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Hypnotherapy Diploma Training from afar but NOT Distance Learning

Social distancing doesnt have to mean distant/online learning…

COVID-19 has presented us with a real challenge in regards to delivering our hypnotherapy diploma training. Normally, we would have up to 12 students in the class. However, to be able to maintain some level of social distancing we have decided to limit that to only 6 in the current circumstances.

The obvious answer is to adapt the course to a distance/online learning course. Now distance/online learning as definitely a valid method of learning, many universities offer the option. However, for hypnotherapy diploma training, we have always felt that any distance/online learning is inadequate in the quality of the training delivered. Because hypnotherapy is a practical profession and you have to be present with the client to deliver an effective session with them. And we believe the same goes for hypnotherapy diploma training.

Hypnotherapy Diploma Training

However, technology has moved on and the COVID-19 has encouraged us to explore new ways of consulting online to meet the ever-increasing demands for our hypnotherapy. So when COVID-19 struck we moved to working with clients on-line. We had to adapt to be able to help our clients.

It has proved to be successful in every regard. The only stumbling block we have encountered is that some clients can’t get the privacy in their homes, but we have even got around that with clients actually taking the sessions in their car away from the home.

So this got us to thinking about our Hypnotherapy Diploma Training…

Distance/online learning offers people the opportunity to work in their own time, but it is far from ideal. To use distance/online learning you need self-motivation, more discipline, good organisation and planning skills. Because the instructor is not seated in front of you, you don’t get direct access and hence you lose the personal interaction with the instructor, such as asking questions and getting the feedback and general group dynamics that a classroom offers.

Distance/online learning does not offer immediate feedback. In a traditional classroom setting, a student’s performance can be immediately assessed through questions and informal testing. With distance/online learning, a student has to wait for feedback until the instructor has reviewed their work and responded to it. Further, in hypnotherapy training, We need to be able to assess students oral communication skills and the way they deliver the hypnosis and suggestions. We also need to guide them on how to deal with difficult situations appropriately and ethically.

For all these reasons we have decided that distance/online learning for our hypnotherapy diploma training is not a satisfactory option. However, with the COVID-19 crisis, we have had to think long and hard as we have students booked in. And these students are really keen to become hypnotherapists.

The Answer is in Technology…

We have decided to use technology to help us deliver the in-class experience but on-line. So we have devised a way for us to have some students virtually present in the class. They will be able to interact with the in-class students and instructor in real-time. This will involve lots of cameras, cables and lighting our end that you don’t need to worry about. From the students end they will need a computer that has a camera, a microphone and a good internet connection. It could even be done with a tablet, like an iPad.

We plan for the students to have a virtual presence in the room. They will be able to interact, watch lectures and demonstrations, do the practice sessions. This is how we are working with clients at the moment. Online students will be able to take part in discussions and problem-solving workshops that are all important parts of our course.

So effectively, we are offering our course as, a face-to-face interactive and dynamic virtual classroom experience. The student will be expected to be online all day and get involved just like they would in the classroom. The student will be able to do everything that they can do in the class, except for, drinking our coffee and eating our biscuits. The good news for the online students is they won’t need to travel or get accommodation if they aren’t local.

However, because of the complexities in delivering this level of integration we are currently only offering 4 places online. We are offering 4 places on both our intensive and weekend courses. Also, we are only planning to do this whilst the COVID-19 crisis is happening.

So if you would like to join us online don’t delay go to Hypnotherapy Diploma Course

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By Paul Howard Leave a Comment

Coronavirus Interruption – How we can help you.

We are living in exceptional and challenging times, as therapists we spend much of our life helping people with many everyday mental health problems, in many ways the pandemic is “one more thing” to add to all the other problems, however now it really may be seen by some as a matter of life or death. Many mental health problems are cumulative just one thing on top of another.

So we really need to “reset our mindset “ to use this “crisis” to strengthen our resilience and resolution and come out of it (as eventually we will, albeit 3 weeks, 3 months or longer) stronger.

We are here to help you achieve just that

We at the Surrey Institute have been helping clients for over 15 years with many different types of mental health problems and issues From Anxiety and Depression to problems with Alcohol and Drugs, from Weight Issues to Phobias and Fears and many many more types of problems both with children and adults. (Please see our treatment pages).

When we heard the government’s announcements concerning isolation, staying at home and further clarifications on the possible duration of these measures, we immediately felt frustrated knowing that at just the time when our expertise and help was possibly required the most, our ability to provide that care and guidance to our clients was being restricted.

We have had the ability to provide online help to our clients for many years but have always been mindful of the potential individual circumstances of our clients which may make online consultations not appropriate, for example is the clients PC in a private location at home, would it be appropriate for other family members to over hear conversations with the therapist. Is it that a limited number of devises are being shared by many family members. Is the consultation likely to be interrupted by children, pets, callers of the home or deliveries, is your broadband up to the consistent quality required for uninterrupted service.

All these questions made us think carefully of how we could provide a service to our clients which matched our quality of therapy extended to them over many years in our consulting rooms.

Help you and preserve privacy concerns

We think we have come up with a range of consultations and processes that we hope will suit everyone, please find them set out below:-

Firstly, an initial call by client to the Surrey Institute for a brief consultation to establish the nature of the problem and for therapist to agree a nominated specialist and the ongoing consultation process recommended that fits with your lifestyle and personal/family circumstances (this initial consultation is free of charge).

Followed by

A further telephone call (typically we call you) to enable your nominated specialist therapist to establish a full case history and an in-depth understanding of your problems and concerns. Then agree a recommended therapy plan which will include, the provision of a free of charge personalised (MP3) recording which may be used to induce light hypnosis by yourself multiple times (for example each evening ) for yourself and possibly other family members, of course only on the advice of your therapist. Charge For This Service:- £ 70

Or

Instead of phone call (as above) we would initiate an “online” consultation via FaceTime or Skype with your nominated specialist therapist. This similar to the format in section 2 however, face to face online consultations usually enable faster building of rapport between therapist and client, using this format online Hypnotherapy is conducted as part of the consultation and of course, conversation during hypnosis is possible between therapist and client if appropriate. This hypnosis recording (MP3) will also be sent the client for multiple use. Charge For This Service:- £ 70

It is also possible if appropriate to limit the online consultation above to detail case history and recommend a therapy plan without online hypnosis but provide a recording which may be used multiple times. Charge For This Service:- £ 70

In Summary, your initial consultation and the next stage of your therapy, as outlined above will not exceed £70 in total.

Some conditions may require ongoing therapy of a maximum fee of £70 per consultation.

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This Is What No One Tells Women About What Happens To Your Body In Your 40s

The symptoms were subtle at first: insomnia, a racing heart, a lost word, sometimes a wrong word. But within months there was no denying it. Soon enough there were panic attacks, sobbing fits and that verboten emotion of middle-aged women ― rage. Just after my 40th birthday, I bled for 10 days straight.

Trying to make sense of these changes, I kept coming back to a childhood memory. Sitting on the orange shag carpet in my Midwood, Brooklyn, living room, at the age of 8, my family was gathered around our color television watching an episode of “All in the Family.” Archie Bunker was yelling at his wife, Edith, to hurry up and go through her “change.” My parents chuckled knowingly as I tried to keep up with the plotline. That was the totality of my education on menopause. But Edith looked to be in her 50s and, as far as I could tell, I still had a whole decade before I needed to “change.”

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That was the moment I learned that before menopause, there is a completely separate, though somehow related hell called perimenopause. According to the nurse, this marked the beginning of a gradual decline in estrogen in my body ― and, “by the way,” she added, “it can last for years.” She said that last bit like she was indoctrinating me into a special invitation-only club. I half expected to get an ID card.

But I could read between the lines, and what she was really saying was, This is when both your body and your mind begin to betray you. I called up my girlfriends to discuss and, in doing so, became the bearer of bad news.

“Did you know about this?” I demanded, wondering if everyone else had been in on this secret. I was met with silence. We had all been duped. No one had told us.

When I was pregnant, other women bombarded me with advice, perhaps because that was supposed to be a “joyous” time and people wanted to share in it, but this was different. This was the darker side of womanhood.

I started researching phrases like “sex in your 40s,” “pissed at my family all the time,” and “left boob pain; am I dying?” When that didn’t garner satisfactory answers, I began making regular appointments with a naturopathic doctor, studying the benefits of essential oils, throwing back vitamins and herbs like an addict, and becoming obsessed with “female” tea ― hibiscus, primrose, milk thistle, anything reminiscent of a beautiful blossoming flower.

Fast-forward five years, at the age of 44, with my son in his tweens, both of us now full-tilt with yoyo-ing hormonal surges, and my husband deep into his own midlife crisis, contemplating giving up his power equipment business and moving us to Central America. I began locking my bedroom door, an apparently seismic shift that offended the rest of the family, but in doing so, I created a small space for myself to think and breathe and read for a few precious hours each evening and further adjust to the increasing changes in my body: the longing for complete silence, the new sensitivity to smell, coping with what felt like sensory overload.

And then, just as I began embracing that long-craved autonomy, a hitch.

With my first missed period, I denied the possibility, but by the time the estimated date of the second one came and went, I had begun cupping my breasts in the shower to see if they were sore and feeling my belly for the telltale firmness. And afterward, I’d catch my naked profile in the mirror looking for visible differences in my body. Was I glowing? I definitely wasn’t glowing.

Google was no help. As if God, the universe or some other holy power were in on the conspiracy to drive all middle-aged women mad, it turns out the symptoms of pregnancy are almost identical to the symptoms of perimenopause: weight gain, breast tenderness, spotting. I had them all.

Friends and I had begun whispering about our ‘changes’ at book club meetings and writing groups and those all too rare ‘moms’ nights out,’ and soon I found that this is a dirty secret we keep, walking through life, all of us pretending to hold it together, while inside we are unrecognizable to our own selves.
My husband was painting the deck when I approached him with the news early one morning. I had waited weeks but my anxiety, always stalking beneath the surface, was now becoming an unmanageable beast. “I might be pregnant,” I blurted out. His brush paused mid-stroke. I could see his unspoken thoughts floating like specks of pollen through the warm spring air.

“Well, we’ll figure it out,” he said, before dipping his brush again.

My first pregnancy had put me in bed for five months, with the label “high risk” slapped on my tender uterus. Aside from the life-threatening complications for me and my baby, I had suffered from both prenatal and postpartum depression that lasted years. Now faced with the prospect of having an offensively termed “geriatric pregnancy” at the age of 45, the odds were stacked against me. Not to mention the logistics. Where would we even put a baby?

Two days later, when I can no longer delay the inevitable ― the blood pressure medication I am on too detrimental to a fetus for me to continue without speaking to my doctor ― I sit on the bathroom floor early in the morning, squinting at the directions on a pregnancy test while the rest of the house lies in quiet slumber. My hands tremble as I peel off the wrapper. I brace myself and wait the three required minutes.

As the clock ticks, I question whether I could muster even the smallest desire to care for a newborn. I have middle-of-the-night hot flashes where I blindly stomp around my bedroom ripping off clothes and cursing the air conditioner because subarctic is not a temperature setting. The very thought of being prematurely awoken from hard-won sleep gives me palpitations. I’m on not one but two medications that say something along the lines of, if you’re even thinking about getting pregnant, don’t be in the same room as these pills.

Friends and I began whispering about our “changes” at book club meetings and writing groups and those all too rare “moms’ nights out,” and soon I found that this is a dirty secret we keep, walking through life, all of us pretending to hold it together, while inside we are unrecognizable to our own selves.

With it out in the open, my girlfriends had been speaking more freely, lauding Botox, fillers, vibrators and therapy as ways to empower ourselves and confront these years. I am in no way prepared to cast off this tribe of unabashedly honest women to form new relationships with young, lithe mothers who have an endless supply of their own collagen.

Four bars on the stick appear. The results are in.

Not Pregnant.

I wipe away my tears, wishing someone would have mentioned I’d spend much of my midlife on the bathroom floor, crying ― I would have opted for nicer tiles.

I sit there for a few moments and then crawl over to the garbage pail, burying the test, but the heaviness in my heart surprises me. I could wake up my husband, but he could never understand what it means to be on the cusp of 45 taking a pregnancy test. He could never intrinsically comprehend the implications of what it would mean to be pregnant at this age, and alternately, how devastating it is to know that I will likely never be pregnant again. That chance for the elusive second child I had never been sure I wanted vanishes into the bottom of a wastepaper basket buried beneath snotty, tear-stained tissues. Before the complications of my first pregnancy, I had planned on so many children.

I dig the test out of the trash can and hold it to my heart as if it is an actual embryo, thinking about how I, like so many other women in their 40s, am in between ― taking care of both kids and parents ― the sandwich generation. But who is taking care of us while we navigate this new territory? Who is telling us that it is perfectly normal to drive halfway to work before realizing that we forgot to pop in our contacts? Who is consoling us as we sit in our cars at the school pickup line crying to songs like “Shut Up and Dance with Me” because we haven’t really danced in years? Who peels us off the bathroom floor when we are frightened?

I grab hold of the tub, noting that it could use a good scrubbing, and pull myself up. Walking to the mirror, I take stock of my body, my rounded belly, my sun-weathered décolletage, the triceps that are not as firm as they used to be. I have changed so much. I have stopped caring what anyone else thinks, have started claiming my time, growing my tribe, and trying so hard to hold onto the shits I have because I have so few left to give. I am more beautiful and confident than I have ever been in my life, while simultaneously becoming invisible to much of the world.

Perimenopause is like preparing to graduate college. There are so many choices to make, so many options, only now I don’t have the cushion of youth to bounce back from my mistakes.

I hear a soccer ball being thwacked against a wall. Casting my thoughts aside, I throw the test in the pail once again and tie up the bag so my tween doesn’t accidentally discover it. And then I open the medicine cabinet and take out a vial of lavender scented oil. I dab dots on pressure points; I’m told it will keep me calm.

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Hypnotherapy rocks in The Times for anxiety and depression

In the Times on Boxing Day this year (2018), this article was published about the use of hypnotherapy for anxiety and depression. The study was done at Southhampton University and showed a reduction of 60% in both anxiety and depression.

There is so much evidence with regards to the effectiveness of hypnotherapy, one wonders why it is not used more within the medical world.

At The Surrey Institute of Clinical Hypnotherapy we see the positive effects that hypnotherapy has on our anxiety clients every day of the week.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/past-six-days/2018-12-26/news/how-hypnosis-can-soothe-anxiety-and-depression-6s8bmbvkh

How hypnosis can soothe anxiety and depression

December 26 2018, 12:01am,

Nicola Woolcock, Education Correspondent

Hypnotherapy is an option for students at the University of Southampton
Hypnotherapy is an option for students at the University of SouthamptonALAMY

Hypnotherapy was first offered two years ago as an alternative to counselling at the University of Southampton. It has been extremely successful and popular with those who chose to participate. Sixty two students accessed hypnotherapy in 2016-17 and that rose to 150 in 2017-18.

Lizzie, 22, graduated this year in biological sciences. She was taking medication for depression when she started at university and had also experienced anxiety since her teens, but this had not been diagnosed.

She became tired and introverted and felt constantly on edge. She saw a doctor who prescribed medication but also told her that other counselling services were available.

Lizzie tried cognitive behavioural therapy, which helped, and then six weeks of counselling. She was then offered hypnotherapy. “At first I laughed. I thought it would be a bit like: ‘You are feeling sleepy’ and that someone would put me in a trance,” she said. “There were no swinging pocket watches. The therapist talked me through the science of how it worked. They call it a trance but I knew exactly where I was and what I was doing, but it almost felt like I was somewhere else, and very calm and happy.”

The university said: “We first offered hypnotherapy via a small pilot in October 2016 as an alternative to counselling. Due to the successful feedback of the initial small group, we took this forward for the rest of the academic year and have been very pleased with how students have engaged with the therapy and the feedback they have given us.”

Students reported positive results: their anxiety scores were reduced from an average of 13.2 to 5.1, a reduction of more than 60 per cent. And depression scores were down from 13 to 4.8, also about 60 per cent.

If you’d like to find out more about how hypnotherapy can help you with anxiety or depression please visit our anxiety page.

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Hidden anxiety

Millions of people are affected by anxiety every year. Many live and cope with their anxiety on their own, suffering quietly. Anxiety is something we all experience at some time in our lives, but for most, it is just a short term experience.

Anxiety affects us both physically and psychologically and in its normal form will help us stay alert, flag up any danger and help us with all round performance.

The panic and adrenaline that anxiety produces is what kept our forebears alert and alive and is referred to as the ‘fight or flight’ response. Even though we don’t have the dangers that our ancestors did, adrenaline still helps us today. However, in excess it can, in many cases, work against us, causing us to have panic and fear when there is nothing to worry about.

Enduring a great deal of anxiousness for a long time can have an unhealthy impact on a person’s life.

Panic, fear, lack of sleep, palpitations, dizziness, feeling sick and anxiety attacks are just some of the symptoms connected with anxiety. Just the thought of getting through the day is enough to produce anxiousness, and sufferers do not know how to stop the worry cycle. Chronic anxiety can impact anyone at any time of their life, even though it is reported to be more common in childhood and early adulthood.

Many people with this condition report they feel like they’re ‘going mad’. They think that no one could understand them and truly feel uncomfortable and ashamed. They suffer in silence, hiding their issue from friends, family, children and colleagues. Their confidence in their body and mind is no longer there, so they put up an emotional and behavioural pretence.

Sad to say, it’s common practice for victims to hide this issue, believing there’s just no hope. But this can, in fact, feed the anxiousness and make it much worse.

Discovering and taking care of the root cause of the issue is the most effective way of removing the anxiety. If there is no longer an underlying reason, there will no longer be an effect.

Hypnotherapy techniques are extremely helpful in alleviating anxiety and tackling the underlying difficulties. Hypnotherapy helps the person discover new techniques for thinking, feeling and coping with their problems.

A hypnotherapist will aim to diminish a person’s detrimental views by suggesting favourable feelings to the subconscious. The mind is a very powerful thing, and hypnotherapy uses the resources of our subconscious mind to regain influence over our thoughts.

Paul Howard, an anxiety specialist from The Surrey Institute of Clinical Hypnotherapy, based in Surrey, said, “Anxiety comes in many shapes and sizes and, therefore, it is crucial to understand each client’s triggers and beliefs about their anxiety. Once a good understanding has been reached, it is normally fairly straightforward to adjust and refocus their thoughts onto a more appropriate path.”

The Surrey Institute of Clinical Hypnotherapy is committed to raising awareness to the help that hypnotherapy can bring to sufferers of anxiety issues. They have specialists that cover various issues such as anxiety, weight control, insomnia, psoriasis and smoking. They have been in practice since 2002 and have male and female therapists on staff.


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