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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

Hypnotherapy Support & Supervision, During the Course & Beyond Our hypnotherapy training students come from many different walks of life. Some people start with no experience of the therapy world at all, while others come from a different type of hypnotherapy. We recognise that every student benefits from the right support throughout our hypnotherapy course – and ... Read more

How Long Does It Take To Become A Hypnotherapist? One question often asked by people interested in training to become a hypnotherapist is: how long will it be until I can start practising? The answer is – fairly quickly! Our guide helps you to understand how much time you need to commit to train to ... Read more

A Beginner’s Guide to Embarking on a Hypnotherapy Career Whether you’re thinking of training as a hypnotherapist or are ready to take your hypnotherapy career to the next stage, our guide covers everything you need to make the best choices. Salary & Hours Full time: £69,000 (32 hours) Part time: £30,000 (16 hours) Often requires ... Read more

What is a Hypnotherapist’s Salary in 2024? Hypnotherapy is an enjoyable, challenging and rewarding occupation, but can you earn enough to support you, those important to you and your lifestyle? It’s an important question, because unless you can make a good living as a hypnotherapist, you won’t be able to replace your current income or ... Read more

We interview all of our applicants for two reasons: Firstly we want to make sure that the applicant is right for the course, and secondly to make sure they know what the course entails. CPHT has a reputation for producing Hypnotherapists who are good at what they do. That takes a bit of hard work. ... Read more

Whilst filming the video, we were able to capture the students on their first weekend taking part in a trance exercise. For some this would have been their first opportunity to experience trance. Others will have had hypnosis before they joined the course. Just Getting on With It We don’t hang around in getting hands-on ... Read more

One of the questions we often get asked from potential students who are interested in our hypnotherapy training course is ‘How long will it be until I can start practising as a hypnotherapist’. The answer is – fairly quickly!  Firstly, you can relax, you are in good hands here. Clifton Practice Hypnotherapy Training (CPHT) has ... Read more

So, you are thinking of re-training to become a hypnotherapist. You are looking for something that would fit around work whilst you train, and you like the idea of helping people and doing something you enjoy. Maybe you went to see a hypnotherapist and you thought you would like to help others in the same ... Read more

We all have different reasons to enrol on a hypnotherapy training course. When we are interviewing prospective candidates, we are keen to hear their reason for applying for the course. Invariably the primary factor is to help people. The applicant may have experienced hypnotherapy in the past and found it extremely beneficial. It may be that ... Read more

What’s interesting is the number of Hypnotherapy training applicants who say they come through to us because our course is very practical. So, how practical is it? During the first-course weekend, we have the students working with each other in the classroom practising trance. Then, we send them home to ask volunteers (family and friends) ... Read more

How hypnotherapy training can change your life too.. One of our Senior Lecturers, only realised he’d like to train as a clinical hypnotherapist three days before starting his course with David Newton in Bristol. He ended up having his interview the day before the course started.  Now that’s what we call last minute!  Who’d have ... Read more

Yesterday, our latest class graduated. They had been a superb class and had moved from face-to-face classes one a weekend month to Zooming in online due to the COVID crisis. They took it in their stride and we were all pretty amazed at how well the final three course weekends went. It was rather emotional ... Read more

It is easy to look at the price of any training course and compare it against the cost of other courses. However, if you are trying to decide whether hypnotherapy training is expensive, there are several things to consider. If you are looking to start a new career as a self-employed hypnotherapist, the most important ... Read more

This is an amazing story from Joe, a successful and lovely CPHT graduate. It’s a personal account of how hypnotherapy helped him overcome a significant and overwhelming phobia of hospitals. It’s a great ending and at last Joe can live without that nuisance fear that has plagued him throughout his life. Hi, My name is ... Read more

We have more than one option for ongoing study after the primary Hypnotherapy in Practice Diploma (HPD) course, and this is why many of our students choose our course. The ten-month HPD course equips our students to work with a very broad range of people with a wide variety of symptoms. In fact, upon completion ... Read more

We do things a bit differently at Clifton Practice Hypnotherapy Training (CPHT)… Actually sometimes we do things a lot differently! Playfulness We have fun. Not only in the classroom but also in our clinics. Playfulness is an important part of what we do. And getting good at that takes practice. No wonder there is so ... Read more

The Clifton Practice Hypnotherapy in Practice Diploma course (HPD) is tailored to each individual student’s needs so is suitable for those with no prior experience as a therapist as well as those who have. Anne Wyatt, Senior Lecturer at CPHT Scotland explains more.

There’s a lot of things you need to keep in mind to make sure that your marketing plan is a success. At CPHT, we aim to help our students get the most out of their social media marketing. When you are creating a tweet, writing a blog or making a post on Facebook, make sure ... Read more

Hypnotherapy is a highly diverse profession, with many different models of therapy and approaches. If you want to work in the field of clinical hypnotherapy, potentially working alongside mainstream health professionals, such as the NHS, you need to be sure your training will set you up for that.  The trouble is, you almost need to ... Read more

At the CPHT, we pride ourselves on keeping up to date with the latest research from neuroscience and believe that we lead the way in this regard. Two of the fastest-growing areas in psychotherapy and medicine are SF work and Brain-Based Therapy. Research now provides more and more evidence to support the theory that our subconscious ... Read more

The network of Clifton Practice Hypnotherapy Training Schools prides themselves on providing a ‘complete’ training package, with teaching continually in line with the latest research from neuropsychology and neuroscience. All well and good but what does this actually mean? Well, we mean that everything that you need to move from someone who has either no ... Read more

The UK and internationally based Clifton Practice Hypnotherapy Training schools pride themselves on providing what is one of, if not the most practical courses available. So many formal courses, regardless of topic, place the main emphasis on theory, leaving students to gain live experience at the very end of the course at best, or at worst, ... Read more

Let me tell you my story. Way back in 2012 I qualified with a diploma in hypnotherapy and counselling skills, from an unregulated school of hypnotherapy, run by someone who claimed to have had a successful hypnotherapy practice. I would be lying if I said I hadn’t loved the course, it was fascinating and I ... Read more

CPHT strive to be at the cutting edge of available research and technology, looking for innovative ways to give the most clinical evidence to students about why solution-focused hypnotherapy has such a significant and lasting effect on clients.  It’s that ‘backed up by the latest research and findings in science’ that attracts so many students ... Read more

When you first go looking for a hypnotherapy training course you’ll notice there is a dizzying choice of courses, delivery styles, course lengths, qualification levels and more, so how do you pick your hypnotherapy training school? In order to narrow down your choices, first decide what it is you want to achieve – what’s your ... Read more

Currently, I am a Chiropractor training in solution-focused Hypnotherapy (SFH). Seems odd to you? Well there are actually a lot of overlaps. Many of my Chiropractic patients re-present with aches and pains caused by posture, injury and more than often driven by an element of stress and tension. SFH helps people to relax and unwind, ... Read more

Actually, I don’t like being a Clinical Hypnotherapist, I love it! Yet when someone suggested I might be good in this area back in 2006, I laughed out loud. At that point I was a Marketing Manager within the financial services sector and had no inclination to become a therapist. Ten years later and I ... Read more

Marketing your hypnotherapy practice We train our students to become very good clinical hypnotherapists, but we don’t stop there, we also include a marketing module within the course. As Nicola, one of our senior lecturers says, “It’s all very well being good at what you do, but unless people know what you can do, then ... Read more

As Solution-Focused Hypnotherapists, research is very important to us. We want to know that what we are doing with our clients really does work. So, if new evidence becomes available that suggests we need to change the way we work, then we will. Equally, there is an increasing amount of good quality evidence now that ... Read more

Sara, a student at the time of writing, was on a flight back from Birmingham to Belfast when she noticed a chap sat by himself looking worried. Sara went and sat beside him and asked if she could tell him a story and that it was a good story. She then went on to talk ... Read more

I’m Gary Johannes and I’m a senior lecturer for numerous CPHT schools in the UK . I never expected to become a hypnotherapist, let alone a lecturer with the school that trained me, so you might not be surprised to know that I think hypnotherapy training might be for you too! I’ve not always been ... Read more

This is a lovely story from a CPHT Graduate, Michèle Lazarus: Having had hypnotherapy for insomnia, I decided to train at the Clifton Practice Hypnotherapy Training school (CPHT) as a hypnotherapist myself. That was three years ago and now I’m working pretty much full time in three different locations and loving it. I chose CPHT because of its solution ... Read more

Many people seem to think that it is only possible to make a part time living out of being a Hypnotherapist. The main argument for this seems to be that it is too difficult to find enough clients to sustain a full time practice. This has not been my experience and I know many colleagues ... Read more

I became a hypnotherapist back in 2011 at the age of 35. I can safely say it has been the best job I have ever had.  I have had some jobs that paid me more money, but none have been as rewarding and enjoyable and here’s why: Job Satisfaction Nothing can beat it. There is no ... Read more

Good marketing is one area of a new business that can be completely underestimated. You may have just qualified as a hypnotherapist, but how do you let people know how good you are? Word of mouth is still the best and cheapest form of advertising your business but this can take time to build. Graduates ... Read more

Alex, a senior lecturer at CPHT, explains a little bit about Hypnosis in this short video. Hypnosis is not weird or magical, but it is powerful. It is just simply the contrivance of the trance state, and when used effectively, hypnosis can help people change their mindset far quicker than they might without the use ... Read more

I’m no longer ‘Just Mum’ I have been fortunate enough to be a stay at home Mum for the last 20 years. With my youngest son off to university I knew it was time to get back out in the world.  Being at home during my children’s formative years was an amazing privilege however it’s ... Read more

Looking for a new career? Have you considered hypnotherapy? It is one of the fastest growing careers in the UK and here is why. 1 in 4 of us will suffer from some form of mental health issue in 2016. The pressures of our moderns lives means stress, anxiety and depression are on the rise ... Read more

When I started looking for a hypnotherapy training school, I didn’t know what to look for. There seemed to be as many different approaches as training schools. They also all seemed to offer different qualifications. Some were accredited with this body and some with that and I became quite confused. Some offered very short courses ... Read more

I was lucky enough to be working with a group of qualified hypnotherapists over the weekend, helping them to better use one of the major tools of Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy: The Miracle Question. It can be asked in many different ways, but it does take practice and experience on the part of the therapist to be ... Read more

Many people suffer from physical, mental, and emotional problems, and they spend years looking for solutions. They may try all kinds of different approaches, but are often unable to find true relief. The quest for a solution to their problems can occupy a great deal of their time, preventing them from achieving their goals in ... Read more