lauza211
06-17-2004, 05:26 PM
I wrote awhile back regarding Valerie Austin's weekend course. Well, I did it, it was interesting, but not much else. I didn't expect much, to be honest, and it left me more confident using self help hypnosis tapes, which all in all is a good thing. Now, once again, I'm asking about training-as in proper training, the year-round, exam-ending, practical type to become a hypnotherapist kind of training.
There seems to be no real regulating body as such in the UK. They exist, but from what I read seem to be ineffectual at present, as they're quite new. I've looked at the more official-sounding schools (those with London or British in their names), and I get the feeling they may be a little traditional and outdated. Then there are schools with granola, earth-mother types of names, with weird approaches that sound like their own creations. These might be at the forfront of all advancements in this field, the problem is, I simply don't know.
Can anyone help me with this? Is there any hypnotherapist out there who has trained in the UK? I don't just want to learn hypnosis. What I'm most interested in is the therapeutic possibilities. I also don't want a course that spends ages on the history and theories behind hypnosis. Give me the books and I'll read them, but I don't see the practical side of learning Mesmer's birthday. I keep reading "take a course", but no one seems able to tell me which one. These 6-day/10-day things sound like great adjuncts to a sound base of knowledge, but I want to get that first. I don't have the money to waste, although I'm quite happy to get in debt for something worthwhile.
Please help!
There seems to be no real regulating body as such in the UK. They exist, but from what I read seem to be ineffectual at present, as they're quite new. I've looked at the more official-sounding schools (those with London or British in their names), and I get the feeling they may be a little traditional and outdated. Then there are schools with granola, earth-mother types of names, with weird approaches that sound like their own creations. These might be at the forfront of all advancements in this field, the problem is, I simply don't know.
Can anyone help me with this? Is there any hypnotherapist out there who has trained in the UK? I don't just want to learn hypnosis. What I'm most interested in is the therapeutic possibilities. I also don't want a course that spends ages on the history and theories behind hypnosis. Give me the books and I'll read them, but I don't see the practical side of learning Mesmer's birthday. I keep reading "take a course", but no one seems able to tell me which one. These 6-day/10-day things sound like great adjuncts to a sound base of knowledge, but I want to get that first. I don't have the money to waste, although I'm quite happy to get in debt for something worthwhile.
Please help!