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ODL52 Clinical Hypnotherapy Diploma

Clinical Hypnotherapy Diploma

This Ascentis Quality Assured Level 3 Diploma course is a practitioner level course of study in the analysis of disorder, and the application of hypno-therapeutic techniques to bring about beneficial change.

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Course Description

This course offers those with simply an interest or existing knowledge of the mind/body relationship, tools to explore and reframe unconscious thought and behaviour patterns; and how to develop a more appropriate client response through psycho-dynamic insight methods of analysis. It will enhance the work of existing counsellors and life coaches. This course is widely respected worldwide by those in the field of Clinical Hypnotherapy, and will show your clients an exceptional level of education and skills.

Materials can be studied online or students have the option to print the documents once, there is also the option to have the materials delivered for an additional charge.

The Course Writer and Producer

Terence Watts lectures extensively at home and abroad, publishes books, and has written several manuals and training courses.

He is currently:

• Founder/chairman: Association for Professional Hypnosis & Psychotherapy
• Principal: Essex Institute of Clinical Hypnosis
• Member: The National Register of Advanced Hypnotherapists
• Member: The National Council of Psychotherapists
• Fellow and Senior Clinician: The National Council for Hypnotherapy
• Member: International Stress Management Association
• Fellow: Royal Society for the Promotion of Health

Past memberships include:

• Emeritus Fellow: The Hypnotherapy Society
• Emeritus Fellow: The Counselling and Psychotherapy Society
• Member and Committee Member: The International Association of Hypnoanalysts
• Member: The Professional Hypnotherapists Center (Harley Street, W1)

Terence's Courses and Seminars

Rapid Cognitive Therapy: Not to be confused with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, RCT is about creating fundamental change by giving the client a new understanding of self - RAPIDLY. In one-day or two-day format, this popular workshop has been presented many times, both the in the UK and USA.

Archetypal Parts Imagery: A modern and dynamically energetic style of PARTS work that grabs the client's imagination right from the start, by-passing resistance as if it never existed in the first place. A half-day presentation, seminar, or one-day or two-day workshop, this again has been presented many times in the UK and USA.

Basic Analytical Therapy: A "grass roots" seminar/workshop covering enough of the processes of analytical styles of therapy to allow even those with scant prior knowledge to work effectively, safely, and confidently in this area.

Advanced Analytical Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy: Presented at my own school and many others, the subtitle for this one is: "Working by Stealth; the Invisible Therapist." It covers many advanced and effective techniques for analytical working, even with logical analytical clients.

Warriors, Settlers and Nomads: Taken from my book of the same name, this is an enjoyable and practical presentation for all grades of therapists/students that can last from 40 minutes (very well-received at the Royal College of Nursing's Annual conference in Edinburgh, in 2001) to a whole day seminar or workshop. It can be used with all styles of hypnotherapy/psychotherapy.

Illness and Getting Better: This one was developed especially for a presentation in Hong Kong and allows the therapist a powerful and effective nethodology for working with even catastrophic illness. It is unusual in that it shows how we can also help the carers and relatives of the ill person.

Psychosexual Disorders: This is a brief diploma course for established therapists who want to specialise in a truly fascinating field.

If you want to gain a Professional qualification as a hypnotherapist, we can offer you first rate training to practitioner level via The Professional Practitioner Hypnotherapy Training Diploma from Oxford College ODL. It was devised and written in full by the Principal of the Essex Institute, Terence Watts, and is based on his many thousands of hours of successful work with hypnosis, hypnotherapy and hypnoanalysis.

Terence Watts' has an established and successful school, accredited by the following leading hypnotherapists' associations:

The Association for Professional Hypnosis and Psychotherapy (APHP): APHP is a member organisation of UKCHO, an umbrella body for hypnotherapy in the UK which is foremost in the creation of the proposed regulations.

The Hypnotherapy Association: The Hypnotherapy Association is also a member organisation of UKCHO

The National Council of Psychotherapists: This is a creditable and very old-established therapists association in the UK

The course includes the entire award winning 'Easy Quit Smoking Programme' from HYPNOSENSE. This programme is one of the most effective available and received the 1998 Award for Clinical Excellence from the Hypnotherapy Research Society. This course allows you to gain the full diploma at course end, after you have successfully completed the final assessment.

The training programme was professionally designed and written in a specific manner to give the student a thorough and sound knowledge of the application of ethical clinical hypnosis and hypnotherapy, even if you have no previous experience of the field - and you don't need any previous qualifications. Our training (which many students say seems to work literally like a knowledge implant!) teaches you all you need to know and the professional hypnotherapy qualifications you will receive qualify you to obtain full professional liability insurance.

The course contains a wealth of analytical and common-sense information that will allow you to work with almost any psychological problem with which you are likely to be presented - if it can be fixed with hypnotherapy, you will be able to fix it. Many of Terence Watt's past students are now in successful private practice and many have gone on to become teachers in their own right.

Over the study hours of the course you will become a knowledgeable professional hypnotherapist and hypnoanalyst, able to help many people to discover a better life for themselves, whilst earning a good living at the same time. When it comes to job satisfaction and reward, hypnotherapy comes right at the top of the list.

Course Content

This course will take the student through the development of hypnosis; its theories and applications, and session structure supported by appropriate scripts. It will provide the student with a mass of analytical information and techniques, to achieve an appreciation of the underlying causes of emotional and physical disorders. Your client handling skills and session structure techniques are covered.

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The Professional Practitioner Hypnotherapy Course UK

Student Introduction
Hypnosis is…

Module 1: The Beginning of an Understanding

INTRODUCTION

This section is all about the course, how it came into being, what it will teach you, plus the required reading list.

LESSON ONE

• The hypnotherapy business and the professional practitioner.
• How to get going and how to make a success.
• Some basic facts about hypnosis, what it can and cannot do, and how effective it may be.
• Some myths dispelled.
• Finding and handling clients.

LESSON TWO

• What hypnotherapy actually is and how it can help.
• Some more facts about hypnosis and the importance of the therapy part of the equation.
• Common misconceptions.
• The workings of the subconscious mind.
• Learning how to create, enter, use and leave a 'pre-hypnotic' state.

AUDIO SUPPORT

• The sort of people who train as therapists and the sort of people who consult a hypnotherapist.
• Life experience is far more important than intelligence for the practitioner. How long it takes to become proficient.
• Miracles, myths and the stage show.
• Anyone can learn it, but it will not give you unlimited power over others.
• Inducing the 'pre-hypnotic' state.

Induction

Module 2: Getting to Grips with it All

LESSON THREE

• What it can do and who it can do it to; treatable people and ailments.
• The 'strong mind', depth of trance, who can and cannot be hypnotised, and who should not be hypnotised.
• Who has the skill?
• The importance of keeping within your level of expertise.

LESSON FOUR

• Personality types; learning how to understand other peoples' true underlying personality and what makes them 'tick'.
• Rapid recognition of type.
• Handling each type faultlessly and improving your communication skills.

AUDIO SUPPORT

• The 'automatic' resistance of some to attempts to hypnotise them; recognising it and avoiding the trap.
• Learning properly from the start in order to avoid the 'hypnosis is unreliable' belief pattern by study and understanding.
• It's all so easy when you know how.
• Spontaneous hypnosis and how and when it occurs.
• Waking hypnosis.

Ancestral Memory

Elman Hand-Drop

Phobia List

How Free Are You?

Module 3: Stress, Anxiety and Fear

LESSON FIVE

• Anxiety; an overview of neurosis, fear, stress and its effect upon the psyche
• The manner in which symptoms may form
• What conflict is and where it comes from
• Fight or flight… an ancient response pattern for survival
• Anxiety and sexuality
• Sensitising events

LESSON SIX

• How to handle the client and get it right from the beginning of therapy to a successful conclusion
• The initial consultation and the importance of the pre-talk
• Some complications and the answers
• Client resistance and the 'will to power'

AUDIO SUPPORT

• The common idea of neurosis v. the therapist's view of neurosis
• Fear and the fight or flight response
• Avoidance patterns in therapy (getting better to get away)
• Stress as an illness
• Imagination, belief, and the 'nervous breakdown'
• Saying 'hello' to the client for the first time and being TRULY non-critical
• The hypnosis session pre-talk

Social Phobia by Terry Olson

Brainwave Functions

Module 4: Practical Hypnosis

LESSON SEVEN

• Practical hypnosis (1); fundamental concepts
• The difference between hypnosis and suggestion
• Suggestibility and the Conscious Critical Faculty
• The importance of selective thinking
• A practical example
• The power of visualisation
• The law of reverse effort.

LESSON EIGHT

• Practical hypnosis (2); basic skills
• How to induce hypnosis and how to recognise it when you have; twenty signs that give the game away
• Suggestibility tests how and when to use them
• Depth of trance
• Self hypnosis and how to induce it

AUDIO SUPPORT

• Suggestion must be desired wholeheartedly; 'failure triumph'
• The Conscious Critical Faculty, selective thinking and positivity
• Why visualisation is more effective than words on their own
• The importance of being 10… Dave Elman and his techniques
• Using your voice effectively on inductions and suggestibility tests
• Do gadgets work?

Seven Plus or Minus Two

The Canyon

Ego Strengthening

Module 5: Making Hypnosis Work

LESSON NINE

• Hypnotic inductions
• Detailed methods for several different styles of induction, including approaches suitable for different and maybe resistant personality types
• Rapid self hypnosis
• Involuntary hypnosis and how to achieve it in a client
• Trance ratification and how to finish the session

LESSON TEN

• Deepening techniques
• Several tried and tested routines for deepening the hypnotic state
• A deepener that can be used for therapy in itself
• How to construct a professional and effective deepener using your own ideas and thoughts.

AUDIO SUPPORT

• The hypnosis well-being relaxation recording
• Examples of suitable inductions for Warrior and Nomad personalities
• Some more examples of deepening techniques
• How NOT to do it.

Six Step Reframe

The Quit Smoking Programme

Useful Contacts

Module 6: The Art of Suggestion

LESSON ELEVEN

• Hypnotherapy and suggestion the healing part of the work
• A fully detailed exploration of a simple 'uncovering' technique
• The hidden agenda and secondary gain
• Hypnotic suggestion and post-hypnotic suggestion
• Tuition on working with the listed ailments

ROY HUNTER'S FAQ

• The 'Official Hypnosis FAQ of the alt.hypnosis Newsgroup'
• The full 'Frequently Asked Questions' (FAQ) document as published by Roy Hunter on the internet newsgroup

AUDIO SUPPORT

• Why you should not make suggestions up as you go
• Have respect for the power of suggestion
• Good suggestions and bad suggestions
• Autosuggestion and how to use it
• Modelling
• Client clues to the truth
• The importance of getting to the root of it all
• Evasions
• Deletions
• Distortion
• Emotional Incongruence
• Protection of integrity

The Official Hypnosis FAQs

The Swinging Watch Induction

Module 7: Frequently Presented Illnesses

LESSON TWELVE

• All in a day's work; frequently presented illnesses
• A detailed look at some of the commonly presented psychological difficulties that the client will bring into the consulting room, including depression and stress-related issues.

LESSON THIRTEEN

• Advanced topics an overview (1)
• A look at some advanced aspects of hypnotherapy, including: anaesthesia; False Memory Syndrome; repression, regression and hypnoanalysis; abreaction and catharsis; the phobic response; the importance of the Initial Sensitising Event (ISE)

AUDIO SUPPORT

• How to spot the obsessive personality from the things they tell you
• OCD
• Why you should limit therapy with the obsessive
• Handling abreaction
• Depression and its disguises
• Grief in various forms
• The panic attack; provocative treatment (make a note, worry time, etc.)
• Direct and Indirect symptoms
• Analysis and analytical techniques
• False memory
• Phobias and fears
• Anaesthesia

The Magic Rainbow

Stress Management Routines

Table of OCD Symptoms

Module 8: Advanced Topics

LESSON FOURTEEN

• Advanced topics an overview (2)
• Some more details of advanced concepts of the profession, including a look at probably the most powerful motivating force known to man… Transference
• A look at Past Life Regression (PLR)
• Therapist burnout and how to avoid it

LESSON FIFTEEN

• A last word
• Some notes and ideas to help you further your career
• Therapy for self and 'further education' in the form of seminars and workshops
• The phenomena of sublimation and substitution
• Sticking to what you know
• The future of hypnotherapy

AUDIO SUPPORT

•    The power of transference during analytical therapy, with examples
• How transference can sometimes be towards the therapy itself or to 'the man across the road'
• Counter transference in analytical therapy
• First signs of counter transference
• Supervision
• Therapy for self
• Giving talks and building your business
• Meters, gadgets, and 'further education'
• Thank you letters, gifts and greetings cards from clients
• A short 'pep-talk'
• The internet

The Golden Rules for Business Success

Central Core

Easy Personality Test

Personality Test Full Version

Module 9: Hypnoanalysis Getting to the Roots

Clocks

Subconscious Primer

True Lies

Psychotic Behaviour

Tutor Marked Assignment (TMA)

Module 10: Techniques for Regression and Analysis

Archetypal Parts Imagery Module 1

Archetypal Parts Imagery Module 2

 

 

This is the course to study if you want to go into practice, either full time or part time, as an effective Professional clinical hypnotherapist.

This course is ideal for healthcare practitioners to learn the art of hypnosis and hypnotherapy as an adjunct to their existing skills. This course is designed especially for home study.

Smoking Cessation Specialist Course

As the name suggests, this is a specialist hypnotherapy course dedicated to the quit smoking session. Even if you have never conducted a session of hypnosis before, you will learn all that you need to know to become an expert in the field.

You will learn how to take your client safely into hypnosis, how to get them out again, and all necessary safeguards. The course includes the award-winning 'Easy Quit Smoking Programme' from Hypnosense.

This course insures you will be properly equipped to go into professional practice just as soon as you receive your qualification diploma. You will, in fact, 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	Many 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

The course teaches you everything you need to be able to go successfully and competently into your new career as soon as you are qualified. The course is written in a modular fashion and covers literally all that you need to know in order to start finding success just as soon as you are qualified. Add to that the fact that a specific style of writing makes possible a rapid and profound grasp of the subject and you have a huge potential to find the success you seek. When you enroll as a student, you will receive:

• A more than 140,000 word professionally written and prepared course written by the UKs most prominent, professional hypnotherapist.
• 16 Audio support tutorials
• A comprehensive reading list
• Everything you need to find success!
• Exam Passes and qualifications: Distance learning students will receive:
  Dip. HP (Diploma in Hypnotherapy - approx. equal to the US 'Cht.')

Also Included is:

Ancestral Memory and Neurosis by Terence Watts

This paper is an outline of the hypothesis that ancestral memory may cause conflict which commences at the very beginning of the experience of life, by which I mean the moment of birth. It proposes that ancestral memories from two different parental genetic chains come together to create the potential for discord in the psyche, and/or are acted upon by external influences to cause conflict which will have to be resolved in some way if the individual is to be content in life. It is a hypothesis that is concerned more with psychotherapy as opposed to hypnotherapy, though much of the information is useful in the latter discipline.

 

Previous Knowledge Required

Clinical Hypnotherapy will be of particular interest to those in the 'caring professions', as well as anyone with an interest in the field of Personal Development. Academic qualifications are of secondary importance, so the course is open to those with a genuine interest in hypnotherapy. Life experience and common sense are undoubtedly the most important personal qualities. It is vitally important however, that prospective course students should have the ability to be able to grasp a concept, and personalise the content and application of various techniques from scripts provided. The work is predominately vocal and mental by nature, and does not necessarily exclude those with physical impediment.

 

Support

This course offers 12 months tutor support. Tutors are available to answer student questions relating to course materials and to comment on the assignments that are sent in to state how well students have understood the unit content.

 

Assessment

Final online multiple choice examination counts for 100% of the final grade.  Throughout the course there are ten SAPs (coursework) and a thesis.  The course clearly states that this is not mandatory to complete as it has no bearing on the final grade.  We do suggest that students complete these as this will not only assist them in examination preparation but also will give the student the skill set should they wish to continue their studies (continuous professional development) at a higher level.

 

Modules

• Module 1: The Beginning of an Understanding
• Module 2: Getting to Grips with it All
• Module 3: Stress, Anxiety and Fear
• Module 4: Practical Hypnosis
• Module 5: Making Hypnosis Work
• Module 6: The Art of Suggestion
• Module 7: Frequently Presented Illnesses
• Module 8: Advanced Topics
• Module 9: Hypnoanalysis Getting to the Roots
• Module 10: Techniques for Regression and Analysis

 

Awarding Body

This Level 3 Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy is Quality Assured by OLQA. Upon successful completion of the course you will receive certification awarded by Oxford College. The qualification does not carry UCAS points but is recognised by employers and some universities as a level 3 qualification. For entry into university students will need to check the relevant university’s entry requirements to see if they will accept a Level 3 Diploma in place of A Levels / UCAS points.

 

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