The Clifton Practice Hypnotherapy Training

How to become a Professional clinical Hypnotherapist

The Practitioner Diploma Course is of approximately 150 hours duration of classroom study, plus required reading, and leads to a full Diploma qualification (DHP). On this course, you will learn not just hypnotherapy, but how to be thoroughly effective as a psychotherapist, too.

Study materials for the course have been prepared and selected by David Newton and include 250,000 word course notes.

What does it mean to be a hypnotherapist?
If you were instrumental in helping only one other human being to change their life for the better so dramatically that they said something like: "I really didn't realise how wonderful just being alive could be!" you'd feel pretty pleased for that individual. Imagine, then, how it feels when you help not just one person, but scores, hundreds - even thousands - to that same sense of liberation and well-being.

To be a Hypnotherapist is also to have a career for as long as you want it - there are no age limits - and to work either full or part-time as you choose. Also, you can choose your work hours to suit your lifestyle, so you can fit your new career around other commitments.

No Experience Necessary
The training programme was professionally designed and written to give you a thorough and sound knowledge of the application of ethical clinical hypnosis and hypnotherapy, even if you have no previous experience of the field. The qualifications you receive allow you to easily obtain professional liability insurance; we will even introduce you to insurers who will provide it.

The following subjects - and far more - are all covered in detail:

What hypnosis can and cannot do
What hypnosis is - and what it is not
How to be a successful professional hypnotherapist
How to hypnotise almost anybody - including yourself
Choosing the best induction
How to recognise when somebody IS hypnotised
How to effect safe release from the hypnotic state
Direct and indirect therapeutic intervention
How to get to the the 'roots' of problems
Working with pain and physical illness
Dealing with stress and anxiety
Successful client management
Instant understanding of personality types

Continuing Support
The 10-12 month course is comprehensive enough for you to be able to go successfully and competently into private practice as soon as you are qualified, safe in the knowledge that you have the support of the principals and staff of the Clifton Practice if at any time you need professional help or advice.

The tuition programme is conducted in a modular fashion and covers all that you need to know in order to start finding success just as soon as you are qualified. It is impossible to show you everything that is covered, so there is just an overview here.

Here is just some of what you will learn...

Hypnosis - Literally everything you need to know... how to induce it and how to use it effectively and safely, every time.
Personality - You will learn about the three main personality groups and how to recognise each one instantaneously. You will be astonished at how quickly others - including family and friends - become 'transparent' to you
Fears, Phobias and other symptoms - How to deal easily and effectively with phobia responses.
Anxiety - The dilution of fear, the cause of most emotional difficulties; neurosis - the hard evidence of psychological conflict; anxiety; the fight or flight reflex.
The power of suggestion - Dealing with habits, smoking, weight control, nail-biting, exam fears/nerves, speaking in public, concentration and study, etc.; how to write and use hypnotic suggestions and posthypnotic suggestions; embedded commands and how to use them; ensuring that your suggestions 'take' - every time; limitations and contra-indicators.
Patient management - Learn how to get it absolutely right from start to finish, ensuring that your patients become happy and satisfied and will refer others on to you for years to come.
Techniques and practice - Writing your own scripts; self-hypnosis; harnessing the amazing power of visualisation; creating and using posthypnotic 'triggers'; understanding and using modalities; somnambulism; spontaneous hypnosis; twenty signs of hypnosis; how to make sure you apply exactly the right sort of hypnotic technique.

As well as all of the above, there are also detailed overviews of:

General history of hypnosis and hypnotherapy
Perspectives in psychology
Cognitive / behavioural therapy
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
False Memory Syndrome
Working with pain and physical illness
Depression
Regression styles of therapy
Abreaction
The 'fast phobia cure'
Selective thinking and the Conscious Critical Faculty
Transference and counter-transference
Addictions
The 'Swish' technique for rapid change

Hypnotherapy in the modern era is the application of hypnotic techniques in such a way as to bring about therapeutic change. In broad terms there are three types of therapies:

Suggestion Therapy is a traditional treatment used to help with problems such as smoking, pre-test nerves, nail-biting, pain etc. It makes use of the mind's heightened awareness and susceptibility to suggestions in order to make changes. you will learn on the course all you need to know about this therapy. In particular, you will be well drilled in anti-smoking techniques.

Brief or Solution Focused Based Therapy is a modern method which helps with a large range of symptoms. This therapy is concerned with helping people achieve what they want to in life. Solution orientated hypnosis is designed to awaken abilities that appear beyond a person's deliberate control. Training in SFBT at The Clifton Practice is intensive and thorough.

Analytical Methods, often combined with Brief Therapy techniques, are sometimes used when it is felt to be appropriate to deal with problems originating in the past. Historically, mental health providers, including hypnotherapists, have often treated patients from a variety of psychoanalytical or psychodynamic perspectives that generally conceptualised an individual's problems as stemming from the subconscious, repressed thoughts or feelings. Clinicians intervened in hopes of giving the person insight into the supposed root of his or her symptoms or to find a corrective experience. Hypnotherapists may continue to draw from these theories although in reality modern therapy is more and more CBT/SFBT.

The Clifton Practice course is recognised as a leading practical course that gives students both the confidence and ability to progress successfully into practice upon graduation.

Posgraduate support and career development
Graduates will be expected to remain in formal supervision for the first five years of their practice. This will be in group situations, and is invariably considered by ex-students to be both enjoyable and supportive. There is an ongoing Career Development Programme (CDP) in place at The Clifton Practice.

Course Contents

Course materials approximately 250,000 words
Free email/telephone/support

"What will I be able to do?"
You will be properly equipped to go into professional practice just as soon as you receive your qualification diploma from the The Clifton Practice. You will be competent enough to work effectively with most issues with which you are likely to be presented, including:

Quitting Smoking
Dealing with Habits
Anxiety and Stress
Personal Problems
Phobias and Fears
Weight Control
Pain Relief
Most Depressions
Test/exam Fears
Unresolved Grief
Work Related Stress
Confidence Problems
Sleeping Difficulties
Poor Self Image
Career Enhancement
Goal Achievement
Relationship Problems
Public Speaking
Psycho-sexual Problems
Concentration
Memory Enhancement

There are two ways in which you may complete the course:

IN HOUSE - IN THE CLASSROOM: WEEKENDS
Ten consecutive, monthly, intensive two-day weekend classes providing a total of 150 hours of tuition, couple with a few more hours per week of home study - a required reading list is provided along with a written course in excess of 140,000 words. There will be a requirement for two assessment essays of 1000 words to be completed, along with a half-way interim test during the course period to further assess your progress. At the end of your studies there will be a final examination which includes a practical test.

IN HOUSE – IN THE CLASSROOM: WEEKDAY
It is possible, if weekends are a difficulty, or if the course timing is inappropriate, to train during the week. The training materials, homework and examination assignments are identical to the weekend course. However, the training is necessarily more intensive and on occasion students will be asked, or have the opportunity, to attend lectures by visiting teachers given to the main classroom course. The training is in small groups of not more that nine students.

CP’s high position in the hierarchy of UK schools inevitably necessitates a good deal of extra mural work by students. Because the work is interesting and often very enjoyable most people, even those in full time employment, are able to cope admirably. There is no doubt, however, that there is extra pressure on those attending the weekday course. It does require more ‘out of hours’ work in order to fulfil the obligations of the course.

Exam Passes and Qualifications

Classroom Students will receive:

DHP
HPD
LAPHP (Licentiate membership of the Association for Professional Hypnosis and Psychotherapy)
LNCP (Licentiate membership of the National Council for Psychotherapists)
MNCH(Lic) (Licentiate membership of the National Council for Hypnotherapy)
LHS (Licentiate of the Hypnotherapy Society)
GQHP (General Qualification in Hypnotherapy Practice awarded by the General Hypnotherapy Standards Council)

In the event that you should fail the final exam, you will be able to retake it after a suitable period of further study.

"When can I start?"
The training course starts at a set time - details are attached - and you cannot start other than on the first or second class. Entry onto either course is simple - just complete the student application form and either mail or email it to the addresses shown on the form.

Lecturers
Senior Lecturer and Administrator:
David Newton DHP FAPHP MNCH MNCP SHS SQHP Sup Hyp

Contributing Lecturers:
Stefanie Newton DHP MAPHP MHA NRAH Acc Hyp
Matthew Dyson MBA DHP MNCH(Reg) MAPHP MHS
Claire Brigg BSc(Hons) DHP MHS MNCH(Reg) MAPHP
Stephanie Hill DHP MAPHP MNCH(Reg) MHS
Angus Pearson MA(Hons) DHP MAPHP MNCH(Reg)
John Crawford DHP HPD MAPHP MHS MNCP
Pam Pearson Bsc(Hons) DHP LHS MNCH(Lic) LAPHP

Academic Assessor and Researcher:
Matthew Dyson MBA DHP MNCH(Reg) MAPHP MHS

Course and Supervision Coordinator:
Sue Rodrigues DHP LHS LNCP MNCH(Lic) LAPHP