Our Diploma Course is run part time over one year and has 450 hours of combined classroom tuition and directed independent study.

Upon successful completion of the course you will receive:

  Diploma in Clinical and Advanced Hypnosis
and
  Hypnotherapy Practitioner Diploma
and
   NLP Practitioner Certificate

and you will be eligible to usee letters DipCAH, HPD and PNLP after your name.

If you successfully pass optional assessments you will also receive:

  Specialist Certificate in Smoking Cessation
  Specialist Certificate in Treating Anxiety
  Ericksonian Hypnotherapy Practitioner Certificate

This means that you will be able to start up immediately with all the skills and knowledge that you need to build a successful practice!

Most UK Academy Centres operate run the course over 10 or 11 weekends (although some centres may offer different structures, including residential, intensive, weekday or evening programmes), typically following this structure:

1. Introductory (see below) 

2. Traditional hypnotherapy practice

3. Self-hypnosis, pain and IBS 

4. Smoking and weight control

5. The therapeutic process  

6. Anxiety and stress

7. Ericksonian hypnosis  

8. Practice management

9. Regression    

10. NLP 1

11. NLP 2

 
Some centres have rolling entry, whereby you may take module one (usually on a Friday) and then join the group on the next weekend. Some centres allow intake at only one or two points in the year. Please contact your local training director for details of how their centre runs.

Hypnotherapy is both a theoretical and practical based study. The UK Academy believes that it is very important for a student to not only know the information taught, but also to be able to use this information in a practical way. To this end, a large proportion of the course is dedicated to practice sessions.

In addition to the classroom attendance, students will be required to submit  a portfolio of work which includes a question paper,  a series of hypnothetical situations for which you plan treatment and a statement of personal and professional philosophy.

The UK Academy Diploma is recognised nationally and internationally (see Accreditation page). Our Diploma Course meets the requirements for the externally accredited Hypnotherapy Practitioner Diploma awarded by the National Council for Hypnotherapy. This is a level 4 Vocational award, which you will receive upon successful completion of this course.

The syllabus includes the following topics:

·        7 step pseudo orientation in time

·        Abreaction

·        A simple 3-step method of self-hypnosis

·        Anchoring

·        ANT metaphor

·        Basics of NLP

·        Behavioural assessment

·        Belief script

·        Blackboard induction

·        Causes of anxiety

·        Colour breathing script

·        Contraindications

·        Core conditions

·        Dangers of hypnosis

·        Definition of anxiety

·        Depth testing

·        Ego strengthening

·        Ethics

·        Erickson

·        Erickson’s early learning set

·        Exercise for mental health

·        Eye patterns

·        False memory syndrome

·        Fast fear

·        Favourable and unfavourable influences

·        Fiona’s bubble

·        Fractionalisation

·        Free floating regression

·        Further background to anxiety

·        Garden metaphor

·        Glove anaesthesia

·        Goal (future) orientation

·        Hand levitation by questions

·        Hierarchy of ideas

·        History

·        How to hypnotise

·        Humanistic principles

·        Hypermnesia and hyperaesthesia

·        Hypnosis in dentistry

·        IBS

·        Ideo-motor responses

·        Inductions

·        Introduction

·        Introduction to self-hypnosis

·        Keys to an achievable outcome

·        Language patterns

·        Listening skills

·        Manipulation of distractions

·        Marketing

·        Metal model

·        Metaphor

·        Metaphors: NLP

·        Methods of self-hypnosis

·        Misconceptions

·        Pain

·        Parts integration

·        Perfectionism script

·        Potential problems with therapeutic process

·        Psychosis

·        Problems with smoking cessation

·        Process

·        Procrastination script

·        Rapport (NLP)

·        Recognition and classification of subjects

·        Reflective practice

·        Representational systems

·        Resistance

·        Resourcing script

·        Reverse metaphor

·        Reverse set

·        Sensory acuity

·        Shaun’s smoking cessation script

·        Six step reframe

·        Smoking cessation process

·        Smoking information gathering

·        Smoking inerventions

·        Smoking pre-talk

·        Smoking statistics

·        Strategies: NLP

·        Stress reduction

·        Structuring treatment for anxiety

·        Submodalities

·        Substitute words for hypnosis

·        Suggestibility

·        Suggestions

·        Swish

·        Systematic desensitisation

·        Tasking

·        The conscious/unconscious mind

·        Therapeutic relationship

·        Time line regression

·        Trance depth

·        Transference

·        Understanding anxiety

·        Use of the Voice

·        Utilisation

·        Weight control

·        Weight control script

·        What is hypnosis?

·        Why smoke?

·        Yes set

As this course is constantly updated, this list only represents a sample of what is covered. Other cutting edge techniques will be taught in order to keep the student at the forefront of hypnosis for therapeutic changework.