
Gain a fully accredited hypnotherapy certification program designed for personal or professional growth. The program simplifies concepts for busy learners and includes continuing education through the Virtual Academy.
Explore how hypnotherapy uses a trance to access the subconscious mind, remove mental blocks, and reprogram thoughts with positive affirmations for therapeutic and self-improvement outcomes.
Trace the history of hypnotherapy, from James Braid’s description of hypnotism and the trance-like state to myths about crime and the role of the bridge principle.
Explore hypnotherapy indications across psychological and medical conditions, including asthma, PMS, migraines, PTSD, OCD, eating disorders, chronic pain, and smoking cessation, while contrasting interpersonal therapy with a self-driven hypnotic state.
Explore how the conscious mind analyzes with logic, while the subconscious mind drives emotions and memories on autopilot, influenced by brain waves from beta to alpha to delta.
Explore the seven principles of hypnosis, emphasizing client willingness, deliberate suggestion, and mind-body connection in trance, while using client language, monitoring feedback, and maintaining therapist confidence.
This lecture outlines the step-by-step flow of a hypnotherapy session, from induction and relaxation to deepening, reframing, altered states, guided imagery, and post-session debrief, plus self-hypnosis techniques.
Assess hypnotic susceptibility and suggestibility using tests to gauge client receptivity and attentiveness. Ensure consent and adjust induction depth based on observed suggestibility after the pre talk.
Explore the book and balloon test to assess handedness and demonstrate hypnotherapy's power. Learn relaxation, breathing, and suggestibility induction to guide the subconscious mind toward self-hypnosis.
Demonstrate a hand-to-hand clasp as a suggestibility test in hypnotherapy, guiding relaxation, visualizing glue between palms, and noting entanglement and the inability to separate.
Explore a suggestibility test to determine whether subjects have visual or auditory representation styles to tailor hypnotherapy induction, using a chin or cheek circle as an icebreaker for kids.
Explore hypnotherapy induction methods, from speech and imagination to visual and tactile cues, including postural sway and authoritarian or paternal approaches, to rapidly induce deep trance.
Master the progressive muscle relaxation (Jakobson technique) and BMR hypnosis basics for beginners, using gentle, client-specific language, exhale-based suggestions, and careful pacing to induce deep relaxation.
Lead the client to a comfortable position, loosen clothing, set a calming environment, and begin the induction while confirming hypnosis is safe, with awareness, and personal control to emerge anytime.
In this breathing induction, contextualize a self hypnosis script. Guide clients through a breath, a second breath, and a third breath to release tension using comforting metaphors and environmental language.
Guide a progressive muscle relaxation script guiding attention from eyes to eyelids, forehead, cheeks, jaw, neck, shoulders, chest, spine, abdomen, arms and legs, using tense and release to deepen relaxation.
Explore trance states and hypnosis, from anger trance to autopilot behaviors, and how pattern interrupts and inductions convey ideas people largely decide to follow.
Explore natural trance states, from anger and depression to happiness, and how deeper trance enables optimal learning and behavior change, including the 90–120 minute learning cycle.
Explore deepeners in hypnotherapy, including counting techniques, arm levitation, limb catalepsy, and dissociation, to deepen trust and induce vivid hypnotic trance through imagery and creative cues.
Master fractionation by repeating hypnotic inductions and awakenings, using progressive stimulation or direct imagery, and setting hypnotic triggers to deepen trance and support self hypnosis.
Abreaction involves intentionally eliciting emotional release during therapy to purge memories; therapists guide safely, avoiding added content or touch, recognizing triggers and the potential for catharsis without lasting change.
Anchoring links a stimulus to a response, shaping emotional states through repetition. Learn to create a thumb-and-finger anchor, observe cues, and stack states like motivation, confidence, and enjoyment.
Master self-hypnosis by creating a quiet, comfortable space, practicing daily (bedtime ideal), and using background sounds to focus and reduce distractions.
Explore how hypnosis and NLP desensitize phobias by slowing brainwaves, engaging the subconscious, and using scripts to address arachnophobia, replacing fear with control and confidence.
Discover how stress, anxiety, and depression affect health and how to integrate hypnotherapy into daily life. Read and modify the sample script to create your own powerful five-minute relaxation practice.
Explore how hypnotherapy can help quit smoking, drugs, and alcoholism, examining reasons for addiction and using a customizable quitting script to foster relief and change.
Self-esteem is a learned personal characteristic that shapes how we feel and act, formed by childhood experiences, media pressures, and past traumas, with overcoming it requiring self-acceptance according to criteria.
Gastric band hypnotherapy uses relaxation techniques to alter your thinking about the weight you need to lose and supports goal achievement.
Learn hypnosis and hypnotherapy with ease through this IAOTH, UK accredited hypnosis certification. After finishing this course, you will be able to help people and yourself through hypnotism and self-hypnosis.
In this hypnotherapy certification programme, you will also learn self-hypnosis to reprogram your subconscious mind for self-development/ personal development and to keep your inner child alive.
The benefit of learning this skill doesn’t stop here. It rather also helps you in learning new trending skills better e.g., Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), psychology etc.
This concise programme is designed, keeping in mind that you may not have any prior knowledge about it, and you want to learn despite your busy schedule. So we have tried to avoid jargon as much as possible and simplified concepts and terminology for you.
This programme is accredited, and this Udemy course is recognized for certification by Virtued Academy International, an autonomous institute, under the Virtued Society, incorporated under the act 21, 1860 of the Government of U.P., India. Validity & Utility of the training is conditionally in conformity with the Constitution of India, and the laws of the land under Article 19 1 G. Virtued Academy International provides continuing education for individuals interested in self-development and students should contact the IAOTH, UK for registration/ accreditation and relevant local authorities for the scope of practice.