Becoming a hypnotherapist

I have noticed various prejudices and manipulations regarding hypnotherapy lately. There seem to be an idea that no training is needed for it and that one can be self taught in it. This is very wrong. So I felt the need to explain this process to you.

I have already spoken about my formal education, so now I will only be focusing on hypnotherapy certification process and the requirements one has to fulfill in order to obtain a certificate. I have started my training in New York school held by Paul Aurand, which is at the same time preparation for training with The Newton Institute. I won’t be repeating how that happened. In order to be accepted for training at Newton Institute, one needs to have several years of experience in hypnotherapy, any orientation. If you do not have this, or you cannot prove you have it, you need to start from module one, basic hypnotherapy. This consists of transpersonal hypnotherapy, parts therapy training; and regression therapy. Those are two separate modules, and besides those, you can be directed to clinical hypnotherapy, trauma healing, and soul essence connection. Each module lasts certain amount of hours that are scored during evaluation, and one has tasks to complete in order to be certified. Tasks are case studies one needs to work on, and session recordings which are evaluated by lecturer. After that one receives a certificate of holistic healing center of Paul Aurand and is certified for hypnotherapist and regression therapy in front of International Association of Councilors and Therapists (IACT). With this training and certificate one can apply for training at Newton Institute. It is simple, mentor/lecturer is a president of training center of both schools, and main evaluator and trainer, so basically he continues to work with you in the future to. (This is valid for Europe, USA process can be different as far as I know). After this certification process one should have 200h of work, which is equivalent to 2 years, and around 100 clients, in order to enter training for life between lives hypnotherapy (lbl), which is focus of Newton Institute. There one has tasks again which are evaluated by educational board of training center.

Institute is consisted of people, therapists with their own private practice, connected to Institute and practicing this particular method. This is not a building, nor University where lecturers are gathered around departments, as many imagine. The knowledge we receive is in those people. It is required for participants to be physically present at training, it is not an online course, and it is not encouraged because simply by being in this energy supported by guides of all present, you are receiving knowledge and changing you energy signature. One is learning by working on them selves, and your colleagues. Online schools do not insist on this, and although it is not impossible to work like this too when lacking better options, it is not recommended for the type of work we use. I will give you an example: I have personally experienced getting lost during one exercise. Person working with me could not see it, nor could other 3 therapists that were observing this process. I could not tell her anything because I went to deep to talk but I was aware that something was wrong- I could not hear her voice, nor English language, but a voice of a man using my mother tongue and very suspicious suggestions. I snapped out of it using my will power and once I was out of hypnosis we could do something about it. I do not know how could you be helped in similar situation if you do not have therapist present and he can’t see you. From this experience I learned to follow breathing and eye movement of clients very closely so that I can react on time and use appropriate methods. Another thing that can happen, and can’t be solved over the phone is abreaction. Of course, I experienced this one too. I was not even in hypnotic trance at the moment, we were practicing an interview and I was a client. By the way, in this type of hypnosis client is talking to the therapist, you are not asleep and unaware, and we are not using guided imagery, this is a misconception; the idea is to make you conscious not unconscious. So, in my abreaction I started choking, energetically I was again in the scene when I drowned. This was so real that I felt the water moving through my lungs again and filling my throat. In a moment like this you need calm therapist to get you through the event without getting you out of it. Imagine yourself going through similar trauma all over again while working online. There is no danger of you staying in hypnotic trance but you could be retraumatized and bring from this experience something you do not need. Of course, every rule can be bent a bit, and experienced therapists use online work at times, but very rarely really. Also, the experiences I have had are very rare, I was obviously being thought all possible scenarios for some reason, and I am grateful that it happened in the safest possible environment. I believe it is obvious by now that this educational process requires some amount of investment, of time, money and energy. This is why people from our region think it is all unrealistic and it can be bypassed by being self taught. But, it is not so. One does not need to be completely healed but for this kind of work one cannot be self taught, this is professional development, an expertise, and obtaining certain skill that is not based on healing abilities only. When you are a herbalist and work with plants, you also learn from someone for a while if you want to be good at it, the difference being that you do not get certified for it. If this is your path, the doors will be opened for you even if you do not have a penny in your pocket. I did not have the money for training when I started, but my mentor opened the door for me. Still, this does not mean I did not pay for it, I have invested in it all I had, and did not have (and I still don’t), so I give myself a permission to tell you not to skip steps, there are reasons for this kind of procedure. I also give myself the permission to make a fuss when someone claims to be doing something without undergoing any training in it. This is very irresponsible, to oneself and clients. Besides, institutions performing education can sue you.

Not all hypnotherapists work with Soul in the way we do. Even when we do, one should understand that this method requires a lot of energy and self work. One should be ready to withstand 3 to 4 h of sitting with a client, focused attention, and altered state of consciousness. And repeat it all several times a week, if you are lucky. One is a channel for a client in this moment and everything is being cleared through you. Although this sounds very powerful it is actually very exhausting for the therapist. You can get heated like a light bulb, and you can also burn out if you are not ready. Of course, you will grow with your clients but it is essential to understand that you will never ever be able to stop working on yourself, your processes won’t stop if you do, so you might get back straight to starting point that can be even more painful than before. Not all therapists are healers, they are not psychic, nor do they hear voices, but all have very good intuition and spiritual guidance. For the ones that do have special abilities, they can be enhanced and although they do help in sessions, it can be very tiresome while it is happening. I have personally experienced this because I can hear my guides and some other things are there too, but this is not the topic now. This is why part of therapist development is supervision, at least for the finishing part. As well as going to conferences and workshops profession related. I advise you to inquire about the school your therapist went to, who certified him, who is the mentor, go to institution web page and check all this. Unfortunately I have to admit that there are many self proclaimed therapists without any training. There are many different hypnotherapy schools and directions. Only a few require your presence in person and the only one preparing for life between lives hypnotherapy is The Newton Institute. If someone tells you they learned from Dolores Cannon, ask where because this is USA based school and the method they use is called differently. There are also many regression therapy schools but they do not prepare for spiritual regression. There is nobody with a license for education in this kind of therapy in our country and region because the procedures last long and require some years of experience and school establishment.

At the moment there are two of us here certified in front of IACT (almost 3), and each is in different process of working towards lbl certification.

Those are very serious leaning processes and cannot be completed for a weekend, and do not end when the course ends. This is why sessions have a special price, but only one can resolve something that would take months and years of classical therapy. Which also needs you to come back every week. One regression is usually enough to find a cause of a problem/block (this also depends on a client and his readiness to face himself), but integration lasts longer so even if you do need to come back, it can happen months apart from the first one. Classical therapy costs 25e and more, and regression lasts 3h, so you can understand the value of it. You are paying for our time and expertise, not the method we use, and you are the only ones deciding how far you can go. And how will you integrate it in your life.

If you want to do this kind of work, do it properly, do not count on selling illusions to earn a bit of money using someone’s glory, because spiritual supervision is always present. And do not count that nobody will ask about your certificate, I am being asked and held accountable all the time, mostly by my colleagues though, but they have the right to do it. These long lasting processes and procedures, although prone to manipulations, are giving you space to develop as therapists, space for your specialty to emerge. As therapists we should help clients not only to clear and understand something but to realize that there is no separation between physical and spiritual world, and that material world is created solely to support Souls development. If you are not ready for this, if you are not connected to your own Soul, and you are rushing somewhere by tampering with something you do not understand, what kind of reality can you create? Your guides will confront you with it at some point, I vouch for that. I was feeling and still do feel enormous responsibility for this work. In the beginning I was only working with friends for practice sake, and even then my hands were shaking from respect for the energy that I felt was working through me, and for the trust people placed in me. This is something sacred for me. So, weather you are reading this because you want a session, or you just want to get informed about education, or you want to rewrite it for your self promotion, or you just want to send a bit of negativity my way, be aware and informed. You cannot be late when fulfilling your purpose, it is not a race, you cannot pass by it, but don’t make it harder for yourself because it cannot be speeded up either.