The Hypno-CBT®
Helix
Integrated. Transformational. Designed for success.
A revolutionary model for becoming a confident, capable, and thriving therapist in today’s evolving world.
The Hypno-CBT® Helix weaves together three pathways: clinical expertise, personal transformation, and business confidence so that you don’t just learn therapy, you become the therapist you were meant to be.
The Story Behind the Helix
Since 2003, we’ve spent over two decades refining our Diploma programme, training over 3,000 therapists, learning what works and what holds people back. It’s an incredible programme, but we always strive to make it better, it’s under continuous review, improvement and development.
Over the years, we noticed something curious: while many graduates built thriving private practices and changed lives, others struggled to move forward. So we added business training and support. And yet, some still got stuck. Why?
For the past three years, we’ve been exploring this in depth, speaking with our students, tutors, supervisors, and coaches. We wanted to understand why some talented trainees didn’t take the final step into successful private practice.
Eventually, we found the answer and designed the solution. It wasn’t that they lacked clinical skill. It was confidence issues, limiting beliefs, not knowing how to turn training into action – despite learning powerful psychological tools, they hadn’t used the training experience to work on what was really holding them back.
So we brought everything together: our world-leading clinical training, extensive business mentoring, and deep mindset work, into one integrated system of support and transformation. We call it the Hypno-CBT® Helix.
What is the Helix?
The Hypno-CBT® Helix is a fully integrated, evidence-based training framework designed to help you succeed as a practitioner, a person, and a professional.
This embeds our existing Diploma training in clinical skills into a broader framework, with additional tailored individual support, to deliver real-world results: successful, confident therapists with thriving private practices.
The 3 Pathways of the Hypno-CBT® Helix
Rather than only training you in clinical skills and leaving you to figure out the rest, the Hypno-CBT® Helix integrates three essential developmental pathways for success, each reinforcing the others. The attention to each pathway and the interaction between them is what makes the programme effective.
Clinical Expertise Pathway:
The Hypno-CBT® Diploma Training Programme
You’ll gain cutting edge professional, evidence-based, accredited training in Hypno-CBT®, a powerful integration of hypnosis, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), and mindfulness. You’ll learn 35 evidence-based interventions, how to build effective treatment plans, and how to work confidently with a wide range of client issues. After the training experience, you’ll continue with case studies and a written assessment to gain your Level 5 Higher Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy.
- Hypno-CBT® Curriculum and Training Course
- Group and Individual learning pathway
- The Hypno-CBT® Toolkit: 35 evidence-based techniques
- Live supervision & case study feedback
- Level 5 Higher Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy, accredited by NCFE
The Higher Diploma in Cognitive-Behavioural Hypnotherapy is an NCFE Customised Qualification. Please note that this is an unregulated qualification and is not a nationally recognised qualification.
Personal Transformation Pathway:
The Hypno-CBT Personal Growth Journey
Self-belief and self-awareness are essential to build a successful therapy practice. That’s why personal development isn’t an “extra” in this programme, it’s mandatory from the very beginning.
Through practical exercises, journaling, personalised tutor coaching and daily practice, you’ll identify and shift limiting beliefs around success, visibility, money, and confidence. You’ll learn to apply Hypno-CBT® to yourself, building the mindset of a self-aware and confident therapist.
- The Hypno-CBT® Inventory of Limiting Professional Beliefs
- Ongoing tutor-led Mindset Coaching
- Reflective Practice Process (a key requirement for therapists)
- Personal practice plans: daily mindfulness and self-hypnosis for confidence, calmness & self-belief
- How to use the course experience for your personal growth
Business Mastery Pathway:
The Hypno-CBT® Business Accelerator
You’ll be guided step-by-step in launching and building a therapy business that fits your values and lifestyle – and generates the income you need. From pricing to marketing, referrals to client acquisition, nothing is left to guesswork. You’ll be taken through a carefully designed business planning and market strategy process.
You’ll leave the programme prepared to attract clients and earn a living doing what you love.
- Business Planning Guide and Process
- How to build your financial plan
- Our 6F–9P Marketing Strategy process
- Monthly live business sessions, plus a large archive of recorded sessions on specific topics
- Personal one-to-one business coaching
Why Helix?
The structure of success isn’t linear, it spirals.
The Hypno-CBT® Helix is designed to reflect how true transformation happens: you don’t just learn something once and move on. You revisit, apply, integrate, and build upon each part of the process.
Clinical skills, personal growth and real-world business skills aren’t three separate elements – they weave together, back and forth. As you learn, you change. As you change, your learning changes. As you expose yourself to the world of marketing and business (which you must, to succeed) you may feel uncomfortable, or procrastinate, that’s natural. You then work to uncover the mental block holding you back, and bring that into the practical exercises you’re learning on the course. Deeper change follows.
FOR EXAMPLE:
Celia was already a trained hypnotherapist but had no confidence in the method she’d learnt, and felt very uncomfortable charging decent fees for her services. As she took the training, she saw she could use what she was learning to target her own discomfort around money and therapy.
She worked hard on her limiting beliefs: “It’s wrong to charge money to help people,” “therapy should be free.” By the end of her training, her attitude and beliefs had completely transformed. Her therapy business took off, and she’s had a six-week waiting list ever since (and charges over £100/hour).
Each pathway supports the others:
- You learn a powerful technique (Clinical Expertise)
- As you work on your business planning, you identify an inner block – perhaps a confidence issue
- You use the new technique, either in the course practicals or on yourself, to shift that block (Personal Transformation)
- You feel more confident about the techniques because you’ve experienced them working
- You start showing up more confidently in your practice, with increased motivation and follow-through on your business plans
This is how the real shift happens. The key isn’t just to learn therapeutic skills, it’s to become the therapist you need to be: confident, capable, and ready to succeed.
What Makes the Helix Different?
What our students say
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| Standard hypnotherapy training | The Hypno-CBT® Helix |
|---|---|
| Clinical training only | Clinical training and whole-person development |
| Optional or tacked-on business support | Business planning and marketing strategy embedded from the start |
| One-size-fits-all group learning | 18 hours (online) or 6 hours (webcast) of individual one-to-one coaching – on clinical skills, personal growth and business planning |
| Focus on clinical skills only | Integrated focus: clinical skills + personal development + business strategy = designed for success in private practice |
| – | Level 5 Higher Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy, accredited by NCFE |
No two therapists are the same, so your learning journey shouldn’t be either. That’s why personalisation is at the core of the Hypno-CBT® Helix. Every student receives one-to-one support from an experienced tutor, helping you adapt the course to your goals, strengths, and needs.
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), one reason one-to-one tutoring has long been a hallmark of institutions like Oxford and Cambridge, and why it’s a central feature of the Helix. One-to-one coaching, individually tailored learning, is the secret key to success!
The Helix: More Than a New Name
The Hypno-CBT® Helix takes our renowned Diploma and integrates it into a ground breaking, revolutionary model for success. It’s a clearer, stronger expression of everything we’ve developed and refined over the past 20 years, taking what already worked, and strengthening it with new tools, personalised planning, and structured pathways for success.