Specialist Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy Central Area, Central

Course details

CBH provides you with a powerful method, that is exciting to use and one that will enhance your existing therapy skills and complete your formal training in clinical hypnosis.

Even if you have never used CBH with your patients, learning these simple and everyday evaluation skills will help you to grow as a person, and then as a therapist. CBH gives you that added edge as a hypnotherapist. You become insightful, confident and your ability to evaluate and analyze your patients is enhanced.

CBH provides you with therapy skills when hypnotherapy is contra-indicated or when you need to provide greater stabilization and develop emotional resources.

You learn a new method of working and then integrate this into a powerful and new tool. This course also covers alert hypnosis, depression and a wide range of other skills and techniques. It is practical, rigorous and fun

Every weekend you will be integrating CBH with your existing hypnotherapy skills. You will explore the application to many conditions and to many types of patients.

Diploma in Cognitive Behaviour Hypnotherapy Syllabus

Weekend One

• About the course
• Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy
• Basic Principles and Practice
• Meaning of Healthy and Unhealthy
• Types of Cognitions
• Belief Pairs
• Psychological Disturbance
• Healthy and Unhealthy Emotions
• Mixed Emotions
• Meta Emotions
• Action tendencies and behaviour
• ABCDE
• Process of Change
• Building the Therapeutic Alliance and Rapport in Hypnotherapy

Weekend Two

• Dealing with misconceptions
• The first session
• Explaining your therapeutic work i.e. Hypnosis with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
• Teaching ABCDE
• Distinguishing between healthy and unhealthy emotions
• Assessing problems
• Assessing unhealthy emotions and behaviours
• Challenges in assessing the C of the ABC
• Assessing the Activating Event
• Challenges in assessing the A in the ABC

Weekend Three

• Relevance of pre hypnotic work
• Assessing the unhealthy belief
• Theory driven approach
• Open ended approach
• Setting a goal in line with the assessed problem
• Assessing meta-emotional problems
• Teaching clients the view of therapeutic change
• Dealing with objections to emotional responsibility
• Commitment to change
• Undermining the negative aspects of goals

Weekend Four

• Erickson and Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy
• Disputing unhealthy beliefs
• Purpose of disputing
• When to dispute client's unhealthy beliefs
• Disputing unhealthy beliefs
• Disputing healthy beliefs
• Homework assignments
• Understanding and integration

Weekend Five

• Alert hypnosis, suggestibility in non hypnotic therapy
• Integrating the healthy solution - Part 1
• Integrating the healthy solution - Part 2
• Obstacles in integration
• Obstacles in client progress

Weekend Six

• Integrative Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy
• Part(s) dissociation therapy
• Regression
• Inner child
• Apposition of Opposites
• Direct suggestions

Weekend Seven

• Applications of Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy
• Performance Anxiety
• Panic Disorder
• Phobias
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Depression

Weekend Eight

• Eating disorders
• Weight control
• Assertiveness training
• Goal directed therapy
• The process of Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy
• Review