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cunnerz
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Mon Oct 13, 2003 3:19 am
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Hypnosis has always intrigued me and I was amazed by a recent TV documentary about a particular Spanish surgeon. He uses Hypnotherapy instead of anasthetic and it showed a woman having a leg operation whilst appearing to be awake!
This apparent power of the mind inspired me to book a hypnotherapy weekend workshop (for November) at Uncommon Knowledge. I'm already curious about hypnotherapy as a career and am aware of the Diploma course. What I would like to know is how easy or realistic is it to start practising with just a Diploma or are there many other qualifications required? Most Hypnotherapists advertising in the Yellow Pages seem to have several qualifications.
I'm 38 years old and work in Television so I'm looking for a complete change and hope age is an asset.
All comments appreciated.
Andy Cunningham, Brighton |
Anthony Jacquin
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Mon Oct 13, 2003 10:15 pm
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By the way I am not an Uncommon Therapy trained therapist - but I hear it is a great training! |
Louise McDermott
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Location: Brighton, UK
Tue Oct 14, 2003 12:59 pm
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| Hypnotherapy as a career |
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Hi Andy,
Welcome to the forum  I know I'm from Uncommon Knowledge, but I couldn't resist telling you about some of my experiences from doing the diploma course myself this year, plug plug . . .
It's just that you mentioned how being a therapist could be quite solitary and it does seem like it could get that way.
On the diploma, we were heavily encouraged from the outset to get into practise groups, to discuss and practise hypnosis on a regular basis.
I can't tell you how helpful that has been, and there's a clear difference in ability between those who have done that and those who haven't.
But to get back to the point, we are carrying on our weekly group meetings, to discuss clients that we see and therapy in general. I can't imagine having done the course without that support and chance to ask questions and opinions and to trry out differnet techniques, etc.
So that's one way of easing any feelings of solitude, although I know that it wouldn't fully compensate for say, a team of work colleagues. However, like you've mentioned, you can always set up in practise with others, either as a company or a co-operative or whatever you like really.
But just so that you know, there are many like minded people who do our course, and I'm sure you'd find that with other training courses too.
Hope this helps 
Louise |
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out there.
I imagine hypnotherapy as being a somewhat solitary but extremely rewarding profession when helping people to overcome major problems in their lives. Is this a fair assumption