Diploma Course Content
Month 1
Starting New Relationships
Introduction
Contract, Boundaries, Confidentiality
The phenomenon of Hypnosis
States of Trance
Therapeutic uses of Hypnosis
Understanding the Client’s world
Appreciation of the client’s resources
Developing Rapport
Data gathering and genograms
Month 2 Exploration
Counselling Skills – Egan Stage 1
Working with Modalities
Personality Types
Inductions and Deepeners
Safe Place Visualisation
Anchors
Ego strengthening
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Month 3 Going deeper . . .
Counselling Skills – Egan Stage 2
Pre and post-hypnotic suggestions
Reframing and Double Binds
Smoking and weight loss
Stress Management
Swish or Rewind technique
Pacing and Leading
Reluctance and resistance
Ecology checks
Ideo-motor responses
Month 4 Going deeper still
Counselling Skills – Egan Stage 3
Suggestion and Metaphor
Use of stories and metaphors
Ericksonian language patterns
Dissociation and desensitisation
Phobias and Anxiety disorders
Month 5 Resistance & Defence
Hypnoanalysis, resistance & abreaction
Defence Mechanisms
GAI – creative visualisation
Psycho Imaginative Therapy
Psychotherapy: Freud’s theories
Month 6 Responsible Practice
Creating strategies for therapy
Supervision, CPD and reflective practice
Networking and reputation
Responsible practice, ethics, insurance
Hypnotherapy and the law
Group supervision (months 6 – 12)
Month 7 Aspects of Self
Jo-Hari Window
Parts Therapy
Deeper Trance States
Using objects as symbols
Psychotherapy: Jung’s & Adler’s theories
Month 8 Regression
Age Regression & Past Life Regression
Inner Child Therapy
Transactional Analysis
Psychotherapy: Psychodynamic theories
Month 9 Mind & Body
Hypnohealing
Psycho-neuroimmunology
Working with the mind/body link
Pain relief and pain management
Psycho-somatic illness
Month 10 EFT & CBT
EFT Emotional Freedom Techniques Level 1
Face Reading
Mistaken Beliefs
Psychotherapy: Albert Ellis & Behavioural Therapy
Month 11 Working with Children
The Children Act 1989; Child Protection
Art Therapy and creative approaches
The child’s world
Using fairy tales and stories
Assertiveness
Month 12 Endings
Ending the therapeutic relationship
Bereavement and loss
There is a practical assessment within a month of the final
course weekend. Date tba.
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