Learning designed around real contact time, not just lectures

The training uses a “flipped classroom” approach: rather than sitting in a lecture while a tutor talks, you watch each lecture in your own time, then use live contact time for questions, discussion, practical exercises and feedback. It’s designed to be the most effective use of both your time and the time you spend with a trained tutor, and to take you to the same level of skill, knowledge and confidence as someone completing a classroom training, so you’re able to practise safely and effectively as a fully accredited hypnotherapist.

Whichever format you train in, the rhythm is similar: you engage with the material at your own pace, then bring questions, uncertainty and practical experience into a live setting where it can be worked through properly, rather than simply absorbed and moved past.

How one-to-one tutoring adapts to you

One-to-one tutoring means your tutor is consistently working with you at the edge of what you can already do, sometimes called your “zone of proximal development.” In practice, this means the pace of your learning is genuinely built around where you are, not a fixed group timetable. If something clicks quickly, you move forward; if something needs more time, you get that time, without a room full of other students waiting.

The Online Diploma includes 18 hours of one-to-one tutoring – worth over £900 – more dedicated individual contact time than most classroom programmes provide. Research on one-to-one tutoring has found the average tutored student can outperform 98% of students taught in a conventional classroom setting (Bloom, 1984).

All tutors are themselves registered Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapists who have completed the Diploma, been personally selected by Mark R. Davis, and completed additional training in Hypno-CBT® supervision and coaching.

What the workload actually looks like

The course includes around 100 hours of video content from the live training, edited into short modules with captions, plus supporting demonstration videos and downloadable audio of every lecture. You’ll also have three digital course manuals (over 900 pages in total) and more than 1,200 PowerPoint slides supporting each module. You’re enrolled for 12 months, with full access to revisit any material as often as you like for revision.

In total, including practicals, case studies and written assessment, most students should expect to allocate somewhere between 300 and 450 hours to complete the course and gain the qualification; we suggest planning for around 350 hours as a realistic guide. Many students complete within 6 months; the full 12 months is there for those who need it, and extensions are available if needed, though these are chargeable.