Hypnotherapy
Training Schools
Solution Focused Hypnotherapy Training
CPHT have been helping people begin careers as hypnotherapists for over 20 years. With schools nationwide, our accredited solution-focused, classroom-based hypnotherapy training is delivered by qualified practising hypnotherapists.
Hypnotherapy Diploma Course
With no entry requirements, our diploma-level training covers most common issues treated with hypnotherapy, from anxiety to weight loss. It also includes business basics such as marketing and safeguarding, leading to a Level 4 diploma in solution-focused hypnotherapy.
Discover your future in Hypnotherapy
Ready to start a rewarding career and transform lives with the power of Hypnotherapy? Download our comprehensive prospectus where you’ll learn about our Solution Focused approach, cutting-edge curriculum, and how we support you every step of the way. Click below to get started!
Already working as a hypnotherapist?
We also offer a conversion diploma for hypnotherapists who are looking to convert or include Solution Focused Hypnotherapy in their services – take a look at our SFH conversion course.
Why Choose CPHT?
Fully Accredited
Giving you the reassurance that your new qualification will be nationally recognised. It fulfils the stringent requirements of the CNHC.
Practice from day 1
Build your confidence by working with people with real conditions. Become a competent hypnotherapist before you qualify.
Monthly Payments
Choose to pay in a lump sum or in 10 equal instalments spread over ten months. Helpful if you’re looking to change your career.
Weekend Training
Great for people who are looking to train alongside their current job. Weekday options are also available at some schools.
Business Ready
Build your business throughout the course. Learn key Marketing and Networking skills to help you succeed.
What students say about CPHT hypnotherapy training...
The calibre of the lecturers is second to none and the same can be said for the solution focused angle to this model.
CPHT is exceptional and is delivering exactly what it promises. Thank you for setting me up for life as a Solution Focused Hypnotherapist 🙏
The course is run over 10 months with each month dedicated to a new topic, straight away you start practicing with family & friends to build your confidence in the subjects. Shortly afterwards you’re working with real clients.
You complete a portfolio & submit case studies as part of the course, since graduating I’ve set up my own business & commenced the level 5 AHD qualification. Our course still keep in touch & continue to support each other.
If you’re interested in this course sign up, it really will change your perspective on life & it’s so rewarding being able to help clients seeing them become the best version of themselves.
CPHT gives you the tools to be a confident Solution Focussed Hypnotherapy Practitioner and helps you create the foundations of your own future practice for you to build on after qualifying.
I have thoroughly enjoyed the course in Glasgow and would recommend it to anyone thinking about hypnotherapy training in the future.
I have just qualified and in such a short space of time I cannot believe how much my life has completely changed .
This course was the best decision I ever made I knew I wanted to make career changes , little did I know my personal life would be come so much happier and that I would become a much better version of myself the person I actually wanted to be .
I choose the course and spent a lot of time researching other courses but CPHT was the only one that offered me what I was looking for a professional qualification at the end and a classroom setting and a actual tutor to have access to which was all available .
The training was very modern up to date neuroscience at times was hard but Gary the tutor is exceptional at teaching and his methods helped make it fun interesting and amazing and at the end I felt very knowledgable hypnotherapist .
I can’t praise him high enough .
Practice started quite early on and at first it felt daunting , but this too was the absolutely best thing ever I loved that in such a short space of time near the end of the course I was seeing paying clients .
I worked for the NHS for 10 years and as a result of how much I changed I decided to concentrate on my hypnotherapy practice . As I enjoyed so much helping others and seeing results in a short space of time .
It is an inspirational course run by a inspirational team of teachers . Thank you so much .
A profound sense of empowerment was gained for me during the course and subsequently as a qualified clinical practitioner, which I now pass on to clients and watch the rewards this brings to me and my clients, life changing on both accounts.
What you'll learn?
Our course equips you to not only to be an excellent hypnotherapist but also to set up your own business. Designed to accommodate people looking to change their career, this course will give you the confidence and competency needed to take that important step.
Our Hypnotherapy Schools
CPHT Belfast
CPHT Birmingham
CPHT Brighton
CPHT Bristol
CPHT Cardiff
CPHT Chester
The Village Hotel Chester St David’s
St David’s Park
Ewloe CH5 3YB
CPHT Dublin
CPHT Edinburgh
CPHT Essex
Lord Ashcroft Building
Anglia Ruskin University
Bishop Hall Lane
Chelmsford
CM1 1SQ
CPHT Glasgow
CPHT Hampshire
CPHT Kent
CPHT Leeds
CPHT Liverpool
The Suites Hotel & Spa Knowsley
Liverpool Ribblers Ln
Knowsley
Liverpool
L34 9HA
CPHT London
CPHT Manchester
Leonardo Hotel Manchester Central
56 Great Bridgewater Street
Manchester
M1 5LE
CPHT Newcastle
CPHT Norwich
CPHT Nottingham
CPHT Oxford
CPHT Peterborough
CPHT Plymouth
CPHT Sheffield
CPHT Surrey
CPHT Watford
We have 25 hypnotherapy training schools across the UK and Ireland.
What's next?
Further training opportunities once you’ve completed the Hypnotherapy in Practice Diploma with CPHT
We encourage you to continue building your knowledge with a variety of CPD courses. Our additional hypnotherapy training helps you keep your knowledge up to date and you can participate in most courses from your own home via Zoom.
The next natural step in your professional development. This advanced hypnotherapy training broadens and deepens your knowledge so you can speak more confidently with clients on a range of subject areas.
Becoming a supervisor is a further step in a hypnotherapist’s career. Many of the skills are the same as for hypnotherapy, but some will be completely new. You can use your own experience to help other hypnotherapists do their best for their clients.
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CPHT's Chairman & Founder David Newton
David Newton is the Chairman and Founder of CPHT, which he established in 2002. Initially the course was Bristol based but since 2009 it has expanded and today the Hypnotherapy Course is being taught in multiple locations across the UK. David Newton, the founder of Solution Focused Hypnotherapy, is undoubtedly one of the most experienced hypnotherapists ever, with in excess of 36,000 clinical hours in his career. Explore his detailed biography and the ground-breaking discoveries that led him to define Solution Focused Hypnotherapy.
How do I become a hypnotherapist?
If you want to become a hypnotherapist and have a career as a professional clinical hypnotherapist, you’ll want to do your research. There are a LOT of different training courses, offering many different types of hypnotherapy. You can learn over a single weekend or train for over a year. Courses are delivered online, through distance or face to face learning. The choices can be overwhelming.
If you only want to learn a little bit about hypnosis, then a weekend course or even a taster day delivered online will be enough. However, would you really be happy offering hypnotherapy for anxiety, depression, weight management, OCD and many other clinical issues if you didn’t have in-depth learning and experience?
Clinical hypnotherapy is a complementary therapy, much like counselling, so to begin a hypnotherapy career you need thorough, evidence-based training that gives you a recognised qualification. Your training and qualification should be of a standard where you are eligible to join the respected hypnotherapy organisations and you can be insured for professional indemnity insurance.
You will want your training to give you enough practical experience so that you are competent, safe and confident enough to start practising as a professional hypnotherapist when you qualify. Your training should give you the basics in how to start and run a hypnotherapy practice as currently (2022) there are no employed positions as hypnotherapists.
If you want to become a hypnotherapist don’t just pick what looks quick, cheap and easy – pick what gives people the best and safest results and seems respected by the industry as a whole.
What is Solution Focused Hypnotherapy?
As a Solution Focused Hypnotherapist, you’ll support your clients to focus on the outcome they want, rather than the issues that prompted them to seek therapy. This approach focuses on the present and future, without the need to relive the past and is underpinned by up to date research in the fields of neuroscience and brain-based therapies.
The Hypnotherapist asks the client to consider their preferred future, for instance:
- What would be better if the problem had improved?
- What would have changed?
Common issues that Solution Focused Hypnotherapy can help with include:
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Panic Attacks
- Low confidence
- Self-esteem
- Phobias
- Weight management
- Chronic Pain
- Chronic health issues
- OCD
How long does it take to become a hypnotherapist?
The Hypnotherapy in Practice Diploma (HPD) is a complete training qualification, which means you can go from novice to a level 4 professional hypnotherapist in 10 months.
Each month you’ll learn a new aspect of how to be a hypnotherapist. In the time between modules, we expect you to practice what you have learnt. At the beginning of the following module, you have time to ask questions and get feedback on your practical work. In this way, you build up your skills and confidence at a pace which suits you.
Whilst some hypnotherapy courses are delivered over even just a weekend, or self-led learning online, you’ll find this doesn’t give you the depth of learning or experience needed to make a living as a professional hypnotherapist. Experience shows us that to be a confident, competent, effective and safe hypnotherapist takes more than just a weekend or a condensed week or two of training.
Our students often say it is the fastest 10 months of their lives and that the support of professional and practising hypnotherapists, together with so much practical experience, is what gave them the confidence to start their practices on graduation.