The International Certification Board of Professional Hypnotherapy is a worldwide hypnosis association organization that provides education to the public and professionals via live training classes and home-study courses. Learn about the benefits of professional hypnosis with hypnosis certification programs and hypnotherapy certification courses.

ICBCH offers four levels of professional certification recognition in hypnosis and hypnotherapy. The right level for you will depend upon your education and professional practice experience.

Program fees include an initial two-year ICBCH Membership, all course materials, and the corresponding Certification designation.

State Licensed professionals may also be eligible for state and national board approved CEU credits, at no additional charge.

The 20-hour Basic professional hypnosis certification course of study will teach you how hypnotize others safely and effectively with confidence, and to assist clients with various difficulties by utilizing methods of professional hypnosis.

The course content is intended to educate those who have very little or even no prior experience in creating effective hypnotic inductions or writing prescriptive hypnotic scripts that are designed to help clients with altering unhealthy patterns of behavior and thinking, leading to personal satisfaction.

Those with prior experience in professional hypnosis will also benefit by refining skills and techniques and learning the suggestive therapy approach of Advanced Parallel Programming offered in this program.

This comprehensive hypnotist training program is designed to provide you with basic required skills and help you learn how to actually implement hypnotherapy into professional practice with real clients, with confidence!

Develop Fundamental Hypnotherapy Skills

Learn how to hypnotize anyone for therapeutic purposes and how to integrate the unique hypnotic methods of Advanced Parallel Programming, Mindfulness and Professional Hypnosis with traditional brief therapy interventions.

Advanced Parallel Programming
The primary focus of the APP model is to provide brief, effective intervention by:

> teaching clients how to utilize ‘mindful awareness’ to manage their physical responses to medical and behavioral difficulties;
> integrating conscious and subconscious neuropsychological brain functioning;
> motivating clients to adapt pro-social and practical solutions for healthy change.

Core Function of APP
Develop targeted interventions via assessment of:

> the client’s strengths and resources
> the client’s capacity for change
> the client’s individual learning styles
> the client’s unique psychological and behavioral motivations.

Master Effective Solution-Focused Interventions
At the conclusion of this intensive training program, the professional will be able to:

> Integrate the practical uses of hypnotic language and presence into traditional therapy.
> Conduct hypnosis sessions – from induction to post-hypnotic suggestions – using both metaphor and directive suggestion techniques.
> Understand methods for reconciling dissonance between conscious and unconscious motivations.
> Learn to build instant rapport and facilitate rapid inductions.
> Enhance success with drug and alcohol users, depressed clients, habit control, weightloss, smoking cessation, treatment of sexual dysfunction, learning disorders and medical conditions and behavioral disorders!

Have Fun Learning!
> Learn how to hypnotize anyone!
> Experience live, intriguing demonstrations of hypnotic phenomena!
> Explore the unconscious and subconscious mind!
> Laugh at John’s humorous clinical insights!
> Get real solutions with a positive focus!

Hypnotherapy Works!
Methods of hypnotic intervention dramatically increase the efficacy of treatment for both medical and behavioral conditions.

Hypnosis is an effective therapeutic modality for:

> Stress and Behavioral Disorders
> Medical and Health Conditions
> Anxiety and Phobias
> Tobacco Cessation (Smoking and Smokeless Tobacco)
> Weight Loss and Weight Management
> Pain and Chronic Pain Management
> Major Depression and Anger Issues
> Sexual Dysfunction
> Learning Disorders
> Irritable Bowel Syndrome
> Sports Performance
> Confidence and Self-Esteem
> Test-Taking Recall and Anxiety
> Behavioral Disorders
> Habit Control
> Drug and Alcohol Abuse
> Much More!

ADVANCED Course Description

The 30-hour Advanced clinical hypnosis certification program will provide the experienced hypnotist with enhanced skills training, advanced practice assignments, increased confidence in performance and expanded scripting techniques.

Develop Advanced Skills:

• Develop or increase your confidence! Learn more, practice more, and refine your practical application of skills, with confidence. Many professionals possess the necessary skills, but are afraid to use them. No more!
• Learn to use “Speed Trance instant hypnotic inductions for impacting resistance, anxiety or skepticism, to reduce induction time for return clients, to impact trauma and crisis situations, and for working with special populations;
• Increase assessment skills by enhancing evaluation techniques and methods, to better develop individualized, targeted therapeutic suggestions;
• Never buy another hypnosis script – learn how to appropriately structure and write your own hypnotic scripts – from induction to deepening to therapeutic and post-hypnotic suggestions – even ‘on the fly,’ for increased efficacy and long-term success;
• Explore advanced techniques for addressing medical hypnosis situations, from cancer pain to trauma situations;
• Learn how to develop and maximize hypnotic language patterns and NLP communication techniques to enhance therapeutic outcomes;
• Discover how to integrate physical/visual hypnotic phenomena techniques – from catalepsy (eye, arm…) to amnesia and regression – as pre-session convincers and into clinical sessions to better give your clients ‘what they want’ and achieve more powerful, lasting results;
• Develop advanced induction methods for pediatric and other special population hypnosis work;
• Learn how to build and maintain a successful, profitable practice, while still maintaining therapeutic relations;
• Perfect your pre-talk patter and phone Q/A discussion skills for greater appointment ratios;
• Participate in multiple hands-on experiential practice to sessions to perfect your own hypnotic style and approach for your personal success;
• and Much More!

We will train you via The National Guild of Hypnotists Training Program, parts 1 & 2 – with a great deal of extra cutting edge professional information and training included – based upon 3 decades of experience.

If you’ve ever dreamed of working for yourself in a rewarding career field which allows you to help others to improve their way of life, then this is for you. Through these comprehensive courses, you will learn all the necessary skills required and you will be instilled with the confidence to open your very own hypnosis practice. Hypnosis can offer limitless opportunities as a new career, second career, or as a professional practice addition.

These courses are complete with all essential training materials; you will receive two complete professional training manuals, audio MP3’s and DVD’s, with marketing your practice information, as well as one year full membership in the very prestigious and internationally acknowledged leader in the field of hypnosis, the NGH, National Guild of Hypnotists, along with a great deal of additional career and practice information and training materials, only the Cerbone Hypnosis Institute can provide.

NO PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE NECESSARY!

Contact us for individual and group class schedules.

In this National Guild of Hypnotists Hypnosis Certification Course – Section 1 you will learn:

• An overview of the field of hypnosis, including medical, dental, therapeutic, educational and personal improvement / empowerment techniques.
• How to hypnotize.
• How and when to use Authoritative and Permissive induction techniques.
• The use of suggestibility tests to determine which induction will be most effective with each client.
• The six depth stages of hypnosis.
• The method to measure trace depth.
• Deepening & awakening techniques.
• How to explain the subject of hypnosis to clients and how to help them to feel comfortable.
• How to formulate post hypnotic suggestions.
• How to teach clients a simple and easy-to-use method of self hypnosis.
• How to teach clients to formulate positive action suggestions for self-improvement, to use with self-hypnosis.
• Specific, time tested applications of hypnosis in Smoking Cessation, Weight Control & Stress Management.
• Hypnosis, anesthesia, and pain management.
• How to build your hypnosis practice.

All this and more, taught by a world-class instructor who is firmly committed to providing state-of-the-art training insuring his students are some of the very best trained Consulting Hypnotists in the world.

This course will give you the essential skills and confidence to begin your hypnosis practice. There will be ample time for class practice. Small class size assures personal attention from the instructor for each student. Your instructor, John Cerbone, FNGH, BCH, CI, OB, will also provide additional training materials and information not usually included in this course to get you going in your new hypnosis career.

This training program will provide over 150 hours of class instruction and independent study, as required for certification by the National Guild of Hypnotists as a Consulting Hypnotist (C.Ht.).

Also included with your tuition will be:

• An NGH Student Manual
• Hypnosis Scripts
• Motivational Audio MP3
• Business Start Up & Marketing Video
• Business Portfolio
• Chevreul’s Pendulum
• Your first year Membership in the National Guild of Hypnotists
• NOTE: (In the State of New Jersey, this profession is known as Hypnosis Counseling and Hypnotists are certified via this program. Please check local laws for correct terminologies and scope of practice).

For students who have successfully completed section 1 of the NGH course in Hypnotist Techniques course, in section 2 you will learn:

• Advanced Methods of pain management and induction procedures.
• How to use AGE REGRESSION and AFFECT BRIDGE TECHNIQUES to uncover repressed and suppressed material and memories.
• How to perform a FORENSIC HYPNOSIS interview.
• How to use hypnosis to enhance CREATIVITY, SELF-CONFIDENCE and SPORTS.
• PERFORMANCE, TEST PERFORMANCE, SALES and PERSONAL SUCCESS.
• How to use hypnosis with Systematic Desensitization to release FEAR.
• How to create and write individualized EGO-STRENGTHENING hypnosis scripts.
• The BASIC Assessment Model for developing goal-setting skills and creating behavior reinforcement scripts.
• Learn how to develop a treatment plan for most present problems.
• How to conduct a 6-hour SELF-HYPNOSIS WORKSHOP, how to give lectures and demonstrations on hypnosis.
• How to combine hypnosis with other behavioral techniques.
• How to use GOAL IMAGE FOCUSING TECHNIQUE (GIFT) – a six-step program for improving habit patterns.
• How to use hypnosis with IMAGE Techniques utilizing color, visual and kinesthetic imagery.
• How to design, market and teach Stress Management, Sales Enhancement and Motivational Programs to corporations and businesses.
• How to start or expand your hypnosis practice: Marketing, Advertising and Public Relations.
• How to perform hypnosis with groups.

These state of the art courses will provide over 150 hours of program instruction and independent study required for your certification as a National Guild of Hypnotists Consulting Hypnotist (C.Ht.). These courses will feature small groups with ample practice time and personal attention from the instructor for each student.

These courses also include course manuals and additional training materials personally provided by the Cerbone Hypnosis Institute, including your own e-copy of the book Hypnotic Scripts That Work! – The Breakthrough Book – An Effective Hypnotic Script Encyclopedia personally researched and written by John Cerbone, F.N.G.H., B.CH., C.I., O.B. (for students who qualify).

As a special bonus, included within your training will be your personal e-copy of More Hypnotic Scripts That Work! – The Breakthrough Book, Volume 2 and the new book, Power Hypnosis, The Future of Hypnotic Sessions – a truly ground-breaking book with hundreds of professional insights for bringing the profession of Clinical Hypnosis to the next level!

As an extra added bonus, you will also receive your own e-book copy of the ground-breaking best-seller, Power Hypnosis!