About Hypnotherapy

Starting a hypnotherapy practice can feel like a challenging concept, especially when you’re new to the industry. If you haven’t started your training yet and are looking at the commercial viability of hypnotherapy, then the idea of starting out alone may feel like an impossible hurdle. But we’re here to show you it’s not. At ... Read more

Solution Focused hypnotherapy is a guided method for helping people overcome their problems, and as such comes with a number of benefits for both patients and practitioners. At CPHT, we provide quality hypnotherapy training for budding and established hypnotherapists, giving you all the skills you need to succeed in this impactful industry. In this article, ... Read more

Hypnotherapy is a versatile treatment that can be used to help people deal with a variety of issues. From mental health to physical wellbeing, the right hypnotherapy can support people through their personal challenges and help them achieve their goals. At CPHT, we provide aspiring hypnotherapists across the UK with expert advice and quality training, ... 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

Solution-focused hypnotherapist and guest lecturer Kim Clayden has been running her popular 1-day post-graduate CPD (continued professional development) course for over a year now. We caught up with her to find out why, as hypnotherapists, we should really be looking into gaining skills and insight to work with this ever-growing sector of the population as ... Read more

I trained as a hypnotherapist because I felt it was time for a career change. I was interested in people and psychology, so hypnotherapy training seemed a natural choice, and now at the time of writing, 7 years down the line – I absolutely love my job. From my point of view, here are the ... Read more

For every dark cloud, there is a silver lining. We suspect you’ve heard that saying before? It can indeed be the case though, even with a global pandemic. Our students have been training during a period of great change in the therapeutic world. A change that most therapists wouldn’t have thought possible. As we come ... Read more

Solution-Focused Hypnotherapists can help people improve their sports performance, from beginners to professional athletes. As Covid restrictions are lifted, we are already seeing outdoor sports facilities reopening. These include golf courses, tennis, basketball courts and outdoor swimming. Physical practice is essential, I think this goes without saying. But it will never allow the athlete to ... Read more

We often get asked by students and clients alike, why we repeat the language patterns that we relay to clients in a hypnotic trance? Well, there are a few reasons why repetition is so important for the brain. Firstly, people learn through repetition. Repetition builds pathways in our brain. If we repeat a positive story ... Read more

Since March (The COVID-19 Lockdown), like many training courses, we found ourselves delivering teaching using video conferencing online (Zoom). We needed to deliver the sessions professionally with equal spirit and energy. We also wanted to pass our knowledge on to the students so they could confidently use Zoom to deliver their practice sessions. So, would ... Read more

When you set out on a journey, you never quite know where it might lead! David Newton, the founder of Clifton Practice Hypnotherapy Training (CPHT) launched his first training school back in 2002. He had become a very successful hypnotherapist and, back in the late 90s, had become aware of the ‘scientific revolution’ and in ... Read more

Would you like to train in hypnotherapy to help clients to break bad habits? Many of our clients will visit a Solution-Focused Hypnotherapist to help them with this. How do we define a habit? A habit is some repetitive behaviour that may not be helpful to us. Examples include; nail biting, eating unhealthy food, not ... Read more

How do I know that Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy taught by CPHT works? How can I demonstrate to future clients that it works? How can I measure outcomes? The answers to these questions are important to consider before you invest financially and dedicate your time to any hypnotherapy course, particularly as the drive to measure outcomes gathers ... Read more

A Practical Hypnotherapy Training Course The great thing about CPHT, is that it is such a practical course. We combine theory and practical together, so by the end of the course, you are a confident Solution-Focused Hypnotherapist. Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy combines elements of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), NLP, and neuroscience, with hypnosis. Students practice with family ... Read more

A Hypnotherapist has a very varied life! Snakes, spiders, heights, flying… these are common phobias clients arrive at our therapy door with.  There are also some more unusual ones, such as a fear of the colour yellow, a fear of trees and a fear of cheese, yes cheese! A career, sometimes even a day as ... Read more

There’s a range of different therapies out there. The therapy we teach on the CPHT course, and use in our own practices is called solution-focused (SF) Hypnotherapy. The reason I prefer this approach is that, as the name suggests, it has a positive focus on the future, and gives clients real strategies to make lasting ... Read more

I know it’s a bit of a career cliché, but every day is different for the hypnotherapy practitioner. To give you an idea of the kind of issues you’ll encounter during training, and when you qualify, here are some of the main reasons people seek out hypnotherapists. “I feel stressed a lot of the time” ... Read more

How do you know when you’ve just met a solution-focused (SF) hypnotherapist? The smile, the confidence and they way they can’t wait to tell you what they do. They will try and tell you how amazing the brain is…they may draw you pictures.  Don’t worry though, they aren’t mad, they are just loving life because ... Read more

You’d not believe that this is even a topic of conversation; whether a chair or a couch is better for your hypnotherapy room, but it is! It’s almost laughable but, as well as “when to start charging?”, “how much you are going to charge?”, whether to have your photo on your business cards, how often ... Read more

Students and clients ask – Does Hypnotherapy Work? As a hypnotherapist you’ll be asked many times whilst you’re in training and throughout your career, ‘Does Hypnotherapy Work?’ and you must find a way to answer it positively. At first you too might even be a little sceptical; you’ll not be the first student to sign ... Read more

Many people suffer with PTSD, but we normally think of those things as something that happens to members of the armed forces, or people who have suffered violence towards them. Keira Knightley, the award winning, globally recognised actress of stage and screen isn’t an obvious sufferer, but in an interview for the ‘Awards Chatter’ Podcast, ... Read more

Recognising that something needs to change! We are always interested to hear what has prompted clients to seek help in the first place. Sometimes a client will book an appointment to help them overcome a recent event, maybe a relationship break-up, a redundancy, or an accident of some sort. More often than not, clients tell ... Read more

I could hardly believe what I was hearing – this flying phobia had cost my client thousands in lost flights, missed trips and they had stopped planes on the runway to get off, more than once! The holiday of a lifetime with the person you love should be something to look forward to right? The ... Read more

There still remains a lot of mystery and myth around Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy. The fact remains that good quality scientific evidence is building and continuing to support this talking therapy. This research is showing that it is an effective way to help people cope with a wide range of symptoms and conditions. Fortunately, many people ... Read more

Even I was intimidated by this phobia; I’d never seen one so severe and only the fact that I have really good training, allowed me to stay confident for my client. What’s it like to work as a solution-focused hypnotherapist? You might already starting to think about what life after qualification might be like, after ... Read more

We just love Stanford University!  They do a lot of research on what happens with hypnosis. In fact there’s buckets full of research going on about hypnotherapy as scientists glimpse how it affects the brain.  And it’s all good stuff. A group of researchers at the Stanford School of Medicine just used brain imaging to ... Read more

The opportunity for all Solution-Focused Hypnotherapists in working with sports people is tremendous. Glenn Catley explains how hypnotherapy helped him to perform at his very best on the night, taking the title of World Champion Boxer in the Super Middleweight division. Perhaps the greatest help we can give sports people in improving their performance, like ... Read more

Studies show that just 20% of UK workers are happy at work and that almost half would like to change career, with 21% hoping to make that change in the next 12 months. For many, the motivation to change career is that what they do in their day job makes no meaningful contribution to the world.  ... Read more

I’d say the majority of clients I work with come to see me because of anxiety in some form or another. Anxiety can manifest itself in many ways: nervousness; panic attacks; insomnia, overly worrying about something that may never happen, etc. It can have a crippling effect by bringing on range of symptoms such as Irritable Bowel Syndrome ... Read more

Over the years I’ve worked with a large number of hypnotherapy clients who come into my clinic with all sorts of presenting problems.  The majority bring in the usual issues such as anxiety, depression or allied symptoms such as insomnia, panic attacks or not being able to keep control of alcohol or food intake. Sometimes ... Read more

As a Clinical Hypnotherapist we often meet clients who are suffering from anxiety. A natural response that everyone will feel from time to time, after all no one can avoid routine life situations. We may feel anxious when we need to attend a job interview or swerve for a car that is heading in our ... 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

A starting place from attempting to solve any problem is having an understanding of why it happens. There is plenty of researched evidence to show that informed clients improve more quickly than those less informed. During the initial consultation, we as Solution-Focused Hypnotherapists, explain how the brain works. This simple and accurate description of how ... Read more

I am often asked the question ‘What is Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy?’ Well, Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy (SFH) is a model of excellence that uses interventions that are effective. It will use the very best procedures that science and research prescribe. In reality though its core philosophy is very much based on the work of Steve de Shazer and ... Read more

We are often asked to help clients with chronic (persistent) pain. Using Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy clients can learn techniques to lessen the impact of the pain. We also help to lower any associated anxiety, which again impacts on the intensity of the pain. This article presents ‘a possible way around one of the most frustrating limitations ... Read more

Several years ago Hypnotherapy/ists failed in their attempts to bring about Voluntary Self Regulation (VSR). At the time it was broadly agreed that if we managed VSR, that the gateway entry to hypnotherapy, for those who wished to practice under the regulated ‘umbrella’, would be the Hypnotherapy Practitioners Diploma, or HPD. The quality mark of ... Read more