GHSC Validated Advanced Level Training
If you love hypnotherapy and want to be the best practitioner you can, whilst advancing your training to validated NFQ Level 6 - which is equivalent to degree level in the UK - this externally validated course will help you develop your skills and attract new clients.
Why study to an advanced level?
Learn how to work with complex cases from an ethical perspective.
Move beyond scripts - develop your own style & work instinctively.
Join a community of like-minded advanced practitioners.
Stand out from the crowd and attract new clients.
Think critically as you learn to question assumptions and research.
Set your fees to reflect your advanced training status.
Continue your learning at a completely different level, with Dr. Claire Jack.
Regular meet-ups & support
Studying at an advanced level means learning new ways of thinking and approaching hypnotherapy. You'll be supported with monthly meet-ups with Dr. Claire Jack and other advanced practitioner students. Make supportive connections as you study.
External Accreditation
Your initial diploma level training - whether your received the HPD, GHR Practioner Level training or similar, will have been a Level 3 or 4 course. This course is validated at NFQ Level 6 and is the highest level of hypnotherapy training available in the UK, equivalent to degree level.
Dr. Claire Jack
This course has been developed by Dr. Claire Jack, who will mark your portfolios and lead the monthly meet-ups. Claire has a background in academic teaching and research, at a level required to teach a level 6 course which demands academic rigour.
How does the course work?
This course is only open to students who have previously studied a recognised diploma level course in hypnotherapy and are registered with the GHR, NCH or similar level body.
To qualify as an advanced practitioner you should have been qualified and practicing for 2 years - however, you can work towards your qualification any time after qualifying.
You have three years to complete your portfolio. This might sound like a long time, and many students will complete more quickly, but the emphasis is on deepening your learning and taking time for self-exploration.
You can study online, at your own pace, and join monthly meet-ups even if you are at a different point in the course to other people. Can't make a meet-up? It's not a problem as all videos will be posted online.
Example Curriculum
- Overview
- Supportive meet-ups
- Facebook group
- 1-2-1 Individual support
- Assignment 1: Open book exam 30 questions
- Assignment 2: Complex vignettes
- Assignment 3: Reflective journal of practice
- Assignment 4: Reflection on course learning
- Assignment 5: Personal Development Plan (PDP)
- Assignment 6: Moving beyond scripts
- All assignments
- 1.1 - Introduction: an overview of different approaches
- 1.2 - Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- 1.3 - Transactional Analysis (TA)
- 1.4 - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- 1.5 - Accpetance and Committment Therapy (ACT)
- 1.6 - Sophisticated Thinking in Hypnotherapy
- 1.7 - Dealing with Complicated or Unfamiliar Cases
- 1.8 - Normalising a client’s experience
- 1.9 - Loaded and leading questions
- 1.10 - Extratherapeutic factors
- 1.11 - Primary, secondary, and tertiary gain and malingering
- 1.12 - Epileptic seizure
- 1.12 - Boundaries
- 1.13 - Group hypnotherapy
- 4.1 - Understanding logic and argumentation
- 4.2 - Reasoning from small and biased data
- 4.3 - Referencing other authors’ work
- 4.4 - Critical appraisal of claims in media and professional contexts
- 4.5 - Critiquing hypnotherapy literature in an academic and professional manner
- 4.6 - Forward-thinking appraisal of research consequences
- 4.7 - Implementing new techniques without direct supervision
- 4.8 - Implementing new techniques without direct supervision
- 4.9 - Respectful, evidence-aware appraisal of interventions
- 6.1 - Scientific Methodology and Its Advantages
- 6.2 - An Understanding of Falsification in Science
- 6.3 - An Understanding of ‘Bias’ in Research
- 6.4 - A Basic Understanding of Statistical Methods
- 6.5 - A Demonstrable Ability to Locate Hypnotherapy Research
- 6.6 - An Understanding of the Term ‘Pseudoscientific Therapies/Treatments’
- 6.7 - ‘Empirically Supported Therapies/Treatments’
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