Become a Licensed 

Brooksonian HypnotherapistTM 

and discover the freedom of helping people 

in your own hypnotherapy practice

From : Stephen Brooks - Founder of British Hypnosis Research

Hello, you made it here to this web page, and this means you’re here for a reason. In fact, not many people make it even this far… a bit like Indiana Jones, you’re probably a bit of an explorer…

or maybe you simply got here because you want to change your lifestyle, embark on a rewarding career path and engender lasting change, or… maybe it’s something deeper…

You see, good hypnotherapists are special people, and you have taken the time to search out the very best training available… and, because we want to know what makes people like you start hypnotherapy training…we asked a group of people who trained with us to become a qualified hypnotherapist, “WHY DID YOU TRAIN WITH US?” and we discovered these 4 top reasons …

• To help people creatively and consistently!
• To make a difference to the lives of others!
• To give clients the resources they need!
• To create an exciting profitable new career! 

So first, I’m curious, what is your reason for wanting to train as a hypnotherapist?

Next we asked them why are you dissatisfied with where you are now? and we were surprised at how many diverse walks of life they came from…

“I’m working in a hospital and I want to improve communication with patients given the little time that can be devoted to it. I want to implant motivation for better self-care and positive outlook in patients.”

“I want to become an expert at indirect / conversational hypnosis for therapy and training or positive influence”

“I want to bring about changes in myself by better understanding inhibitions and tackling them.”

“I just graduated as an NLP Master Practitioner and now I want to have clients but do not know how to start. I want to make an impact on others lives as well as in my own life.”

“I want to learn the art of persuasion. I’m a sales person and want to learn to speak and influence people with vague language.”

“I’m working full time as an engineer with little time to practice and reach out with my current knowledge to be a therapist.”

Maybe you already work in a “people helping profession” or maybe you have a deep yearning, almost like a calling to do something different, something that will genuinely help other people, make a difference to other people’s lives and make you feel fulfilled, so you can truly contribute to your wider community and have a sense of satisfaction and achievement…

and you may wonder…

 ”How do I do this?” 

• Verbal Rapport Building Utilizing Open Questions and Self-sharing: How to build trust and rapport with these simple highly focused questions.
• Positive Frame and Reverse Frame Hypnotic Suggestions and Negative Tags: How to get the other person to agree with you and develop an acceptance for your ideas.
• Identifying the Minimal Cues of Hypnotic Trance: How to recognise good hypnotic subjects and how to recognise when your patient is going into trance.
• The Uptime Downtime Hypnotic Trance Induction: Two combined hypnotic induction techniques where the patient is encouraged to shift their attention from one hypnotic state to another as an induction.
• The Confusion Hypnosis Induction: How to use confusion as a hypnotic induction, how to create confusion, how to utilize it when it occurs naturally.
• The Laws of Observation and Utilization in Hypnotherapy: The important principles of observation and utilization and what to do when you first start using hypnosis and then how to utilize what the patient says or does, moment by moment.
• Hypnotic Anchoring and Conditioning Techniques: How to utilize human conditioning to get patients to accept ideas and therapeutic treatment and how to also use these principles to induce hypnosis.
• Pseudo Orientation in Time Hypnosis Technique: How to take your patient into an imagined future and to report on what was necessary for their treatment to be successful.
• Double Bind Hypnosis Suggestions: A very effective hypnotic language pattern called the Double Bind. There are several classes of hypnotic double bind and they motivate patients to accept new ideas and ways of accepting treatment programmes.
• Open-ended Hypnosis Suggestions: A very effective hypnotic language pattern called the Open-ended Suggestion. These suggestions will help you induce hypnosis effectively and help the patient accept new ways of thinking about their problem.
• Arm Levitation Hypnosis Induction: An innovative approach to a traditional hypnotic technique where the patient goes into a trance as their arm automatically lifts into the air.
• The Laws of Positive Expectancy and Reinforcement in Hypnosis: Implication in speech and non-verbal behaviour and how to develop the skill to influence indirectly through an attitude of expectancy.
• Implication, Compression and Economic Hypnotic Language: How to maximize the time available by streamlining the hypnotic techniques you are being taught. This will help you be more effective when you interact with your patients.
• The Laws of Reversed and Concentrated Effort as a Hypnotic Phenomena: Paradox in clinical practice and how you can use this as a therapeutic tool within your profession.
• Arm and Eye Catalepsy as a Vehicle for Inducing Hypnosis: How to produce hypnotic catalepsy as a hypnotic induction. This will reinforce your patient’s confidence you and in the treatment.
• Responding to Polarity Responses with Hypnosis Patients: Deal with difficult and resistant patients. You will learn techniques to calm down your patient, to change the way they think and to turn objections into opportunities.
• Passive Response Hypnotic Suggestions: Skills that help the patient trust themselves more easily and not interfere in the treatment process in a negative way.
• Learning and Teaching Your Patient How to Use Self Hypnosis: How to use self-hypnosis for your own personal development and to be able to teach it effectively to your patients.
• Matching and Mirroring the Patient’s Body Posture for Hypnosis: How to build rapport very quickly. You will learn to build trust almost immediately with every new patient.
• Matching and Mirroring the patients voice tonality, pitch and volume as a Hypnosis Technique: Also based on building rapport very quickly. This will help you to induce hypnotic trance more quickly and deeply.
• Identifying and Matching Predicates as an Indirect Hypnosis Rapport Building Technique: Achieve two outcome, understanding how the patient experiences his problems and how to build rapport quickly and effectively.
• Hypnotic Inductions based on Eye Fixation and Distraction Techniques: Innovative new ways of using classic eye fixation techniques as hypnotic inductions. How to indirectly hypnotise someone using your and their eyes.
• Hypnosis Techniques for Communicating with the Unconscious: Learn about the right and left hemisphere and the abilities of the right and left brain.
• Calibrating Facial Symmetry as an Observation Technique: How the hemispheres influence the non-verbal cues on the face.
• The Insertive Eye Contact Hypnosis Induction Technique: How to implant suggestions indirectly into another person’s unconscious mind.
• The Confusion Hypnosis Induction Technique: How to utilize senses and behaviors as a powerful hypnotic induction by continually re-directing attention.
• How to Use Indirect Contingent / Dependent Suggestions to Induce Hypnosis: How to apply pacing and leading to create interlocking chains of associated hypnotic suggestions to produce a network of mutually compounding directives.
• How to Use Nominalizations as a Hypnosis Deepening Technique: How to create and apply non-specific hypnotic language that meets needs at an unconscious level.
• How to use Indirect Passive Response Suggestions: How to play down the importance of the conscious mind while opening the potential of the unconscious mind.
• How to Develop Your Patient’s Response Attentiveness to Hypnosis: When patients enter therapy they are sometimes apprehensive and they have various expectations. How to utilize and build these expectations as a hypnotic and therapeutic tool.
• How to Use Indirect Eye Fixation and Distraction as Hypnosis Inductions: How to induce trance using only your eye movements. The Unit covers how to focus, direct and re-direct focus of attention directly and indirectly.
• How to Use Indirect Non-verbal Hypnosis Inductions: How to induce hypnosis non-verbally by replicating trance in yourself, using pantomime techniques and trance anchoring.
• How to use Favorite Leisure Activity to Induce Hypnosis: When people are enjoying themselves they are often in trance but don’t know it. How to use various leisure interests as trance inductions. Contexts used as trance inductions include: Creative absorption: listening / playing music, painting, listening to a lecture, watching a film, watching television). Conscious focus: playing sports, exercise, dancing. Daydreaming as trance experience, Thinking as trance experience.
• How to Indirectly Evoke Previous Trance Experiences: One of the quickest and most effective ways of inducing trance is to re-induce a previous trance. How to re-induce previous trance states from your own sessions and from those of other therapists.
• How to Match Breathing and Develop Progressive Relaxation in the Patient: How to utilize the sensory experiential approach of relaxation, visualization and counting to induce hypnosis.
• How to Use Classes of Hypnotic Double Bind: How to create a compelling illusionary choice by creating binds and double binds that motivate people and lead to therapeutic benefits. Binds covered include: Binds, Double Binds, Conscious-Unconscious Double Bind, Dissociation Double Bind, Double Dissociation Double Bind, Non Sequitur Double Bind, Reverse Set Double Bind, Bind and Double Bind Questions and Time Binds.
• How to Use the Uptime Downtime Hypnosis Induction: How to utilize the extremes of altered states of consciousness and eye fatigue to induce hypnosis.
• How to use the Self Suggestion Hypnosis Technique: How to induce hypnosis through a process of self-observation and self-suggestion that tie up all the senses.
• How to perform an Indirect Arm Levitation Hypnosis Induction: How to induce and deepen trance with arm levitation techniques based on the apposition of opposites.
• How to Use Hypnotic Surprise Techniques: How to induce hypnosis with surprise, shock and disorientation.
• How to Use Early Learning Set Hypnosis Induction: How to use Erickson’s classic induction with people to evoke their early learning strategies for exploring hidden potential.
• Learn the “My Friend John” Hypnosis Induction: How to utilise your patient’s minimal cues of impending hypnotic trance as part of an analogy about hypnotising another person.
• How to Use Indirect Behavioural Emphasis (Analogue Marking, Interspersal Technique) and Embedded Commands for Hypnosis: How to induce trance indirectly by covertly placing emphasis on selective parts of your communication.
• Learn the Use of Indirect Hypnotic Language Patterns: How to use Fractured Semantics (Partial Remarks and Dangling Phrases). The Unit includes: Implication (Implied Directive), Double Meaning, Stacking Realities, Inter-contextual Cues and Suggestions and Conscious Incompetence Suggestions (Losing Abilities).
• How to Use Stacking Hypnotic Potential, Multiple Tasks and Indirect Overloading Techniques in Hypnosis: How to offer simultaneous tasks that create conscious confusion and an acceptance for ensuing trance.
• Learn to Recognize the Minimal Cues of Hypnotic Trance: How to become more intuitive by recognising the indicators of hypnotic trance that happen unconsciously as people drift in and out of hypnosis.
• Learn Hypnotic Compound Suggestion Language Patterns Utilizing the Observable and Non-observable Stacking Technique: How to shift your patient’s awareness from external to internal reality by embedding stacked Compound Suggestions and “truisms that shock” within an Ericksonian trance induction
• Learn to Identify Your Patient’s Positive and Negative Response Cues: How to recognize when people are thinking yes or no by calibrating to their minimal cues and changes in muscle tone.
• The Old Master Hypnosis Induction: How to give your patient the experience of floating out of their body and deeper into trance.
• Post Hypnotic Suggestions: How to trigger new behaviors or ways of thinking within a patient after and between consultations.
• Hypnotic Serial Suggestions: How to re-create a remembered event in a compelling way by re-structuring a detailed visualization.
• Matching and Mirroring Behaviour During a Consultation: How to utilise facial expressions and minimal cues to build rapport and induce hypnosis.
• The Four Seasons Hypnosis Induction: How to open up your creativity with this therapeutic and metaphoric visualization induction that induces and deepens hypnosis.
• Non-verbal Hypnotic Induction: How to induce hypnosis non-verbally by replicating trance, anchoring suggestions to eye blinks, de-focusing your eyes and offering tactile confusion.

and these are just the skills to induce a hypnotic trance… you’ll also need to learn how to help clients and patients therapeutically…

• The Interactional Approach: How Milton Erickson’s work has influenced the field of family therapy and brief strategic therapy.
• The Intrapersonal Approach: How Milton Erickson’s work has influenced the field of indirect hypnotherapy.
• Specific Information Gathering: How to ask questions about someone’s history and identify patterns of behaviour.
• Brooksonian Feedback Loops: Understanding how problems are created and maintained.
• Understanding the Other Persons Metaphors: Understand the hidden messages in other people’s communication and organic metaphors.
• Stephen Brooks’ Irrationality and Framing Model: Framing and how problems can often be changed easily by shifting contexts.
• Stephen Brooks’ “Irrational Frames” – Contextual and Time Frames: How problems can be dissolved by contextual changes.
• Stephen Books’ Irrational Frames – Benefits and Costs: How people evaluate whether to change based on benefits and costs of change
• Stephen Brooks’ – Decision Making Personality Types: How people are motivated or not in therapy based on decision making models.
• Submodalities in Trance: Utilizing this NLP technique in hypnosis.
• Achieving Positive Outcomes: Questions that clearly identify positive outcome in therapy
• Anchoring Positive Resources and Negatives States and a Therapeutic: How to trigger a positive or negative response in the other person, help them feel resourceful and cancel out negative feelings.
• Values Criteria and Beliefs: How to utilize a persons underlying needs as a vehicle for therapeutic change.
• Identifying Verifiable Goals: How to create specific identifiable outcomes so that the client can measure their success.
• Abreaction and Trauma: How to handle spontaneous abreactions.
• Past Life Regression: How to offer therapy based on a past life model of therapy.
• Age Regression Techniques Ericksonian age regression techniques.
• Time Line Therapy: How to use a visualized timeline as a vehicle for age regression and progression.
• The Relationship Between Cause and Symptom: How to decide where to focus therapy to get the best possible results.
• Therapy is based on either Change or Improvement: How to decide what to focus upon in therapy to get the best possible results.
• Challenging Negative Nominalisations: How to recognise and challenge non-specific language.
• Organic Metaphors and Symptom Based Metaphors: Recognizing unconscious non-verbal commentaries that the the patient makes when discussing their problem.
• Casting Doubt on Subjective Interpretations: How to cast doubt and reframe irrational beliefs.
• Prescribing and Delivering Tasks: How to make your suggested tasks compelling whilst dealing with any objections.
• Getting Video Descriptions: How to identify sensory specific behavioural information about the frequency and duration of symptoms and problems.
• Well Formed Questions: How does a therapist know what to ask when beginning therapy? How to structure your questions very carefully into well formed questions that uncover attitude and beliefs.
• How to Use the Brooksonian Hemispheric Question Insertion Technique: Many people do not realise that certain classes of question appeal more to the right hemisphere than to the left, and visa versa. How to construct these hemispheric orientated questions effectively.
• How to Use Indirect Therapeutic Nominalizations: How to create and apply non-specific therapeutic language that meets needs at an unconscious level.
• How to Use the Multiple Screen Technique: How to apply this forerunner of Time Line TherapyTM where Erickson would get people to travel backwards and forwards in time in hallucinated movie screens.
• How to Construct Therapeutic Metaphors: How to construct and deliver therapeutic metaphors to bring about profound change in people. Subjects include: Metaphorical Communication, Structure of metaphors, Stories, Analogies, Jokes, Puns, and Folk Language.
• Pseudo-orientation in Time: Classic rehearsal/ratification technique to help people create their own resolutions.
• Milton Erickson’s Spatial Dissociation Technique: Help your patients gain new insights into the choices available to them by teaching them dissociation, double and triple dissociation.
• Milton Erickson’s Method of Symptom Substitution and Resolution: How to prescribe replacement symptoms, move existing symptoms and finally resolve symptoms whilst identifying and satisfying secondary gains.
• Six Step Reframing: How to negotiate with parts in hypnosis whilst meeting the needs of secondary gains.
• Scrambling Symptoms: How to identify the steps in a symptom, scramble and re-programme the person with a new sequence so that the symptom ceases to exist.
• Pain control and Anesthesia: How and when you can induce numbers to reduce pain.
• Milton Erickson’s Procedure for Initiating Automatic Writing and Drawing: How to communicate directly with your patient’s unconscious mind utilising the ideo-motor response of automatic writing and drawing.
• The Multiple Mirror technique: Powerful therapeutic age regression induction.
• Age Regression Techniques: Make a person gradually regress to childhood.
• Deep Trance VK Dissociation Phobia Treatment: Treat almost any phobia easily and quickly with this one session phobia treatment in hypnosis.
• Responding to Polarity Responses: How to ask for one thing to get another.
• Eye Accessing and Representational Systems: How people think by watching their eye movements, tell-tale gestures, posture and minimal cues.
• Identifying and Utilising Sub-modalities: Alter the memory of trauma by changing the colour, brightness, perspective of your internal representation and so neutralise feelings.
• The Brooksonian Stop Smoking Strategy: Stephen Brooks’ famous one session stop smoking treatment.
• Brooksonian Cellular Healing Therapy: How to work with terminal illness at the cellular level and access powerful healing resources.
• Recognising Subjective Interpretations: How to recognise the excuses and interpretations that people make to sabotage their success.
• Ambiguous Task Assignments: How to offer open ended tasks as living metaphors and as a means of accessing inner resources.
• Resource Accessing: How to access resources required for problem solving using a transderivational search.
• The Visual Squash: How to use this collapsing anchors technique to apply resources to problems.
• The Swish Technique: How to erase  negative feelings about the past with this classic imagery technique
• How to Create Positive and Negative Hallucinations in Hypnosis: How to alter someone’s visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory and gustatory awareness so that they believe something or someone exists when in reality it doesn’t. It will also teach you how to alter someone’s visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory and gustatory awareness so that they believe something or someone does not exist when in reality it does. Areas covered include: Visual Hallucinations, Auditory Hallucinations, and Kinasethic Hallucinations.
• Anchoring in Psychotherapy: How anchoring works and when to apply it.
• Inducing Ideo-motor Finger Signals During Hypnosis: How to communicate directly with your patient’s unconscious mind in hypnosis without the involvement of the patient’s conscious mind.
• Milton Erickson’s and Linn Cooper’s Clinical Application of Time Distortion in Hypnosis: How to distort your patient’s perception of time as an adjunct to pain control, accelerated learning, memory recall and integration of unconscious processes.
• Learn Approaches to Inducing Post Hypnotic Amnesia: How to indirectly induce amnesia for all or part of your communication with people. Including: Constructive Amnesia (when people forget information that is unimportant) and Destructive Amnesia (when people forget information that is important).
• Resource Accessing in Hypnosis: Understand what the patient needs in order for treatment to be successful. How to apply those resources therapeutically using hypnosis.

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Of course, you can take the “quick fix” way of using scripts and set techniques to hypnotise people, but that won’t get you very far, or you can learn professionally and thoroughly…

What we offer is a different kind of learning experience where you will learn all of these skills professionally and thoroughly and:

• Apply your creativity, observational skills and create deep rapport.
• Induce hypnosis indirectly in conversations.
• Use powerful psychotherapeutic strategies and creative interventions.
• Utilise hypnosis to generate lasting change.

This is what Stephen Brooks’ course is designed to do and…

 The two parts of the course complement each other perfectly 

Because Part 1 is all about HYPNOSIS and Part 2 is all about THERAPY because…

This is the most comprehensive and thorough Hypnotherapy Practitioner Training on the market

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Here are some people who became qualified hypnotherapists during this course, changed their lives, and helped lots of people…

“Stephen, it was really good to see you again this year. I qualified from your fantastically comprehensive practitioner course in 1998 where I learned all I needed to know to run a very successful practice for the past eleven years. It was extremely interesting and I learned a plethora of skills to help my clients reach healthy and positive outcomes, often in just one session. The benefits for me personally, with regard to ‘knowing who I am’ and what I can do to help others with effortless ease and joy, are beyond measure. I wish you much happiness and success in all your future courses, you really have made a significantly positive difference to the lives of many people. Love Joan.”

“I have been on the Practitioner course and assisted on it. I highly recommend it to everyone. Especially if you’re looking for a practical course where you can put the theory into practice. You can learn the theory free on the on-line course, but you need the practical “hands on” experience of being on this Practitioner course to truly practice as a hypnotherapist – and this course delivers 100%!”. Tom Keane.

“Hi Stephen! As a former student of yours, obtaining my Practitioner Diploma waaaaaay back in 1991 it warms my heart to see that you are still training personally on your courses. I currently specialise in behavioural change work with ex-offenders and still find your conversational hypnosis techniques invaluable. I wish you all the very best in your latest endeavors and shall await news of your continued success. Many Thanks.” Russell D’Avilar

This is really the most comprehensive hypnotherapist training course around!

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