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Practitioner Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy & Master HypnoDoula

Practitioner Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy & Master HypnoDoula

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Highlights

  • On-Demand workshop

  • 11 months

  • Intermediate level

Description

Hypno-Doula Diploma, JOYBirth Education Programme.

The Award-Winning JOYBirth Hypnobirthing Teacher Training is now an exclusive, 11-module programme designed to transform you into a confident, highly skilled practitioner.

We go far beyond traditional hypnobirthing certification. Your training begins with the essential foundations of clinical hypnotherapy, covering the first four modules of The Northern College of Clinical Hypnotherapy syllabus.

This robust clinical grounding equips you with a professional and ethical framework to work effectively with a vast range of client needs.

The course is structured to teach you how to deliver a complete Joy Birth programme, providing clients with simple, powerful tools for a calm, confident, and beautiful birthing experience. You will learn how to:

  • Teach self-hypnosis, relaxation, and breathing techniques.

  • Help clients release fear and anxiety to break the Fear-Tension-Pain cycle.

  • Work with clients in both one-on-one and group settings.

  • Work with natural fertility, wellbeing though pregnancy and post-natal hypnotherapy

  • Support parents through grief, loss and difficulties including miscarriage and birth trauma.

  • Set up your own practice and support people on the journey from conception through pregnancy and into the 4th trimester.

  • Support women through complete hormonal health--, from navigating menstrual cycle challenges to delivering specialized perimenopause and post menopause support.

  • Master sexual freedom hypnosis to help clients release subconscious blocks, reclaim body confidence, and step into vibrant intimate well-being.

At the NCCH we recognise that the journey to parenthood is not a 9-month event, but a continuous transformation beginning at conception and culminating in the essential Fourth Trimester. To provide truly comprehensive and empathetic care, our approach supports women through this entire cycle.

We committed to train you so that your service prioritises not just a healthy baby, but a healthy, recovered, and well-supported mother/birthing parent.

The Four Stages of Transformation

Stage

Focus & Challenge

Goal of Our Hypnotherapy-Aligned Support

Natural Fertility & 1st Trimester

Foundation & Alignment: Navigating intense physical and emotional shifts; establishing a positive mindset about pregnancy.

Deep Affirmation & Anchoring: Utilising visualisation and deep relaxation to anchor feelings of well-being, reduce nausea, and build confidence in the body's wisdom.

2nd Trimester

Growth & Connection: Integrating the growing life; shifting identity toward "Mother" through a calm, centred presence.

Conscious Connection & Self-Hypnosis: Teaching self-hypnosis techniques to deepen the bond with the baby, visualise optimal growth, and reinforce positive self-talk and identity integration.

3rd Trimester

Preparation & Power: Managing physical discomfort; replacing fear of labour with confident expectation and calm readiness.

Empowered Birth Visualisation: Intensive training in hypnotic birthing techniques, including pain-management strategies through breath, focus, and deep physical relaxation, creating a positive neural pathway for the birth.

4th Trimester

Recovery & Integration (0-3 Months Postpartum): Healing the body, managing sleep deprivation, and preventing anxiety through emotional resilience.

Resilience & Restoration Hypnosis: Providing specialised support, audios and techniques focused on rest consolidation, rapid physical healing visualisation, emotional regulation, and bonding, affirming the parent's competence and inner strength.

Beyond birth and perinatal care, this programme equips you to become a true women’s well-being expert. You will gain the clinical hypnotherapy tools needed to support women across every stage of their hormonal journey—addressing early menstrual cycle challenges, fostering cycle awareness, and providing empowering support through perimenopause and postmenopause. Furthermore, your training incorporates specialized sexual freedom hypnosis, enabling you to help clients release subconscious blocks, heal intimate disconnect, and embrace their body’s natural wisdom at every age.

This is a go-at-your-own-pace course, with an estimated completion time of 11 months.

The Outcomes of Study

Upon graduation, you will be uniquely qualified to support and guide a broad spectrum of parents and will be fully equipped to launch your successful practice.

You will be certified to work with a large range of clients, including those with complex and sensitive backgrounds, such as parents who have experienced:

  • Baby loss, including miscarriage and stillbirth.

  • Traumatic previous births or postnatal PTSD.

  • Termination of pregnancy.

  • Deliver holistic, life-stage care as a women's well-being expert, expanding your practice to work with clients through menstrual health issues, menopausal transitions, and sexual empowerment.

You will gain the skills to:

  • Apply clinical hypnotherapy techniques, which are recognised as an extremely effective procedure for the reduction and elimination of PTSD symptoms.

  • Help clients overcome and let go of the influence of negative memories of previous traumatic births.

  • Provide a deeper, trauma-informed level of care that goes beyond simple relaxation.

  • Establish yourself as an expert who can confidently guide parents towards a positive birth experience, regardless of the route their baby chooses to come into the world.

  • Launch and run your own thriving Hypno-birthing business, with the practical strategies needed to attract clients, market your services ethically, and build a sustainable practice.

  • Confidently lead both group classes and 1-to-1 sessions, mastering dynamic group facilitation techniques to create supportive, high-energy learning environments for expectant parents.

  • Guide clients to achieve hypnotic birth experiences, equipping parents with self-hypnosis, deep relaxation, and fear-release tools so they feel calm, empowered, and in control--, no matter how their birth unfolds.

The Support Whilst You Study and Beyond

Your training includes continuous, expert support from two perspectives: an experienced clinical hypnotherapist, a clinical supervisor and a midwife. You will also join the Trance Tribe a learning community of students and graduates. This hybrid support model ensures you have both the psychological and clinical knowledge to succeed.

Your unparalleled support package includes Trance tribe Membership:

Hybrid Training: Access to face-to-face training sessions to practice and consolidate your skills.

Professional Peer Supervision: Dedicated time for professional peer supervision to discuss case studies and ensure best practice.

Monthly Meet & Master Training: Group sessions focused on advanced techniques and professional development.

Weekly Practice Spaces & Monthly Masterclasses: Regular opportunities to hone your skills and deepen your expertise.

Business Support and Guidance: Practical advice to help you build and grow a successful, ethical practice.

workshop Content

11 sections152 lessons
Welcome 1 lesson
  1. Hypnobirthing, JOY Journey of your birth programme.
Module One26 lessons
  1. Introduction to Module One
  2. Videos of Amanda Teaching Module One
  3. The Entrainment Transformation Principle
  4. The VAK Trance Induction
  5. The 7 Main Induction Types.
  6. Advanced Hypnotic Language Techniques.
  7. Planning Your Therapy
  8. Taboo Words
  9. The Ethical foundation of Therapeutic practice
  10. An Introduction To Reflective Practice for Clinical Hypnotherapists
  11. Empowering Clients Through Meaningful Goal Planning and Boundary Setting: A Guiding Practice for Hypnotherapists
  12. Exploring Values, Beliefs, and Motivation in Clinical Hypnotherapy: Foundations for Personal Development and Effective Client Work
  13. Hypnotherapy Without Trance Introduction
  14. Communication in Hypnosis Without Trance
  15. Specific Questioning
  16. Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication
  17. Sell the Benefits.
  18. Deepening the Trance
  19. Other Deepening Techniques
  20. Ideo Motor Signalling
  21. Will Power or Won't Power
  22. Arm Levitation or Elevation
  23. Abreaction
  24. Special Place or the Therapeutic Inner Sanctuary
  25. Final Thought and Extra Resources
  26. Phase Test Assignment and Reading Resources
Module Two17 lessons
  1. Introduction to module 2
  2. Videos of Amanda Teaching
  3. The Four Ideodynamic Categories in Hypnosis
  4. Arm levitation
  5. Feedback loops
  6. Pacing (say what you see)
  7. Suggestion therapy
  8. Basic process for HypnoBirthing sessions
  9. A faster induction
  10. Conditioning your client
  11. Metaphors for Hypnobirthing
  12. Memory regression and revivification
  13. Timeline regression
  14. Using “clean” language
  15. The Watkins Effect Bridge
  16. Working in the now
  17. Phase Test module 2 and useful extra resources.
Module Three20 lessons
  1. Introduction.
  2. Amanda Teaching Module 3
  3. Nominalisations
  4. Predicates
  5. Pacing as a language pattern and more, Ericksonian Hypnotic Language Patterns.
  6. Understanding Body Language.
  7. Language
  8. Setting up your HypnoBirthing Business.
  9. Entrepreneurship and being enterprising.
  10. Hypnotising a group of people
  11. Meet your higher self.
  12. Self hypnosis
  13. Anchoring techniques
  14. Hypnotic phenomena associated with alterations in voluntary muscles.
  15. Sub Modalities
  16. Stress
  17. The Clearance Technique for Birthing
  18. Re-framing
  19. Useful Things!
  20. Module 3 Online phase test
Module Four15 lessons
  1. Welcome to Module 4.
  2. Amanda teaching module 4
  3. Autosuggestion
  4. EFT Emotional freedom technique.
  5. Words have power.
  6. Pseudo orientation in time
  7. Fear vs. Phobia: Unlearning Birth Anxiety
  8. Watkins bridge
  9. Hypno anesthesia and introduction.
  10. Pain Management The P.A.R.E.N.T. System
  11. Pain Reduction Techniques
  12. The T.I.B. Framework (Total Integrative Birth)
  13. Hypnotic Protocol for Nausea Management
  14. Useful Things
  15. Module 4 Phase Test
Module Five10 lessons
  1. Module 5 Psychology & Neuroscience of Pregnancy and Birth
  2. Historical and Theoretical Context of Birth Psychology
  3. The Fear-Tension-Pain Cycle (Dick-Read)
  4. The Role of Conditioning in Birthing Beliefs
  5. Basic Neuroscience and the Brain The Neuron and Synaptic Transmission
  6. Informed Choice: Integrating Pharmacological Support with Hypnobirthing
  7. Key Brain Regions and Emotional Roles
  8. The Brain in Relaxation and Hypnosis Parasympathetic Dominance
  9. PTSD and Birth Trauma
  10. Reading resources and useful things!
Module Six 16 lessons
  1. Natural Fertility Introduction.
  2. Approaches for Natural Fertility
  3. Let’s start with what we need to know and what we teach our clients in addition to hypnotherapy in our Hypnobirthing classes.
  4. Leading with the Mind, Guiding the Body, Transforming Unconscious Birth Beliefs
  5. Harness the Power of Words
  6. Visualise Your Birth as...
  7. Examining Mammalian Birthing
  8. Harnessing Our Magical Hormones
  9. Choosing Your Birthing Location
  10. Understanding the Uterus
  11. Pelvic Floor Exercises
  12. Your Estimated Due Date
  13. Considerations for the birth plan
  14. Embracing Relaxation
  15. Creating Relaxation & discomfort management Anchors
  16. Breathing
Module Seven10 lessons
  1. Tool - Touch and Massage
  2. Tool - Visualization
  3. Discussing Comfort measures (I do this as a class activity).
  4. Teaching About Positions for Birthing
  5. Teaching the use of the Birthing Ball
  6. Navigating the Birth Journey
  7. Birth Partner's Role and Birthing Bag Preparation
  8. Help for birthing partners on the day
  9. Partners guide to timing the Surges.
  10. Birth Partners script
Module Eight 9 lessons
  1. Induction of Labour: Exploring the Intervention
  2. Embracing Change in Your Birth Plan
  3. Pregnancy relaxation classes
  4. Creating your own unique hypnobirthing sessions.
  5. Hypnobirthing Therapy Sessions & Scripts
  6. Guidelines for Crafting Your Own Structure.
  7. Session Outlines.
  8. Harnessing the Power of Stories, keeping your groups engaged.
  9. Resources
Module Nine 7 lessons
  1. Hypnotherapy for High-Risk Pregnancy: Two Specialised Protocols
  2. Loss and Bereavement.
  3. Navigating Caesarean Births: Insights and Preparation
  4. Birth Trauma & PTSD
  5. Postnatal Care
  6. The Fourth Trimester Postnatal Hypnotherapy.
  7. Parts Therapy to Map Out and Reconnect with Self
Module Ten21 lessons
  1. Period Power
  2. Hypnosis for Period Pain Relief.
  3. Your Menstrual Cycle: Its a Window into Your Health.
  4. Pill Medications Aren't Hormones.
  5. The menstrual cycle.
  6. Introduction to Perimenopause and menopause.
  7. Understanding Perimenopause: What Happens in the Body?
  8. A Guide for Hypnotherapists Supporting a Client Considering Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)
  9. Approaches
  10. Working with The future self.
  11. Cooling Metaphors and reducing hot flushes.
  12. Breathing Techniques for Hot Flashes and Stress Reduction
  13. Self-Hypnosis Techniques for Managing Symptoms
  14. Case study Perimenopausal Woman with Symptoms
  15. Sexual freedom Hypnosis
  16. Final Reflections.
  17. Part 1 Men's sexual health Introduction and
  18. Part 2 Client Psychoeducation, Behavioural Techniques and NLP Anchoring
  19. Part 3 Therapeutic Statements and Hypnotherapy Script Guide
  20. Part Four: Clinical AI Prompts, Practice Resources and Practitioner Support
  21. Final Assessment

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