Courses available at Contemporary College of Therapeutic Studies

As an ambitious and uniquely people-focused training college, CCTS helps you to earn your career qualifications and provides the ongoing support to ensure your success as a contemporary therapist. Our environment is vibrant and energised: one in which you can discover and develop your chosen specialisms, to include combinations of hypnotherapy, psychotherapy, counselling skills, and NLP.

You will benefit, both personally and professionally, from the highest-quality teaching standards, excellent resources and an exciting and creative atmosphere to study and be part of the experience. Add to this a student support system that really understands the commitments and responsibilities that you have outside of your academic life, and you begin to have a sense of why CCTS is one of the fastest growing colleges in the UK for both early career stage and advanced therapeutic studies.

CCTS offers a variety of different courses at different levels, depending on your experience and attainments to date, so you can choose which best suits your plans to develop in your chosen role.

Our courses range from Beginner level through to Advanced Practitioner level. Please see below for details of the courses we run.

4 Month Certificate in Clinical & Cognitive Behavioural Hypnosis & NLP

The course is designed for both those new to therapy and who are interested in the mind, as well as those already working in the helping professions, such as counsellors, doctors, dentists, nurses, social workers and teachers.

Students will acquire skills that are directly relevant to improving the quality of life for themselves and those around them.

On successful completion students are able to continue with the Practitioner Diploma course, which runs alongside this course.

11 Month Diploma in Integrative Hypnotherapy & Psychotherapy

The Year 1 Diploma course is open to all students who wish to become professional practitioners in Integrative Hypnotherapy, Psychotherapy and Counselling.

It is designed for those who are looking for a sound and thorough training, enabling them to become eligible for membership of the National Council of Psychotherapists, the General Hypnotherapy Register and the Hypnotherapy Association at practitioner level.

12 Month Advanced Diploma in Integrative Hypno-Psychotherapy

This course is aimed at students who are continuing training onto the Advanced Diploma in Integrative Hypno-Psychotherapy which includes the first year of the Diploma in Integrative Counselling.

This exciting and stimulating programme provides additional in-depth study into the theory, practice and skills involved in the professional practice of the Hypno-Psychotherapist.

Diploma in Integrative Counselling

The second year of the Diploma in Counselling continues on from our Advanced Diploma in Integrative Hypno-Psychotherapy for those that wish to add a full Counselling training to their repertoire. You can also take our 2 year Diploma in Counselling as a stand alone course.

Distance Learning Certificate in Clinical Hypnosis & NLP

Distance learning and on-line courses are an ever increasingly popular way of studying from the comfort of your own home and at the pace that suits you and your life style.

This Course has been built to be flexible. It gives you the opportunity to do as much as you wish, with the potential to opt in to Classroom training at certain stages, or study completely through distance learning.

NLP Practitioner & Master Practitioner Certificate Courses

Would you like to dramatically increase your understanding of others and your ability to really hear what you and others are saying?

Would you like to find out powerful ways of changing behaviour and help other people change in a fraction of the time of other psychological therapies? Then NLP is for you.

FREE e-Book