On this course you will learn:  

• Specific relaxation techniques tailored to the individual.

• The way to use “suggestion” to help behaviour change in others.

• How to use hypnotic language to motivate, strengthen and harness the power of the mind.

• Techniques to Manage Stress, Anxiety and Phobic Responses.

• Effective Habit Changing Methods.

• How to carry out Smoking Cessation Therapy and Weight Loss Programmes.

• Effective Pain management.

The aim of this 4 weekend Clinical & Cognitive Behavioural Hypnosis & NLP course is to provide a sound introduction to hypnosis, enabling those attending to obtain a foundation of knowledge as an aid to the eventual practice of hypnotherapy. 

The course is designed for both those new to therapy as well as those already working in the helping professions, such as counsellors, doctors, dentists, nurses, social workers and teachers. This course is also for those who wish to simply find out about the workings of the mind. 

Students will acquire skills that are directly relevant to improving the quality of life for themselves and those around them. On successful completion of this course and upon passing the set assessments, students are able to continue on with the Practitioner Diploma course, which runs alongside this course. 

Essentially this course is the first four months of the Year 1 Diploma course. 

This course will enable students to become associate members of The General Hypnotherapy Register and The Association of Contemporary Hypnotherapy, Psychotherapy & Counselling upon qualifying and throughout the course student membership is automatic. 

The course teaching will include lectures, experiential learning and practice as well as the use of video analysis. We use many different learning and teaching styles so as to enable all students a thorough understanding of the skills involved in therapy. Class and tutor discussion and feedback will play an important part of the learning process also.

The course content is essentially the first part of the Year 1 Practitioner Diploma Course and the material taught is the same as for the Diploma course students. Please see below for the full breakdown of the material taught. 

 

Weekend 1	Weekend 2
History of hypnosis.  Rapid and slow inductions – How to guide someone into hypnosis and how to relax.  The signs of hypnosis.  Self Hypnosis – Help your clients prepare for future events by knowing how to go into self hypnosis.  The Arm deepener -  How to take someone into deeper relaxation, a body and mind switch off!  Suggestibility tests – Ways to find out how clients respond to hypnosis and suggestion.  Modalities and eye cues – how to effectively speak someone’s language so they can relax and begin to find their unique abilities and talents.	Hypnotic language - Milton Erickson- learn the language so that you can take a client gently into their inner world.  Laws of the mind – How the mind hears suggestions and how to make the most of them.  The Conscious and Subconscious mind. – The power of the mind and how it works.  Suggestion and its effects. Pre and Post Hypnotic Suggestions for desired outcomes.  Anchoring & Swish Techniques – Techniques that will help change a panic/anxious state into a calm and controlled state. How to be more resourceful in specific situations.  Visualisation in therapy
Weekend 3	Weekend 4
Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy – The philosophy and way of working.  Smoking Cessation theory and treatment – How to become a non-smoker!  Habit control -Addictions – for nail biting, teeth grinding, etc.  Stein’s Clenched Fist – A technique that will change unwanted states to resourced states.	Weight  Management Therapy, know how to encourage people to have a more healthy way of being.  Working with Phobias - Understand how to change a phobic response (needles, spiders, heights, agoraphobia).  The Theatre Screen technique – a technique to help someone change a behaviour pattern, (in particular a phobia).  Hypnosis and Pain Control - Anaesthesia - learn how to help people in physical pain.

 
This course is open to all individuals seeking a new career and those wanting to add the skills of clinical hypnotherapy to their current work base.

 

 
Appreciating the pressures of modern life, time and financial constraints, the training course is conducted at weekends, one weekend per month for 4 months. The training days are mainly experiential, and commence from 10am until 5pm. There will be a 40 minute lunch break and 2 further breaks throughout each day. 

 
The cost of the course is £920 plus VAT (£1081.00) This is divided in a registration fee of £181 and 5 further monthly payments of £180.

Payments can also be made in full and receive a 5% discount if paid prior to the start date of the course. 

Students that wish to continue onto the Diploma course can join at month 5.

This fee structure is for the 2010 period. Fees are reviewed yearly on 1st January.

Our courses are currently run in London and Leeds. 

For current dates and more about venues click here. 

Students who successfully complete this course will be awarded a Certificate from The Contemporary College of Therapeutic Studies. This will show you have attended the Clinical & Cognitive Behavioural Hypnosis & NLP Certificate and reached the required standard of training. This can be used at any point in the future for exemption from the first 4 months of our Practitioner Diploma course. 

The General Hypnotherapy Standards Council validates the course at Foundation level. 

After submitting your application form with your registration fee, if applicable, an A4 summary of your life experience, including your reasons for attending the course, the College will process your application to make sure that you possess the qualities that would enable you to work safely and ethically with clients in a Clinical Hypnosis setting. To apply for this course see the Registrations page. 
 

 
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