This course is your gateway to professional excellence. Strengthen your expertise, enhance client outcomes, and position yourself as an effective and respected practitioner. With advanced skills and knowledge, you’ll elevate your practice and build a reputation for delivering results.

The Advanced Course

The Advanced Solution Focused Hypnotherapy Course is designed for practitioners who want to build on their initial training and take their professional skills to the next level. This course expands your expertise by encouraging deeper academic thinking and self-reflection. It introduces new techniques, skills, and knowledge to enhance your work with clients and develop your abilities beyond clinical sessions.

Course fee

The full course fee is £585.00, which includes all CPD credits, training notes, and learning materials—no hidden fees.

What is covered on the syllabus?

The Advanced Diploma in Hypnotherapy covers a comprehensive range of theoretical and practical components to equip students with a deep understanding of client-centred therapy and professional development. Core elements include behavioural change theories, such as the HAPA model and SMART goal-setting, the impact of therapeutic relationships, and how resistance and suggestion influence client progress.

Emphasis is placed on handling complex client interactions through advanced questioning techniques, responding to difficult inquiries, and maintaining an ethical framework informed by critical thinking, research methodologies, and an understanding of power dynamics.

The course also delves into specialized therapeutic approaches such as Positive Psychology, NLP techniques like peripheral vision relaxation.

Students learn to adapt methods for diverse client presentations, including neurodiverse individuals, clients from the LGBTQ+ community, and those dealing with sensitive issues such as self-harm. Reflective practice, peer group facilitation, and advanced marketing strategies encourage professional development.

Ethical considerations, research design, and statistical analysis are integrated to ensure graduates are well-prepared to conduct evidence-based practice and contribute meaningfully to the hypnotherapy field.

What you’ll gain

You’ll earn the AdvDipH—the Advanced Diploma in Hypnotherapy when you complete the course. This qualification shows clients and colleagues you’ve developed expertise beyond foundational practice.

The course is accredited by the General Hypnotherapy Standards Council (GHSC). If you’re a GHR member, you can upgrade to Advanced Practitioner (ADPR) status. If you’re not a member, you can apply for membership at the advanced level after completion.

Flexible, self-paced learning

This course is designed to fit around your schedule. You can complete it in as little as 6 months or take up to 2 years. From the moment you register, you’ll have immediate access to detailed course materials, including substantial training notes, CPDs, and video content.

Assessments

The assessments are designed to challenge and engage you. There are 36 questions in total:

• 16 multiple-choice questions to reinforce core concepts.
• 20 written questions that require 2-3 paragraph responses, encouraging deeper reflection and application of your knowledge.

These assessments help you develop the academic and practical skills that set advanced practitioners apart.

Who can apply and how

This course is open to all Solution Focused Hypnotherapists, whether full-time or part-time. To apply, you’ll need to have completed a Solution Focused training course—either in person (minimum of 120 hours) or via SFTA’s distance learning program—with at least six months of clinical experience.

If you would like to apply:

1. Email info@sfta.co.uk to register your interest.
2. Or you can download an application form HERE to complete and email back to info@sfta.co.uk
3. Once your application is approved, you’ll receive confirmation and access to our learning platform, CANVAS, where you can begin your course.

Syllabus

Syllabus Advanced Diploma

Hypnotherapy theory

Factors that facilitate or impede change in clients eg extra therapeutic factors

HAPA approach and smart goals

Therapeutic relationship

Resistance and acquiescence

The Power of Suggestion

Advanced questions and spotting the opportunity

Handling difficult questions

Critical and academic thinking, logical and academic argumentation

Social science research methods, comparison studies, systematic review, meta-analysis

Statistics, descriptive statistics, research report layout

Research ethics

Advanced ethical considerations and debates

Power dynamics

Advanced approaches: Positive Psychology

Advanced approaches: Therapeutic Alliance 

Advanced approaches NLP for Hypnotherapists peripheral vision relaxation, circle of excellence etc.

Other advanced approaches, working without scripts, parts therapy technique/hands technique

Addressing other presenting clients, PE, ASD, Neurodiverse clients, Sexuality and Gender Diversity

How hypnotherapy benefits the LGBGT + community Supporting desisters and detransitioners

Self-harm

Professional Development eg personal development plan, being reflective, group hypnotherapy, setting up and running peer groups. Advanced marketing strategies

Time investment

141 hours in total

40 hours reading notes and watching videos (twice is recommended)

25 hours recommended reading

10 hours ‘thinking time around the reading’

20 hours practising new techniques with clients

20 hours of homework