Hypnotherapy Training: The Advanced Diploma in Integrated Hypnotherapy

Course Content

This list comprises a selection of the full course content, the course is an extensive one, and there are many skills and strategies that you will learn that are not listed here.

Home Study Modules

The first Home Study Module needs to be completed before starting the Practical Programme. You then continue with each Module to correspond with the Practical Modules.

• 1. What is hypnotherapy?

  Brief history of hypnosis. What conditions can be treated with hypnotherapy. Who are suitable clients for hypnotherapy. Creating and building a good therapeutic relationship. The importance of the pre-induction interview. Helping your client create Well-Formed Outcomes. The 5 parts to a hypnotic session. Handling emotional discharge. Acitve listening and Empathic understanding. The Levels of trance. The Isis Code of Ethics. Assessment questions.

• 2. Clinical Hypnosis

  Hypnotic Trance phenomena. Body language: Sending good ‘body messages’ and creating rapport with your client. Your voice is your instrument: How to use it hypnotically. Creating Hypnosis scripts for use with clients. Rapid inductions. Ideo-Motor responses. Dissociation and Association. Clarify your client’s needs by asking the right questions. Deepening the Level of trance. Assessment questions.

• 3. Ericksonian Hypnosis

  About Milton Erickson. Hypnotic language patterns structure: The Milton Model. Models of Hypnotherapy. Structuring Inductions and Post Hypnotic Suggestions. Creating Metaphors for use with clients. Ericksonian hypnosis: Permission, Validation and Utilisation. Using therapeutic Metaphors and stories in Hypnosis. Assessment questions.

• 4. Habit Control

  What are habits? Smoking facts and psychology. Stop Smoking for Life Programme. Weight control: hypothesis and strategies.Think Slim – Be Slim Programme. Eating Disorders. Smarter than SMART Goal setting strategies. Swish Patterns. Assessment questions.

• 5. Neuro linguistic programming. NLP

  Neuro-linguistic Programming:History and development. The NLP Basic assumptions. The Four Pillars of NLP. Representational systems. Predicates. Submodalities. Anchoring. Perceptual Positions. Well-Formed Outcomes. The Meta Model. Assessment questions.

• 6. Panic, Anxiety and Phobias

  Psychology and physiology of anxiety. General Anxiety Disorder [GAD]. Panic attacks. Simple phobias, complex phobias. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy [CBT]. The Fast Phobia Cure. (VAK Dissociation technique) Stress and anxiety. Assessment questions.

• 7. Uncovering and Healing

  Hypnotic uncovering techniques. Seven psychodynamics of a symptom. Parts therapy. Age Regression. Inner Child and Gestalt work. Assessment questions.

• 8. Solution Focussed Brief Therapy

  Solution Focussed Brief Therapy: History and development. Brief therapy model and strategies. Counselling: Carl Rogers and Core Conditions. Cognitive behavioural Therapy [CBT]. Assessment questions.

• 9. Life Coaching and Confidence

  Life Coaching: History and Development. Essential Life Coaching Skills. Self-perception and relationships. Effects of low self esteem. How to improve self perception: Confidence and life coaching strategies. The role of confidence in tests, exams, presentations and public speaking. Assessment questions.

• 10. Setting up in Practice

  Marketing and management skills. 28 Day Marketing Plan. How to get insurance. Joining the hypnotherapy associations. Joining the NHS and BUPA. Hypnotherapy supervision and Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

Practical Weekend Schedule

Practical Modules Each weekend includes: Short lectures, demonstration of specific skills, supervised hypnosis practice, discussions, questions and answers, many illustrations of real case examples, suggestions for appropriate induction scripts and post hypnotic suggestion scripts and strategies. Comprehensive course notes are given for every subject covered.

• 1. Clinical Hypnosis

  Trance phenomena: Catalepsy, levitation, amnesia and analgesia. Ideo-Motor responses. Clinical Induction techniques: Authoritarian and Rapid Inductions. Creating a script for your client. Practical assessments. Demonstrations: Induction techniques. Hypnotic Skills practice.

• 2. Ericksonian hypnosis

  The Milton Model Language Patterns. The Hypnotic Language Pattern Generator. The use of metaphors and stories in hypnosis. Ericksonian induction techniques and post-hypnotic suggestions. Indirect hypnosis. Practical assessments. Demonstration and practice: The Milton Model induction and full hypnotic session.

• 3. Habit Control

  The ‘Stop Smoking for Life Programme’. The ‘Think Slim Be Slim Programme’. Habitual behaviour: Nail biting, Hair pulling etc Treatments and strategies. Practical assessments. Demonstration and practice: Weight questionnaire and Swish pattern weight control. Client preparation for Smoking Cessation.

• 4. Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)

  The Meta Model. Language patterns. The Well-formed Outcomes Model. Swish Patterns. Submodality changes. Future pacing. Induction techniques. Practical assessments. Demonstration and practice: Meta Model questioning, The Autobiographyand swish patterns.

• 5. Panic, Anxiety and Phobias

  Psychology and physiology of anxiety. Phobias. The Fast Phobia Cure. (VAK Dissociation technique) Cognitive Behavioural Therapy [CBT] and anxiety. Power Breathing. Anxiety strategies. Practical assessments. Demonstration and practice: The Fast Phobia Cure.

• 6. Uncovering and Healing

  Hypnotic Uncovering Techniques. Parts therapy. Gestalt techniques. Inner child techniques. Age regression, The Feeling Bridge. Healing the child within, Practical assessments. Demonstration and practice: Parts therapy.

• 7. Solution Focussed Brief Therapy

  Solution Focused Brief Therapy Skills; The Miracle Question, Scaling. Active listening skills and Counselling Skills: Reflecting, Clarifying and Summarising. Practical assessments. Demonstration and practice: The Pre-induction interview and hypnotic intervention using Counselling skills and Brief Therapy questioning techniques.

• 8. Life Coaching

  Essential Life Coaching Stragegies. Life Style Audit, Self Worth, Motivation, Action Plans. How to use and adapt life coaching strategies in the therapeutic setting. Life coaching skills for confidence. Further goal setting, questioning and interview techniques. Practical assessments: using hypnotherapy for confidence. Demonstration and practice: Working with the neurological levels to increase happiness/