Hypnotherapy courses down South
Hi there
Been thinking about doing a hypnotherapy course and I live in the South of Eng and wondered if any of you know of courses near me who have completed training.
Those of you have taken a career in hypnotherapy have you found it to be what you expected.
Are all courses so exspensive? I've seen some at 1700 to nearly 3K. There's no way I can pay that sort of money.
What about distance learning courses does anyone have an experience of those?
Regards
Deb379
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You cannot learn hypnosis by a book - it is a practical art and you need a good course that will teach you by explanation, demonstration and practise. Learning anything that potentially changes people's lives should be expensive but at the same time value for money. You must at least learn how to hypnotise, test, and understand the hypnotic state and the responsibility that holds. Think on this - if you can get a phobia in an instant, then a good hypnotist can take one away in an instant - but also a good hypnotist caninstall more positive patterns of behaviour, you need to learn and understand that a client when inan hypnotic state cannot just choose to get up and walk away as a lot of people say on their sites - if that were true then you cannot perform operations using hypnosis, so this is a responsible position you hold.
Hypnosis is a wonderful, marvelous tool and will change the lives of those it works for - so what price your learning and your committment, it shouldn't be a question of budget.
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I trained in the North of England and paid about £1500 at the time (not sure how much it is now) but also paid to stay in hotels during some of the modules as I still had to travel a bit of a distance, so it probably cost me a lot more. Since then, I've added a few other courses and workshops as well as getting hold of some of the more expensive academic books on hypnosis and hypnotherapy.
There is no way I can see that you could learn hypnotherapy by a distance learning course. To get Professional Indemnity Insurance, you will need to be a member of one of the 30 or so hypnotherapy organisations such as British Institute of Hypnotherapy, General Hypnotherapy Standards Council, National Council for Hypnotherapy etc. These organisations only accept members who have completed courses they have accredited and which have minimum levels of supervised practical experience during the course. I very much doubt there are any distance learning courses that have been able to receive accreditation from any reputable organisation.
These are the links for the organisations I've mentioned, each site will have a list of accredited schools on it. There are many other reputable organisations such as these, the reason they are the first that spring to mind is because they are the ones that recognise the school I trained with.
I couldn't agree more. In addition to this, it pays well, allows you to be creative (as long as you don't take the "safe" route and use scripts) and you continue to learn and develop/hone your techniques even after training.
When I think of my hypnotherapy training, I don't think of the cost, I think "why didn't I do this sooner".
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Can I put you straight here - you don't have to be a member of any organisation to practice hypnosis.
Bannick said....
>>To get Professional Indemnity Insurance, you will need to be a member of one of the 30 or so hypnotherapy organisations such as British Institute of Hypnotherapy, General Hypnotherapy Standards Council, National Council for Hypnotherapy etc. These organisations only accept members who have completed courses they have accredited and which have minimum levels of supervised practical experience during the course. I very much doubt there are any distance learning courses that have been able to receive accreditation from any reputable organisation.<<
All hypnotherapy training is undertaken by privately run companies some will accredit others for a fee. There is no legislation or government directives or standards councils governing hypnotherapy. The only bill concerning hypnosis is the 1952 stage hypnosis act that was updated in 1996, which only applies to hypnosis as performed on a stage for entertainment.
If you pay to be on one of the hypnosis registers then you pay a private company to be endorsed by them. You can get insurance to practice hypnotherapy without paying your annual dues to another company.
The interesting thing about clients who go to a hypnotist is that they go to get their lives back, when all other methods have failed. They rarely ask what qualifications you have and even if they do ask they don't know what it means. The best hypnotists work through recommendations because they have a success rate - because they get results - because they care.
Get the best training you can through recommendation. Phone up your local hypnotherapists in the yellow pages - and there will be lots, and ask them where they trained and what they thought about it and whether they would recommend it and just remember you don't have to pay an annual fee to another company, just to be endorsed.
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Hi Deb
I have PM'd you!
Love
Celtia
xx
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Hi Deb,
I have pm'd you.
With love,
Amber
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I have done a short hypnotherapy course in February which I thoroughly enjoyed and got a lot from. We did quite a bit of theory but also a lot of practising, I haven't had the oppertunity to use any of it so I have not looked into insurance etc. I have insurance for 4 other therapies and there was no issue getting this although I had quite a long search to find an organisation to cover all the therapies under one umbrella policy. I was most interested in the replies to this thread, now thereare these PM's going around - is there is reason you guys don't feel like sharing with anybody else who has an interest in this?
I wouldn't mind a PM if you feel that it is something you do not want to share on the pages, I am just realy interested in all sides of this issue.
Have a lovely spring day!:D
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Hi
Thanks for all your replies.
The only reason I mentioned distance learning courses was because I saw iton one ofthe sites you mentioned
I shall continue to look into it more.
Regards
Deb379
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I only pm'd because I wasn't sure about naming my course provider here and how I might answer some questions in the public domain! Also I know a couple of my clients visit this site so I wanted to be a bit circumspect about what I said. I guess I'm just playing safe. Happy to pm you too if you want me too......
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Hi Deb, try www.trainingchanges.co.uk In Cheltenham, Glos. I did the Hypno course 3 years ago... I thought it was Awesome
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I didn't say that you "have" to be a member of any of these organisations at all but it is advantageous to be a member.
Most of these organisations are in fact non-profit making. My annual fees to BIH are about £40 per year. Within that £40 per year I am mailed several magazines with useful articles and my membership certificate. My insurance was about 30% cheaper than I was quoted without such membership, in fact a friend of mine was turned down by an insurer due to not being a member of an organisation. I also receive corporate rates of advertising in the Yellow Pages which saved me more than my year's fees (although I'm no longer advertising in Yellow Pages from next renewal). I also received free advice and contacts when I had a query about working as a hypnotherapist overseas.
Many of the "cold" enquiries I receive from adverts rather than referrals do actually ask if I am a member of any of these organisations. I could have joined two of them at the time and the school I trained at was being accredited for the third while I was there. I couldn't see the point in joining more than one, so I didn't. With no government legislation, these organisations are the only measure of a therapists ability available to someone if they do not have a friend to refer them to a therapist. As mentioned, many of these organisations are themselves accredited by a further body, the UKCHO.
As far as I'm concerned, it's a very low price to pay for the benefits, I make back the cost of my annual membership in less than an hour.
Also, it is not just a case of paying these companies to have your course accredited, they do actually send out experienced hypnotherapists to sit in on the course and make an informed decision on the content of the course.
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Sorry Bannick,
I was simply replying to this statement that you made.
<<To get Professional Indemnity Insurance, you will need to be a member of one of the 30 or so hypnotherapy organisations>>
Thank you for giving a fuller account of your experiences in being with a group. I agree that being a new therapist can be very isolating and that being part of a group of likeminded people can be very supportive, something that I feel you need to look out for when you train is backup and support. I know of a lot of people that have trained - have spent a lot of money and then haven't really had the confidence or the support of others after the training.
Personally though I believe that hypnosis training should be about teaching people that hypnosis is easy and that being a hypnotist holds reponsibilities - but also it isn't a mechanical thing but an art or skill that we all possess and that results are the most important thing for clients. Not everybody holds these same views though and this I understand.
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is a London school of hypnotherapy NLP and Life coaching combined, its ten months and has a clinical component (you work supervised on clients as part of the course) some courses do not even let you near a client and still give you a qualification[&:]
I found it a great course ten months (1 weekend a month) but its expensive. I am just going into private practice now but qualified three years ago chosing to use the tools in my career as a drug counsellor.
there is a reasonable living to be made for compitent practiconers, though business will take time to build up.
from a personal development perspective i have learned and changed much about myself and have a much happier and more furfilled life with many many possibilites to choose from now:)
anyways shop around and talk to people who have done courses before investing your cash, this course does an introduction weekend for a couple of hundred which will give you a taster and some self development tools!
Been thinking about doing a hypnotherapy course and I live in the South of Eng and wondered if any of you know of courses near me who have completed training.
Those of you have taken a career in hypnotherapy have you found it to be what you expected.
Are all courses so exspensive? I've seen some at 1700 to nearly 3K. There's no way I can pay that sort of money.
What about distance learning courses does anyone have an experience of those?
Regards
Deb379
Answers:
You cannot learn hypnosis by a book - it is a practical art and you need a good course that will teach you by explanation, demonstration and practise. Learning anything that potentially changes people's lives should be expensive but at the same time value for money. You must at least learn how to hypnotise, test, and understand the hypnotic state and the responsibility that holds. Think on this - if you can get a phobia in an instant, then a good hypnotist can take one away in an instant - but also a good hypnotist caninstall more positive patterns of behaviour, you need to learn and understand that a client when inan hypnotic state cannot just choose to get up and walk away as a lot of people say on their sites - if that were true then you cannot perform operations using hypnosis, so this is a responsible position you hold.
Hypnosis is a wonderful, marvelous tool and will change the lives of those it works for - so what price your learning and your committment, it shouldn't be a question of budget.
Answers:
I trained in the North of England and paid about £1500 at the time (not sure how much it is now) but also paid to stay in hotels during some of the modules as I still had to travel a bit of a distance, so it probably cost me a lot more. Since then, I've added a few other courses and workshops as well as getting hold of some of the more expensive academic books on hypnosis and hypnotherapy.
There is no way I can see that you could learn hypnotherapy by a distance learning course. To get Professional Indemnity Insurance, you will need to be a member of one of the 30 or so hypnotherapy organisations such as British Institute of Hypnotherapy, General Hypnotherapy Standards Council, National Council for Hypnotherapy etc. These organisations only accept members who have completed courses they have accredited and which have minimum levels of supervised practical experience during the course. I very much doubt there are any distance learning courses that have been able to receive accreditation from any reputable organisation.
These are the links for the organisations I've mentioned, each site will have a list of accredited schools on it. There are many other reputable organisations such as these, the reason they are the first that spring to mind is because they are the ones that recognise the school I trained with.
I couldn't agree more. In addition to this, it pays well, allows you to be creative (as long as you don't take the "safe" route and use scripts) and you continue to learn and develop/hone your techniques even after training.
When I think of my hypnotherapy training, I don't think of the cost, I think "why didn't I do this sooner".
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Can I put you straight here - you don't have to be a member of any organisation to practice hypnosis.
Bannick said....
>>To get Professional Indemnity Insurance, you will need to be a member of one of the 30 or so hypnotherapy organisations such as British Institute of Hypnotherapy, General Hypnotherapy Standards Council, National Council for Hypnotherapy etc. These organisations only accept members who have completed courses they have accredited and which have minimum levels of supervised practical experience during the course. I very much doubt there are any distance learning courses that have been able to receive accreditation from any reputable organisation.<<
All hypnotherapy training is undertaken by privately run companies some will accredit others for a fee. There is no legislation or government directives or standards councils governing hypnotherapy. The only bill concerning hypnosis is the 1952 stage hypnosis act that was updated in 1996, which only applies to hypnosis as performed on a stage for entertainment.
If you pay to be on one of the hypnosis registers then you pay a private company to be endorsed by them. You can get insurance to practice hypnotherapy without paying your annual dues to another company.
The interesting thing about clients who go to a hypnotist is that they go to get their lives back, when all other methods have failed. They rarely ask what qualifications you have and even if they do ask they don't know what it means. The best hypnotists work through recommendations because they have a success rate - because they get results - because they care.
Get the best training you can through recommendation. Phone up your local hypnotherapists in the yellow pages - and there will be lots, and ask them where they trained and what they thought about it and whether they would recommend it and just remember you don't have to pay an annual fee to another company, just to be endorsed.
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Hi Deb
I have PM'd you!
Love
Celtia
xx
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Hi Deb,
I have pm'd you.
With love,
Amber
Answers:
I have done a short hypnotherapy course in February which I thoroughly enjoyed and got a lot from. We did quite a bit of theory but also a lot of practising, I haven't had the oppertunity to use any of it so I have not looked into insurance etc. I have insurance for 4 other therapies and there was no issue getting this although I had quite a long search to find an organisation to cover all the therapies under one umbrella policy. I was most interested in the replies to this thread, now thereare these PM's going around - is there is reason you guys don't feel like sharing with anybody else who has an interest in this?
I wouldn't mind a PM if you feel that it is something you do not want to share on the pages, I am just realy interested in all sides of this issue.
Have a lovely spring day!:D
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Hi
Thanks for all your replies.
The only reason I mentioned distance learning courses was because I saw iton one ofthe sites you mentioned
I shall continue to look into it more.
Regards
Deb379
Answers:
I only pm'd because I wasn't sure about naming my course provider here and how I might answer some questions in the public domain! Also I know a couple of my clients visit this site so I wanted to be a bit circumspect about what I said. I guess I'm just playing safe. Happy to pm you too if you want me too......
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Hi Deb, try www.trainingchanges.co.uk In Cheltenham, Glos. I did the Hypno course 3 years ago... I thought it was Awesome
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I didn't say that you "have" to be a member of any of these organisations at all but it is advantageous to be a member.
Most of these organisations are in fact non-profit making. My annual fees to BIH are about £40 per year. Within that £40 per year I am mailed several magazines with useful articles and my membership certificate. My insurance was about 30% cheaper than I was quoted without such membership, in fact a friend of mine was turned down by an insurer due to not being a member of an organisation. I also receive corporate rates of advertising in the Yellow Pages which saved me more than my year's fees (although I'm no longer advertising in Yellow Pages from next renewal). I also received free advice and contacts when I had a query about working as a hypnotherapist overseas.
Many of the "cold" enquiries I receive from adverts rather than referrals do actually ask if I am a member of any of these organisations. I could have joined two of them at the time and the school I trained at was being accredited for the third while I was there. I couldn't see the point in joining more than one, so I didn't. With no government legislation, these organisations are the only measure of a therapists ability available to someone if they do not have a friend to refer them to a therapist. As mentioned, many of these organisations are themselves accredited by a further body, the UKCHO.
As far as I'm concerned, it's a very low price to pay for the benefits, I make back the cost of my annual membership in less than an hour.
Also, it is not just a case of paying these companies to have your course accredited, they do actually send out experienced hypnotherapists to sit in on the course and make an informed decision on the content of the course.
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Sorry Bannick,
I was simply replying to this statement that you made.
<<To get Professional Indemnity Insurance, you will need to be a member of one of the 30 or so hypnotherapy organisations>>
Thank you for giving a fuller account of your experiences in being with a group. I agree that being a new therapist can be very isolating and that being part of a group of likeminded people can be very supportive, something that I feel you need to look out for when you train is backup and support. I know of a lot of people that have trained - have spent a lot of money and then haven't really had the confidence or the support of others after the training.
Personally though I believe that hypnosis training should be about teaching people that hypnosis is easy and that being a hypnotist holds reponsibilities - but also it isn't a mechanical thing but an art or skill that we all possess and that results are the most important thing for clients. Not everybody holds these same views though and this I understand.
Answers:
is a London school of hypnotherapy NLP and Life coaching combined, its ten months and has a clinical component (you work supervised on clients as part of the course) some courses do not even let you near a client and still give you a qualification[&:]
I found it a great course ten months (1 weekend a month) but its expensive. I am just going into private practice now but qualified three years ago chosing to use the tools in my career as a drug counsellor.
there is a reasonable living to be made for compitent practiconers, though business will take time to build up.
from a personal development perspective i have learned and changed much about myself and have a much happier and more furfilled life with many many possibilites to choose from now:)
anyways shop around and talk to people who have done courses before investing your cash, this course does an introduction weekend for a couple of hundred which will give you a taster and some self development tools!