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.
• When to refer – recognising red flags and potential medical sleep disorders.

Date of event: Apr 16, 2027

Duration of Event: 1 day, 10.00 – 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 training.

Additional Information

Counts as 7 hours CPD.

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

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CPD Event title: Mindful Menopause® Practitioner Training: the course that sits alongside the book Mindful Menopause, by bestselling author Sophie Fletcher

Brief Description Of Event:

Sophie Fletcher is the bestselling author of Mindful Menopause, and this is the practitioner training that sits alongside the book. It teaches you to use the book’s approach with your own clients, in groups and one to one, with a complete programme to deliver and a year of support while you build it into your practice.

Most menopause CPD gives you a day of information. This training gives you two days, each with a different purpose.

Day one is about the clients you already see. Perimenopause often sits inside ordinary presentations such as sleep, weight, anxiety and confidence, and midlife women don’t always respond to the approaches that usually work, so a more integrative approach is needed. You’ll learn to recognise when hormone changes may be part of the picture, to understand why something isn’t working, and to adapt with more flexibility, so that you feel sure of what is in front of you. You’ll also learn some of Sophie’s simple but effective approaches that you can offer as packages, such as the Hot Flush Protocol, which can be run as a standalone product over three sessions.

Day two gives you something new to offer. You’ll learn to teach the six hour Mindful Menopause® programme, which turns the book into a practical course you can run as a single day, over six weeks, or adapt for one-to-one work. Your clients can read the book alongside it. The handouts, workbooks, scripts and audio tracks are ready to use, so you can start with a clear structure and make it your own as your confidence grows.

Sophie has been a hypnotherapist for more than 20 years and has taught hypnosis and mindfulness to groups of women for 15 of them. She is also a clinical supervisor. You’ll train alongside fellow hypnotherapists, and for the following 12 months you’ll have a practitioner community and monthly group coaching, so there is always somewhere to bring a question when you get stuck.

The programme is the first of its kind, and the current fee is an introductory price for the practitioners who join at the beginning.

This is not a medical menopause course. It is designed to sit alongside medical care, with or without HRT.

Learning Objectives:

Date of event: Nov 20 & 21, 2027

Duration of Event: 2 days

Venue for event: Live – online

Name of trainer: Sophie Fletcher

Tel bookings:

Email bookings: sophie@sophiefletcher.co.uk

Website: https://www.sophiefletcher.co.uk/mindful_menopause_teacher_training_hypnotherapist

Maximum number of participants: 

Cost of Course: £550 (introductory price)

Each runs 1pm to 7pm UK time, which is 2pm to 8pm Central Europe and 8am to 2pm US Eastern.

What practitioners say about this training

“What an incredible weekend of Mindful Menopause training! Sophie is so knowledgeable and approachable. The training was in-depth and I feel like I now have the tools to deliver MM workshops in the future and also bring elements of learning into my existing solution-focused hypnotherapy practice.”

“I feel very confident with this training. The way the course is structured and the content feels very comfortable to deliver and I feel I am ready to hold the space for individuals and groups and will be able to use the course materials to support the learning for my clients.”

“This training now ranks equal first among my all-time favourites. From the very beginning, Sophie’s warmth is evident, and the space she creates is incredibly safe, supportive, and enriching.”

“The language throughout the course is not over complicated although there is very good scientific evidence and knowledge. The course flowed really well and I thought was well worth the investment.”

“I found the training excellent. It was very well planned, informative, easy to follow and understand and set out very well for group or individual work on perimenopause.”

Bookings are covered by the terms at https://www.sophiefletcher.co.uk/booking-terms

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CPD Event title: Mindful Menopause® Practitioner Training: the course that sits alongside the book Mindful Menopause, by bestselling author Sophie Fletcher

Brief Description Of Event:

Sophie Fletcher is the bestselling author of Mindful Menopause, and this is the practitioner training that sits alongside the book. It teaches you to use the book’s approach with your own clients, in groups and one to one, with a complete programme to deliver and a year of support while you build it into your practice.

Most menopause CPD gives you a day of information. This training gives you two days, each with a different purpose.

Day one is about the clients you already see. Perimenopause often sits inside ordinary presentations such as sleep, weight, anxiety and confidence, and midlife women don’t always respond to the approaches that usually work, so a more integrative approach is needed. You’ll learn to recognise when hormone changes may be part of the picture, to understand why something isn’t working, and to adapt with more flexibility, so that you feel sure of what is in front of you. You’ll also learn some of Sophie’s simple but effective approaches that you can offer as packages, such as the Hot Flush Protocol, which can be run as a standalone product over three sessions.

Day two gives you something new to offer. You’ll learn to teach the six hour Mindful Menopause® programme, which turns the book into a practical course you can run as a single day, over six weeks, or adapt for one-to-one work. Your clients can read the book alongside it. The handouts, workbooks, scripts and audio tracks are ready to use, so you can start with a clear structure and make it your own as your confidence grows.

Sophie has been a hypnotherapist for more than 20 years and has taught hypnosis and mindfulness to groups of women for 15 of them. She is also a clinical supervisor. You’ll train alongside fellow hypnotherapists, and for the following 12 months you’ll have a practitioner community and monthly group coaching, so there is always somewhere to bring a question when you get stuck.

The programme is the first of its kind, and the current fee is an introductory price for the practitioners who join at the beginning.

This is not a medical menopause course. It is designed to sit alongside medical care, with or without HRT.

Learning Objectives:

Date of event: May 22 & 23, 2027

Duration of Event: 2 days

Venue for event: Live – online

Name of trainer: Sophie Fletcher

Tel bookings:

Email bookings: sophie@sophiefletcher.co.uk

Website: https://www.sophiefletcher.co.uk/mindful_menopause_teacher_training_hypnotherapist

Maximum number of participants: 

Cost of Course: £550 (introductory price)

Each runs 1pm to 7pm UK time, which is 2pm to 8pm Central Europe and 8am to 2pm US Eastern.

What practitioners say about this training

“What an incredible weekend of Mindful Menopause training! Sophie is so knowledgeable and approachable. The training was in-depth and I feel like I now have the tools to deliver MM workshops in the future and also bring elements of learning into my existing solution-focused hypnotherapy practice.”

“I feel very confident with this training. The way the course is structured and the content feels very comfortable to deliver and I feel I am ready to hold the space for individuals and groups and will be able to use the course materials to support the learning for my clients.”

“This training now ranks equal first among my all-time favourites. From the very beginning, Sophie’s warmth is evident, and the space she creates is incredibly safe, supportive, and enriching.”

“The language throughout the course is not over complicated although there is very good scientific evidence and knowledge. The course flowed really well and I thought was well worth the investment.”

“I found the training excellent. It was very well planned, informative, easy to follow and understand and set out very well for group or individual work on perimenopause.”

Bookings are covered by the terms at https://www.sophiefletcher.co.uk/booking-terms

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CPD Event title: Mindful Menopause® Practitioner Training: the course that sits alongside the book Mindful Menopause, by bestselling author Sophie Fletcher

Brief Description Of Event:

Sophie Fletcher is the bestselling author of Mindful Menopause, and this is the practitioner training that sits alongside the book. It teaches you to use the book’s approach with your own clients, in groups and one to one, with a complete programme to deliver and a year of support while you build it into your practice.

Most menopause CPD gives you a day of information. This training gives you two days, each with a different purpose.

Day one is about the clients you already see. Perimenopause often sits inside ordinary presentations such as sleep, weight, anxiety and confidence, and midlife women don’t always respond to the approaches that usually work, so a more integrative approach is needed. You’ll learn to recognise when hormone changes may be part of the picture, to understand why something isn’t working, and to adapt with more flexibility, so that you feel sure of what is in front of you. You’ll also learn some of Sophie’s simple but effective approaches that you can offer as packages, such as the Hot Flush Protocol, which can be run as a standalone product over three sessions.

Day two gives you something new to offer. You’ll learn to teach the six hour Mindful Menopause® programme, which turns the book into a practical course you can run as a single day, over six weeks, or adapt for one-to-one work. Your clients can read the book alongside it. The handouts, workbooks, scripts and audio tracks are ready to use, so you can start with a clear structure and make it your own as your confidence grows.

Sophie has been a hypnotherapist for more than 20 years and has taught hypnosis and mindfulness to groups of women for 15 of them. She is also a clinical supervisor. You’ll train alongside fellow hypnotherapists, and for the following 12 months you’ll have a practitioner community and monthly group coaching, so there is always somewhere to bring a question when you get stuck.

The programme is the first of its kind, and the current fee is an introductory price for the practitioners who join at the beginning.

This is not a medical menopause course. It is designed to sit alongside medical care, with or without HRT.

Learning Objectives:

Date of event: Jan 23 & 24, 2027

Duration of Event: 2 days

Venue for event: Live – online

Name of trainer: Sophie Fletcher

Tel bookings:

Email bookings: sophie@sophiefletcher.co.uk

Website: https://www.sophiefletcher.co.uk/mindful_menopause_teacher_training_hypnotherapist

Maximum number of participants: 

Cost of Course: £550 (introductory price)

Each runs 1pm to 7pm UK time, which is 2pm to 8pm Central Europe and 8am to 2pm US Eastern.

What practitioners say about this training

“What an incredible weekend of Mindful Menopause training! Sophie is so knowledgeable and approachable. The training was in-depth and I feel like I now have the tools to deliver MM workshops in the future and also bring elements of learning into my existing solution-focused hypnotherapy practice.”

“I feel very confident with this training. The way the course is structured and the content feels very comfortable to deliver and I feel I am ready to hold the space for individuals and groups and will be able to use the course materials to support the learning for my clients.”

“This training now ranks equal first among my all-time favourites. From the very beginning, Sophie’s warmth is evident, and the space she creates is incredibly safe, supportive, and enriching.”

“The language throughout the course is not over complicated although there is very good scientific evidence and knowledge. The course flowed really well and I thought was well worth the investment.”

“I found the training excellent. It was very well planned, informative, easy to follow and understand and set out very well for group or individual work on perimenopause.”

Bookings are covered by the terms at https://www.sophiefletcher.co.uk/booking-terms

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CPD Event title: Mindful Mamma® Hypnobirthing Teacher Training with Sophie Fletcher

Brief Description Of Event:

Date of event: Dec 11 & 12, 2027

Duration of Event: 2 days

Venue for event: Online

Name of trainer: Sophie Fletcher

Tel bookings:

Email bookings: sophie@sophiefletcher.co.uk

Website: https://www.sophiefletcher.co.uk/hypnobirthing-teacher-training

Maximum number of participants: 

Cost of Course: £900

Additional information/requirements:

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CPD Event title: Mindful Mamma® Hypnobirthing Teacher Training with Sophie Fletcher

Brief Description Of Event:

Date of event: Sept 18 & 19, 2027

Duration of Event: 2 days

Venue for event: Online

Name of trainer: Sophie Fletcher

Tel bookings:

Email bookings: sophie@sophiefletcher.co.uk

Website: https://www.sophiefletcher.co.uk/hypnobirthing-teacher-training

Maximum number of participants: 

Cost of Course: £900

Additional information/requirements:

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CPD Event title: Working with Eating Disorders

Brief Description Of Event:

Adapting Solution Focused Hypnotherapy for Safe and Effective Work with Eating Disorders.

This course is designed to deepen practitioners’ understanding of eating disorders and provide a clear, ethical framework for adapting the Solution Focused Hypnotherapy (SFH) model to support clients safely and appropriately. With between 1.25 and 3.4 million people in the UK affected — around 25% of whom are male — the need for informed, ethical and clinically aware practitioners has never been greater. Early intervention is key, and understanding how to respond appropriately can significantly improve outcomes.

The training will support you in understanding the distinction between disordered eating and diagnosable eating disorders, recognising early warning signs, and knowing how to respond safely. You will learn how to carry out appropriate risk assessments, understand when it is not suitable to work with a client, and how to safeguard individuals where there may be significant risk. Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric illness, and anorexia nervosa in particular carries a significantly increased risk of premature death, with mortality rates notably higher than the general population .

Alongside this, the CPD explores the physiology of eating disorders and their impact on the brain, including considerations around obesity and ethical weight loss. You will gain clarity on when and how to work collaboratively with other professionals, and how to adapt our Initial Consultation to different client needs. Ultimately, this training equips you with the knowledge, boundaries and practical skills to support clients with poor relationships with food in a safe, ethical and effective way.

This CPD explores the physiology of eating disorders and the impact of dieting, building a clear understanding of underlying causes. It also delves into different presentations, safeguarding, and how to adapt your practice to safely and effectively support those experiencing eating disorders.

Course Content

Key Learning Areas Neuroscience & Physiology

• How the body regulates weight and stores fat
• Impact of undernourishment and dieting on brain and body
• Links between restriction, stress, and disordered thinking

Dieting & Risk Factors

• Dieting as a key trigger
• Effects of diet culture and body image pressures
• Role of stress, trauma, and personality traits

Understanding Eating Disorders

• Difference between disordered eating and eating disorders
• Diagnostic criteria and types (anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder)
• Psychological, biological, and social contributing factors
• Insight into the mindset of someone with an eating disorder

Food, Nourishment & Recovery

• Importance of adequate nourishment
• Disruption of hunger, fullness, and pleasure cues
• Rebuilding a balanced relationship with food

Safeguarding & Scope of Practice

• Recognising signs and symptoms
• When not to work with a client
• Referral pathways and multidisciplinary support
• Ethical and professional boundaries

Adapting the SFH Model

• Modifying language and goals for safe practice
• Supporting gradual, sustainable change
• Working appropriately with young people

Working with Presentations

• Greater understanding of anorexia
• Awareness of varying presentations and risks

Applying to Practice

• Integrating knowledge into clinical work
• Supporting recovery through nourishment and awareness
• Prioritising client safety and best outcomes

Date of event: Mar 21, 2027

Duration of Event: 1 day, 10.00 – 4.30pm

Venue for event: Online

Name of trainer: Holly Stone

Tel bookings:

Email bookings:

Website: https://www.cpht.co.uk/events/27-working-with-eating-disorders-1-day/

Maximum number of participants: 15

Cost of Course: £105

Additional information/requirements:

About your tutor

Holly is a Solution Focused Hypnotherapist, holding the Hypnotherapy in Practice Diploma (HPD), and is a Master Practitioner in Eating Disorders, with additional qualifications in CBTi (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia). She trained with CPHT Surrey (formerly Guildford) and is now the Senior Lecturer for CPHT Hampshire, where she also provides professional supervision to other therapists.

Holly has a specialist interest in working with disordered eating and eating disorders and holds the Master Practitioner Certification in Eating Disorders and Obesity through the National Centre for Eating Disorders. Within her clinical practice, over 80% of the clients she supports present with a poor relationship with food, providing her with extensive applied experience in this area.

Her interest in this field is both professional and personal, having been shaped by her experience supporting her daughter through a diagnosis of anorexia. This led to a deepening of her clinical focus and the subsequent development of the PEACE Programme, a structured, solution-focused programme designed to support individuals — particularly in midlife — in developing a calmer, healthier and more balanced relationship with food and themselves.

Additional Information

Counts as 6.5 hours CPD.

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

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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: Apr 23, 2027

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: Building and Growing your Hypnotherapy Practice

Brief Description Of Event:

This CPD will give you a clear vision of how you want your practice to run, your target audience, marketing strategies and the necessary steps needed to take in order to achieve this.

Whether you have recently graduated, have been qualified a while and need a kickstart in your business or are looking to make the leap over to full time practice then this CPD is for you.

This CPD will cover everything that you need to know about building and growing a successful hypnotherapy practice. You will leave with a clear vision of how you want your practice to run, your target audience, marketing strategies and the necessary steps needed to take in order to achieve this.

You will better understand how to market yourself as a therapist and build a referral network. You will gain confidence in setting up and/or running your practice and leave feeling ready to conquer the world of self employment!

Course Content

This CPD will cover:

• Creating your ideal therapy practice.
• Brand messaging and niche.
• Marketing strategies.
• What else to consider when building/growing a practice.
• Life as a business owner- what to expect along the way and the qualities needed to succeed.
• Mindset blocks in business and how to overcome them.

Learning Objectives:

• To gain confidence in setting up/running your own practice.
• Support to make the leap over to full time hypnotherapy.
• To become ‘unstuck’ in your practice and grow and evolve.
• To create a clearer vision of your own practice, ideal client and target audience.
• Increased awareness of different marketing strategies and aspects of running a practice and business.
• To overcome mindset blocks in running a business.

Date of event: Mar 19, 2027

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/12-building-and-growing-your-hypnotherapy-practice/

Maximum number of participants: 24

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 senior lecturer for CPHT Chester, and 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: PTSD & C-PTSD Understanding Trauma

Brief Description Of Event:

This CPD will give you an understanding of what PTSD and C-PTSD is, the symptoms and how they impact the survivor and their families, and how we can help as Solution Focused Hypnotherapists.

This CPD will give you an understanding of what PTSD and C-PTSD is, the symptoms and how they impact the survivor and their families, and how we can help as Solution Focused Hypnotherapists.

PTSD & C-PTSD (Complex PTSD) are present more and more within therapy sessions which can be daunting to deal with, understanding that they are more than flashbacks and panic attacks. Being able to recognise and have knowledge of the symptoms and how they can impact our clients and their families, will empower our client work. As therapists, we can give our clients back their power and the ability to move on from trauma.

Course Content

This course will cover:

• What is trauma, PTSD and Complex PTSD
• The Impact trauma has on the mind/brain
• How some can be affected and others not
• An understanding of symptoms of PTSD & C-PTSD
• Coping techniques to pass onto clients
• Rewind – When it is and is not suitable for trauma
• The importance of supporting the supporter

Learning Objectives:

The knowledge you will acquire in this CPD will give you an understanding of PTSD and C-PTSD, the symptoms and how they impact clients. Only doctors can diagnose PTSD or C-PTSD, but you will be able to recognise the symptoms, signpost them to their GP if required and wanted, and help you support client based work.

You will also be able to explain the benefits of the solution focused approach when dealing with trauma, and how repeatedly talking about trauma can re-traumatise your clients and strengthen the memories and behavioural patterns. You will know how to use the solution focused approach and gain the techniques to pass on to your clients to help them manage symptoms and regain control of their lives.

Date of event: Sept 12, 2027

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

Venue for event: Online

Name of trainer: Emma Jones

Tel bookings:

Email bookings:

Website: https://www.cpht.co.uk/events/4-ptsd-c-ptsd-understanding-trauma/

Maximum number of participants: 25

Cost of Course: £105

Additional information/requirements:

About your tutor

Emma qualified in July 2021 with CPHT gaining her HPD and DFSH. She works full time as a hypnotherapist in her own practice in Essex, along with running anxiety workshops. She continues to work with police officers and groups that support them, which has include speaking at police exhibitions and delivering training to the Metropolitan and Wiltshire Police.

Prior to this Emma spent over 10 years in the police as a detective working on domestic abuse, homicide and eventually specialising in sexual offences. These roles also involved being a family liaison officer to victims or their families in the cases of murder. As an officer she also received training around the impact of trauma on officers and victims.

A note from Emma: ‘I was diagnosed with ADHD myself in 2022 at the age of 44. I have since learned a great deal about ADHD, how to manage the symptoms, and make them work for me. The diagnosis along with one of ASD which came at the same time, has actually lead to me being able to truly understand who I am for the first time in my life.

I want to help others with ADHD, and I have a number of clients with ADHD. Educating my colleagues and other therapists about ADHD will spread the support for those living with it, some of whom may in later life only just be learning they have it and this is who they are.’

Additional Information

Counts as 7 hours CPD.

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

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