Do you dream of having your own hypnotherapy practice?
BUT!
Perhaps you aren't sure if it’s really possible?
Or how to choose the right training?
The hypnotherapy training field can be quite confusing with a multitude of claims and different qualifications.
Let’s help you with a clear path to a professional qualification as a hypnotherapist.
Take the evidence-based, modern, scientific approach to hypnosis
combining it with CBT & mindfulness: the Diploma in Hypno-CBT®
Have a flexible working week
Profoundly change lives
Fulfil your purpose
What's the Diploma training like? Hear from our students!
Hypno-CBT®: Integrative CBT
The new evolution of psychotherapy
– integrating modern hypnosis and mindfulness within a cognitive behavioural approach.
The New Gold Standard: The Level 5 Hypno-CBT® Diploma
- 🏆 The Highest Qualification
Our 500-hour, Level 5 Higher Diploma is awarded by NCFE, approved by the BPS, and fully accredited by NCIP, NCH and GHR. - 🧠 The Hypno-CBT® Model
Our unique, evidence-based model integrates hypnosis, CBT, and mindfulness – with yoga philosophy and spirituality. The course curriculum is both deep and wide and covers our Hypno-CBT® Toolbox of 35 evidence based techniques - 🤝 Unmatched Personal Support
Includes extensive 1-to-1 “Oxbridge” style tutoring, 200+ free supervised practice sessions, and active community support – and 12 months membership of the Hypno-CBT® Professional Hub. - 🚀 Full Business Launch Plan and Marketing Support
Includes expert coaching on websites, SEO, and marketing to launch your practice – and huge library of recorded business building workshops and webinars for your success
A Qualification You Can Be Proud Of
The Level 5 Higher Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy
FACT: The UK's only Level 5 Diploma externally verified by NCFE
and approved by the BPS for psychologist CPD.
Become an effective, fully accredited professional hypnotherapist
Our evidence-based practitioner training integrates the power of hypnosis with the science of CBT. Wherever you are in the world you can train with us – AND gain the strong foundation, certification, confidence and ongoing support you need so that the career you envision becomes your reality.
Our Hypno-CBT® Diploma is three trainings in one. Firstly a hypnotherapy training, secondly a training in CBT (cognitive behavioural hypnotherapy, and thirdly a mindfulness training course. However you will learn how to integrate all three approaches to create a highly effective psychotherapy training experience.
Learn how to become a Hypno-CBT® Therapist
Fulfil your potential
Shift from an unfulfilling career to one that is more in line with your life values.
Help people grow and change
Directly change lives with a method and qualification you have confidence in.
Be your own boss
Earn good money, have a flexible working week, and specialise in your chosen areas.
Designed for novices and experienced therapists
Switch career?
The Diploma is designed to provide those new to therapy with the clinical skills, knowledge and a highly accredited qualification that will enable them to set up in practice as a professional hypnotherapist. We provide a complete practitioner training and pathway.
Build your skillset?
The Diploma is also popular with psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists and coaches looking to expand their skillset and business. The unique Hypno-CBT® model helps your clients make deeper and more long-lasting change. About 35% of course attendees are professionals who are adding to their skillset.
“Is hypnotherapy actually a viable career option?”
We know what it's like to feel confused about the many different claims, approaches and training methods within the hypnotherapy course marketplace.
It's easy to wonder:
Is hypnosis really legitimate?
Is it credible enough to make a successful career out of?
How do I know which course will be a worthwhile investment?
We run a regular webinar where we answer these questions and you meet hypnotherapists who have trained with us, find out about the practical viability, how much they earn and learn about their journey to their professional success.
A Career in Hypnotherapy?
Explore the Opportunities – FREE WEBINAR
Tuesday 11th November at 7pm GMT
Why listen to us?
The UK College of Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy is the leading online hypnotherapy training provider offering you a clear pathway to professional accreditation and certification. You can “study and qualify at home” – and get the new ‘gold standard' Level 5 Higher Diploma.
For 20 years the College has championed an evidence-based approach to hypnotherapy training and the integration of hypnosis with CBT: guided by a Senior Advisory Board that includes leading figures in CBT and psychotherapy—such as Dr Donald Meichenbaum, one of the founders of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.
Our practitioner training, the Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy, is based on the extensive experimental and clinical research into hypnosis and hypnotherapy
This science-based approach is one reason the Diploma is approved by the British Psychological Society as CPD for registered psychologists. (It is therefore an excellent hypnotherapy training for psychologists).
The qualification is externally awarded by the government-regulated awarding body NCFE-CACHE (we don't print our own certificates), and is accredited (certified) by no less than 10 professional organisations.
In 2019, we worked with Great Ormond Street Hospital, a NHS Foundation Trust and one of the world's leading children's hospitals, and delivered a special training in the Hypno-CBT® approach to their team of child psychologists in the Psychological Services Department of Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Read all the details on our ‘Gold Standard' accreditation page
For over 20 years, we have helped people like you to become successful Hypno-CBT® Therapists
“As a Chartered Clinical Psychologist, I highly recommend this course, because I know it will deeply enhance applied psychologists range of effective interventions across a wide variety of client issues.
– Dr Jonathan Pointer, Chartered Clinical Psychologist
It is also important to hold in mind that this course is so well crafted, that students with no prior knowledge of psychology and/or therapy, can take this course with the confidence that they will be given all the information that is required to become, with practice, competent cognitive-behavioural hypnotherapists.”
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The 3-step process to become a Hypno-CBT® Therapist
1) Take the Diploma
Wherever you are in the world, train from home In your chosen live/pre-recorded format.
2) Get qualified
Complete your training and assessment and receive your externally awarded qualification.
3) Launch your practice!
Get ongoing support, and join our thriving professional community of Hypno-CBT® Therapists.
“In any given moment, we have two choices: to step forward into growth or backwards into safety.”
– Abraham Maslow
We know that investing in a hypnotherapy training is not easy.
There’s a lot at stake.
Time, money, security. And your dreams and self-belief.
However, it is possible to…
✔️ Wake up every morning excited about work that is meaningful and rewarding
✔️ See the positive impact you are having on others’ lives every day
✔️ Earn a good income, with complete time flexibility
✔️ Deeply feel that you are reaching your potential and living the life that you were meant to live
Stop delaying your dream and start building your hypnotherapy career now.
Become a fully accredited
Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist
Hypnotherapy Certification in Hypno-CBT®:
clinical hypnosis training and certification
The UK College Difference: A Deeper Look
1. Led by Principal Mark R Davis & World-Class Advisory Board
For 20 years the College has championed an evidence-based approach to hypnotherapy training and the integration of hypnosis with CBT – training over 3000 students in every continent of the world. Our college is led by Principal Mark R Davis, founder of the Hypno-CBT® model – integrating his deep knowledge and experience of hypnosis, CBT and somatic therapies with 30 years of meditation practice including 15 years in yoga ashrams in India and the USA..
Our curriculum is guided by a distinguished Senior Advisory Board that includes leading figures in CBT and psychotherapy—such as Dr Donald Meichenbaum, one of the founders of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Professor David Attard (former president of The Viktor Frankl Institute, Daniel Mirea, highly experienced BABCP Accredited CBT Therapist and Dr Krissie Ivings, Senior NHS Clinical Psychologist also BABCP Accredited.
Their guidance ensures that the Hypno-CBT® Diploma curriculum remains aligned with the latest scientific research, professional standards, and best practices in evidence-based psychotherapy.
2. Our ‘Gold Standard' Level 5 Qualification
Our flagship qualification, The Level 5 Higher Diploma, is externally verified and awarded by NCFE, a government regulated national awarding organisation.
This customised qualification is verified to the same rigorous standards as national qualifications – giving you confidence in your professional hypnotherapy certification/accreditation.
The Level 5 Higher Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy is setting a new standard for excellence in hypnotherapy and is the UK's only Level 5 practitioner Diploma
for qualifying and entering the profession.
The Level 5 Higher Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy, HDip CBH, is a customised award developed in collaboration with NCFE. It is not used by any other training organisation. NCFE have verified the award as being a Higher Diploma and equivalent to a Level 5 qualification on the Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF). NCFE are a national awarding body, regulated by OfQual. All customised qualifications from NCFE are to the same exacting standards as National Qualifications. Read more about the Level 5 qualification here.
Qualification Details
- Total Learning Hours: 500
- RQF Equivalency: Level 5
- Post Nominals: HDip CBH
- Awarding Body: NCFE
- Assessment: to gain The Level 5 Higher Diploma, learners complete our full diploma training programme. This is assessed via 4 supervised case studies and a written assessment.
- Accreditation: accredited (certified) by no less than 10 professional organisations including key UK registers: NCH, GHR, GHSC, NCIP, REBHP and more.
Read more about our ‘gold standard' accreditation
About Qualification Levels
This Diploma is delivered as an NCFE Customised Qualification at Level 5.
NCFE is a government-regulated Awarding Organisation, and our qualification
includes external quality assurance and annual monitoring review. This means
that the Level is independently verified and recognised within the national
framework.
Some training providers use Level numbers to describe their own internal
course structure. These are not the same as Ofqual-regulated qualification
levels unless the Level is verified by an Awarding Organisation or appears
on the Ofqual Register.
If you are comparing courses, one simple check is:
- Is the Level awarded by an Ofqual-regulated Awarding Organisation?
- Is external quality assurance included?
If the answer is “yes”, the Level is recognised.
If not, the Level represents the provider’s own internal benchmark.
3. BPS Approved & NHS Hospital Trusted
This science-based approach is one reason the Diploma is approved by the British Psychological Society as CPD for registered psychologists, having met their 5 Standards of Accreditation for Continuing Professional Development (CPD). It is therefore an excellent hypnotherapy training for psychologists.
In 2019, we worked with Great Ormond Street Hospital, a NHS Foundation Trust and one of the world's leading children's hospitals, and delivered a special training in the Hypno-CBT® approach to their team of child psychologists in the Psychological Services Department of Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Read more About Us
4. The Evidence-Based Hypno-CBT® Model
What is Hypno-CBT®?
Hypno-CBT® is a unique form of hypno-psychotherapy that integrates hypnosis, cognitive behavioural therapy, and mindfulness. Research shows that adding hypnosis to CBT improves outcomes for around 70% of people compared with CBT alone.*
We teach a modern, psychological understanding of hypnosis. There is no trance, no regression to childhood events, and no pre-packaged methods. Hypnosis is understood as focused attention and imaginative rehearsal, helping people experience new possibilities in how they think, feel, and act.
Present-Centred and Future-Focused
Many therapies look backwards to understand the past. Others, such as Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy, look mainly toward the future. Hypno-CBT® integrates both, in a clear and grounded way.
As neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett puts it: “You are continually cultivating your past as a means of controlling your future.” The brain uses past experience to predict how to respond in the present. So when we create new emotional and behavioural experiences now, we are shaping the past that the brain will draw upon in the future.
In practice, we work in the present to clarify patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaviour. We then create new lived experiences through hypnotic imagery, guided practice, and behavioural experiments. These experiences become part of the person’s history and gradually reshape how the future unfolds. The future is not simply imagined. It is rehearsed, embodied, and learned.
This is not wishful thinking or positive suggestion. It is a structured, evidence-based process for updating beliefs, reducing stress and anxiety, and increasing emotional and behavioural flexibility.
The Integration of Mindfulness and Philosophy
Hypno-CBT® also draws on mindfulness and Eastern philosophical traditions. Here, mindfulness is not used as a relaxation exercise, but as a way of learning to observe thought rather than be governed by it. It supports a steadier, clearer relationship with experience.
These traditions illuminate how suffering often arises from fusion with limiting stories of the self, and how stillness allows room for freedom, choice, and emotional resilience. This gives Hypno-CBT® depth, not just method. Clients learn not only to change patterns, but to relate to experience differently.
Skills for Life
Clients learn how their mind works, how to regulate stress and anxiety, how to guide imagination purposefully, and how to build new habits and responses that endure. These are skills that remain long after therapy ends.
In the Diploma training programme you get trained in our Hypno-CBT® Toolbox – 35 evidence techniques which give you a wide array of choices from which to build customised and tailored treatment plans for your clients.
Hypno-CBT®: Integrative CBT
The new evolution of psychotherapy: integrating modern hypnosis and mindfulness within a cognitive behavioural approach.
Adding Hypnosis improves CBT
Ramondo et al Clinical Hypnosis as an Adjunct to Cognitive Behavior Therapy: An Updated Meta-Analysis. Int J Clin Exp Hypn. 2021 Apr-Jun;69 Link
What does “evidence-based” mean?
This means what we teach is based on research into the nature of hypnosis, what can be treated with hypnotherapy, what other psychotherapies are effective and is rooted in widely-accepted psychological principles.
Few people know that hypnosis is a serious research topic in psychology, with three dedicated academic journals and hypnosis research labs in the most famous universities in the world – including Harvard, Stanford, Berkley and UCL
In our courses we look at both experimental research – that's research into how hypnosis works – and also clinical research – or what hypnosis can be used for.
Although it is a very scientific approach, we make it simple and understandable (just as you would for clients – for example see our Client Factsheet – a handout you can give clients to immediately have them understand hypnosis and hypontherapy in simp;le common sense ways.
Read the article Towards An Evidence Based Hypnosis
5. Transparent Fees & Payment Plans
We believe in clear, transparent pricing and offer flexible payment plans. See our full course fees and options here
6. Study and Qualify at Home – from anywhere in the world
Our aim through all of this is to offer the best hypnotherapy training that is on offer anywhere in the world – to anyone in the world, wherever you may be.
So you can get trained in the highest quality training in your own home – whether you live in London, or New Zealand, the Outer Hebrides or Malta!
Our LiveStream Webcast format allows you to join us LIVE from anywhere in the world for great high energy, fun, engaging group learning experience.
Our Online Diploma format allows you to study at home in your own time on your own schedule through a brilliantly designed asychronous tutor supported flipped classroom model (educational jargon which means… watch lectures in your own time, arrange one to one tutoring (18 hours!) according to your schedule, join our 2 hours supervised practice sessions – unto 4 x a time all year (12 months unlimited practice sessions included) – that means you don't have to practice partners – we have them for you!
7. Lifelong Learning, Ongoing Supervision & Advanced CPD
Of course just because we have qualified and launched our practice our learning does not stop there. We learn from each and every client – and critically you will be supported in this by a supervisor from our expertly trained Hypno-CBT® Supervisors team.
Note: all students who take the Level 5 Diploma Assessment will receive a free workshop on Self Harm and Suicide Risk Awareness and Management – developed and delivered by Dr Krissie Ivings.
Ongoing membership of our Hypno-CBT® Professional Hub (first 12months are free and included in yoru Diploma fee) will you to to avail yourself o multiple ongoing learning oppoporutnieis via our membership CPD events, Watch and Discuss sessions, Treatment Planning sessions and a large library of psychotherapy videos – from Psychotherapy.Net
And we have a wide range of specialist high quality CPD workshops and courses – available for you to study online – including CBT workshops on Insomnia, Depression, Stop Smoking, Panic Disorder, Perfectionism, Low Self Esteem and Treating PTSD and Trauma.
We also have specialist in depth courses on Stress and Resilience, Hypno-CBT® for Children and Young People – and extraordinary Essence of Psychotherapy training programme recorded specially by Dr Donald Meichenbaum to share and pass on his 50 years of clinical and academic leadership at the top of the clinical psychology and psychotherapy field!
8. Training and Certification for those in the USA – international accreditation
Our Level 5 Higher Diploma (HDip CBH) provides comprehensive training suitable for professional practice internationally, attracting many students and graduates from the United States. We are often told by our US community that there is nothing comparable to the Hypno-CBT® model – integrating modern hypnosis, CBT, and mindfulness – available in the USA.
While hypnotherapy regulation varies by state, our evidence-based Hypno-CBT® curriculum offers a robust foundation recognised by several international bodies – including IHA, ICIP and ASCH. Graduates seeking to practice in the USA are typically eligible for membership with organisations like The International Certification Board of Clinical Hypnotherapy (ICBCH) via a reciprocity agreement, providing a strong pathway to obtaining insurance and establishing a practice.
More importantly than just recognition, this diploma will equip you with the deep skills, knowledge, and confidence to take advantage of the considerable market opportunities for Hypno-CBT® in the USA and internationally. For those in the USA we recommend researching specific state requirements, and you can find more details on our accreditation page. This diploma is widely regarded as a high-level hypnotherapy certification for those entering the profession globally. See our international accreditation with the International Hypnosis Association (IHA), the International Council of Integrative Psychotherapists (ICIP), the Australian Society of Clinical Hypnosis (ASCH) and The International Certification Board of Clinical Hypnotherapy (ICBCH).