“This Healer-Retreat training was amazing! It took the brain-based approach to the next level. I feel like I have been empowered to help clients in a new and powerful way!”
-Sonja Rodgerson, LMHC, LMFT, Gulf Breeze, Florida
“This transformational healers retreat enables therapists & helpers to heal deep emotional wounds.”
-Dr. Guy Earle LMFT, Founder of Transformational Schema Therapy, Dallas, Texas
“The experience of this workshop caused me to have many personal shifts in my thinking. My way of understanding how the brain processes information and emotion will have an ongoing impact on my life and work. I experienced shifts in my thoughts about parenting my adult children that will foster connecting and encourage growth in our relationship.”
– Beverly S Brown, LMHC, LPC
“Dr. Michas’ Brain-based Hypnotherapy training provides detailed information for deep understanding. Dr. Michas creates a warm, safe environment in a beach retreat setting ripe for learning! She provides lots of experiential work for each clinician to be confident in utilizing Brain-based Hypnotherapy with their clients at home.”
– Wendy Hixon, LMHC, NCC, Indialantic, Florida
“This weekend was enlightening and transformative. I am eager to implement the techniques and modalities learned with my clients to facilitate healing. This course has been a valuable tool. I look forward to developing. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience to empower us to create change.”
-Lisa Alvey, MS, MEd, LMHC
For healers to be effective in helping others, they need to prioritize their emotional healing.
This is necessary for their brains to function optimally and provide the best care for their patients.
The course is a three-day live/in-person at The Breakers Condo, 381 Santa Rosa Blvd, Fort Walton Beach.
NOTE: Pick either the March 2026 or the June 2026 Retreat.
Once you register, your spot will be secured for the Retreat date of your choice.
Friday, March 20, 2026, 9 am CST to 7 pm CST
Saturday, March 21, 2026, 9 am CST to 7 pm CST
Sunday, March 22, 2026, 8 am CST to 5 pm CST
Friday, June 26, 2026, 9 am CST to 7 pm CST
Saturday, June 27, 2026, 9 am CST to 7 pm CST
Sunday, June 28, 2026, 8 am CST to 5 pm CST
Tuition for the Retreat with CE credits available for $997
Email me if you have specific questions on Healer Beach Retreats: dremichas@gmail.com
“Professionally, I must say that I have put what I learned from you to use right away after training, and I am so much more comfortable using hypnosis every day and haven’t had a script in my lap since your class! It was so beneficial and made me much more confident and capable of using RRT and hypnosis effectively. I am so grateful to have found you and hope to be able to join you in your beautiful condo again for training when things slow down a bit for me.” – Trish Adams, LCSW, Port Orange, FL
“Dr. Michas is an absolute treasure and a tremendous gift to our field. Her courses are incredibly informative, experiential, and immediately applicable. I highly recommend!!”
Staci Pfeiffer EdS, LPC
“The brain-changing conversation model to play the brain for change is going to be transformational in my personal and professional life.”
Mindy McCarthy, LPCCADC–II
Get new skills! Master the science and art of hypnosis.
Enrollment space in course is limited, so register early!
General Course Information
Fee for the entire transformational beach retreat course & CE credits is $997.
Fees for each course must be paid at the time of registration.
Brain-based Hypnotherapy Basics Course and Brain-based Advanced Course participation together fulfills the basic training requirements toward the 50 hours recommended by Florida Board of Professional Regulations to practice hypnosis.
This Brain-based Hypnotherapy training provides 25 hours of continuing education contact hours. MindWorks Psychology, LLC (#50-19776) is approved continuing education provider for the Florida Board of Psychology and Board of Social Workers, Licensed Mental Health Counselors/Licensed Professional Counselors, and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists.
The training also meets standards of the National Board for Certified Clinical Hypnotherapists (NBCCH) for professionals seeking certification by the board.
See the “Become a National Board Certified Hypnotherapist” below.
Become a National Board Certified Clinical Hypnotherapists (NBCCH). Please go to the website below:https://www.nbcch.com/
1. Obtain an application through NBCCH’s website at: Hypnotherapist Certification | NBCCH.com
“This Advanced Brain-based Hypnotherapy course gave me a new understanding of the brain and the ability the brain has to change. Learning how neuroplasticity that can be used in a practical way with clients. I’m empowered with new language to explain how the brain can transform and change by having new experiences, and multi-level brain conversations. Harnessing the power of intention and the power of connection was very enlightening.”
Luz Zondlo, LMHC, Destin, FL
“Just being able to utilize brain-based interventions to reach the whole brain especially the part where emotions are stored and processed, has been instrumental in helping my clients with forever diagnoses gain a better sense of clarity, calm, and peace that they have never imagined possible.”
Norman H. Bissel III, LMHC, LPC, NBCCH Brooksville, FL
“This course increases my hope as a counselor. Doing the exercises as the client or as the therapist helped me see the benefits during the training. It was a blessing to attend this course.”
Norely Melecio, LMHC, Fort Walton Beach, FL
“I have already attended several trainings on brain-based hypnotherapy with Dr. Elizabeth Michas and each time I attend I become much more confident and more importantly much more comfortable with utilizing this transformational intervention with my clients. My clients love the brain-based therapy and report instant and lasting relief be it emotional and/or physical.”
Sophia Greiner LCSW, Brooksville, FL
“This training was fantastic and enhancing my knowledge and use of hypnosis. I am leaving with the feeling of being more credible with the knowledge I can share, and with the experiences I can create. Dr. Michas teaches in a way that provides creative permission and promotes excitement to learn and then do.”
Jamie Armstrong, RP Ontario Canada
“I have already participated in several of Dr. Elizabeth Michas’ trainings and it never ceases to amaze me how more I get out of coming again and again. I’m now very comfortable with using the brain-based hypnotherapy interventions. I find my clients report experiencing profound calmness and clarity due to this brain-based approach.”
Sophia Greiner, LCSW Brooksville, Florida
“I cannot say enough about how this training empowered me to use the brain-based healing methods. I was so encouraged to know that as a therapist who produces her craft that the things working in therapy when I get great outcomes were not just a fluke. I absolutely know that the results can be reproduced because I am confident that knowing how the brain works will allow me to enhance the results to my clients.”
Kendra Tripp, LPC, Richardson, TX
“Dr. Michas bridged the gap between the basic and advanced course in a effortless manner. As a neuroscientist Dr. Michas’ command of how the brain communicates is exceptional! Whether you’ve had numerous previous training courses and years of experience, this course is fundamental to ‘tuning’ up and ‘updating’ your current practice.”
Russell K. Kawakami, PhD, LPC NBCCH
“Comprehensive, clear and simplified model of Brain-based Hypnotherapy. The training gave me understanding and confidence to implement this effective treatment with my clients. Brilliant!”
Louise Peters, Psy.D, Melbourne, Florida
“Dr. Michas simply makes everything makes sense.”
Norman H. Bissel III, MS, NCC, LPC, Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern, Spring Hill, Florida
“Dr. Michas is a radiant wealth of knowledge. This course is the critical brain-based information needed for effective hypnotherapy. I am excited to have this deeper understanding of how and why hypnotherapy is able to heal the brain and thereafter therefore, the person!”
Wendy Hixon, LMHC, NCC, Indialantic, Florida
“This training made it very easy to explain to the client the brain-based way of getting and staying in a calm-optimal versus being driven by undesirable thinking and emotions. I can apply learned hand inductions, energy inductions immediately and not be hesitant to do it with my clients right away.”
Sophia Greiner, LCSW, CAP, ICADC, Brooksville, Florida
“This was an awesome training on Brain-Based Hypnotherapy. This really provided a deeper understanding of how the brain works, the preciseness of the steps or procedure and the words used.”
Pamela Earl, LMHC, Venice, Florida
“Thank you for your generosity, knowledge, and for demonstrating in a clear way how, as a clinician, I am able to use what I learn. It is exciting to experience the learning and to be able to share it with my clients effectively.”
Melanie Cassulo, LMHC, Fort Walton Beach, Florida
“I was very impressed with the fluidity of the transitions of clearing several traumas of problematic life areas from one type of intervention to another. The videos were excellent that show the efficacy of those interventions with the client’s own testimony of how he/she had been freed of the ‘emotional’ bondage that was connected to the brain’s data of the trauma/traumatic experience.”
Sophia Greiner, LCSW, CAP, ICADC, Brooksville, Florida
“The gift of providing clinical hypnosis to my patients has been happening by frames for what I have learned. The gift of this course has been a frame that guides my hypnosis and added the understanding of how it works. Thank you for advancing my knowledge in this brain-based understanding of a wonderful treatment approach.”
Chuck Claxton, PhD, LMFT, LMHC, Panama City, Florida
“Dr. Michas’ Advanced Brain-based Hypnotherapy course provides detailed information for deep understanding. Dr. Michas creates a warm, safe environment, ripe for learning! She provides lots of experiential work for each clinician to be confident in utilizing Brain-based Hypnotherapy with their clients at home.”
Wendy Hixon, LMHC, NCC, Indialantic, Florida
“This course takes my hypnosis skills to a whole other level. Understanding the neuroscience backing what I am practicing has totally boosted my confidence and excitement about creating transformational change for my clients. Thank you Dr. Elizabeth.”
Louise Peters, Psy.D, Melbourne, Florida
“Professionally, I must say that I have put what I learned from you to use right away after training, and I am so much more comfortable using hypnosis every day and haven’t had a script in my lap since your class! It was so beneficial and made me much more confident and capable of using RRT and hypnosis effectively. I am so grateful to have found you and hope to be able to join you in your beautiful condo again for training when things slow down a bit for me.”
Trish Adams, LCSW, Port Orange, FL
“Wonderful class on implementing the various techniques in a brain-based way. Looking forward to implementing this into my practice and using a brain-based model to treat clients.”
Nathan Kerr, LPC Dacula, GA
You may cancel your registration before the training begins and forward it toward a future training, or by special request, receive a tuition refund less a cancellation administrative fee of 10% of the total tuition. MindWorks Psychology, LLC will do everything possible to ensure participant satisfaction. Recommend you secure your own lodgings with an option for trip insurance to cover an unexpected cancellation.
For questions and concerns please contact dremichas@gmail.com
The retreat will be held in person at The Breakers Condo, 381 Santa Rosa Blvd, Fort Walton Beach, FL. After you register, you will receive additional details via email on the condo’s location and entry.
“Wonderful class on implementing the various techniques in a brain-based way. Looking forward to implementing this into my practice and using a brain-based model to treat clients.” – Nathan Kerr, LPC Dacula, GA
“Dr. Michas shows exciting ways to bring healing to clients through brain-based hypnotherapy. This training has provided a real transformation for me, both personally and professionally. It is exciting to bring brain-based hypnotherapy to my clients!” -Denise C Powell, LCSW, NBCDCH
“Your course was amazing! Because of taking it, I have been motivated to use my stagnant hypnotherapy skills. I had lost confidence in using them and recently have been incorporating them with huge success.” – Janet Williams, LPC, IL
Get your healing and new skills! Master the science and art of hypnosis.
The fee for the entire retreat is $997, and that does not include lodgings for the nights. Lunch is provided daily.