CPHT Hypnotherapy Training Centre
Plymouth

One of the foremost hypnotherapy training centres in the UK, the Clifton Practice Hypnotherapy Training Centre (CPHT)provides a Hypnotherapy Practitioner Diploma (HPD) Course for the future hypnotherapist as well as Advanced Courses and Career Professional Development for the practicing hypnotherapist.

The centre holds offices in Bristol and Plymouth and is fully accredited as a bona fide hypnosis and hypnotherapy training school by the following bodies:

* the Hypnotherapy Society

* the National Council of Psychotherapists

* the National Council for Hypnotherapy

* the Association for Professional Hypnosis and Psychotherapy

* the General Hypnotherapy Standards Council

The organiser and course lecturer of CPHT is David Newton, Hypnotherapist and Psychotherapist, DHP FAPHP MNCH MNCP SHS SQHP Sup Hyp. David lectures at both Bristol and Plymouth locations.

He is the senior practitioner of The Clifton Practice which he co-founded in 1995 and which has developed into a leading multi-discipline clinic, with over twenty practitioners and doctors in residence.

David Newton is an accredited supervisor and a Fellow of the Association for Professional Hypnosis and Psychotherapy.Teaching in Plymouth is shared by David Newton and Matthew Cahill. Matthew Cahill is an experienced practitioner, having clients travel from all over the country to work with him, he is the founder of The Observatory Practice which is a leading hypnotherapy practice in the UK. Matthew is an accredited supervisor and has also been teaching at the CPHT for several years.

Hypnotherapy Practitioner Diploma (HPD) Course

The HPD Course is a 10-12 month course designed to enable you to go successfully and competently into private practice, safe in the knowledge that you have the support of the principals and staff of the Clifton Practice if at any time you need professional help or advice.

While the course structure is based predominantly on the work and experience of David Newton, it has the enormous advantage of including the valued writings of other experienced practitioners. It is predominantly CBT and SFBT orientated. Students come from all over the country including Devon,Cornwall and Somerset.

Upon graduation, the professional letters that you will be entitled to use after your name are: DHP. HPD. LHS. LNCP. MNCH (Lic.) LAPHP. GQHP.

Advanced Courses and Career Professional Development

At the CPHT we run a comprehensive CPD programme to meet the requirements of graduates and the national Bodies.

Our Advanced Courses, CBT Skills for Hypnotherapists, SFBT Skills for Hypnotherapists, are externally verified by NCFE, a Government recognised awarding body, and assigned Level 4 equivalence on the National Qualification Framework (NQF).

HPD gets Open University Approved Credit rating

The Open University has considered the Education and Training Programme from the National Council for Hypnotherapy and assigned a credit value to the Hypnotherapy Practitioner Diploma (HPD) as follows.

Open University Credits for Hypnotherapy Practitioner Diploma (HPD):
45 points at Undergraduate Level 1 (FHEQ Level 4/SCQF Level 7).

This provides an endorsement of the quality, amount and level of the learning within the framework for Higher education Qualifications in England, Wales and Northern Ireland (FHEQ) and credits for the course.

Students receive their award from the NCH, and in addition can download a certificate confirming the credit award from the OU website at: www.open.ac.uk/credit-rating