, the more you experiment, the more skillfully you'll be able to deal with any situation, because if one thing doesn't work, you'll always be able to try something else. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pragmatic and inspiring *by K***P on February 17, 2013* I'm not a specialist. I'm a philosopher and I study consciousness; after a surprisingly effective experience with hypnotherapy I wanted to learn more about it. I read for a living, so I did what I always do: I indiscriminately read a bunch of books in the order available (from Milton Erickson to Richard Bandler, through some less prominent names like McKay, Hewitt or Friesen and everything kindle-available on Amazon). I can definitely say that I benefited the most from Melissa Tiers' "Integrative Hypnosis". The book is a polished transcript from a class Tiers was teaching. Whether it's about her way of teaching or the skill of the editor, the book manages to take you inside the seminar room, and experience the content of the course as an unfolding dialog of sorts. What made it so useful to me is Tiers' ability to synthesize a variety of metods I've read about elsewhere, give them a personal touch and integrate them into a comprehensive, sensible attitude that I ended up admiring. Here is one way in which this specific attitude comes through. Where other hypnotists would always say things like "you now feel that your arms are heavy", Tiers would prefer saying "You *might notice* that your arms are heavy", or "You have perhaps already succeeded in making your arms feel heavy". This is not an actual example (I don't have the book with me writing the review), but it illustrates her determination to shift the power from the therapist to the client whenever possible. You get the impression that she is not teaching you how to be a great hypnotist; she's teaching how to make your clients feel good and in control. It's a skill of "modest hypnosis", where the healer is conceived as a facilitator and a companion rather than a savior or a healer. Bandler tries to do that sometimes, but he's so full of himself that it's very unconvincing—you know that he is always thinking "But I'm so damn awesome, and it really helps". Another good thing about Tiers is her flexible approach to 'method'. Where others would try to sell you the limited toolbox (of, say, NLP or Time Line therapy), she tells you: here is a bunch of methods. Here is how I used them; here is what I changed and why. This worked, and this didn't. Take it all and use it creatively; try to not get stuck. One more thing: I'm incredibly sensitive to unwarranted, exaggerated statements and unreflective 'spiritual enthusiasm'. This is why I loathed most of the readings on hypnosis (from the outside of the proper 'Ericksonian' tradition). Past lives regression? Universal consciousness? Please! I had to use so much of my energy to drag the useful stuff from underneath the craziness. Tiers finds a way to talk about some beliefs associated with particular hypnotic practices with commonsensical arguments; she is calm and non-judgmental. When asked about past lives regression, for instance, she said "Well, the unconscious mind speaks in metaphors". It's a great way to both, defend the practice and put it in perspective. About one other thing she said something along the lines of "If it really worked it would probably be on CNN, but I like to think it's true". This kind of honesty about one's longing for spirituality (whatever 'spirituality' is, but you get my point, I hope) wins me over immediately; a commitment to spirituality that lacks reflection, on the other hand, makes me want to rip my arm off and beat myself with it real hard. I didn't have to do it with Tiers once. She's teaching in NYC and she knows how to deal with her audience. So, if you're interested in hypnotherapy, you should get this book. It's a good one. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ From the outside looking in... *by A***N on April 24, 2012* Five stars, five stars, five stars. I would like to share with you how I happened upon this book, as I believe it speaks to its incredibly useful and applicable nature to a complete newbie on the topic of hypnosis. Please note that I would consider myself very passionately and thoughtfully inclined to have conversations about 'how change happens' and very curious about the mind in general. I have experienced enough in my own life to be humbled by the power of the brain/mind. First of all, my career is in finance. On occasion, we have sales training which teaches some NLP (neuro linguistic programming) techniques. I'm not privy to attend these trainings just yet, but I do get to enjoy the hubbub of these new ideas around the office and thought that a lot of what I was hearing sat well with my current thinking. But I wanted to know more. So I went on Amazon and did my own research of sorts and Melissa Tiers' book 'Integrative Hypnosis' appeared. The reviews were so positive. It won the Pen and Quill award. --- So I ordered it. And now, here comes my glowing review: Even though I have NEVER studied anything is this particular field before, what Melissa writes, just makes sense. I couldn't stop highlighting the material. I started practicing some of the techniques on my own, specifically because the book is written in a way which makes it feel like you are with her, learning from her. The book contains such excellent explanations about how the mind works and techniques about how to interrupt/start breaking up any patterns which are unbeneficial to you in pursuing the best version of yourself, the real you...the you that is unhinged from its reactive qualities and freed from `self-sabotaging unknown factors'. It illustrates multiple techniques to help one begin rewiring those deeply grooved paths in order to produce different results. Learn to drop those preconceived notions about how change can happen and read this book. The brain is just so cool! I wish more people knew more about the mechanics of their own mind and body. I feel SO FORTUNATE to be able to piggyback my own learning on what Melissa has gathered together in her book. Please note, that I read and buy a lot of books. But I only keep the most effective, deeply interesting, growth-producing books which contain that 'lasting' quality in my possession. I just don't like to hold on to mediocre. `Integrative Hypnosis' by Melissa Tiers has earned its place in my very, very small library. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.at/products/3762489-integrative-hypnosis-a-comprehensive-course-in-change](https://www.desertcart.at/products/3762489-integrative-hypnosis-a-comprehensive-course-in-change) --- *Product available on Desertcart Austria* *Store origin: AT* *Last updated: 2026-06-09*