Training opportunities

We offer a variety of training programmes in Clinical and Relational Hypnotherapy

1. Certificate in Clinical Hypnotherapy

The Certificate in Clinical Hypnotherapy is the bedrock of your Clinical Hypnotherapist training or even a powerful adjunct to your established therapy practice.

You will learn effective and safe procedures for hypnosis, as well as how to utilize hypnotic techniques within a therapeutic framework.

The Certificate includes 10 days of face-to-face instruction and training, as well as additional home study.

The Certificate of Clinical Hypnotherapy is the foundation for the Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy. It is comprised of two levels :

Level 1 : An Introduction to hypnosis and hypnotherapy

• An introduction to hypnosis and hypnotherapy

• The history, theories and key concepts of hypnosis

• Working within a therapeutic framework

• Counselling and interviewing skills

• An introduction to psychology and psychotherapy

Level 2

• Dynamics and relationships within therapy

• Modern psychological approaches and tools for diagnosis

• The Cognitive Behavioural approach in hypnotherapy

• Addiction cessation therapy

• Key psychotherapeutic figures and paradigms

• The use of imagery in hypnotherapy

• Treatment of common presenting issues

  (anxiety, stress and phobias).

• Hypnotherapy for weight control and management

• Eating disorders

• Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy and irrational beliefs

• An introduction to neuro-linguistic programming (N.L.P.)

“Every person's map of the world is as unique as their thumbprint. ... So in dealing with people, you try not to fit them to your concept of what they should be.”

— Milton Erickson

2. Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy

3. Diploma in Relational Hypnotherapy

A Diploma in Relational Hypnotherapy consists of 18 days of face-to-face instruction and training, as well as additional home study.

The prerequisite for the Diploma in Relational Hypnotherapy is that you have already completed the Certificate in Clinical Hypnotherapy. Students who have completed an external training qualification in hypnotherapy will be considered on an individual basis.

For therapists wishing to work relationally, hypnosis may not seem like a relevant therapeutic methodology. However, the very core of relational practice, including intersubjective dynamics and transference dynamics, could be supported, deepened and explored through naturalistic trance work.

Relational hypnotherapy allows us to feel into the intersubjective field, offering a genuine opportunity for creating newness and facilitating therapeutic growth and change. This programme aims to equip you with theoretical grounding and clinical tools for recognising trance, incorporating these therapeutically and harnessing trance for the therapeutic relationship.

It is a journey of touching old disciplines (shamanic practices, Eastern philosophies) with current thinking both in analytical milieus (Mitchell, Aron, Benjamin, Tronick, Trevarthen) and in the fields of hypnosis (Gilligan, Nash, Baker, Diamond) and bodywork (Boadella, Ziehl, Reich, Lowen).

This modular course is recognised by the Australian Hypnotherapy Association (A.H.A.), allowing graduates to attain a practitioner diploma in hypnotherapy and relational hypnotherapy.

The programme is aimed toward training students who are already practitioners of psychological and coaching therapies to practice naturalistic and relational hypnotherapy within psychotherapeutic setting.

While history of traditional hypnosis, induction and suggestion techniques would be touched upon, the main purpose of the training is to support students in identifying naturally occurring trances, to further their work with transference dynamics and work with relational trances. 

This work integrates: 

Ericksonian work, and post-Ericksonian hypnosis (Gilligan, Rossi) with relational psychoanalytic thinking and practice.