--- title: Hypnotherapy Practitioner Skills url: https://thestudyguild.com/programmes/hypnotherapy-practitioner-skills type: programme published: 2026-08-13 last_reviewed: 2026-08-13 reviewed_by: david-chen publisher: The Study Guild --- # Hypnotherapy Practitioner Skills A 10-week live hypnotherapy-skills programme with observed sessions, taught by a practitioner of fourteen years who will not claim a register we do not hold. ## Programme facts - Price: £449 (payment plans available, never discounted) - Format: Live online + self-paced - Live contact hours: 20 - Expected self-study hours: 40 - Duration: 10 weeks - Level: All levels - Tutor: david-chen ## Learning outcomes - Take informed consent for hypnosis that a client could later read and recognise - Run an induction and a simple suggestion sequence that was observed in the room - Stop a session that is not safe to continue - Name applications with reasonable evidence and refuse the rest - State that this pass is not CNHC registration - Write a referral when the presentation is clinical ## Curriculum 1. **What hypnosis is, and the claims we will not make** — A working model, informed consent, and the marketing this market should have dropped. Topics: Consent language; Abreactions and stopping; Evidence versus brochure; What this programme is not 2. **Induction and deepening, observed** — The mechanics, practised on a peer, with tutor interruption when it is theatre. Topics: Voice and pacing; Choice and control; Common overreach; Peer practice 3. **Suggestion that a client could repeat** — Specific, ethical, and not a covert command to buy more sessions. Topics: Language; Goals the client named; What you will not install; Notes 4. **Applications with a literature, and without** — IBS and some pain have a literature. 'Rewrite your life' does not. Topics: What you may say; What you must not treat; Smoking and habits, honestly; Referral 5. **Safety, safeguarding and records** — The session you would rather have written down. Topics: Contraindications; Memory and leading; UK GDPR; Insurance questions 6. **CNHC, PSA and the weekend product** — How a checkable register actually works, and why we will not fake eligibility. Topics: PSA accredited registers; CNHC education-provider rules; CPD logos versus registers; How to talk about this certificate 7. **Working with coaches and therapists** — Combining titles without combining scopes you do not hold. Topics: Insurance wording; When CBT or counselling is the work; Advertising standards; Recorded session 8. **Habits, performance and the boring work** — The clients who actually book, rather than the ones in the brochure. Topics: Preparation and follow-up; Between-session tasks; When one session is enough; When it is not 9. **The offer** — Pricing and positioning without a medical halo. Topics: Packages; Directory listings; First ten clients; Supervision 10. **Assessment clinic** — Live review of recordings and safety cases. Topics: Common fails; Resubmission; Register pathways if you still need them; What a pass allows you to say ## Assessment A recorded hypnotherapy session, a written safety and consent case, and observed in-class practice, marked by David Chen. Written feedback with one free resubmission. A pass is assessed skills in this room. It is not eligibility for a PSA-accredited register. ## Upcoming cohorts - 2026-11-10 to 2027-01-26 — Tuesdays 19:00–21:00 UK, 10 weeks (no session 22 or 29 December) (open, cap 16) - 2027-02-16 to 2027-04-20 — Tuesdays 19:00–21:00 UK, 10 weeks (open, cap 16) ## What does a hypnotherapy-skills programme actually train? It trains observed hypnosis skills: consent, induction, suggestion and stopping, with a tutor in the room who can fail you. It does not train you as a doctor, a psychotherapist, or a CNHC-registered hypnotherapist. The title hypnotherapist is unprotected in the UK. Checkable registers are a separate, voluntary pathway. ## Is hypnotherapy regulated in the UK? No. No qualification or registration is legally required to practise or use the title. The Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council is the hypnotherapy register accredited by the Professional Standards Authority. That is a quality signal about the register, not statutory regulation, and nobody can be struck off as a doctor can. Sources: - [Accredited Registers programme](https://www.professionalstandards.org.uk/what-we-do/accredited-registers) — Professional Standards Authority - [CNHC — Hypnotherapy](https://www.cnhc.org.uk/hypnotherapy) — Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council ## Does this programme lead to CNHC registration? No. CNHC registration requires training that meets that register's education-provider rules. We do not claim that status. If you need a checkable complementary-therapy register, start from CNHC and work backwards to an eligible school. Observed practice here is still a better buy than an unwatched weekend diploma. ## How is this different from a self-paced hypnotherapy diploma? Someone watches you work. Safety and consent are marked. The certificate states that it is not register eligibility. A self-paced diploma can send you scripts. It cannot tell a client whether you knew when to stop, or whether the claims on your website match any evidence. ## Common questions **Can I practise hypnotherapy legally after this?** The title is unprotected, so legally yes if you stay inside a written scope, carry insurance, and do not claim a register you do not hold. Practically, informed clients still ask who watched you. **Will you teach past-life or stage hypnosis?** No. This is a professional-practice programme. Entertainment hypnosis and unverifiable memory work are out of scope. **Is hypnotherapy evidence-based?** Partly. There is reasonable evidence in specific applications such as some IBS and pain work, and much weaker evidence for many marketed uses. We teach that distinction rather than a brochure. **Can I pay in instalments?** Yes. Interest-free plans total exactly £449. --- Source: https://thestudyguild.com/programmes/hypnotherapy-practitioner-skills · The Study Guild