CPD Event title: Insomnia and the Science of Sleep

Brief Description Of Event:

This very practical CPD on insomnia will allow you to understand sleep psychology, identify what maintains insomnia, and learn client-focused strategies to create lasting change in sessions.

Sleep underpins everything we do as Solution Focused Hypnotherapists, yet insomnia can often feel complicated. This engaging, practical CPD breaks down the science of sleep into clear, usable strategies you can take straight into sessions. Using the Solution Focused Hypnotherapy model, we’ll explore the psychology of sleep, what maintains insomnia, and how to confidently support clients to create lasting change. Expect plenty of discussion, real-life examples, interaction, and practical tools you can use immediately in your work.

Sleep is central to good mental health and plays a key role in helping the brain process stress and reset. This CPD will deepen your understanding of why sleep is so fundamental to wellbeing and how to confidently apply this knowledge with all client groups — from anxiety and burnout to teenagers, menopausal clients, and shift workers.

We will explore the science of sleep in an accessible, engaging way, including REM sleep, circadian rhythms, and the impact of a full stress bucket and primitive brain on sleep quality. You will also gain clarity on how sleep changes across the lifespan, and how lifestyle factors such as caffeine, alcohol, screen use, and stress disrupt rest and recovery.

Alongside the science, this is a highly practical and interactive CPD. Through real-life case studies, discussion, and metaphors used in session, you will build confidence in explaining sleep clearly and supporting insomnia clients effectively. We will also explore when referral for medical assessment is appropriate. The focus throughout is on making the science usable, engaging, and directly applicable to your clinical work.

Course Content

• Why we sleep – the biological and evolutionary purpose of sleep.
• Interaction – reflecting on your own sleep habits.
• Sleep architecture – non-REM, REM, and 90-minute sleep cycles.
• The neuroscience of REM sleep – the role of the hippocampus and memory consolidation (building on Initial Consultation content).
• Circadian rhythms – understanding chronotypes (night owls and early birds).
• Interaction – identifying your own chronotype and considering how this impacts therapy practice, including working patterns.
• Sleep across the lifespan – how sleep changes from adolescence through to older age.
• Stress, arousal and insomnia – the stress bucket model and its impact on sleep.
• Night wakings (e.g. 3am awakenings) – the role of the primitive brain, anxiety, and cortisol. Understanding insomnia – definitions, types, and causes, including caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, blue light, diet, and temperature.
• The wider impact of sleep – how poor sleep influences conditions such as weight management, pain, and performance.
• Approaches to support sleep – including CBT-I, sleeping medication, and the “gas and brake” model.
• Solution Focused Hypnotherapy in practice – from Initial Consultation through to sessions, with practical tools to support lasting change.
• The role of the stress bucket and positive focus – how increasing positive thinking and the “3 Ps” supports better sleep.
• Metaphors and language – practical ways to explain sleep and insomnia in session.
• Special client groups – supporting shift workers, parents, and menopausal clients.

Date of event: Oct 02, 2026

Duration of Event: 1 day, 10:00am – 5:00pm

Venue for event: Online

Name of trainer: Victoria Horton

Tel bookings:

Email bookings:

Website: https://www.cpht.co.uk/events/43-insomnia-and-the-science-of-sleep/

Maximum number of participants: 15

Cost of Course: £105

Additional information/requirements:

About your tutor

Victoria qualified from CPHT Stoke in December 2023 and has been working full-time as a Solution Focused Hypnotherapist since September 2023. Since then, she has built a busy private practice seeing 20–25 clients a week and absolutely loves the variety and pace of clinical work.

She runs her practice, Kingfisher Hypnotherapy, from a beautiful clinic in Nantwich, Cheshire, and lives in Crewe with her husband and two children. When not working, she’ll be walking, exploring new places, or trying (and failing) to sleep properly with a full brain after a busy day!

Alongside her clinical qualifications (HPD, DSFH, CNHC Registered), she is a member of AfSFH and NCH, fully insured, and holds an Enhanced DBS check. She also has a BSc in Business Administration from the University of Bath and is a qualified NLP Practitioner. This CPD was born, quite literally, from one of her own 3am “overthinking in a caravan in Northumberland” moments — something she knows her insomnia clients will recognise! Having worked extensively with sleep and insomnia in practice, Victoria brings both clinical knowledge and real-world experience to this trainin

Additional Information

Counts as 7 hours CPD.

This CPD is for Solution Focused Hypnotherapists, graduates of CPHT.

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CPD Event title: Hypno Weight Loss Jab Practitioner Training

Brief Description Of Event:

Live Zoom Workshop

9.30am-4.30pm

Sunday 21^st June 2026

(an online self-paced alternative is available if you cannot make the live training)

Course provider: Dr Claire Jack, Academy of the Inner Mind

Course details

Hypno Weight Loss Jab Practitioner Training

Are you ready to elevate your hypnotherapy practice with a cutting-edge program that meets the growing demand for weight loss solutions? Weight loss jabs continue to grow in popularity, but are not the right choice for many people, who are looking for safe, natural alternatives. The Hypno Weight Loss Jab Program is a revolutionary, up-to-date, and completely safe alternative to the increasingly popular weight loss injections—and it’s a game-changer for your business.

This innovative program combines hypnotherapy’s proven ability to reprogram the subconscious with a structured approach to appetite control. Unlike medications that can have side effects, the Hypno Weight Loss Jab Program empowers clients naturally and holistically. It focuses on the neurological changes that take place during weight loss and works with the mind:body response in a safe, clearly structured way, drawing from our learnings about the effectiveness of real-life weight loss medications.

Course Structure:

During the live workshop, you’ll learn about the physical, neurological, emotional and psychological reasons that can cause people to struggle with alcohol. Understanding the neurological impact of drinking provides the basis for understanding the significant impact of having a structured, 30 day alcohol-free period. You’ll learn practical techniques, such as MI for clients with alcohol issues and applying a sensitively updated version of aversion therapy, rooted in mind:body awareness.

In addition, you’ll have access to extensive online materials, so that you can revisit the course whenever you wish to. Your online resources include videos, client forms, resources, handouts, scripts, marketing materials and Hypno Weight Loss Jab logo. You’ll have lifetime access to these materials so that you can revisit them as you gain confidence in this area.

For over 15 years, the Academy of the Inner Mind has been a trusted name in hypnotherapy education. Founded and led by Dr. Claire Jack, a seasoned hypnotherapist, accomplished author, and one of Psychology Today’s in-house experts, the Academy blends expertise with a personal commitment to professional growth.

Our training programs are meticulously crafted to provide cutting-edge knowledge and practical skills that address the evolving needs of your clients. Whether you’re a seasoned practitioner or just starting your journey, the Academy’s courses are designed to ensure you stay ahead in the field of hypnotherapy.

You will receive everything you need to work confidently with your clients including scripts, client handouts, resources, practitioner guides and a certificate which is externally accredited by the ACCPH and counts for 8 hours CPD.

Learning outcomes:

• Welcome and Introduction
• Course overview
• What are weight loss injections?
• Limitations, side-effects and contraindications of weight loss injections.
• Cultural and personal values.
• Practical, logistical and financial implications.
• Factors that reduce the effectiveness of weight loss jabs.
• Advantages of hypnotherapy weight loss jabs.
• Working with the mind and body
• Understanding the neurological benefits of weight loss jabs
• Holistic benefits of hypno weight loss jabs.
• Pre-session contact and determining suitability.
• Contraindications for hypno weight loss jab treatment.
• Developing a protocol.
• Clear 4 session structure with protocols, adaptions, scripts and multi-modality approach
• Motivation and readiness.
• Ethical considerations.
• Positioning and marketing your business

Your course includes: All client scripts, resources, website content, practitioner guides and Certification which equates to 8 hours CPD, externally accredited by the ACCPH.

The Hypno Weight Loss Jab Practitioner Training is structured to provide a flexible and comprehensive learning experience for hypnotherapists. Delivered through a combination of video lectures and downloadable resources, including scripts, resources and practitioner guides, the course is divided into clear, self-paced modules. These modules cover the foundation of the Hypno Weight Loss Jab Practitioner Training practical hypnosis techniques, client management strategies, and marketing your services. With lifetime access to materials, interactive assignments, and certification upon completion, the course ensures you gain the knowledge and confidence to effectively implement the Hypno Weight Loss Jab Practitioner Training approach in your practice.

Date of event: Jun 21, 2026

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CPD Event title: Pain Rewired: Hypnotherapy for chronic pain course using the HEAL protocol

Brief Description Of Event:

Live zoom workshop

9.30am to 4.30pm

07/06/26

Online, self-paced option available if you can’t make the live training

Course provider: Dr Claire Jack, Academy of the Inner Mind

Course details

Chronic pain is a debilitating condition, which affects at least 25% of the adult population, with older adults and women being at a significantly higher risk for chronic pain conditions. Chronic pain is pain that is long-lasting – for at least a few months or longer – and it’s something that often becomes a condition that people live with for the duration of their lives.

Many chronic pain conditions don’t have a clear explanation, and it can be difficult for people to receive a diagnosis. Often, there are no effective treatment options, other than managing the condition with painkillers. And overuse of painkillers comes with risks, as well as the fact that they become less effective over time, in many cases.

For all of these reasons, there is a significant demand for hypnotherapy and other complementary treatments for chronic pain conditions and the HEAL protocol clearly demonstrates how to work effectively with your clients. Pain rewired: hypnotherapy for chronic pain training is a holistic approach to chronic pain that focuses on the person, not the condition. It includes powerful hypnotherapeutic pain management tools, creating a positive mind:body connection, and helping people make positive lifestyle choices. It also encourages a sense of release of past trauma and experiences that can trigger or exacerbate pain conditions.

 For over 15 years, the Academy of the Inner Mind has been a trusted name in hypnotherapy education. Founded and led by Dr. Claire Jack, a seasoned hypnotherapist, accomplished author, and one of Psychology Today’s in-house experts, the Academy blends expertise with a personal commitment to professional growth.

Our training programs are meticulously crafted to provide cutting-edge knowledge and practical skills that address the evolving needs of your clients. Whether you’re a seasoned practitioner or just starting your journey, the Academy’s courses are designed to ensure you stay ahead in the field of hypnotherapy.

You will receive everything you need to work confidently with your clients including scripts, client handouts, resources, practitioner guides and a certificate which is externally accredited by the ACCPH and counts for 8 hours CPD.

Learning Objectives:

Foundations of Pain Science

– Overview

– Limitations of the Bio‑medical Model

– Psychosomatic Pain

– Maladaptive Behaviours

– Understanding Pain as an Output of the Brain

– Nociception

– Categories of Chronic Pain

– Nociplastic Pain

– The Neuromatrix of Pain

– Secondary Gains

Hypnotherapy for Chronic Pain

– Overview

– Research Findings

– Language Around Chronic Pain

– Cell Communication Therapy

– HEAL Protocol Goal Setting

– Pain Relief Techniques

– Self‑hypnosis

– Calming the Nervous System

– Pattern Interruption & Neural Pathways

– Time Distortion

– Releasing Emotional Pain

– Empowerment and Agency

Chronic Pain Protocol

– Focus of Sessions

– How Hypnotherapy Helps

– Client Disclaimer

– Pre‑session Intake

– Session 1 Protocol

– Session 2 Protocol

– Session 3 Protocol

– Session 4 Protocol

Marketing

– Client Base

– Marketing Suggestions

Your course includes: All client scripts, resources, website content, practitioner guides and Certification which equates to 8 hours CPD, externally accredited by the ACCPH.

Course Structure:

After you have attended the Pain Rewired Training workshop you will receive access to an online portal with extensive materials, including video lectures and downloadable resources, including scripts, clear protocols, resources and practitioner guides. With lifetime access to materials, interactive assignments, and certification upon completion of the live workshop, the course ensures you gain the knowledge and confidence to effectively implement Pain Rewired in your practice.

Date of event: Jun 07, 2026

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CPD Event title: Smoking and Vaping

Brief Description Of Event:

This CPD is for anyone who wants to improve their confidence in working with smoking & vaping cessation clients and gives additional tools to maximise sessions in this area.

This half-day CPD is designed to help you feel confident, flexible, and well-equipped when working with clients who want to stop smoking or vaping.

The training begins with a brief refresher of the CPHT smoking cessation protocol, reinforcing the brain-based explanation and overall structure of an approach that we know works. Particular attention is given to areas that can feel unfamiliar or intimidating when compared to standard Solution Focused Hypnotherapy sessions, helping therapists feel grounded and confident in its delivery.

Course Content

Building on this foundation, the CPD introduces a range of practical techniques drawn from NLP, CBT, and Ericksonian language patterns. These include solution-focused questioning to increase motivation and help clients anticipate future challenges, CBT-informed “self-binding” strategies to reduce triggers and create distance from old habits, and NLP techniques such as anchoring, six-step reframe & future pacing. The training will also touch on how to naturally integrate Ericksonian language patterns both conversationally and during hypnosis to subtly strengthen commitment and behavioural change.

Whilst the session is focused on Smoking and Vaping, we also explore how these approaches can be adapted to support clients reducing or stopping cannabis use alongside the SFH protocol.

By the end of the training, you should feel more confident, better resourced, and more prepared to support successful and lasting smoking and vaping cessation outcomes for your clients.

Date of event: Nov 22 2026

Duration of Event: 1 day, 09.30am – 1.30pm

Venue for event: Online

Name of trainer: Brian Noon

Tel bookings:

Email bookings:

Website: https://www.cpht.co.uk/events/38-smoking-and-vaping/

Maximum number of participants: 25

Cost of Course: £70

Additional information/requirements:

About your tutor

Brian is an experienced Solution Focused Hypnotherapist, CPHT Lecturer, and CEO of the Association for Solution Focused Hypnotherapy (AfSFH). One of Brian’s key passions is helping people to quit smoking and vaping. He has seen first-hand the devastating impact smoking can have, having lost his father to smoking-related lung cancer and COPD.

Brian says: “Helping someone to quit when they are ready always feels like a huge gift – not just to the client, but to their family too, who gain more time with someone they love.”

This passion was quickly recognised, leading to Brian being invited to guest lecture on smoking cessation at multiple CPHT sites across the UK. He was later asked to update and revitalise the smoking cessation training for all CPHT students as part of a wider course refresh.

Alongside his work as a Solution Focused Hypnotherapist, Brian is also an NLP Master Practitioner. He integrates the most effective solution-focused elements from both modalities to help his smoking and vaping clients successfully kick the habit.

Additional Information

Counts as 3 hours CPD.

This CPD is for Solution Focused Hypnotherapists, graduates of CPHT.

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CPD Event title: Working With Addiction and Dependency Patterns in Hypnotherapy Practice

Brief Description Of Event:

A Half-Day Zoom Workshop for Hypnotherapists and Students
Clearer boundaries. Better questions. Safer practice.
Date: Aug 07, 2026. Time: 09:30 – 13.30 BST

Would you know how to respond if a client disclosed that alcohol, drugs, gambling, compulsive behaviours, or other coping patterns had become part of the way they switch off, manage emotions, escape stress, or get through the week?

Many hypnotherapists will encounter clients where alcohol use, drug use, gambling, compulsive online behaviours, compulsive shopping, or other dependency-related patterns form part of the wider presenting picture.

This practical and thought-provoking half-day workshop has been created to help hypnotherapists and students feel clearer and more confident when addiction, dependency, or compulsive coping patterns show up in the therapy room.

This is not a workshop about detox, rehab, or working outside your role. Instead, it is designed to help you understand where hypnotherapy can genuinely support change, how to work more effectively with these presentations, and what to look out for when habits, urges, routines, emotional coping, compulsive behaviours, or dependency-related patterns are present.

This workshop does not train practitioners to diagnose addiction or manage medical withdrawal, and clear guidance around referral, safeguarding, and professional boundaries will be discussed throughout.

Drawing from an integrative and solution focused hypnotherapy perspective, this training will explore how to work with the underlying patterns that can keep clients stuck, including repetition, relief-seeking, shame, avoidance, and behavioural loops.

You will also gain a simple and practical understanding of why addiction and dependency-related patterns can become so difficult to shift, including the role of habit, reward, learned association, emotional regulation, and the brain’s tendency to repeat what brings short-term relief or escape.

Throughout the workshop, we will stay grounded in clear, realistic, and professional practice, helping you feel more confident in how to approach this area in a way that is useful, thoughtful, and appropriate.

You will also receive a pre-workshop workbook to help you begin thinking about the topic before the day, along with a large post-workshop resource pack filled with step-by-step explanations, tools, techniques, therapeutic language, guidance, and useful resources to support your learning afterwards.

Work More Confidently Within Scope
Gain clarity on what is appropriate to work with as a hypnotherapist when addiction, dependency, or compulsive coping patterns are involved, and feel more confident in how to approach these conversations and presentations.

Understand the Pattern Beneath the Behaviour
Explore why people can become stuck in cycles of use, including habit loops, reward, relief, emotional coping, and the role of repetition.

Know What to Look For
Learn what to pay attention to during the initial consultation, including patterns, red flags, and the wider picture that may be sitting behind the presenting issue.

Use Solution Focused and Integrative Tools More Effectively
Discover practical ways to structure sessions, ask better questions, and use hypnosis more effectively when working with urges, routines, coping patterns, and behavioural repetition.

Leave With Tools You Can Use Straight Away
Come away with practical ideas, therapeutic language, clinical guidance, techniques, and resources that can support your work in both online and face-to-face practice.

Learning Objectives:

What You Will Learn
By the end of this workshop, you will have a clearer understanding of:

• What is and is not appropriate to work with as a hypnotherapist.
• How to recognise red flags and when extra support may be needed.
• How to structure the initial consultation when substance use, dependency, compulsive behaviours, or coping patterns are disclosed.
• How to use solution focused questioning more effectively in this area.
• How to work with urges, routines, coping patterns, and future change using hypnotherapy.
• How to use language and therapeutic tools that support change without confrontation or shame.
• How to feel more confident and grounded when this kind of presentation appears in practice.

What We’ll Cover

• The difference between habit, coping pattern, harmful use, addiction, and dependency.
• How alcohol use, drug use, gambling, compulsive online behaviours, compulsive shopping, and other repetitive coping behaviours can become linked with relief, avoidance, identity, and repetition.
• The role of the brain, reward, emotional regulation, and reinforcement in repeated behaviours and use patterns.
• What to notice and explore during the initial consultation.
• Solution focused questions that are genuinely useful in this work.
• Why shame, secrecy, and all-or-nothing thinking can keep clients stuck.
• Hypnotherapy approaches for urges, routines, future self-work, and behavioural change.
• Language patterns and therapeutic phrasing that support change without confrontation.
• Practical ideas to take straight into your client work.

Who Is This Workshop For?
This half-day workshop is suitable for:

* Qualified hypnotherapists.
* Student hypnotherapists.
* Solution focused hypnotherapists.
* Integrative practitioners who would like a clearer, more confident framework for working with addiction, dependency, compulsive coping, and substance-related presentations.

Your Trainer
This workshop is delivered by Lisa Williams Edgar, Founder of New Horizon Training Academy, Integrative and Solution Focused Clinical Hypnotherapist, Supervisor, and Senior Lecturer.

Lisa is known for delivering training that is practical, warm, grounded in real client work and personal experience, and designed to help therapists feel more confident in the therapy room without overcomplicating the process.

Her teaching style is clear, engaging, and focused on giving practitioners tools and understanding they can genuinely take back into practice.

A Thoughtful and Grounded Approach

This workshop has been designed to help practitioners understand how powerful hypnotherapy can be when working with clients whose alcohol or drug use is tied to habit, coping, emotional regulation, routine, or behavioural repetition.

When used well, hypnotherapy can support profound shifts in awareness, motivation, self-control, emotional resilience, and future-focused change. It can help clients move away from automatic patterns and towards a stronger sense of choice, agency, and possibility.

This training will help you understand how to apply hypnotherapy more confidently and effectively in this area, using an approach that is practical, grounded, and deeply relevant to real client work.

Please note: smoking and vaping can, of course, involve strong addictive and dependency patterns. However, New Horizon Training Academy covers smoking and vaping cessation within a separate dedicated CPD, as these presentations often require a more specific structured cessation approach. This workshop may briefly reference smoking and vaping where relevant, but the main focus is on alcohol use, drug use, gambling, compulsive coping behaviours, dependency-related patterns, professional boundaries, referral considerations, and safe integrative hypnotherapy practice.

Date of event: Aug 07, 2026

Duration of Event: 1 day, 09.30am -1.00pm

Venue for event: Zoom

Name of trainer: Lisa Williams Edgar/New Horizon Training Academy

Tel bookings:

Email bookings: enquiries@newhorizontraining.co.uk

Website: https://www.newhorizontraining.co.uk/events/working-with-addiction-and-dependency-patterns-in-hypnotherapy-practice-2026-05-16-287

Maximum number of participants: 16

Cost of Course: £85

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CPD Event title: Planning and Running Group Talks and Presentations

Brief Description Of Event:

This CPD will enable you to deliver talks and presentations with confidence, develop new and exciting ways of marketing yourself, and reach out to different audiences.

Building further on the course content from module 10, the CPD will support hypnotherapists with confident delivery of talks, presentations and workshops as well as the marketing involved with these. It will cover everything that you need to know when it comes to planning, preparing and delivering engaging content for a group talk or presentation.

Course Content

This CPD will cover:

• The different groups of people and businesses who may require talks and how to contact them.
• What content to include and how to differentiate depending on the audience.
• The difference between face to face and online presentations.
• Confidence when delivering.
• Marketing yourself.
• Questioning skills and audience participation.
• How to include guided relaxations and appropriate language patterns.
• You will also be given practical materials to support with creating your own talks and presentations.

Learning Outcomes:

• Understand how to plan and deliver a talk/ presentation to a group of people.
• Understand how to market group talks and presentations.
• Differentiate content for different audiences.
• Develop confidence with public speaking.
• Learn basic questioning skills and how to facilitate audience participation.

Date of event: Oct 17, 2026

Duration of Event: 1 day, 10.00am – 5.00pm

Venue for event: Online

Name of trainer: Katie Churms

Tel bookings:

Email bookings:

Website: https://www.cpht.co.uk/events/17-planning-and-running-group-talks-and-presentations/

Maximum number of participants: 25

Cost of Course: £105

Additional information/requirements:

About your tutor

Katie graduated from CPHT in 2020. During the pandemic, with no previous experience in marketing or running a business, she set up and grew her successful practice ‘Songbird Hypnotherapy’ in Bedfordshire and online. She now sees an average of 20 clients a week, specialising in anxiety, stress and overwhelm.

Katie has ten years’ experience of working in teaching and education and holds a BA(hons) in education. Previously working as a primary teacher and tutor, she made the leap to solution focused hypnotherapy after experiencing the magic for herself! She left teaching to train with CPHT, set up her practice in 2020 and has never looked back.

Katie is a qualified supervisor. Whilst running her busy practice she also offers mentoring and coaching for other hypnotherapists. She is passionate about supporting other hypnotherapists to grow and thrive.

Additional Information

Counts as 7 hours CPD.

This CPD is for Solution Focused Hypnotherapists, graduates of CPHT.

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CPD Event title: Supporting OCD: Clinical Techniques for Hypnotherapists and Students

Brief Description Of Event:

Accredited Integrative CPD for hypnotherapists to support clients with OCD & Pure O. Tools, scripts, case studies & full resource pack.

Date: July 3, 2026. Time: 9.30 – 16:30 BST

Join us for a full-day accredited CPD workshop designed specifically for clinical, integrative, and solution focused hypnotherapists who want to work ethically, confidently, and effectively with clients presenting with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), including Pure-O and ritual-based behaviours.

This training brings together modern neuroscience, evidence-informed psychological models, clinical hypnosis, NLP, and Solution Focused Brief Therapy, translated into clear, practical tools that sit comfortably within an integrative hypnotherapy framework.

Through real-life clinical case material, live demonstrations, structured exercises, and guided discussion, you will deepen your understanding of OCD and develop confident, client-centred ways of supporting change, without reinforcing fear, avoidance, or compulsive patterns.

Learning Objectives:

What You Will Learn

• A clear, modern understanding of OCD and Pure-O through neuroscience and cognitive-behavioural models, translated specifically for hypnotherapists.
• How exposure and response prevention principles can be ethically and safely integrated with hypnosis, NLP, and solution focused practice.
• How to work with intrusive thoughts, urges, mental rituals, reassurance seeking, and avoidance without collusion or confrontation.
• Step-by-step hypnotic approaches and language patterns adapted for OCD presentations.
• How to support mindful exposure, values-based behavioural change, and urge-surfing within an integrative framework.
• Strategies for working with ambivalence, resistance, safety behaviours, and relapse prevention.

• Clinical case discussions exploring both progress and complexity in real client work.

What You Will Take Away

• Increased confidence in working with OCD and Pure-O presentations.
• Clear clinical boundaries around what to do, and what not to do, when working with OCD within an integrative hypnotherapy framework.
• Practical tools that integrate seamlessly with solution focused and integrative hypnotherapy practice.
• Language that reduces threat, supports choice, and strengthens client agency.
• A framework for ethical, evidence-informed practice aligned with current best-practice guidance.

Included in the Accredited CPD Learning Pack

• Full PowerPoint slide deck.
• A large, comprehensive written resource pack, including structured learning flow and detailed practitioner guidance.
• Structured worksheets, including values-based exposure planning tools, urge-surfing logs, and compassion-focused safety strategies.
• Hypnotic language pattern and NLP reframing reference sheets specifically adapted for OCD work.
• A clear summary of NICE guidance and current best-practice principles, translated for hypnotherapy practice.
• Certificate of attendance confirming accredited CPD hours.

Who This Workshop Is For

This training is suitable for qualified and trainee hypnotherapists, NLP practitioners, and integrative therapists who work clinically, or who wish to expand their competence in supporting clients with OCD and Pure-O presentations using ethical, evidence-based, client-centred approaches.

Feedback: 03/27/2026 from Charlotte Grayson

Q. What did you find most useful about the training? A. The sheer amount of information and the new perspective that the course gave me on OCD treatment through hypnotherapy.

Q. Was the course value for money? A. Yes

Q. Please do give us your feedback on this event. A. I think the course was fantastic. So much information, and Lisa was ALWAYS welcoming of questions and input from attendees. The small group size made the course feel very personal – I am already looking at what course I can attend next!

Q. How do you think this CPD/Workshop will help you in your practice? A. It will give me more confidence in working with OCD.

Facilitator

Lisa Williams Edgar
Clinical Hypnotherapist, Senior Lecturer at Ayurva Academy, Supervisor and Founder of New Horizon Training Academy.

With well over a decade of clinical experience, Lisa specialises in integrative and solution focused approaches to complex clinical presentations. Her teaching is grounded in real clinical work, clear explanation, and practical application, supporting practitioners to work confidently and safely with challenging client presentations.

Date of event: Jul 03, 2026

Duration of Event: 1 day

Venue for event: Zoom

Name of trainer: Lisa Williams Edgar/New Horizon Training Academy

Tel bookings:

Email bookings: enquiries@newhorizontraining.co.uk

Website: https://www.newhorizontraining.co.uk/events/supporting-ocd-clinical-techniques-for-hypnotherapists-and-students-2026-07-03-290

Maximum number of participants: 20

Cost of Course: £125

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CPD Event title: NLP Core Change Techniques for Hypnotherapists: Module One Accredited CPD

Brief Description Of Event:

     Date: July 10, 2026. Time: 09:30 – 16:30 BST

 Learn practical NLP skills to enhance your hypnotherapy practice and transform client outcomes. Tools you can apply with confidence.

Back by Popular Demand – Learn the Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) Tools That Transform Client Sessions.

Following the outstanding feedback from our previous NLP workshop, we’re delighted to offer this popular accredited CPD again – now structured as Module One of a two-part training.

** You’re welcome to book this one on its own – and join Module Two later if and when you’re ready. It runs regularly, so there’s absolutely no pressure to attend both.

Join me, Lisa Williams Edgar — Solution Focused Clinical Hypnotherapist, NLP Practitioner, and Level 5 NCH Registered Supervisor – for a workshop that delivers proven NLP techniques I’ve learned from the best in the field and adapted over the years for real-world therapy.

Whether you’re looking to refine your current approach or build confidence using NLP in your clinical work, this day will provide you with immediately usable techniques and the clarity to use them well.

Module One and Module Two may be attended individually with a 2-week gap, or as a full programme. If booking both, please contact us for a discount code. You’re welcome to book this one on its own – and join Module Two later if and when you’re ready. It runs regularly, so there’s absolutely no pressure to attend both.

Learning Objectives:

What You Will Learn

Foundations of NLP – The origins, influences, and how NLP integrates beautifully with a solution focused approach

Sensory Systems (VAKOG) – Understand how clients construct their experience and how to work with their sensory language

Submodalities – Learn how changes in internal imagery and sound shift emotional states

Building Rapport – Matching, mirroring, pacing and leading

Peripheral Vision Technique – Move clients from anxiety to calm in moments

Anchoring Techniques – Including classic and colour anchors to help clients access resourceful emotional states

Swish Techniques – Both the classic visual swish thoroughly taught and practised and the subtle one-handed swish

Fast Phobia Cure  – A gentle, non-traumatising way to help clients neutralise fears and past distress

New Behaviour Generator – Mentally rehearse successful outcomes

Cause and Effect Language – Spot and shift limiting thought patterns

Pacing and Leading – Use subtle conversational rhythm to guide emotional change

Goal-Setting That Works – Help clients set outcomes that are:

• Positively focused
• Sustainable across life areas
• Based on what they’ll see, hear, and feel
• Observable, achievable, and fully within their control

Course Structure:

Who Should Attend

This CPD is designed for solution focused hypnotherapists and integrative therapists wishing to confidently use NLP techniques in clinical settings.

Whether you’re new to NLP or wish to refresh your skills with structure and clarity, this event will meet you where you are and give you practical, effective tools.

About Your Trainer

As Co-Director of New Horizon Training Academy and Senior Lecturer with Ayurva Training Academy, I’m committed to teaching high-impact tools with warmth, clarity, and integrity. I’ve learned these techniques from some of the most respected names in the field — and refined them to blend seamlessly with solution focused work.

Additional Resources

All attendees receive a large, comprehensive downloadable Resource Pack, including:

Client-ready handouts
Step-by-step walkthroughs
Language prompts and scripts
Visual aids
Integration tools for use after the workshop

What Past Attendees Said:

“I very much enjoyed my NLP training with Lisa, who is a brilliant lecturer, generous with her knowledge and time. The course is full of techniques that can be easily incorporated into a solution-focused hypnotherapy session. The techniques learned can help my clients create a quick and positive change when needed.” SANELA EVANS

“The whole course is equally useful – all the topics covered were highly relevant and directly applicable to working with clients. Full of information without feeling jammed in or rushed. Fabulous. Thank you. What I found especially helpful was how the course brought some of the techniques to life. They didn’t just feel like abstract theory. I could really picture how to use them with different clients in real situations.”– Susan Burn-Strange (Rated as Excellent)

“The techniques and the relatable stories that put them into context. Really enjoyable course and something I have wanted to expand my knowledge in (and cement in with other techniques that I know but don’t use often in my practice) – that changes now. It’s the belief busting that I love!”– Jools McKeown (Rated as Excellent)

“I really enjoyed the training. I enjoyed it when Lisa shares her lived experience and stories as it really solidifies the learning experience for me. In many ways, I will feel more confident in explaining and teaching clients anchoring and Swish techniques.
Rated as EXCELLENT.”
— Sophie Walker

“The most useful CPD I have ever attended, inspiring me to put my new knowledge into action.
What was most useful? Breakout rooms for practising, clear step-by-step explanations, and PowerPoint.
Was the course value for money? Yes!”
— Sarah Sollom

“A brilliant CPD day — lots of content, inspiration, examples, good explanations, step-by-step guides, and provision of course slides and workbook. A really packed day!
Would love the chance to follow up with a second day…
Thanks again for a great day :)”
— Karen W

“All aspects were helpful. EXCELLENT.”
— Amoy Noel

About New Horizon Training:

New Horizon Training was awarded the Provider of Training Excellence by the Professional Development Consortium in April 2023. In proud collaboration with the accredited Ayurva Academy, we continue to deliver high-quality, accredited CPD to help therapists grow, evolve, and succeed.

Date of event: Jul 10, 2026

Duration of Event: 1 day

Venue for event: Zoom

Name of trainer: Lisa Williams Edgar/New Horizon Training Academy

Tel bookings:

Email bookings: enquiries@newhorizontraining.co.uk

Website: :https://www.newhorizontraining.co.uk/events/nlp-core-change-techniques-for-hypnotherapists-2026-07-10-291

Maximum number of participants: 16

Cost of Course: £125

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CPD Event title:   NLP Advanced Applications for Hypnotherapists

Brief Description Of Event:

Date: July 31, 2026. Time: 09:30 – 16:30 BST

Take NLP to the Next Level – Deepen, Integrate and Apply Advanced Techniques with Confidence in your Hypnotherapy Practice.

 This is Module Two of our popular NLP CPD training for hypnotherapists – a day focused on integration, deeper transformation, and real-world application of more advanced NLP techniques.

Modules may be attended individually or together. If booking both, please contact us directly for a discount code.

Whether you joined us for Module One or are jumping straight into this standalone day, you’ll gain practical, structured tools to work at deeper levels of belief, identity, and behavioural change – all aligned with your solution focused approach.

Join me, Lisa Williams Edgar, Clinical Hypnotherapist, NLP Practitioner, and Level 5 NCH Registered Supervisor, as we go further into the art of NLP for therapy, using trusted, field-tested models I’ve learned, adapted, and successfully used in practice for over a decade.

Learning Objectives:

What You Will Learn

• Six-Step Reframing – Uncover the positive intention behind unwanted habits and shift behaviour at the unconscious level
• Visual Squash (Parts Integration) – Gently resolve inner conflict by integrating opposing parts of the self
• Timeline Repatterning – Change the emotional charge of past memories and strengthen future confidence
• Organic Belief Change – Support clients to challenge and update long-held limiting beliefs using spatial anchoring
• The Logical Levels Model – Work across identity, values, behaviour, and environment for lasting alignment and change
• Sleight of Mouth Patterns – Reframe limiting beliefs through gentle conversational language shifts
• Cause and Effect Disruption – Use advanced language techniques to loosen stuck thinking patterns
• Milton Model Language Patterns – Use hypnotic, permissive language to guide the unconscious towards resolution
• Meta Model – Use precision questioning to challenge vague, distorted, or limiting language
• Ecological Checks – Explore congruency and safety across systems when applying therapeutic change
• Future Pacing – Install new beliefs and behaviours using imagery and internal rehearsal

Course Structure:

Who Should Attend

This event is ideal for solution focused hypnotherapists, clinical hypnotherapists, and integrative therapists looking to deepen their understanding and use of NLP within their client work.

You do not need to have attended Module One to join us for this day. Module Two works beautifully as a stand-alone training for those with prior NLP knowledge or clinical experience — and provides powerful techniques that blend seamlessly with hypnotherapy and coaching.

Modules may be booked separately or together. Contact us for a discount code if booking both.

About Your Trainer

I’m Lisa Williams Edgar, Clinical Hypnotherapist, NLP Practitioner, and Level 5 NCH Registered Supervisor. With over 13 years’ client experience, I specialise in helping clients move from stuck to free, gently and effectively.

As Co-Director of New Horizon Training Academy and Senior Lecturer with Ayurva Training Academy, I am passionate about training therapists to use practical, powerful tools – not just in theory, but with real clinical confidence.

Additional Resources

All attendees will receive a comprehensive downloadable large Resource Pack, including:

Scripts, walkthroughs and visual diagrams
Practice exercises and handouts
Belief change and parts work tools
Language pattern guides and NLP structure sheets
Integration strategies and client-ready examples

What Past Attendees Said (Module One):

“The most useful CPD I have ever attended, inspiring me to put my new knowledge into action.
What was most useful? Breakout rooms for practising, clear step-by-step explanations, and PowerPoint.
Was the course value for money? Yes!”
— Sarah Sollom

“A brilliant CPD day — lots of content, inspiration, examples, good explanations, step-by-step guides, and provision of course slides and workbook. A really packed day!
Would love the chance to follow up with a second day…
Thanks again for a great day :)”
— Karen W

“All aspects were helpful. EXCELLENT.”
— Amoy Noel

About New Horizon Training:

New Horizon Training was awarded the Provider of Training Excellence by the Professional Development Consortium in April 2023. In proud collaboration with the accredited Ayurva Academy, we continue to deliver high-quality, accredited CPD to help therapists grow, evolve, and succeed.

Date of event: Jul 31, 2026

Duration of Event: 1 day

Venue for event: Zoom

Name of trainer: Lisa Williams Edgar/New Horizon Training Academy

Tel bookings:

Email bookings: enquiries@newhorizontraining.co.uk

Website: https://www.newhorizontraining.co.uk/events/nlp-advanced-applications-for-hypnotherapists-2026-07-31-292

Maximum number of participants: 16

Cost of Course: £125

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CPD Event title: Working with Chronic Illness Including Long Covid

Brief Description Of Event:

We live in a chronic illness epidemic. Studies indicate that around 30% of the UK population has one chronic illness; many more live with multiple conditions.

In this course, we will explore some of the potential underlying causes for this chronic illness situation, and the most effective ways that we can support someone with chronic illness, as therapists, and what we should know in order to work safely with illness.

We will look at a holistic framework for supporting people with illness, and understand the neuropsychiatric manifestations of some illnesses, and how they might show up in your clients as ‘mental health’ issues.

We will look at what support someone with chronic illness needs, and how we can safely and effectively provide that, and also what we need to be aware of in order to work safely with clients who are ill.

Learning Objectives:

On the workshop you will learn:

• Causes of chronic illness, inflammation, and the neuropsychiatric manifestations of physical illness
• Red flags, contraindications, and when and how to refer
• A holistic framework to healing from chronic illness
• Nervous System regulation in chronic illness
• Safety in chronic illness
• Validation and advocacy in chronic illness
• Trauma and chronic illness
• Stress and inflammation
• Therapy tools for working with chronic illness
• How to avoid unintentional harm to those with chronic illness
• Issues you may encounter, and how to overcome them – troubleshooting when working with chronic illness

Course Structure: Live via Zoom   –  10am – 4pm

Date of event: Jun 13, 2026

Duration of Event: 1 days

Venue for event: LIVE ZOOM Workshop

Name of trainer: Deborah Bircham

Tel bookings: 07960788093

Email bookings: mags@clemturner.co.uk

Website: https://goldleaftraining.com/working-with-chronic-illness-including-long-covid/

Maximum number of participants:

Cost of Course: £170

Additional information/requirements:

Deborah Bircham DipCNM, UKIHCA-RHC, Dip.Hyp, mNCIP, mANP.

Deborah is the founder of Live Well with Chronic Illness, and specialises in holistic support for people living with long-term illness.

She is a Hypnotherapist, Mindfulness Teacher, Naturopathic Wellness Coach, and Integral Eye Movement Therapy (IEMT) Practitioner, and she combines health coaching with mindfulness and psychotherapy to support her clients to be as well as they can in mind and body.

She works in ways that are neurodiversity and trauma-informed and has a particular interest in environmentally-acquired illness, and also in how we can support our physical wellbeing through self-care practices. She lives with chronic pain, MCAS, Dysautonomia and Lyme Disease, and uses her own lived experience of long-term illness to inform her work.

She is living proof that chronic illness needn’t prevent you from being able to lead a happy and meaningful life, and she supports people to connect with their inner wisdom to explore what that looks like for them

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