Solution Focussed Hypno-Psychotherapy

Solution Focussed Hypno-Psychotherapy is a five-day certificated hypnotherapy training, offered in London and online, for people who want to learn practical, client-centred techniques for helping others resolve long-standing difficulties. It begins with counselling skills and rapport building, then moves into solution-focused hypno-psychotherapy, therapeutic metaphor and time regression work. It suits newcomers and experienced practitioners alike, since no prior qualifications are needed. It is led by Tony O'Shea-Poon, a hypno-psychotherapist and mindfulness teacher.

The course can be taken as a standalone certified training or as one of four modules in the Mindfulness-Based Clinical Hypnosis Diploma. Completing and passing all four modules leads to the diploma and the ability to practise as a clinical hypno-psychotherapist.

What to Expect

The training builds step by step. You start with counselling approaches and ways of building rapport, then move into solution-focused methods. Clients sometimes resist change, perhaps because of an unconscious secondary gain attached to their symptoms. The course teaches several time regression techniques for uncovering and resolving these deeper issues, and compares solution-focused work with regression and analytical approaches, including "Rapid Direct to Cause" techniques.

Topics across the five days include:

- Therapeutic metaphor and the De Shayzer "Solution Focused Therapy" model
- How to "scramble" symptoms to dissolve their power and attachment
- Anxiety states therapy and stress management
- Hypnotherapy for IBS, and treatment of emotional and psychosomatic disorders
- Working with substance misuse
- Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) for post traumatic stress, fears and phobias
- Inner child healing and an introduction to Gestalt approaches
- Working safely with children
- Mind and body healing and pain control
- Safeguards and ethical considerations

Practical and written assignments are part of the course.

About Tony O'Shea-Poon

Tony O'Shea-Poon is a hypno-psychotherapist, mindfulness teacher and tutor, and coach based in Milton Keynes. He has practised meditation for more than 25 years, beginning with Vipassana (insight) meditation, and trained in mindfulness practice in 2012. He practises in the Plum Village style, the tradition taught by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. Around 2012 he qualified as a workplace coach with The OCM, and in 2017 he trained as a mindfulness teacher with the UK College of Mindfulness Meditation. He is now a member of its national training team and leads the Mindfulness Now Teacher Training Course in London. He gained his Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy in 2019 after two years of study.

The Setting

In-person training takes place at one of the organizer's preferred venues in London, England. Online attendance is also available, and within the wider diploma participants can study in person, online or in any mix of the two.

Before You Go

No prior qualifications or entry requirements are needed, and the training is taught in English. A comprehensive training manual is included, along with practical and written assignments and certification on completion.

Within the diploma, the modules can be taken in any order, starting with whichever you choose. The diploma is externally accredited and leads to a national qualification awarded by the National Council for Hypnotherapy. Booking the three hypnotherapy modules together, or all four modules including Mindfulness Now teacher training, carries a discount.