HELP: Hypnotherapy Training?

iredia

Hi,

I am seriously considering completing a Hypnotherapy Training Course, from the point of view to making a career change.

I am based in the Cork area.

Can you recommend a recognised and accredited course in Hypnotherapy, that would give me the skills and qualifications do this? I would be willing to travel around Ireland and to the UK?

For anybody working in the area, do you know if there are a lot of work opportunities in this area?

Thanks.

hotspur

If you do a search of this forum we have discussed training options for hypnotherapy in the past.

iredia

Thanks. I will check it out.

Do you know what work/employment opportunities are like at the moment for Hynotherapists?

Thanks

hotspur

There are no work opportunities if by that you mean getting a job. Private practice is the only avenue. You will not find many hypnotherapists raking it in. I'm no career counsellor, but I doubt that many in this area would recommend it as a "career".

Having said that the costs of training are not particularly large relative to, say, psychotherapy. And the barriers to entry both educationally and professionally are minimal. I would not dissuade anybody from training in it or setting up a practice, but conceiving of it as a new career is perhaps putting a bit more weight on it than it can ordinarily bare.

krd

hotspur wrote: »

There are no work opportunities if by that you mean getting a job. Private practice is the only avenue. You will not find many hypnotherapists raking it in. I'm no career counsellor, but I doubt that many in this area would recommend it as a "career".

I'm not sure. It's like anything else like running a Yoga school, or a colon irrigation clinic (you can get a coffee enema in Dublin). You need a market (that is people with money) and a service they're willing to pay for.

I think if you're running a 'Stop Smoking, lose weight' operation down a side street, you may not be making that much (especially if you're not helping people quit smoking or lose weight). But if you're in the IFSC, and you're using hypnotherapy to help highly paid executives enhance their performance, then you could be making more.

I think there are niches. The guy I went to, he used to do business with my father. He took up hypnosis as a hobby, and it spiraled out of control and into a career. He told me he was doing really well - his rates were very high. I think he had a niche in treating fetishes.

Having said that the costs of training are not particularly large relative to, say, psychotherapy. And the barriers to entry both educationally and professionally are minimal.

Yes. There have been fraudsters running hypnosis training courses in England.

I would not dissuade anybody from training in it or setting up a practice, but conceiving of it as a new career is perhaps putting a bit more weight on it than it can ordinarily bare.

To be good at it, does it require some kind of magic like gift - where you can lull people into a trance? It's not like cutting hair - where anyone with a little training can do a passable job.


I'm interested in hypnosis for its' performance enhancing potential - I posed a question here a few months ago and didn't get a real response (apart from someone giving me some nonsense wisdom gleaned from a Malcolm Gladwell book).

I think I posed the question wrong. What I should have asked, was can hypnosis help a piano player with years of training stop choking (choking happens in all performance, sports, music, acting - someone with years of preparation and training chokes at a crucial moment in the process of doing something well within their grasp.)

Hypnosis has a really bad name. Do a search on the web, and many with make claims it's an absolute fraud.