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Module 5 – Hypnotic Management

• Hypnotic management
• What to do when you are contacted by a potential client
• Initial Consultation (Pre-induction)
• The Pre-induction step by step
• Differing opinions as to how the pre-induction should be conducted
• Session Structure -
• Prior to the session,
• When the client arrives for the session
• After the session
• Personal and Client Health and Safety, and Risk Management
• Contraindications
• Expectations of clients and setting the client homework
• When to refer a client on

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Module 6 – Susceptibility tests

• Questions that help to identify susceptibility
• Waking Susceptibility tests with hints, tips and safety suggestions highlighted –
• Magnetic Fingers
• Magnetic Hands
• Bucket and Balloon
• Hand lock test

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Module 7 – Elements of hypnotherapy

• Wake ups- Short wake ups, fractionation, full wake ups
• Deepeners – Vocal deepeners, standard countdown, candle countdown, staircase deepener
• Rapid deepeners – Authoritarian rapid spoken deepener, Now.
• Physical deepeners – shoulder rock, arm drop, fractionation.
• Trance depth -  Observable clues that indicate what depth of trance your client has achieved for: light trance, medium trance and deep trance depth.
• Verifying Trance Depth

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Module  8– Inductions

• What is a hypnotic induction?
• Why are different hypnotic inductions required?
• Rapid Inductions – Health and Safety, contact and non-contact variations
• Client counting backwards
• Hand to face
• Magnetic fingers
• Magnetic hands
• Handshake induction
• The Elman 3 handshake induction,
• 8 word induction,
• Butterfly induction,
• Trigger induction,
• Coin drop induction,
• Eye-fixation
• Milton Erickson’s My friend John induction
• The Thumb stare
• Confusion Induction
• The fractionation conversation
• Permissive inductions explained
• Sensory overload induction
• Metaphorical inductions explained – holiday stroll
• Create your own metaphorical induction
• Progressive muscle relaxation
• Creating Ericksonian induction using nouns and unspecified verbs.

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Module 9 -Self- hypnosis

• What is self-hypnosis?
• Using self-hypnosis for your own development
• Teaching your clients self-hypnosis.

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Module 10 – Gathering Information to assist your client during the therapeutic process

• Getting the client to take responsibility for themselves.
• Eliciting information from a client about what they want to achieve – questions that you could ask
• Solution Focussed Questioning
• Scaling
• The 5 D’s
• Primary Secondary and Tertiary Gains
• Meta-programmes –- that will have an impact on the way you word hypnotherapy sessions
• How to identify key meta-programs that the client is using
• Counselling skills
• Active listening
• What a client needs emotionally to facilitate change
• Ego-strengthening and incorporating new strategies
• Dilts' Logical Levels of Change

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Module 11 – How to prepare a hypnotherapy session for your client  

• Scripts – Pros and cons, how best to use them, how to move away from script work
• Planning the session
• Thinking about what emotions need to be modified and what outcomes you expect.
• Group hypnosis

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Module 12 – Important things to remember when your client is under hypnosis and following the session

• How to deal with Abreaction
• Questioning and the danger of creating false memories
• Record Keeping
• What to do if an emergency should arise
• Recording the session and sending recordings to clients, including what to say to ensure the safety of your client when listening to these.

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Module 13 – Hypnotic Approaches

Ericksonian approaches and language patterns

Analytical Approaches including :

• Dissociative approaches
• IMR approaches
• Inner Child
• Metaphorical
• Clean Language Questioning
• Parts Therapy

Regressive and time-related approaches including :

• Age-regression
• Past Life regression
• Affect Bridge
• Specific age
• Time distortion
• Future pacing and pseudo orientation in time
• Free floating



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Module 13 – continued

Behavioural Approaches including:

• Mind-body (PNI)
• Metaphorical
• Safe place
• Deconditioning
• Sub-modality

Cognitive Approaches:

• Mindfulness
• Acceptance and Commitment therapy
• Rational and Emotive Behavioural Therapy

Metaphorical and Energetic Approaches:

• Healing White Light
• An introduction to EFT
• Guided Garden
• Creating Metaphors for therapy
• Use of Metaphors for silent/slow release abreaction
• An introduction to Eye Movement Techniques

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Module 14 -Applications

For each application the module contains: an explanation of the condition/issue, how to work with each area, relevant anatomy and physiology, hints and tips, techniques to use and sample scripts for learning purposes.

• Anger management
• Anxiety and panic attacks
• Asthma
• Bedwetting (Enuresis)
• Blushing
  

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Module 14 -continued

• Conception and Pregnancy
• Depression
• Pain Management
• Performance Anxiety
• Phobias
• Self-Confidence and Self-Esteem
• Skin Conditions and Dermatology
• Smoking Cessation
• Sports Hypnosis
• Stammering
• Stress management
• Tinnitus
• Weight Management

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Module 15 - Policy, ethics and codes of conduct

• Data Protection
• Obtaining consent (including example policy)
• Cancellations (including example policy)
• Payment
• GP consent- when to gain consent, how to obtain consent (example letter to GP and client consent to contact GP forms included)
• Client- therapist relationship
• Accompanied clients, minors and vulnerable adults
• DBS checks
• Safeguarding
• Child welfare – Including information about the Children’s Act and what to do if you believe that a child is being abused.
• Codes of Conduct and Ethics
• GHR Code of Ethics
• Risk Assessment
  

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Module – 16 Client Experience

• This will be an entirely practical model where you will be applying the techniques that you have learnt about and have been using throughout the course.  You will work with genuine clients through the entire process, from initial contact all the way through the therapy sessions that you have designed for them.

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Module 17 – Setting up your business

• Pricing
• Ways to advertise including pros and cons– social media, website, directories, leaflets and flyers, networking, talks and presentations, every day conversations
• Advertising Standards
• Insurance
• Joining the GHR and other professional organisations
• Other considerations

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Module 18 – Development as a Therapist

• Continuous Professional Development
• Supervision
• GHR supervision requirements
• Getting the most out of supervision
• Being a reflective practitioner
• Engaging with research and other therapy/ therapists.
• Therapist Well-being
• The Principles of good practice
• Dealing with difficult client situations