London College of Clinical Hypnosis

• About the Course
• Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy
• Basic Principles and Practice
• Meaning of Healthy and Unhealthy Beliefs
• Types of Cognitions
• Belief Pairs
• Psychological Disturbance

• Healthy and Unhealthy Emotions
• Mixed Emotions and Meta Emotions
• Action Tendencies and Behaviour
• ABCDE Model
• Process of Change
• Principle of Psychological Interactionism
• Building the Therapeutic Alliance

• 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

• Understanding Client Problems
• Assessing Unhealthy Emotions and Behaviours
• Assessing the Activating Event
• Challenges in Assessing the C of the ABC
• Challenges in Assessing the A of the ABC

• 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

• Erickson and Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy
• Disputing Unhealthy Beliefs
• Purpose of Disputing
• When to Dispute Client's Unhealthy Beliefs

• Disputing Unhealthy and Healthy Beliefs
• Homework Assignments
• Understanding and Integration

• Alert Hypnosis
• Integrating the Healthy Solution
• Obstacles in Integration

• Integrative Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy
• Part(s) Dissociation Therapy
• Regression

• Inner Child
• Apposition of Opposites
• Direct Suggestions

• Applications of Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy
• Performance Anxiety
• Panic Disorder

• Phobias
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Depression

• Eating Disorders
• Weight Control
• Assertiveness Training
• Goal Directed Therapy

• The Process of Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy
• Review

Candidates must have attended a minimum of 80% of the course and have completed 8 hours of tutorial sessions. Candidates must have as a minimum an Associate of the British Society of Clinical Hypnosis membership.

This module has two written examinable assignments:

• Short Answer Exam Paper. You will be required to answer four questions on the theory and practice of Cognitive Behaviour Hypnotherapy
  30 % weighting (1000 words) written at home and submitted exactly one month after the end of the course
• Written Case Study 70% weighting
  70% weighting (4000 words) written at home and submitted exactly one month after the end of the course