Diploma in Hypnotherapy
(fast track course for mental health professionals)

Introduction: a 6 day accredited course that includes everything the 20 day course provides, minus the knowledge and skills that qualified psychotherapists, counsellors, psychiatrists, psychologists and mental health nurses would already be expected to have.

Applicants will already have a sound knowledge of the presenting issues they routinely work with. We will explore the unique aspects of hypnotherapy in relation to presenting issues but otherwise assume prior knowledge of these. It is anticipated that applicants will already understand concepts common to other psychotherapies, such as empathy, rapport and reflective practice, for example, and they simply want to add hypnotherapy to their toolkit.

Led by 2 highly qualified and experienced trainers who run a busy private hypnotherapy practice. Paul is a Chartered Psychologist and Karen is a Hypnotherapist and Health Psychologist in training.

Perhaps you are looking for new tools for stuck clients, to create a 'safe place' before interventions, an extra income stream in private practice, or you're simply fascinated by the subject of hypnotherapy!

A 6 day training can appear quite short to those used to lengthy trainings. Please be reassured that it provides all you need to know and is equal in length to most EMDR training - another therapy that can be dovetailed with exisiting knowledge and skills and aimed at those with a core caring and psychologically-based profession. Our longer 20 day hypnotherapy training is appropriate for those with no core therapeutic skills or psychological knowledge, and/or insufficient recent clinical experience.

Application deadline: 3rd October 2008

Dates: The course runs in two 3 day Modules (Friday to Sunday, 10am - 6pm).
Module 1: Oct 24-26
Module 2: Dec 19-21
The modules must be taken in sequence and attended in full.

Venue:
Holiday Inn Royal Victoria
Victoria Station Road, Sheffield, S4 7YE

Currently only running in Sheffield and please feel free to suggest other locations. We will run in other locations when sufficient numbers are reached. We currently have some interest in London, for example.

Please call for a friendly informal chat with one of the hypnotherapy trainers (Karen or Paul).

• We don't bite!
• We don't rush your call!
• We don't hard sell!
• We don't harass you after your call!
• We will invest in you!

Tel 0800 4587813 or 0114 2351985

Open days
Would you like to meet the trainers in person for a 30 minute individual appointment? Please call to arrange a time on one of the following dates. Please note that the course currently runs only in Sheffield.

Sheffield - Sat 6 Sept 2008
London - 13 Sept 2008
Birmingham - 20 Sept 2008

Eligibility: you must have a core profession where you ordinarily deal with people in a caring and helping capacity, and where you offer psychological interventions. Typical applicants are therefore likely to be psychotherapists, counsellors, psychiatrists, psychologists and mental health nurses. There may be other relevant professions. If in doubt, please get in touch to discuss your circumstances.

Hypnotherapy sits well with any other approach including CBT, psychodynamic, client-centred and solution focused approaches. At the end of the course you will have everything you need to either integrate hypnotherapy with your existing skill set or practice as a fully fledged hypnotherapist.

Course description: this is a very practical course with lots of work in pairs as 'client' and 'therapist'. Some people choose to work on real issues and obtain some personal benefit from the course, others role play.

Much of the theory is explained in a comprehensive 650+ page manual (the same manual as the 20 day course), freeing up class time for engaging exercises. We provide no-snooze courses and students regularly comment on how quickly each day passes and yet how much they have learnt. The manual also includes hypnotherapy scripts, information on presenting issues, techniques, ethical concerns, etc. You can download a sample of the manual here. Downloadable video demonstrations of some of the techniques are also provided for students.

Homework: this consists of a small number of short answer questions, practice with clients away from the course and a reflective journal on this, as well as ongoing informal assessment of practical work in class with lots of support to help you improve. There are no exams, tests or essays. You will be expected to practice between modules. Supervision and support is provided for the duration of the course.

Accreditation: This course is accredited by the National Council of Psychotherapists, the members of which generally practice both psychotherapy and hypnotherapy. Our longer course is also accredited by the National Council for Hypnotherapy and General Hypnotherapy Standards Council. The manual exceeds National Occupational Standards for hypnotherapy.

Professional membership: if you intend to regularly offer hypnotherapy to your clients we recommend professional membership. By attending this course you would be able to apply for Licentiate membership of the National Council of Psychotherapists. A higher level can be applied for by some individuals on a case by case basis, dependant upon other relevant qualifications and experience.

You may also work towards a Hypnotherapy Practitioner Diploma upon graduation from this course. This would entitle you to Licentiate membership of the National Council for Hypnotherapy (NCH). It is they, and NCFE who offer this external award. You would do this through the NCH's 'Individual Portfolio route'. Please contact them for details (www.hypnotherapists.org.uk). The homework is more intensive for this and the cost is £50-100 depending on whether you opt for a private tutor. There are around 80 questions to answer as well as a statement of personal and professional philosophy, vignettes, and submission of a recorded hypnotherapy session with a client. Licentiate level is the level all new hypnotherapists enter at, regardless of course length. You may apply to upgrade to registered member status after one year in practice and a minimum of 100 client hours.

Fees: your investment is £995. There is no VAT to pay. A non-refundable deposit of £195 is payable upon application. The deposit is fully refundable if your application is declined. A further payment of £400 must be paid 14 days before the course commences and a final payment of £400 is payable 14 days before the second module commences.

Content: the learning materials, including manual and video, cover all you would need to know to get you practising as as a competent, ethical and effective hypnotherapist.

We will provide you with the full manual as delivered on our 20 day course. Some topics should be familiar to you but for the sake of completeness and to be sure, we include them all. Live training focuses on those aspects that students would not necessarily already know - the unique aspects of hypnotherapy.

• What is hypnosis and hypnotherapy?
• Frequently asked questions
• Dispelling the myths
• Altered states of consciousness
• The differences between clinical and stage hypnosis
• Recognising the signs of trance
• Inducing and maintaining trance
• The hypnotic voice
• Disengagement (wake up)
• Trance induction - guided imagery
• Trance induction - favourite place
• Trance induction - eye fixation
• Trance induction - permissive
• Trance induction - authoritarian
• Trance induction - confusional
• Trance induction - progressive relaxation
• Deepening trance
• The therapeutic process
• Hypnotic suggestions and their construction
• Hazards of hypnosis
• Contraindications
• Self-hypnosis
• Utilisation
• Anchoring
• Analytical & disbelieving clients
• Induction resistance
• Milton Erickson approach
• Clean hypnotic language
• Binds and double binds
• Metaphors and metaphor creation
• Silent abreaction technique
• Red balloon technique
• Working with children
• Refractionation
• Light-stream technique
• Safe place techniques
• Age regression
• False memory

Through live training and/or the manual you will learn about how to use hypnotherapy with particular presenting issues, including confidence & ego strengthening, smoking cessation, stress, irritable bowel syndrome, weight control, anxiety & panic, phobia & fear, habits & addictions, sleep, obsessions & compulsions, depression, pain and headaches, grief, loss and separation, abuse, post-traumatic stress disorder & trauma, and sports performance. On live training we will concentrate primarily on treatment and a small number of unique aspects of hypnotherapeutic intervention rather presenting issue aetiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, etc.

N.B. We continually strive to improve our courses and content may be subject to change.

Prospectus (fast track course) [Download]

Application form (fast track course) [Download]
You can fill in the form on your computer.

Manual sample [Download]

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