Hey all!

[SwashKnickers]

Good evening, I didn't see an introduction forum so figured I would post here, as I also have a question regarding hypnotherapists.

I'm Jodie, currently living in Las Vegas (originally from England). Since having hypnotherapy for a phobia I have had a strong interest in hypnosis/hypnotherapy. I would love to be able to study hypnosis some more and hopefully become a successful Clinical Hypnotherapist in the future.

So, that brings me to my question. Can anyone suggest a reputable (if there is such a thing :p ) distance/online education website that offer certification in clinical hypnotherapy? My husband is in the USAF and we are likely to be moving several times over the next year so a residential school would not be an option right now.

I thank you all in advance for reading and replying! :)
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[Poodle]

I congratulate you upon your intest in hypnosis. Would you be referring to a school like an on-line school for surgeons or dentists?

I know of two right where you are - one you have already missed or are missing and the other is for stage hypnosis.

If you can spare some in-person time to get the basics, the owner of this Forum can and will take you completely through Clinical Hypnotherapy. Check it out.

Be well.
Pood

[SwashKnickers]

I congratulate you upon your intest in hypnosis. Would you be referring to a school like an on-line school for surgeons or dentists?

I know of two right where you are - one you have already missed or are missing and the other is for stage hypnosis.

If you can spare some in-person time to get the basics, the owner of this Forum can and will take you completely through Clinical Hypnotherapy. Check it out.

Be well.
Pood


Hi Poodle,

Yes, an online course would be best (if there are any reputable schools for hypnotherapy certification).

Would you care to share the two that are in my area? I have searched with no avail. I do know the basis of hypnosis, and am able to perfrom hyn

[SwashKnickers]

Hi Poodle,

Yes, an online course would be best (if there are any reputable schools for hypnotherapy certification).

Would you care to share the two that are in my area? I have searched with no avail. I do know the basis of hypnosis, and am able to perfrom hynosis and self-hypnosis. I took the foundations course with HMI, and have been contemplating taking their advanced courses but wasn't sure if they were worth the $3000+ for the course. Obviously I would pay that if they are reputable and their certification actually means something, not just a piece of paper. I am extremely interested in hyonosis and as I said before, becoming a successful Hypnotherapist would be just fantastic!

Thank you for your reply, I appreciate it!

Jodie.

[SwashKnickers]

Hi Poodle,

Yes, an online course would be best (if there are any reputable schools for hypnotherapy certification).

Would you care to share the two that are in my area? I have searched with no avail. I do know the basis of hypnosis, and am able to perfrom hyn


Oh and I forgot to appologise for hitting submit before I had finished posting. :) Where's the edit button when it's needed!

[Don]

Respectfully, an online training would NOT be best. Rather, it would be easiest for you.

Training in hypnosis online--without someone watching your practice and without others to practice with--would be like training to be a carpenter without someone watching you use a power saw and without ever touching a piece of wood.

Don't get me wrong--you can learn a great deal about hypnosis via online or distance training. To learn to actually do hypnotherapy, IMO, requires some in-person training.

A quick Google search where I put in "Hypnosis training Las Vegas" (without the quote marks) showed at least two schools in the LV area.

Good luck!

[Connie]

A blend of home study and live trainings are ideal. Good luck, and welcome to the profession!! :)

[Terry]

After a practise of forty years, and constantly learning and progressing, I would second Don's remarks. You say you have reached a certain stage of knowledge and skill, and though I have doubts as to your interpretation of those skills, I would certainly say that an online course now would be useless....
If you cannot take proper training, then I suggest you put it on hold 'till you can rather than spoil that piece of wood by using a tool on it with which you are not skilled. Furthermore, that piece of wood I use as an example in respect of Don's comments is a piece of wood that can be replaced. What you are considering is working with people, and if you feel that people do not deserve the best skills you can muster, then indeed you are not the right material to become a hypnotherapist now or ever.
If indeed you are the wife of a US serviceman, and realise, anyone can make false claims online where they are incognito, and some of your post gives me cause to question your veracity, let me give you an example that will be close to home for you...
Many of your servicemen, and many Canadian ones also, are returning from a war zone mentally damaged. Often it seems from the posts we get, help is not available, yet hypnosis is a tool that could be used to good effect for such problems, and some of us have indeed volunteered that we would treat such men and women free of charge out of respect for their service to our country. Now tell me, do you feel you could be of help to a serviceman or women, and would you stake your reputation, or perhaps your husbands mental state on it? If not, then why would you consider any training other than the best you can get, and plenty of it? $3,000.00 you say is too much, I assure you I would not offer training for less, and though I know nothing of the people you reffer to, I do know that the cost is in the right ball park, and if not worth it to you, you are not worth the time it takes to get it quite frankly.....
Becoming a doctor costs seven years of your life, and about half a million dollars invested. This results in you dealing with the body only. Hypnosis learned properly costs ONE year and perhaps five thousand dollars if you stretch it, and allows you to deal with body, mind, and spirit, and you have the nerve or the ignorance to suggest the cost is too high????:eek: Yeesh..

[SwashKnickers]

After a practise of forty years, and constantly learning and progressing, I would second Don's remarks. You say you have reached a certain stage of knowledge and skill, and though I have doubts as to your interpretation of those skills, I would certainly say that an online course now would be useless....
If you cannot take proper training, then I suggest you put it on hold 'till you can rather than spoil that piece of wood by using a tool on it with which you are not skilled. Furthermore, that piece of wood I use as an example in respect of Don's comments is a piece of wood that can be replaced. What you are considering is working with people, and if you feel that people do not deserve the best skills you can muster, then indeed you are not the right material to become a hypnotherapist now or ever.
If indeed you are the wife of a US serviceman, and realise, anyone can make false claims online where they are incognito, and some of your post gives me cause to question your veracity, let me give you an example that will be close to home for you...
Many of your servicemen, and many Canadian ones also, are returning from a war zone mentally damaged. Often it seems from the posts we get, help is not available, yet hypnosis is a tool that could be used to good effect for such problems, and some of us have indeed volunteered that we would treat such men and women free of charge out of respect for their service to our country. Now tell me, do you feel you could be of help to a serviceman or women, and would you stake your reputation, or perhaps your husbands mental state on it? If not, then why would you consider any training other than the best you can get, and plenty of it? $3,000.00 you say is too much, I assure you I would not offer training for less, and though I know nothing of the people you reffer to, I do know that the cost is in the right ball park, and if not worth it to you, you are not worth the time it takes to get it quite frankly.....
Becoming a doctor costs seven years of your life, and about half a million dollars invested. This results in you dealing with the body only. Hypnosis learned properly costs ONE year and perhaps five thousand dollars if you stretch it, and allows you to deal with body, mind, and spirit, and you have the nerve or the ignorance to suggest the cost is too high????:eek: Yeesh..

Thank you for replying. The reason I was asking about online/distance course was because I did not know if it was possible to do and if it was a wise path to take. I appreciate your really and I am always happy to recieve opinions of people who have extensive knowledge of Hypnosis.

I do realise that this is the world of the internet and anyone can make flase claims, but I do have to say, I am indeed a service members spouse. My Husband has serve in the Air Force for a little over 6 years now. I understand completely what you are saying in regards to giving people the best they can get, like I have stated previously I hope to be a successful hypnotherapist, and obviously that means best hypnotherapist I can be. I will take all your advice and keep it in mind.

As for the $3000 I was merely saying that it would be too much for me to pay if the certification didn't amount to anything. To me, spending that kind of money and not getting any certification in turn would be wasteful, I did not say that I wouldn't pay that money if the certification was legit. I have heard good and bad things about HMI which is why I brought that up. I understand that the course may give me insight and understanding of the subject. I would be gladly pay $5000 for training if it would help me advance in my career.

[Connie]

Jodie, it's a never ending learning cycle. And that's a good thing. :)

The replies directing you to live trainings are 100% correct. You want that before you'd step into a working with clients situation. But, while your residence is in flux, learn what you can learn now in any manner available to you. Books are another excellent resource. Do a search of the archives here, and find some wonderful lists.

[SwashKnickers]

Respectfully, an online training would NOT be best. Rather, it would be easiest for you.

Training in hypnosis online--without someone watching your practice and without others to practice with--would be like training to be a carpenter without someone watching you use a power saw and without ever touching a piece of wood.

Don't get me wrong--you can learn a great deal about hypnosis via online or distance training. To learn to actually do hypnotherapy, IMO, requires some in-person training.

A quick Google search where I put in "Hypnosis training Las Vegas" (without the quote marks) showed at least two schools in the LV area.

Good luck!

Thank you Don, I was able to find some training websites on google.

Jodie, it's a never ending learning cycle. And that's a good thing. :)

The replies directing you to live trainings are 100% correct. You want that before you'd step into a working with clients situation. But, while your residence is in flux, learn what you can learn now in any manner available to you. Books are another excellent resource. Do a search of the archives here, and find some wonderful lists.


Thank you for replying Connie, I understand that it is a never ending cycle and to me that is what I find so interesting. To be able to learn about something and then keeping adding my my knowledge about the subject is great. I have a few books right now that I am reading and will be ordering a lot more soon to hopefully increase my knowledge of hypnosis.
I will be sure to check the archives. Thank you again!

[Don]

SK, I'd like to share with you the value of certifications. Are you ready? They're worth nothing. They're just pieces of paper with words on them. In the U.S., to the best of my knowledge, there is no government licensing for hypnotherapists. You can buy a "course" of hypnotherapy, complete with certification, for under $100. You can also go to an excellent school, spend thousands of dollars, and also get a certification. I've seen people who have gone to excellent schools and be certified, but I wouldn't send anyone to them for hypnosis. Poodle (to whom I definitely WOULD send people) has been with me at a training and I'm sure she knows what I mean.

But I have several certifications. I have certifications in a wide variety of hypnotherapeutic techniques. The ones I value the most come from the National Guild of Hypnotists and American Board of Hypnotherapy. Both basically take your money and your word that you have been trained and get continued training.

So if they're worthless, why do I have them. There are a couple of reasons.

1) Although certification as a hypnotherapists by a group such as the NGH and ABH don't prove anything, they do imply that at least I'm willing to go to the trouble to pay for certification and claim that I'm continuing my training. That's better than nothing.

2) They indicate to me what I've accomplished. They remind me of the work I've done and the progress I've made.

3) The impress clients when you hang them on the wall. Now, that sounds tacky, and to some extent, it is. In the state of California, under the law, I do have to inform clients, in writing, what my training has been. So this is in part mandated by the CAM (complementary and alternative medicine) laws. However, the heck with that. What is important to me is helping people. When they see my certifications and are impressed, it sets me up in their mind as a trained professional and expert. This makes them ready to be hypnotized. It makes them ready to accept suggestions. It literally helps with the hypnotherapy.

Years ago, I worked as a courier for a bank. I didn't handle money, just cancelled checks, loan documents, etc. It was just worthless paper. If you robbed me you couldn't get a penny for any of those documents. But the information on them was worth millions to the bank daily. Likewise, certifications are worthless pieces of paper. However I value each one and the impression they make on clients makes them invaluable to me.

"And now you know...the rest of the sto-ry."

[SwashKnickers]

Don, thank you for sharing that. I now see where I was wrong in my assumptions, I assumed that in order to be a hypnotherapist you would have to have a nationally accredited certification and possibly a license to practice. So I guess from now on, I will just study as much as I can, try and get some one on one time with trainers and build up my knowledge of hypnosis. Eventually I would like to have a clinic, but for now while I am a SAHM, I will research and study as much as I can over the next few years until I am at the point of helping people.

Thank you again for that reply, it all makes sense now.

[Poodle]

I remember "the imaginary white light" was supposed to produce total body catalepsy. Yeah! Right on brother. I made a marvellous V between two chairs. Finally got a lady from Europe with a brain and it worked like a charm. I also remember sitting with the "imaginary white light" person for a lengthy time explaining parts and the higher self and how to use them after class for maybe two plus hours so that person could help the current client at that time. That same lady from Europe was my first mis-matcher so it was a new challenge so I did learn something valuable. ;)

Pood

[Connie]

my first mis-matcher

I had one the other day and it was actually kind of amusing. He came in originally for smoking cessation, and this visit was for sports enhancement. He'd had great success with the nonsmoking...so I'd say something and he'd give me his polarity response and then stop himself, struggle, and come up with something different to say. But the immediate, automatic response was to contradict whatever was being said, even if I had fed back his own words to him. This visit, he had decided that I was doing "great things for him" (his words) so he was fighting it--the inclination to disagree with me.

[Merlin]

I tried to share.
got the messageSorry! That user has specified that they do not wish to receive emails.
oh well.
so sorry :(

[Poodle]

that I shared what you would have. Used PM's or perhaps they are off limits now too?

[SwashKnickers]

I tried to share.
got the message
oh well.
so sorry :(


Sorry Merlin, I will change my preferences now. You can try again, if you wish. I appreciate it!