Monthly Webinar - Hypnosis and AI
Event Details
Members have free access to this event and will be sent the zoom link via the mailing list.
Date: 05/05/2026
This monthly webinar takes place between 6:30 and 7pm
About this webinar: How we can use AI to facilitate our work in hypnosis and what ethical and safety issues we should be aware of.
We have four presenters: Julie Hirst, Liane Reeves, Mara Sheldon and Sharon Hall.
Aim: To explore how AI might be useful in the field of medical hypnosis
Learning Objectives:
- Understand some of the ways we can use AI in working with our patients with hypnosis
- Understand the caveats and precautions that we need to be aware of when using AI
Julie Hirst – Julie is a retired public health specialist who worked in Derbyshire for over 30 years, in the NHS until April 2013 when she was transferred to Derbyshire County Council. She was registered as a public health specialist with the UKPHR (https://ukphr.org/) from 2008 until 2021 (retired in 2018). She continues to work for the Open University as a Tutor in their School of Health and Wellbeing. She took BSCAH’s foundation course in 2016 and completed its graduate certificate in clinical hypnosis in 2021. She has a small private clinical hypnosis practice and practises in a voluntary capacity at a charity for parents whose child/children have died.
Liane Reeves – Liane is an Adult Allergy Specialist Dietitian based at Churchill Hospital in Oxford and also runs a private practice in Wantage, Oxfordshire. She specialises in food allergies, intolerances, and gastrointestinal conditions and offers hypnotherapy alongside dietary advice. She is the co-founder of The Contented Gut, offering gut-directed hypnotherapy courses for individuals with chronic digestive symptoms.
Liane has co-authored publications and educational resources on irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), food allergies, and intolerances. She is a member of the British Dietetic Association’s specialist groups for Food Allergy, Gastroenterology, and Freelance Dietitians, as well as a member of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology (BSACI) and the British Society of Clinical and Academic Hypnosis (BSCAH).
Mara Sheldon – Mara is an occupational therapist specialising in palliative care and symptom management; including breathlessness, anxiety and fatigue. In addition to working for Addenbrookes hospital in the Cambridge Breathlessness Intervention Service, she also runs an independent practice where she specialises in support for people living with Long Covid/Post Covid symptoms. In 2013 she gained a postgraduate diploma in clinical and medical hypnosis from the British Society for Clinical Hypnosis, and she has been an accredited member of BSCAH since 2014.
Mara is keen to strengthen healthcare professionals’ awareness of the intricate connections between mind and body, and how a holistic approach to treatments and interventions can promote and support health and wellbeing. She enjoys sharing her knowledge and has run training events for over 30 years.
Sharon Hall – TBC