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Practitioner Diploma Course
The Practitioner Diploma Course is of approximately 150 hours duration of classroom study (plus required reading) over a period of 10-12 months. Successful graduation leads to a full Diploma qualification (DHP) and the nationally accredited Hypnotherapy Practitioner Diploma (HPD).
The study materials for the course have been prepared and selected by David Newton and include 250,000 word course notes. Classroom tuition is in small groups of 16-18, ensuring the very best of personal attention for everybody, and our ongoing interest in our students extends beyond training into continuing professional support. On this course, you will learn not just hypnotherapy, but how to be thoroughly effective as a psychotherapist, too.
No experience is necessary as the training programme is 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 Programme
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 here is just an overview of what you will learn about and become familiar with.
* Hypnosis – Literally everything you need to know….and
the confidence to use it effectively and safely.
* Defining Hypnotherapy – Pre Erickson, Erickson and post Erickson.
CBT, NLP and SFBT.
* Origins of psychology.
* The perspectives in psychology and the fields of psychology.
* How the mind works –
* The ‘Intellectual’ brain
and the primitive ‘emotional’ brain.
* The creation of depression, anxiety
and anger.
* Neuroscience and its applications.
* The clinical setting – how therapy progresses.
* How to help people quickly and comfortably with symptoms associated
with depression and anxiety.
* How to deal successfully and effectively with fears, phobias and
PTSD.
* Language patterns.
* The use of metaphor.
* The use of modern techniques including:
* Scaling
* The miracle question
* SWISH
* Rewind
* How to alleviate pain.
* Anti smoking therapy.
* Dealing with habits and substance abuse.
* An overview of analytical techniques.
* Dealing with all forms of difficulties caused by anxiety including:
addictions, anger, blood pressure, blushing, lack of confidence, insomnia,
IBS, relationship difficulties, migraine, nail biting, nightmares,
obsessions (OCD), panic attacks, skin disorders.
* Personality – the three main personality groups and how to
recognise them.
Methods of therapy
The students will be made familiar with the three main methods of
therapy used to aid patients:
Suggestion Therapy - a traditional treatment used to help with straightforward problems such as smoking, pre-test nerves, nail-biting 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 - the 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, they 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.
Choice of study options - week-end or week-day courses
Students have the choice between week-end or week-day courses to best
accomodate their availability. The courses are each complete in their
own right, and whichever study option you choose you will always be
able to rely on us for advice in your therapeutic endeavours whenever
you need it. There are also periodical supervision meetings (mandatory
for the first five years), to guarantee your continued success.
When learning a new skill, the quality of the training you receive is obviously very important. When there are too many teachers, maintaining a guaranteed quality of tuition is as difficult for a hypnotherapy school as it is in the ‘standard’ educational system. And when any one class is taught by several different tutors, then this problem becomes even more noticeable. On the other hand, if you have only one teacher, you may well find that you acquire a somewhat narrow view of the subject, thus hindering your future development.
Our training programme avoids these potential difficulties. First of all, David Newton himself carries out most of the tuition, ensuring that you acquire a sound ‘central knowledge base’ from a leading teacher/practitioner. Then visiting professionals present lectures and talks, ensuring that your expertise will be as well-rounded as possible.
In-house Week-day coursesIt is possible, if weekends are a difficulty, or if the course timing is inappropriate, to train during the week. The training materials, homework and assessment assignments are identical to the weekend course. Since the training is more intensive - one whole week day duration rather than at weekends - it will also include formal practical sessions at CP. On occasions too, students will be asked, to attend lectures by visiting teachers with the main classroom course. The training is in very small groups of not more than nine students. There will also be an obligation to attend CP for practise sessions at times suitable for the trainee |
In-house Week-end coursesTen consecutive, monthly, intensive two-day weekend classes
providing a total of 150 hours of tuition, coupled with a few
more hours per week of home study – a reading list is
provided along with a written course. There will be a requirement
for a mid-course assessment during the training to assess your
progress. At the end of your studies there will be a final assessment
which includes a formal practical assessment.
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