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Understanding the Different Hypnotherapy Training Courses

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Understanding the Different Hypnotherapy Training Courses

When you wish to embark on the journey towards becoming a qualified hypnotherapist, the first challenge you’ll face is knowing where to start. While a certification isn’t required to become a hypnotherapist, undergoing training will drastically improve your skills, experience, and legitimacy in the eyes of prospective clients, so it is highly recommended if you wish to enter the industry.

At CPHT, we offer a number of different hypnotherapy training courses for different skill levels and specialisations, equipping you to tackle the challenges you want to address effectively. In this article, we’ll give an overview of the different hypnotherapy training courses we offer to make it easier when it comes to enrolling.

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Entry-Level Hypnotherapy Diploma

When starting their careers in hypnotherapy, most people won’t yet have any form of official qualification. It can be hard to find quality hypnotherapy training, and getting experience on the job is equally difficult without any form of certification to back you up.

Who is it for?

Our entry-level hypnotherapy diploma is suitable for anyone wishing to become a hypnotherapist, whether you already have an understanding of the industry or have only scratched the surface.

Course details

We provide highly practical experiences with real-life clients, helping you to build a portfolio and become comfortable engaging with and practicing on various people and problems. This is a 10-month course which provides a Level 4 education (upon HPD completion), and tackles industry-leading techniques for dealing with mental health issues.

Certifications and skills

At the end of your course, you will receive two key certifications:

  • Diploma in Solution Focused Hypnotherapy (DSFH)
  • Hypnotherapy in Practice Diploma (HPD), upon completion of your accompanying portfolio

Additionally, you will have extensive practical experience and marketing knowledge as well – all the tools you will need to make a successful start on your hypnotherapy career.

Find out more about our entry-level Hypnotherapy Diploma Course >

Advanced Hypnotherapy Diploma

Once you have completed both your DSFH and HPD, you may wish to further advance your education. This will help you get a leg up on the competition, and provide more in-depth understanding of hypnotherapy and surrounding topics. In turn, you will become more confident in dealing with clients of all kinds, as well as responding to niche or unexpected circumstances.

Who is it for?

This course is designed for those who have already completed their DSFH and HPD, and these are requirements to begin. Additionally, you may want to have further experience with live practice of hypnotherapy, as this will help you understand and engage with the content matter on a deeper level.

Course details

Throughout the course, you will learn more details about the fundamentals behind hypnotherapy. This includes cutting-edge neuroscience, neuro-linguistic programming, cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBD), and more. Together, this combines into a comprehensive set of high-tier skills you can use throughout your professional career.

Certifications and skills

At the end of this Level 5 course, you will have gained the following certification:

  • Advanced Hypnotherapy Diploma (AHD)

Additionally, you will have gained several measurable outcomes as accredited by the NCFE, benchmarked via Ofqual’s Qualification and Certification Framework (QCF).

Find out more about our Advanced Hypnotherapy Diploma >

Hypnotherapy Supervisor Course

As a hypnotherapist part of a professional association, you will be required to undergo several supervision sessions per year. These supervisions are carried out by qualified hypnotherapists, a qualification you can earn through our hypnotherapy supervisor course.

Who is it for?

A hypnotherapy supervisor course marks the next step in your hypnotherapy career, where you will go from being fully focused on client interaction to the training and regulation of other hypnotherapists. Enrolment requires the DFSH, the HPD, and several years’ experience as an active hypnotherapist.

Course details

On this Level 5 course, you will learn the ins and outs of hypnotherapy supervision. You will learn to carry out group or one-on-one sessions where you encourage other hypnotherapists to reflect on their work with clients. Additionally, you can explore methods of doing things better or verifying their current methods, providing insight on developing technical ability and responsiveness to a client’s unique situation.

Certifications and skills

At the end of the Hypnotherapy Supervisor’s Course, you will obtain the following certification:

  • Solution Focused Supervision for Hypnotherapy Diploma (SFSHD)

You will also gain the ability to supervise other hypnotherapists, discussing techniques and methods that could help provide insight into your own professional endeavours.

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Solution Focused Hypnotherapy Conversion Course

This conversion course is designed to give practicing hypnotherapists additional therapeutic skills in Solution Focused Hypnotherapy (SFH), which evolves the core tenets of Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT). An SFH qualification helps you expand your understanding of hypnotherapy and therapeutic services, providing additional support to your clients.

Who is it for?

To undergo an SFH Conversion Course, you will need to have a previous HPD certification. There are no other requirements, and you can take this next course immediately without any further experience.

Course details

On this course, you will learn the basics of SFH, along with methods of understanding and providing solutions for common issues like weight problems, pain management, fears, and phobias.

Certifications and skills

At the end of the SFH Conversion Course, you will be SFH-certified, gain practical experience with volunteers, and have proven your understanding of SFH through several case studies and examinations.

Find out more about our Solution Focused Hypnotherapy Conversion Course >

Expand Your Skillset with Hypnotherapy CPDs

Your hypnotherapy skills can branch out in any number of ways after receiving your initial DSFH qualification. Most hypnotherapists prefer to focus on a specialism that they grow into over time, whether due to their preference, skillset, or particular clientele. A Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course will give you in-depth knowledge into a particular field or condition, helping you provide more expert support to your clients.

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Quality Hypnotherapy Training in the UK from CPHT

Starting and progressing your hypnotherapy career is simple with our streamlined hypnotherapy training courses. We walk you through the basics, help you develop your skills, and can make you an expert in a specialism of your choosing. With so many different courses available, we’re in the perfect position to support you through the next stage of your career.

At CPHT, we provide an engaging community for hypnotherapy professionals to grow their skills, access crucial resources, and interact with other active hypnotherapists. Get in touch today to get started!

Check out our Ultimate Guide to Hypnotherapy >

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Hypnotherapy & Psychotherapy: What’s the Difference?

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Hypnotherapy & Psychotherapy: What’s the Difference?

Hypnotherapy & Psychotherapy: What’s the Difference?

The brain is incredibly complex and can be affected by wide variety of medical disorders and mental health concerns. To get the help they need, people have different options for treatment, including talking therapies like hypnotherapy and psychotherapy.

While these practices have similarities and can be used together, they are different and have their own particular use cases. At CPHT, we have a strong understanding of when and where to apply each type of therapy, and in this article we’ll discuss the benefits of each, when they’re used, and how they can be used together to achieve the best results.

What is Hypnotherapy?

Hypnotherapy is the use of hypnosis techniques to treat conditions, emotional trauma, or unwanted habits. There are many different types of hypnotherapies that a trained practitioner can try to employ, and different ones might be better for treating certain conditions or patients.

A form of talking therapy, hypnotherapy starts by discussing goals with the patient to understand their objectives and the types of methods that might be right for them. From there, a hypnotherapist can:

  • Lead the patient into a relaxed state
  • Implant suggestions to dissuade unwanted behaviours or achieve objectives
  • Lead the patient out of the state of hypnosis

Hypnosis only works when a patient is receptive to it, and they are in full control, being able to reject any suggestions if they wish. Hypnotherapists need to build trust and rapport with their clients to ensure everyone is on the same page as to expectations and requirements for a successful treatment process.

What is Psychotherapy?

Psychotherapy is another talking therapy that helps patients deal with mental health conditions and unwanted emotional responses. Depending on its application, psychotherapy can not only alleviate symptoms but also work on uncovering and resolving the route cause.

Psychotherapy can be used to treat conditions and disorders caused by:

  • Stress
  • Trauma
  • Illness
  • Loss of loved ones
  • Mental health conditions (e.g. depression, anxiety)

Like with hypnotherapy, there are several different types of psychotherapies, with the best one to use being dependent on the patient and their situation. In combination with other treatments such as medicines or therapies, including hypnotherapy, psychotherapy can often achieve even greater impact.

How to Blend Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy Techniques

The route to achieving the best results for hypnotherapy and psychotherapy is not to utilise them in isolation, but to instead blend techniques from the two into a single process. Different aspects of hypnotherapy and psychotherapy can help to alleviate symptoms at various stages, and provide crucial information for highlighting the best treatment routes.

For example, training techniques such as cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) or focused therapies you might get from psychotherapy can provide great insight into a patient’s state of mind. Combined with the analysis of symptom root cause, psychotherapy acts as a perfect springboard for hypnotherapy.

Hypnotherapy works by building trust and understanding with your patient, and leading them into a relaxed state of mind. From there, your goal is to help them achieve their objectives with regards to their state of mind and wellbeing. Without firm foundations, you may find it difficult to understand their goals or build this level of trust and rapport.

With the building blocks in place from psychotherapy, you will be better positioned to relate to and support your clients through hypnotherapy. Throughout the journey with them, you will likely find other places that psychotherapy techniques can support your hypnotherapy efforts, resulting in the two working in tandem to help you achieve the best results.

The Benefits of Broad-Scope Hypnotherapy Training

Broad-scope hypnotherapy training with CPHT targets all the different aspects of starting and progressing a career in hypnotherapy.

It starts by giving you the necessary skills to work as a hypnotherapist, providing on-the-job experience from as early as your first month. By the end of your course, you will have been guided through hundreds of hours of active learning, giving you plenty of experience to draw on for your future clients – and a validation tool to show your legitimacy.

Aside from the course qualification itself, you will also gain access to a huge number of valuable resources and connections that you can use for further training and specialisms.

We’ll also touch on related fields like psychotherapy, giving you a broad range of tools you can apply in any scenario.

Finally, we include marketing as part of your training at our schools. It is vital to know how to get and keep clients, as most hypnotherapists work independently, so we give you all the knowledge you’ll need to succeed in your future career.

Find out more with our ultimate guide to hypnotherapy training >

Develop Your Hypnotherapy Skills with CPHT

While psychotherapy helps to understand and work through the root causes of conditions and emotional trauma, hypnotherapy plants suggestions and steers people towards a conclusion they can be comfortable with. Together, these services can help you build a strong understanding of your clients, actively working to resolve both the issues they’re having and the underlying reasons behind them.

At CPHT, we believe in providing quality, comprehensive training to aspiring hypnotherapy practitioners – giving you all the necessary qualifications and access to further resources to ensure you can offer the best service. To book your hypnotherapy training today, get in touch.

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The Ultimate Guide to Hypnotherapy Training

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CPHT - the Ultimate guide to Hypnotherapy Training

Are you interested in a career in hypnotherapy, but don’t know where to start? Hypnotherapy training is your answer. At CPHT, we run hypnotherapy training schools up and down the country, helping people become trained and fully qualified hypnotherapists.

In this article we’ll explain what hypnotherapy training is, how it works, who it’s for, and what certifications you could achieve, with a number of other resources included so you can find out more if you need to.

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Why Become a Hypnotherapist?

There are many reasons to become a hypnotherapist. By the fact you’re reading this article, we assume you have at least some interest in the profession, but there are reasons for pursuing it you may not have considered:

  • Helping family or friends struggling with mental health conditions,
  • Work with flexible hours,
  • Training in a new field for a fresh start,
  • Building knowledge about how the brain works,
  • Improving your own mental wellbeing by learning techniques,
  • Developing skills in a field at the cutting-edge of medical research.

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The Benefits of Hypnotherapy Training

There’s a clear distinction between certified hypnotherapists and ones who aren’t. As a medical profession, training and certification are required to ensure patients are in the best hands and that you understand how to help them with their issues.

Hypnotherapy training is your road to achieving those qualifications, and to building a set of hypnotherapy skills that will help you both in your career, and in your daily life. It connects you with other professionals in the field who can provide insight and access to advanced resources, and also helps you to develop your fundamental skills.

At the end of your course, you will have all the necessary skills and certifications to engage in hypnotherapy with whatever specialism you wish to follow.

Find out more about the advantages of good hypnotherapy training >

Hypnotherapy Training at CPHT: What to Expect

Courses, Structure, and Content

Courses

CPHT offers training for every level of hypnotherapist starting with the Hypnotherapy Diploma Course which leads to two diplomas: the Diploma in Solution Focused Hypnotherapy (DSFH) and the Hypnotherapy in Practice Diploma (HPD), upon successful completion of your HPD portfolio.

You can continue your training postgraduate, with the Level 5 Advanced Hypnotherapy Diploma (AHD), and the Level 5 Solution Focused Supervision for Hypnotherapy Diploma (SFSHD).

Structure

The Hypnotherapy Diploma Course includes:

  • 120 face-to-face classroom training hours,
  • 1 weekend of training a month for 10 months,
  • Practical work between weekends to support your classroom experience,
  • A written portfolio towards your HPD certification,
  • A total training commitment of approximately 450 hours.

Content

In our courses, you will experience face-to-face, highly experiential classroom learning which focuses on the main issues you’re likely to encounter as a hypnotherapist.

As a brain-based therapy, solution focused hypnotherapy training includes up to date neuroscience research and evidence-based psychotherapy training, incorporating solution focused brief therapy, NLP and CBT.

Your training includes modules on setting up in practice and marketing, which means you can be business-ready and have your practice set up by the time you graduate.

Find out more about our hypnotherapy courses >

Locations

Our courses are available at over 25 connected schools throughout the UK.

Costs

The standard training fees for your 10-month Level 4 Diploma course are £3,490, which can be split into monthly payments of £349.

Entry Criteria

No previous experience is required, and we interview you to make sure this is the right course for you.

Accreditations

Successful completion of the Hypnotherapy Diploma Course leads to two diplomas:

  1. the Diploma in Solution Focused Hypnotherapy (DSFH),
  2. the Hypnotherapy in Practice Diploma (HPD) upon successful completion of your accompanying portfolio.

The HPD (NCH) has been accredited by NCFE as having measurable learning outcomes that have been benchmarked at Level 4 (using Ofqual’s Qualification and Credit Framework (QCF) level descriptors). What this means is you’ll gain a recognised certification, providing skills and credibility that you’ll need to succeed as a hypnotherapist.

Our course has also been accredited by the National Hypnotherapy Society, who are Registered Accreditors for the Professional Standards Authority.

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Support for Hypnotherapy Graduates

Throughout your learning, you will receive individual and group support. Even after you’ve graduated, we continue to lend a helping hand, providing access to memberships like the National Hypnotherapy Society, the National Council for Hypnotherapy (NCH) and the Association for Solution Focused Hypnotherapy (AfSFH).

You can also find support from our team, who are all highly experienced and qualified hypnotherapists. We act as a central point to connect with colleagues and industry experts, and offer Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses to help you further advance in your career.

Discover how we support you both during and after your hypnotherapy training >

Your Next Steps: Building a Career in Hypnotherapy

At the start of your career, you’re likely to need to work weekend hours and evenings, as these are the times when clients are most likely to be free. As you progress, you’ll have more experience and renown, which will make it easier to get clients to match to your schedule.

There are a couple of different ways to start out: joining a practice, or becoming a sole trader.

Joining a practice will give you the support of a larger group, but may make it more difficult to progress your career in the way you’d like – and you’ll also get less of a cut from your work.

As a sole trader, you’re responsible for finding and carrying out your own work, along with everything that entails. However, this means you can pursue the jobs you want, set your own schedule, and receive the full profits, making it a lucrative option that many hypnotherapists choose.

As you develop your career, you may find a specialism you want to go down. To do this, focus on jobs relating to that specialism, and build a name for yourself. Attending CPD courses can also help you refine your knowledge on particular subject areas.

Check out our guide to progressing in your hypnotherapy career >

Hypnotherapy Training FAQs

How does Hypnotherapy Work?

Hypnotherapy works by addressing subconscious patterns and behaviours that people might have, even when unconscious or asleep. By guiding patients into a relaxed, focused state, hypnotherapists are able to provide suggestions and reframe negative thought patterns, promoting positive change. Sessions are designed to be gentle, empowering, and tailored to the patient’s needs, with hypnotherapists often specialising in particular areas like stress or addiction.

Who can become a Hypnotherapist?

Anyone with the right mindset, passion, and skills can become a hypnotherapist. If you’re interested in a career in hypnotherapy, you likely already possess the former features, and you can obtain your skills by receiving a certification in hypnotherapy through a training course.

Is Hypnotherapy Training Expensive?

Hypnotherapy training is a valuable way to obtain new skills. You will learn all the fundamentals of the subject, obtain hundreds of hours of practice, and find out the basics of running a business – leading to better returns after you receive your qualification. At CPHT, our course also teaches you marketing, making it easier for you to succeed after the training. By looking at your expected returns after the course, you can make a decision on whether or not the initial costs are worth it to you.

Explore our full analysis of the costs of hypnotherapy training >

How Long Does It Take to Become a Hypnotherapist?

Our 10-month course provides you with all the skills you need to become a hypnotherapist. You will also get a lot of hands-on experience along the way, and become capable of using hypnotherapy from your first month of training.

Learn more about the length of hypnotherapy training >

How do I Get Started with Hypnotherapy Training?

To get started with hypnotherapy training, you need to find a reputable training facility with the right resources to give you the skills and qualifications you require. At CPHT, we bring decades of experience and access to training sites across the country, providing an easy way to start your hypnotherapy journey.

Find out more about the entry requirements here >

Hypnotherapy Training in the UK & ROI from CPHT

With such a broad range of features, benefits, and hands-on experiences, hypnotherapy training puts you in the prime position to start your own hypnotherapy practice. At CPHT, we offer the complete package for hypnotherapy training, ensuring you have all the key skills and experiences you need to take your talent into the world. Find out more about our offering and start your journey today by getting in touch!

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