The Mindvalley Certified Hypnotherapist program serendipitously reached out a hand to me at the right moment. Paul McKenna and his team more than kept their promise when in their curriculum they cover the wide scope of the methodology of hypnotherapy while emphasizing the importance of going beyond rigid script orientation to being resilient in recognizing and answering the client’s changing demands during a hypnotherapy session. They teach the building blocks of hypnotherapy from establishing rapport, pre-framing and ecology check, inductions, deepeners, anchoring, goal setting and timelines, special hypnotherapy applications, and deep trance phenomena all the way to conducting a hypnotherapy session. Paul McKenna also offers an effective non-hypnotherapeutic process: “havening” (Dr. Ronald Ruden) to manage overwhelming emotional states. The program especially features enhanced accelerated learning, NLP, and language patterns. Its notable highlight is Paul McKenna’s choice of case-proven hypnotherapy techniques that may be combined allowing the hypnotherapist to navigate successfully course-changing treatment requirements commonly encountered in a hypnotherapy session.
We were instructed in video modules, we were mentored in Q&A sessions, and trained and held accountable in “Labs” by patient and compassionate highly accomplished hypnotherapists.
Time and again we were told by our mentors: “Wherever you want to guide your client, you’ve got to be there first”. I hold state, grateful for the four-month experience as I recognize that becoming a great hypnotherapist is an attitude towards a person's ever-evolving process.