Accredited hypnosis / hypnotherapy training in the UK
Whether you decide to study with us or another school, be sure that your selected course is accepted by the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (http://www.cnhc.org.uk) - not all hypnotherapy training courses are. To find out why this is so important, please click here.
When you are looking for hypnotherapy / hypnosis training in the UK, you can do no better than enrol with the Essex Institute of Clinical Hypnosis; studying with us gives you eligibility to be listed on the register of the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council. when you join one of our accrediting bodies.
Also, Studying with us give you guaranteed membership of these major associations:*
The Association for Professional Hypnosis and Psychotherapy
The National Register of Psychotherapists and Counsellors
The Society of Stress Managers
The National Register of Advanced Hypnotherapists
Please click here to find out more about accreditation and certification.
When you complete our 'in-house' Professional Practitioner course, you are automatically eligible for membership of these bodies. Completing our 2nd year advanced course will instantly give you a higher level of qualification. (In the UK. Eligibility might not be available for individuals living overseas)
Our training course surpasses the National Occupation Standards and will allow you to register not just with our accrediting bodies but with many other leading associations as well - now click here to go immediately to our Professional Practitioner course page.
Your Tutor
The Principal of the Essex Institute, Terence Watts, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and also the only psychology-related therapist world-wide to hold the MCGI (Member of the City and Guilds Institute), comparable to a British Masters degree. He has been in successful full time private practice as a hypnotherapist and psychotherapist since 1989, originally training in Harley Street, London, England. He has been the originator of many training programmes in use in the UK and abroad and teaches a great deal of the course material at the Essex Institute himself.
He is also an International (including the USA and Asia) lecturer and presenter, a published author of books and manuals about hypnosis and psychotherapy and the author of the Essex Institute Professional Hypnotherapy Practitioner and Advanced Hypnotherapy Practitioner training UK programmes.
A video message from Terence Watts (you'll need to view it in Explorer or Safari)
* Classroom students only (not distance learning). Annual subscriptions will be required for continued membership of these associations.
** Under current Law, as at April 2011. The proposed regulation of psychotherapists has been indefinitely postponed and is unlikely to happen before 2016, if at all. The Level 1, 2 & 3 training offered here meets or surpasses the current criteria but revision of content may be carried out if necessary at any time. No guarantee of suitability either express or implied is given. We make every attempt to keep exactly to the course details listed here but reserve the right to make changes where necessary for whatever reasons.
