WFH
Hypnotherapy
Training
The World Federation of Hypnotherapists
Incorporating the British Association of Therapeutical Hypnotists
Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy Course Syllabus
The course duration is one year. Your commitment to training and study is important so that you can successfully complete the course, and so that you can manage your study time and complete assignments on time. The total study time is 165 hours classroom time over the 11 weekends, plus up to 8 hours per week home study including reading and homework assignments to put together a portfolio; approx 400 hours of home study. Total study is approx 565 hours. Students must attend all 11 weekends. Course fees and dates can be found on page 7. The course will run with a small group of no more than 12 students to facilitate a good ratio of student/trainer contact. Click here to download the course prospectus and application form.
Module 1
Introduction & overview of course. What is hypnosis. History of hypnosis. Trance states & signs of trance. Contraindications for hypnosis. Nature of psychosomatic problems. Suggestibility tests. Basic trance inductions: Progressive Relaxation, Permissive, Eye-fractionation. Trance termination. Post hypnotic suggestions. Ego strengthening. Self-hypnosis. Advanced trance inductions: direct and indirect—Elman/authoritarian, Visualisation, Revivification, Overload, Interspersal Technique.
Module 2
Building rapport: body language, pacing & leading. Therapeutic relationships: basic counselling skills, building trust. Basic confidence & self-esteem building, working with beliefs. Anchoring positive states.
Module 3
Therapeutic relationships: advanced counselling skills, developing a therapeutic alliance, the clients role, transference/counter-transference/projection. Formulating and structuring suggestions. Preparing a script. Compounding suggestions. Client management: interview & assessment, history taking, assessing appropriateness for treatment. Boundaries & ethics, contracting, confidentiality, & storing records.
Module 4
Treatment planning: solution focused therapy. Working with smokers: preparation, techniques, scripts, the ethics & pitfalls of making guarantees. Getting your client to play their part. Working with weight management: body image, emotional eating, eating disorders & self-esteem. To diet or not to diet? Scripts for weight management. Introduction to hypnoanalysis & regression. False Memory Syndrome. Understanding & dealing with abreactions. Introduction to hypnoanalysis/regression.
Module 5
Ericksonian Therapy. Language patterns: Milton Model & Meta Model. Binds, double binds, tag questions, embedded commands. Erickson’s early learning set. Trance induction / preparing a script using the Milton Model language patterns. Utilisation. Reframing. Metaphors: working with therapeutic stories, developing your own metaphors.
Module 6
Basics of NLP: eye accessing cues, representation systems and their use in hypnosis. NLP techniques: fast phobia process, six step reframing, swish, new behaviour generator, resource anchoring, circle of excellence. Stress: causes of stress. Stress response—fight or flight, the mind-body connection. Stress management.
Module 7
Deepening trance states, ideo-motor responses & unconscious communication. Hypnoanalysis using Psycho-Imagination Therapy & Guided Affective Imagery & regression. Hypnotic phenomena: amnesia, catalepsy, time distortion, dissociation, deep trance identification.
Module 8
Treating Anxiety: GAD, Panic Disorder, Social Phobia & Specific Phobias. Assessment & techniques. Conditioned responses, negative automatic thoughts, cognitive-behavioural model, collapsing anchors. Planning treatment & measuring progress. Relationships & sexual problems—psychological or medically caused, treatment, confidence & self-esteem.
Module 9
Pain management: when to work with pain control and when not to. The mind-body connection in pain control. Pain control techniques: analgesia & anaesthesia. Working with depression: symptoms, treatment strategies, techniques, building resources. Antidepressants and working with people who are medicated. Working with beliefs, testing beliefs.
Module 10
Past life regression: pros and cons, belief and disbelief. When to use it, techniques. Practice setup and management. Supervision & Professional development.
Module 11—run by WFH Chairman Richard Evans
One day inductions workshop with practical assessment & one day marketing workshop in preparation for setting up practice.
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