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Clinical Hypnosis: All Modules
Practical information: How to progress through this course
Terms and conditions of the training
Course overview
Online components
Glossary of terms
Practice-based components
🎙️ HYPNOSIS & YOU: Study podcast
Hypnotherapy Audios: How to use them to learn, remember and retain course material
Student Community
🎧 HYPNOSIS 101 - Experiencing hypnosis
RESOURCES (scripts, additional videos, supplementary material)
Overview of resources
Glossary of terms
SCRIPTS: Hypnotherapy Practicals
SCRIPTS: Various
SCRIPTS: Attributions, considerations and contraindications
Susceptibility tests
Podcast: HypnoSOS
Books by Ursula James
Transformation: Self-hypnosis Handbook by Ursula James: Downloadable PDF
Hypnotherapy MP3s by Ursula James
Recommended videos
Recommended reading
National Occupational Standards in Hypnotherapy
Learn self-hypnosis: Theory
🎙️ HYPNOSIS & YOU: Podcast episode on Self-hypnosis
Self-Hypnosis as a tool for relaxation and change (0:50)
A Note about the Quiz...
What are the benefits
Why Self-Hypnosis is Important for Hypnotherapy Students
The best way to learn self-hypnosis
Suggestions and Affirmations
Learn self-hypnosis: Practice
Creating effective suggestions for your self-hypnosis sessions
Setting the Stage for Effective Self-Hypnosis
🎧 HYPNOSIS SESSION: learn self-hypnosis
Set a regular time to practice
Journal your progress
QUIZ: self-hypnosis
Questions clients ask - volume I
Why are clients' questions so important?
Will I hear everything? (0:40)
What happens if you can't hypnotise me? (1:35)
Will I be in control? (0:44)
Introduction to Hypnotherapy
🎙️ HYPNOSIS & YOU: podcast episodes on the history of hypnosis
Definition of terms: hypnosis, hypnotherapy, clinical hypnosis
The History of Hypnotherapy
Erroneous and Problematic Beliefs About Hypnosis
The hypnotic state: more familiar than you might think
Overview of clinical applications
🎧 HYPNOSIS SESSION: A Hypnosis library in your unconscious
QUIZ: definition of terms
Consciousness: Hypnosis, meditation and other states of awareness
🎙️ HYPNOSIS & YOU: podcast episodes Consciousness
States of consciousness
Unconscious vs conscious mind: A model to explain the benefits of hypnotherapy over other talking therapies
Hypnosis: A natural phenomenon
🎧 Mindfulness session
Hypnosis, Meditation and Mindfulness: Differences and similarities
Receptivity to hypnosis
🎧 HYPNOSIS SESSION: Time to daydream in the library
QUIZ: States of Consciousness
Questions clients ask - volume II
Can you make me do anything I would not want to do? (0:52)
What if I do not remember everything? (0:55)
How will I know if I have been hypnotised? (1:05)
The structure of the hypnosis session
Elements of a hypnosis session
Conducting a hypnosis session
Hypnosis: How to select the appropriate script
Practical Hypnosis Skills: The practicalities of a session
Before you start the hypnosis
Positioning
How to deliver a hypnosis script
Management of distractions
Use of voice
Falling asleep during hypnosis
Permissive or authoritarian
PRACTICAL SESSION: Teach self-hypnosis to another person
Teaching self-hypnosis to clients as a self-help tool
Instructions
Self-hypnosis script
Feedback
Recording sessions: consent
Recording and reviewing sessions: Best practice
The Hypnotherapy Practice: Working online
How to make your virtual space inviting
Office set up and tips
Equipment
Pros and Cons of in-clinic and online consultations: Practicalities
Pros and Cons of in-clinic and online consultations: Content
How to get your client to prepare for their first online session
Reassurances
Questions clients ask - volume III
What if I have too much willpower to be hypnotised? (0:56)
What can hypnosis do for me that I cannot do for myself?
Theories and Techniques of Hypnosis
🎙️ HYPNOSIS & YOU: podcast episodes Theories of Hypnosis
Theories of hypnosis
Techniques: Induction
Techniques: Deepening
Techniques: Suggestion
Techniques: Awakening
🎧 HYPNOSIS SESSION: Theories and techniques of hypnosis
PRACTICAL SESSION: GENERAL HYPNOSIS SCRIPT
Volunteers for your practice sessions
Instructions for all future practical hypnosis sessions (scripted)
🫵 EXERCISE: PRACTICAL SESSION ONE: General hypnosis script (39:35)
Positive suggestions and Ego-strengthening
🎙️ HYPNOSIS & YOU: Podcast episodes on positive suggestions and ego-strengthening
Why it is important to create positive suggestions
Reminders of success: the power of positive suggestions
How to create positive suggestions for your volunteer
Ego-strengthening: its role in hypnotherapy
How to create tailored ego-strengthening suggestions
Working with Clients Who Struggle to Identify Positive Qualities or Accomplishments
The structure of the hypnotherapy session
Elements of a hypnotherapy session
Conducting a hypnotherapy session
The roles of pre and post hypnosis elements and homework
Selecting the most appropriate hypnosis script for each client: Personality and condition
The power of silence
Client intake form (pre-session)
PRACTICAL SESSION: VISUAL PERMISSIVE SCRIPT
🫵 EXERCISE: PRACTICAL SESSION TWO: Visual Permissive (22:50)
Hypnotic events
🎙️ HYPNOSIS & YOU: podcast episode Hypnotic phenomena
Hypnotic phenomena
Hypnagogic and Hypnopompic states
Levels of hypnosis
Abreactions
Somnambulism
How to tell if someone is in hypnosis
Management of the client in hypnosis
🎧 HYPNOSIS SESSION: Summary of hypnotic events
Hypnotherapy Theories and techniques
HYPNOSIS & YOU: podcast episode Theories of Hypnosis
Therapeutic techniques: Overview
Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy (CBH)
Ericksonian hypnosis and language patterns
Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy (SFH)
Regression Therapy in Hypnosis
PRACTICAL SESSION: AUDITORY PERMISSIVE
🫵 EXERCISE: PRACTICAL SESSION THREE: Auditory Permissive (14:27)
NLP in hypnotherapy
HYPNOSIS & YOU: podcast episode NLP
What is NLP
Modalities: Definitions, identification and utilisation
🫵 EXERCISE: Eliciting Modalities from Friends and Family
"I feel a connection" NLP techniques in rapport and therapeutic relationships
PRACTICAL SESSION: KINAESTHETIC PERMISSIVE
🫵 EXERCISE: PRACTICAL SESSION FOUR: Kinaesthetic Permissive (20:27)
Matching client to therapeutic approach
Unconscious signaling: when the words and the behaviour of the client are at odds
Distorted language - How the client speaks and what they actually mean
🫵 EXERCISE: how to work with distorted client language patterns
The practitioner/client contract: Give the client what they ask for - within limits
Understanding how character traits influence hypnotherapy approaches
Crib sheets
Crib sheet - hypnotherapeutic case history
Crib sheet - Assessment and Therapeutic Technique Selection
Clinical Applications of Hypnotherapy
Condition focussed protocols using differing approaches
Rankings of each type of therapy: by condition
How to decide which one is the most appropriate for your client
Example questions to ask: Identifying the outline therapeutic approach
Synthesis
PRACTICAL SESSION: ANCHORS
Definition: Anchors in Hypnotherapy
🫵 EXERCISE: PRACTICAL SESSION FIVE: Anchors (11:24)
The Hypnotherapist
The characteristics of a good hypnotherapy practitioner
There is only room for one ego in a consulting room
The danger of assumptions: When personal experience complicates client outcomes
Professional boundaries
Maintaining work-life balance and preventing burnout
🫵 EXERCISE: Identifying your drivers
🫵 EXERCISE: Self-hypnosis session for work/life balance
Impostor syndrome
🎧 HYPNOSIS SESSION: Creating a therapeutic persona
Psychological Foundations
HYPNOSIS & YOU: Podcast episode on Psychological Foundations
Fundamentals of psychological theories and behaviour analysis
Human Behaviour and why therapy is useful
Cognitive-Behavioural Models: The relationship between our thoughts, behaviours and emotions
Neuroscience fundamentals relevant to hypnosis
Psychological disorders: Which are treatable and which are contraindicated for treatment with hypnotherapy
Treatable Psychological Disorders: Other interventions including medication
🎧 HYPNOSIS SESSION: adding to the library
Hypnotherapy in Confidence Building/Ego-Strengthening
Contraindications for the use of hypnotherapy in confidence building
Hypnotherapy for confidence building
Hypnosis scripts useful for confidence building/ego-strengthening and why
Personality factors in low self-esteem
+Client approach to therapy: how to use this information to select the appropriate script for confidence building/ego strengthening
+Symptoms and relevant script elements
Pre-induction questions - Confidence building
Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy (SFH) Script for Confidence Building
Eriksonian Hypnotherapy Script for Confidence Building
Regression Hypnotherapy Script for Confidence Building
Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy (CBH) Script for Confidence Building
Summary client statements and associated protocols
Quiz: Selecting the appropriate protocol for confidence building/ ego-strengthening.
Ethics, Legalities, and Professional Practice (30)
Ethical considerations and professional standards
Legal aspects of practising hypnotherapy
Informed consent and confidentiality
Hypnotherapy in Stress Management
Contraindications for the use of hypnotherapy in stress management
Hypnotherapy for stress management
Hypnosis scripts useful for stress management and why
Client approach to therapy: how to use this information to select the appropriate script for stress management
Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy (SFH) Script for Stress Management
Ericksonian Hypnotherapy Script for Stress Management
Regression Hypnotherapy Script for Stress Management
Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy (CBH) Script for Stress Management
Summary table of client statements for stress management
Quiz: Selecting the appropriate protocol for stress management
Hypnotherapy for Phobias
🎙️ HYPNOSIS & YOU: podcast episodes
Contraindications for the use of hypnotherapy for phobias
Hypnotherapy for phobias
Hypnosis scripts useful for phobias and why
Client approach to therapy: how to use this information to select the appropriate script for phobias
Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy (SFH) Script for Phobias
Ericksonian Hypnotherapy Script for Phobias
Regression Hypnotherapy Script for Phobias
Cognitive Behavioral Hypnotherapy (CBH) Script for Phobias
Summary client statements and associated protocols for phobias
Quiz: Selecting the appropriate protocol for phobias
Hypnotherapy for Fears
Contraindications for the use of hypnotherapy for fears
Hypnotherapy for fears
Hypnosis scripts useful for fears and why
Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy (SFH) Script for Reducing Fears
Eriksonian Hypnotherapy Script for Reducing Fears
Regression Hypnotherapy Script for Reducing Fears
Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy (CBH) Script for Reducing Fears
Summary client statements and associated protocol: fears
Quiz: Selecting the appropriate protocol for fears
Reframe: replace fear with excitement
Research Methodology and Evidence-Based Practice
Understanding research in hypnotherapy
🫵 EXERCISE: Research one area of interest
Hypnotherapy for Reducing Anxiety
🎙️ HYPNOSIS & YOU: podcast episodes
Contraindications for the use of hypnotherapy in treating anxiety
Hypnosis scripts useful for anxiety and why
Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy (SFH) Script for Reducing Anxiety
Ericksonian Hypnotherapy Script for Reducing Anxiety
Regression Hypnotherapy Script for Reducing Anxiety
Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy (CBH) Script for Reducing Anxiety
Summary client statements and associated protocols: anxiety
Quiz: Selecting the appropriate protocol for reducing anxiety
🎧 HYPNOSIS session: reducing anxiety
The Hypnotherapy Client
I'm calling for a friend...
The road to recovery or to perfecting a neurosis
Factors influencing client engagement with hypnotherapy
Types of client for whom hypnotherapy is contraindicated
What to do when remission/recovery does not happen
Hypnotherapy for treating Reactive Depression
🎙️ HYPNOSIS & YOU: podcast episodes Reactive Depression
Hypnosis scripts useful for reactive depression and why
Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy (SFH) Script for Reactive Depression
Eriksonian Hypnotherapy Script for Reactive Depression
Regression Hypnotherapy Script for Reactive Depression
Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy (CBH) Script for Reactive Depression
Summary client statements and associated protocols: reactive depression
Quiz: Selecting the appropriate protocol for treating reactive depression.
Hypnotherapy in Pain Management and Analgesia
Hypnotherapy for pain management and hypnoanalgesia
Hypnosis scripts suitable for pain management, and why
Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy (SFH) Script for Pain Management and Analgesia
Ericksonian Hypnotherapy Script for Pain Management and Analgesia
Regression Hypnotherapy Script for Pain Management and Analgesia
Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy (CBH) Script for Pain Management and Analgesia
Summary table of client statements for pain management and analgesia
Quiz: Selecting the appropriate protocol for pain management and analgesia.
Hypnotherapy for Weight Management
Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy (SFH) Script for Weight Management
Ericksonian Hypnotherapy Script for Weight Management
Regression Hypnotherapy Script for Weight Management
Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy (CBH) Script for Weight Management
Summary client statements and associated protocols: weight management
Quiz: Selecting the appropriate protocol for weight management.
The Hypnotherapy Practice: Booking systems
Booking enquiries: Phone
Booking process: email communications
Booking methods: Online booking platforms
Parameters for online booking systems
Important factors influencing whether someone will use an online booking system
How to make it work smoothly and to get people to book online
Hypnotherapy in Performance
Hypnosis scripts useful for performance and why
Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy (SFH) Script for Enhancing Performance
Eriksonian Hypnotherapy Script for Enhancing Performance
Regression Therapy Hypnotherapy Script for Enhancing Performance
Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy (CBH) Script for Enhancing Performance
Summary Table: Types of Performance based issues with primary and alternative approaches, stating reasons for use
Quiz: Selecting the appropriate protocol for performance.
Glove anaesthesia
Glove anaesthesia
Hypnotic techniques for scene setting: Glove anaesthesia
Treatment protocol: Glove anaesthesia
Systematic desensitisation
Hypnotic scripts for scene setting: systematic desensitisation
Treatment protocol: Systematic desensitisation
Hypnoanalysis
Hypnosis scripts for scene setting: Hypnoanalysis
Treatment protocol: Hypnoanalysis
Aversion therapy
Hypnosis techniques for scene setting: aversion therapy
Reframe: replace fear with excitement
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