Hypnotherapy is a rewarding profession, opening the doors to help people with a variety of conditions to overcome their daily challenges and achieve their goals. But becoming a hypnotherapist doesn’t happen overnight – you need the right training and certifications to ensure your efforts provide the best help for your clients.
At CPHT, we are the leading providers of solution focused hypnotherapy in the UK, offering courses from entry level to advanced. In this blog we’ll go through the steps needed to start, maintain, and grow a career in this exciting industry.
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1. Gaining an Interest
The first step is to gain an interest in what you’re doing. Maybe a friend or family member suffers from a neurological disorder, or someone you know is tackling a challenging health goal. In any event, having personal investment in the field is a great motivation to get started.
Even if you don’t know someone struggling, there are plenty of good reasons to get involved with hypnotherapy. Perhaps you have a passion for supporting others, or are just seeking a change in your working lifestyle.
No matter how you start, once you find the right motivation, the next step is to get certified.
2. Finding the Right Hypnotherapy Course
Your initial hypnotherapy certification marks the real first step you take into the industry. It gives you all the skills and knowledge you will need to understand client conditions, and instil the best practices for handling clients with care while finding the best resolution to their issues.
Our Hypnotherapy Diploma course is designed to give you all the information you need to join or start a hypnotherapy practice. This ten-month certification provides knowledge, techniques, and a supportive community – alongside a reputable certificate – to build on and validate your hypnotherapy skills.
On this practical course, you will:
- Learn theory, skills, and techniques
- Be given a platform to ask any questions
- Develop your marketing skills
- Gain active experience
- See the impact of your work
- Receive support from experienced lecturers
3. Learning How to Market Yourself
As part of a Hypnotherapy Diploma at CPHT, you will also be taught valuable marketing skills. Many hypnotherapists are independents or open their own practices, often operating via Teams or Zoom to access thousands of clients from around the country.
Learning how to stand out in a competitive online marketplace is vital to ensuring the success of your hypnotherapy career, and to making a return on your education investment. We teach you all the necessary skills to ensure your career can thrive, and provide a supportive environment you can return to.
4. Gaining Active Experience
Learning on the job is vital to see how different patients respond in different circumstances, and to grasp how to apply your techniques in real-world scenarios. Experience in hypnotherapy will also show you how well it works, providing results and helping you build confidence in yourself – which leads to even more effective treatment down the line.
As part of our Hypnotherapy Diploma, we ensure you get real on-the-job experience, preparing you for the next stage in your career.
5. Discovering Your Speciality or Niche
As you interact with more patients and conditions, you may find there’s a particular specialism that you’re most interested in. Typically, hypnotherapists will begin to specialise in a certain field as they grow more comfortable with their work, carving out a niche in the market.
Doing more work in this niche is bound to develop your skills, but you can also get started with a Continuing Personal Development (CPD) course, tackling issues such as:
- Neurodiversity
- Depression
- Anxiety
- PTSD
- Working with Women
- …and much more!
6. Continuing Your Professional Development
Even after you’ve specialised and have been established for a while, you may still find there are things you struggle with. If you want to build an even deeper understanding, there are additional hypnotherapy qualifications you can obtain.
Our Advanced Hypnotherapy Diploma broadens and deepens your knowledge, builds confidence and enables participants to speak more confidently with clients on a range of subject areas. It is the next natural step in your professional development.
Start Your Hypnotherapy Career with CPHT
With the right support and resources, you can set your hypnotherapy career up for success. Planning carefully in the initial stages will pay off in the long run, giving you the credentials, certifications, experience and expertise needed to provide a valuable service and succeed in the open market.
At CPHT, we provide solution focused hypnotherapy courses from beginner levels and up, ensuring both your early steps and later stages are handled with the same level of care. Unlock opportunities in the exciting world of hypnotherapy today by exploring our courses or getting in touch!
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