E I C H (Australia)

The Professional Practitioner Course has been designed to give you a thorough and sound knowledge of the application of ethical clinical hypnosis, even if you have no previous experience of the field. The qualification you receive allows you to easily obtain professional liability insurance ready to begin your career as a professional clinical hypnotherapist.

Study materials for the course include 150,000 word course notes and four set textbooks as well as 8 hours of supplementary instruction on CD. The tuition programme is conducted in a modular fashion. There are 10 modules, each of which requires extensive reading, practical assignments and written assessment tasks as well as a minimum of 30 hours of intensive practical work via one-on-one personal tutorials to be completed during the course.

There will be a requirement for two assessment essays of 1000 words to be completed, along with a half-way interim test during the course period to further assess your progress. At the end of your studies there will be a final examination which includes a practical test. In the event that you should fail the final exam, you will be able to retake it after a suitable period of further study.

As a general guide, you would probably aim to complete each module within a 4-6 week period and it is expected that you would spend between 40 and 60 hours to complete each module: this includes the time spent reading (and often re-reading) the books and course notes; the planning, execution and review of practical tasks; completion of case studies, assignments and assessment tasks and maintaining your course journal.

You may find that the time spent on each module varies and that's fine - by the time you have completed the course you would expect to have spent a total of around 500 to 600 hours on your training which is often regarded as an unofficial "industry standard" (though there are currently no regulations as such, most professional associations would expect your training to adhere to this standard).