The Academy of Advancement 

in Hypnotherapy.

We are proud to offer you the Diploma in Hypnosis, Diploma in Hypnotherapy &Psychotherapy, Diploma in NLP Certificate in Stress Management and the highly prestigious Hypnotherapy Practitioner Diploma training course at the following venues:

Hypnotherapy training CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY
Hypnotherapy training MILTON KEYNES
Hypnotherapy training SWINDON

COURSE STRUCTURE:

Here is a layout, module by module, for the full hypnotherapy, NLP  & Stress Management diploma training course.

Remember we offer this course in Milton Keynes, Swindon and at Selwyn College Cambridge

Course Cost £2490

Module One – Unit One

  • Introduction & overview
  • What is Hypnosis?
  • History of Hypnosis
  • Trance States
  • Therapeutic relationship
  • Brain Wave patterns
  • Hypnotic Inductions – Introduction & Practical

Module One – Unit Two

  • Trance Inductions:
  • Relaxing Scene
  • Progressive Relaxation
  • Permissive
  • Wake up Techniques
  • Post Hypnotic Suggestions
  • Building Rapport
  • Calibration
  • Chunking

Module Two – Unit Three

  • Self Hypnosis
  • Trance Inductions:
  • Direct
  • Visualisation
  • Arm Levitation
  • Authoritarian
  • Ego Strengthening
  • Confidence & Self Esteem
  • Dealing with Abreactions
  • Contraindications for Hypnosis
  • Can Hypnosis Fail?

Module Two –Unit Four

  • Psychodynamic Psychology
  • Freud & Defence Mechanisms
  • Jung & Archetypes
  • Dream Analysis
  • Transference
  • Resistance

Module Three – Unit Five

  • Recognition & Causes of Stress
  • Hans Selye
  • General Adaptation Syndrome
  • The Human Function Curve
  • Type A/B Personality
  • Physiology & Stress Hormones
  • Glazer Stress Control
  • Hypnosis – Stress Reduction

Module Three – Unit Six

  • CBT
  • REBT
  • Cognitive Distortions
  • The META model
  • Anchoring
  • Stein’s Clenched Fist
  • Introducing VAKOG
  • Mirroring & Matching
  • Pacing & Leading

Module Four – Unit Seven

  • Introducing NLP
  • VAKOG & REP Systems
  • Eye Accessing
  • Predicates & Sub modalities
  • Milton Erickson & Milton Model
  • Metaphor & Story Telling
  • Confusional Techniques
  • Script Writing
  • Metaphor Construction

Module Four – Unit Eight

  • Self Hypnosis
  • Eye Fixation
  • Irritable Bowel Syndrome
  • Smoking & Weight Loss
  • Stress & Substance Abuse
  • The initial assessment process

Module Five – Unit Nine

  • Hypnosis & Depression
  • The Grief Cycle
  • Stress/Anxiety Reduction
  • Grief & Bereavement
  • Timeline Technique
  • Module Five– Unit Ten
  • Circle of Excellence
  • Peak Performance Protocol
  • Blackboard Induction
  • Phobias
  • Joseph Wolpe
  • S.U.D.S
  • NLP – Fast Phobia Technique
  • NLP –Swish

Module Six – Unit Eleven

  • Somatic Disorders
  • Diaphragmatic Breathing
  • TV Technique
  • Protective Shield
  • OCD
  • Trichotillomania
  • Habits
  • Anxiety Disorders & Panic Attacks

Module Six –Unit Twelve

  • Epigenetics
  • Mind/Body Medicine
  • Stress & Immunity
  • Psychoneuroimmunology
  • Deepening Trance States
  • Testing Trance Depth & Suggestibility
  • Guided Imagery

Module Seven – Unit Thirteen

  • Medical Hypnosis –
  • Skin Disorders
  • Medical Hypnosis – Eating Disorders
  • Body Image & Society
  • Medical Hypnosis – Headaches
  • Sexual Problems
  • Sexual Problems – Taking a History

Module Seven – Unit Fourteen

  • Pain relief
  • Glove Anaesthesia – visual
  • Glove anaesthesia – kinaesthetic
  • NLP – advanced anchoring
  • Calibration Skills

Module Eight –Unit Fifteen

  • Existentialism & Psychology
  • Humanistic Theories
  • Sports Hypnosis
  • Musical enhancement
  • Goal Setting & coaching strategies
  • Performance enhancement &
  • Learning
  • PTSD, including EMDR explained

Module Eight – Unit Sixteen

  • Personality Theories
  • Adaptive/Maladaptive Coping Strategies
  • Self – efficacy – Bandura
  • Learned Helplessness
  • Attributional Theory
  • Vicious/Virtuous Circle
  • Locus of Control – Julian Rotter
  • Measuring Stress
  • Stress Hardiness
  • Lifestyle & Health Promotion – Nutrition & Physical
  • Activity

Module Nine – Unit Seventeen

  • Paediatric Hypnosis
  • Hypnosis for Childbirth
  • Obstetrics
  • Revue of HPD & Homework including learning
  • Outcomes

Module Nine –Unit Eighteen

  • NLP in the therapy room, including:
  • Reframing
  • Parts Integration
  • Affirmations
  • Clean Language
  • TOTE flexibility
  • As If
  • Frames
  • Backtrack
  • Values
  • Grovian Language
  • Miracle Question

Module Ten – Unit Nineteen

  • Practice Management including:
  • Setting up a business
  • Marketing
  • Business Development
  • Branding & design
  • Websites
  • Making your own CD’s
  • Hypnosis & the law
  • Supervision

Module Ten – Unit Twenty

  • Preparing your Sessions
  • Vignettes
  • Resume of Course
  • Graduation!

Twenty days, Ten weekends training, total of 140 hours of in class tuition, Independently awarded certification and diplomas. Awards in Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy, NLP, Psychotherapy and Stress Management.