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Module 1 – Why Clinical Hypnotherapy?
9 Lessons-
Start1.1 What is Hypnosis
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Start1.2 The Neuroscience of Hypnosis
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StartSession Workbook 1
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Start1.3 Unconscious and Conscious
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Start1.4 Why add Hypnotherapy to Your Practice
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StartEye Fixation and Short Progressive Relaxation Induction Script
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StartTen to One Staircase Deepener
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StartEgo Strengthening Guide
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StartAwakening Script
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Module 11 Life-changing & Traumatic Medical Diagnosis
1 Lesson-
StartLesson 11 Using Hypnosis Following a Life-Changing Medical Diagnosis
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Integrative Clinical Hypnotherapy Programme
A trauma informed, nervous system-aware framework for integrating clinical hypnotherapy into therapeutic practice.
Places on this programme are offered directly rather than through online enrolment. Please use the Contact Me button if you would like to secure a place or discuss whether the programme is right for you.
Integrative Clinical Hypnotherapy Programme
Bring clinical hypnosis confidently and responsibly into the therapeutic work you already do
A live, accredited training programme for qualified therapists, counsellors, coaches and other helping professionals.
Begins Monday 2 November 2026
Live online via Zoom 13 interactive sessions, held fortnightly 6.00–8.00pm UK time
The Integrative Clinical Hypnotherapy Programme will teach you how to bring clinical hypnosis thoughtfully, safely and confidently into the work you already do. Many of the clients we work with understand a great deal about themselves. They may recognise the belief that is keeping them stuck, understand where a pattern developed and know what they would like to think, feel or do differently. And yet understanding something cognitively does not necessarily mean that it feels believable, emotionally accessible or available when the client is anxious, triggered or back in the situation where the old response usually takes over.
This is one of the places where hypnosis can add something different to therapeutic work.
Through focused attention, imagery, suggestion and mental rehearsal, hypnosis can create an experiential space in which clients can strengthen new beliefs, access internal resources, rehearse different responses and experience an alternative to the emotional or physiological response they have come to expect. The cognitive work can help a client understand and evaluate a pattern.
Hypnosis can help them imagine, experience and rehearse something different.
More than another therapeutic technique
There will be times in therapy when a client understands what is happening but still finds themselves responding in the same familiar way.
They may know that they are safe, but their body continues to respond as though they are not. They may understand that they do not need everyone's approval, yet still experience intense anxiety when they risk disappointing someone. They may have developed a much healthier belief about themselves, but struggle to access it when shame or self-doubt is activated. Or they may know exactly what they want to do differently, but find that insight has not yet translated into behaviour.
Clinical hypnosis gives us another way of working at these points. It can help clients mentally rehearse a new behaviour before attempting it in everyday life, strengthen and emotionally connect with new beliefs, access states such as calm, confidence or compassion more readily, and work experientially with automatic patterns and conditioned responses. The aim is not to use hypnosis with every client.
It is to develop the knowledge, clinical judgement and practical skill to recognise when it might deepen or strengthen the therapeutic work you are already doing.
An integrative approach to clinical hypnosis
Across the programme, you will learn both the practical craft of hypnosis and the clinical thinking that sits behind its effective use.
We will explore:
•The neuroscience and psychology of hypnosis and trance
•Nervous-system awareness and regulation
•Assessing suitability and preparing clients
•Consent, contracting and ethical practice
•Induction and deepening
•Hypnotic language and therapeutic suggestion
•Resource installation and ego-strengthening
•Self-hypnosis •Working safely with emotion and protective responses
•Developing individualised hypnotic interventions
•Integrating hypnosis with established cognitive, behavioural and experiential approaches
As the programme progresses, we will explore the clinical application of hypnosis to anxiety, depression and low mood, self-worth, pain, life-changing medical diagnosis, weight and body image, and inner child work. But this programme isn't about learning a collection of scripts for different presenting problems.
It is about developing a coherent, integrative framework that helps you understand:
Why this client?
Why this intervention?
Why now?
Hypnosis within a therapeutic formulation
Rather than choosing a script because somebody presents with anxiety, low confidence, pain or another named difficulty, you will learn to think about what is actually happening for the individual client.
What is maintaining the difficulty?
What function might the symptom or response serve?
What does the client's nervous system anticipate or protect against?
What would you like the hypnotic intervention to change, strengthen or rehearse?
Does the client have sufficient stability and capacity for this particular piece of work?
And how will the hypnosis connect with the wider therapeutic formulation and the work you are already doing together?
This is what allows hypnosis to become part of thoughtful clinical practice rather than a technique applied to a symptom.
Trauma-informed and nervous-system-informed Clinical hypnosis is sometimes associated with relaxation, closed eyes and progressively “deeper” states of trance. In practice, not every client experiences these things as safe. For some people, closing their eyes can increase vulnerability. Relaxation itself may create unease. A client may appear compliant while becoming disconnected internally, and dissociation can sometimes be mistaken for a successful hypnotic state.
This programme therefore teaches hypnosis through both a trauma-informed and nervous-system-informed lens.
You will learn to pay attention not only to what you are saying, but also to the client in front of you. You may notice a change in their breathing, facial expression or body tension. You may see signs of activation or shutdown, or recognise that emotion is beginning to emerge. Those observations matter. They allow you to slow down, adapt your language, ground or resource the client, change direction when necessary and help them remain connected to the present while working experientially. You will also learn how to respond when unexpected emotion or material emerges and how to give clients the time and support they need to reorient fully after hypnotic work.
Safety, choice and collaboration sit at the heart of the programme.
Hypnosis is not something we “do to” a client.
The client remains an active participant throughout.
You won't simply learn to read scripts
You will receive a comprehensive collection of scripts and practical resources to support your learning.
But I don't want you to finish the programme dependent upon them.
I want you to understand the structure and purpose of a hypnotic intervention well enough to adapt what you are doing to the person sitting in front of you.
That means being able to consider what you want the intervention to achieve, which language is appropriate for this particular client, what needs to be avoided or adapted, how their existing therapeutic formulation informs the work and how you will review what happens afterwards.
Over time, you will begin to develop your own hypnotic language and interventions rather than simply delivering somebody else's words.
What does the research tell us?
Hypnosis does not need to replace established therapeutic approaches to be valuable.
Its particular contribution may lie in what it can add to them.
Research comparing cognitive behavioural therapy alone with CBT supplemented by hypnosis has found advantages when hypnosis is incorporated into treatment.
An updated meta-analysis published in 2021 examined 48 post-treatment comparisons involving 1,928 participants, together with 25 follow-up comparisons involving 1,165 participants.
It found that CBT enhanced with hypnosis produced small to medium statistically significant advantages at the end of treatment, with a medium-sized advantage at follow-up.
Benefits varied according to the presenting problem, with particularly encouraging findings for depressed mood and pain at post-treatment and weight-related interventions at follow-up.
The researchers concluded that the findings supported hypnosis as an adjunct that may enhance both the effectiveness and durability of cognitive behavioural therapy. This doesn't mean hypnosis will be appropriate for every client.
It does suggest that, when used skilfully and within a clear clinical formulation, hypnosis can add a valuable experiential dimension to cognitive and behavioural work.
Learning through practice
This is a live, interactive programme because learning clinical hypnosis requires more than watching someone else do it.
The cohort is intentionally small, giving us time for demonstration, supported practice, feedback, questions and clinical discussion.
You will have opportunities to experience hypnosis yourself, practise the skills you are learning and gradually develop your confidence in using them.
Alongside the live sessions, you will have supporting theoretical material and resources so that our time together can focus particularly on understanding, demonstration, practice, integration and clinical judgement.
Individual Clinical Integration Sessions
The programme also includes three individual Clinical Integration Sessions with me.
These give you dedicated space to think about how you are applying what you are learning, discuss appropriate client work, reflect on anything you are uncertain about and receive support as you begin integrating hypnosis into your existing practice.
For me, this is an important part of the training.
There is a difference between understanding something in a training session and beginning to use it confidently and appropriately with your own clients.
These sessions help bridge that gap.
What you will receive
Alongside the live training and individual integration sessions, you will receive a comprehensive collection of learning and clinical resources, including a learner handbook, accompanying workbooks, induction and deepening scripts, resource-installation scripts, scripts for different clinical applications, a self-hypnosis script for clients, a guide to writing your own scripts, a hypnotic-language reference guide and a client consultation form
Two ways to complete the programme
You can undertake the programme purely for your own professional development or complete the additional assessment required for the accredited qualification.
Professional Development Pathway
Attend the programme without undertaking the formal written assessment and receive a certificate confirming your attendance and completion of the training.
Accreditation Pathway
Complete the programme together with a 500–800-word reflective case study, submitted within six months of completing the training.
Successful completion leads to the: Certificate in Integrative Hypnotherapy Practice
The programme is accredited by the International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine (IPHM). .
Who is the programme for?
The programme is designed for qualified therapists, counsellors, coaches and other helping professionals who want to add clinical hypnosis to their existing work. You may be completely new to hypnosis.
You may have trained in hypnotherapy previously but never felt sufficiently confident to use it regularly.
Or you may have trained some years ago and want to revisit hypnosis through a more contemporary framework that incorporates psychological formulation, trauma awareness and nervous-system understanding. You don't need to become a different kind of practitioner.
The purpose of the programme is to expand the ways in which you can help the clients you already work with access and experience change.
Course Curriculum
beverley harper
Meet Your Guide
Beverley Harper is an Integrative Psychotherapist, EMDR therapist, Clinical Hypnotherapist, EFT practitioner and trainer with more than twenty years' experience helping people understand themselves, create meaningful and lasting change and develop a kinder, more supportive relationship with themselves.
Her approach brings together practical psychology, nervous system awareness and compassion with a strong belief that insight is most useful when it can be translated into something that makes a difference in everyday life and therapeutic tools that can be applied in everyday life.
Beverley’s work is warm, relational and grounded. Rather than offering quick fixes or one-size-fits-all answers, she helps people understand what may be happening beneath their thoughts, feelings and patterns, while offering practical tools they can use in their own lives.
Whether she is working with clients, teaching therapists or creating accessible psychological resources, her aim is the same: to make good psychological support understandable, useful and genuinely human.
