Hypnosis Certification

If you've ever wanted to gain your hypnosis certification, either for your own use or to become a hypnotherapist, there's never been a better time than now.  Online hypnosis courses have become much more common in the last few yeras, and one of the best learn-at-home hypnotherapy certification programs is offered by Transform Destiny.  This is the organization where I earned my certification, and I'm very pleased with the class and the results.  But I'm getting ahead of myself.  First let's talk about why you might want to get your certification, and how you can use it either personally or professionally.

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Why Become a Certified Hypnotist?

Most of us don't set out planning to become a hypnotherapist.  We arrive here by various other paths.  Ironically, we often arrive here thanks to our own issues, injuries and frustrations.  We've tried the so-called recipes for success, only to meet one obstacle after another.  At some point, we realize the biggest, most stubborn obstacles are within us.  We get just mad enough, just frustrated enough, that we decide to take matters into our own hands, and bootstrap ourselves up into some higher, better way of functioning, by learning hypnosis skills. 

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Personal Benefits

Earning a hypnosis certification can transform your life in profound ways, providing you with skills that enhance your personal health and quality of life. As a certified hypnotist, you’ll gain a deep understanding of the mind, learning techniques that can help you manage stress, improve focus, and foster personal growth.  Here are just a few examples:

1. Stress Management: Learn powerful techniques to reduce stress and anxiety, leading to a more relaxed and balanced life.
2. Improved Focus and Concentration: Use hypnosis to enhance your focus, productivity, and efficiency in both personal and professional tasks.
3. Self-Improvement: Apply hypnosis techniques to overcome bad habits, boost self-esteem, and develop healthier behaviors.
4. Emotional Healing: Gain tools to work through emotional challenges, trauma, and negative thought patterns, promoting mental well-being.
5. Enhanced Creativity: Unlock your creative potential by accessing deeper levels of your subconscious mind.
6. Better Sleep: Use self-hypnosis to improve your sleep quality, leading to better overall health and energy levels.
7. Personal Empowerment: Feel empowered by gaining control over your mind,  your self-talk, your emotions and your behaviors.  For anyone who has ever felt trapped by thoughts and behaviors that you don't want, self hypnosis can be the your own personal ticket to freedom and self empowerment.  

By earning a hypnosis certification, you not only equip yourself with valuable skills to help yourself overcome specific issues, as well as big-picture, quality-of-life characteristics.  Take control of your mental and emotional well-being, and transform your life with the knowledge and techniques you’ll acquire. 

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Professional Applications

At some point, after having fixed many of our own problems, we start thinking about sharing that new skillset with others.  Whether we've had other jobs, or even other careers, we can add "professional hypnotherapist" to our resume, once we've become certified.  It can be a side-gig, or our full-time work.  Whatever form it takes, hypnosis certification can give you valuable new skills for your community.

Need some examples?  Here are just a few ways you can use your certification:

1. Private Practice: Start your own hypnosis practice and work with clients on issues like stress, anxiety, weight loss, and smoking cessation.
2. Health and Wellness Centers: Offer your services in clinics, wellness centers, or spas to complement existing health and wellness programs.
3. Physician and Dentist Support: Your skills can help primary care providers with their patients by alleviating anxiety during visits.  You can also help them address specific issues such as reducing chronic pain, improving poor eating habits, reducing bruxism, kicking a smoking habit, and reducing chronic stress. 
4. Corporate Training: Provide workshops and seminars on stress management, productivity, and employee well-being.
5. Sports Coaching: Help athletes improve performance through mental conditioning and visualization techniques.
6. Musician Education and Support: You can help musicians reach higher levels of proficiency with their instruments, and perform at their best during concerts and competitions.
7. Educational Settings: Work with students to enhance learning, focus, and test-taking strategies.

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My Own Journey To Hypnosis Certification

I didn't start out wanting to get certified.  In fact I didn't start out thinking about any sort of professional development or continuing education.  I was just trying to figure out why I had certain behaviors which kept getting in the way of my goals.  I started taking NLP classes through Transform Destiny, and I actually sort of avoided the whole hypnosis category because I had some misconceptions about hypnosis.  I didn't want to be brainwashed, and have someone put ideas into my head.  

It was only after I'd taken several other classes, and worked through those initial issues, that I started to gain interest in learning about hypnosis.  By then I had learned a lot more about how the mind works, and I was no longer intimidated by the notion of hypnosis.  I decided to take a single class just to get some introductory information, and learn a few techniques I could use on myself.

Once I'd gained a little bit of experience with that first class, I started to see how various hypnosis techniques could be really helpful to overcome garden-variety issues.  I continued to take classes, but I was still just interested in using those techniques on myself.  The idea that I could turn this into a job was still beyond my attention or interest.

Fast forward several years, and a number of things had changed for me.  I had been in the corporate world for a long time, and I was getting annoyed with several aspects of that environment.  I had also hit something of a ceiling with my career, without further promotion potential unless I went back to school.  Even if I'd gotten further education, I didn't like that I'd be doing more of the same, in the same environment. 

I had continued taking classes through Transform Destiny, and one day I realized that all these classes had gone a long way towards preparing me for a new career that would actually meet all my requirements.  Those requirements included being my own boss, earning better money, eliminating my commute, and working directly with people instead of having multiple bureaucratic layers between me and the people I wanted to help.  I really started to think about it, and finally one day I decided that the reasons to get certified, drastically outnumbered the reasons against.  So I signed up to earn my NLP Certification, via an at-home series of classes.  The first class in that series was Learn Hypnosis at Home.

I was able to earn my certification within a single year, even though I was only a part-time student.  I was able to choose the kind of work I wanted to do, and the kinds of clients I wanted to work with.   As I type this, I'm continuing on with my certification plans to earn my NLP Practitioner certification (which is another story), which I'll add to my practice.

While my path is definitely my own, perhaps my own story is close enough to yours that you'll be able to see some crossover.  If so, I'd encourage you to at least take an introductory class or two from Transform Destiny so that you can learn these hypnosis techniques to improve your own life.  Then you'll be in a much stronger position to move in whatever direction you want from there.

Start your journey today and unlock the incredible benefits of hypnosis.

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Transform Destiny
Hypnosis Class Options

Since all of my hypnosis training experience is through Transform Destiny, I'll restrict my comments to them.  I know of a few other hypnosis training facilities, but I can't speak to what their classes are actually like. 

I will also say that I have not been paid to offer these opinions, and I wasn't given these classes for free. I paid the usual tuition for them, and passed all necessary testing requirements for my certification.  I can recommend these classes with complete confidence.  If you read through these descriptions and end up buying one or more of these classes, I may earn a small commission at no cost to you.

Transform Destiny currently offers the following variety of Hypnosis classes and certifications:

• Learn Hypnosis....Now! (the paperback book):  If you're not interested in certification, and just want to learn more about how you can use hypnosis for yourself, this paperback is a wonderful introduction.  Written by Michael Stevenson, founder of Transform Destiny, the book goes through the history of hypnosis through the ages, its basis in human psychology, and current applications in both personal and professional settings.  The Learn Hypnosis...Now! paperback is an excellent start on hypnosis theory and application, whether you want to learn hypnosis for yourself, for others or simply to understand how and why it works.
• Covert Conversational Hypnosis:  Have you ever wondered ho some people manage to talk others into doing things that you know they wouldn't have done otherwise?  That ability can be either constructive or destructive, uplifting or manipulative, depending on how it's used.  Politicians, marketers, attorneys, law enforcement, realtors and other professions use these techniques every day to encourage certain behaviors.  Now you can learn these techniques too.  If you'd like to make sure others can't manipulate you, the Covert Conversational Hypnosis class will teach you everything you need to know.  It can also help you gain the upper hand in your own negotiations.
• Rapid Hypnosis: Most hypnosis done in a clinical setting starts with a slow, methodical relaxation routine to help the person quiet the mind, ease the body and become receptive to the intended therapeutic language.  However, sometimes a more rapid induction can be really helpful, for instance in high-stress, high-emotion, and/or high-risk environments like law enforcement encounters, emergency room encounters, job interviews, sports events, academic testing events, or competitions of any kind.  Check out the Rapid Hypnosis class if you'd like to see just how to use rapid induction methods on yourself or others, particularly when it really counts.  I should note that this is an advanced class and you will need to have some prior classes and/or hypnosis experience first.
• Group Hypnosis: Most clinical hypnotherapy is done as a one-on-one session, either in person or via a virtual connection like a webinar or Zoom session.  However, sometimes it is advantageous to hypnotise an entire group at once.  For instance, corporate training seminars, group coaching workshops, academic instruction, and the like.  If you are a therapist, coach or instructor, Group Hypnosis can help you achieve your teaching, coaching and training goals much more easily and effortlessly. I should note that this is an advanced class and you will need to have some prior classes and/or hypnosis experience first.
• Learn Hypnosis....Live! (non-certification class): if you're interested in learning a great deal about what can and cannot be done with hypnosis, but you're not interested in certification, this class can be an excellent option.  The Learn Hypnosis...Live class offers all the same information about history, technique and application, yet costs less and requires no testing.
  
• Learn Hypnosis at Home (Certification-level class): If you're interested in certification, but you can't make the live classes, this option is for you.  This online class offers high-quality videos of the live version, with prompts and suggestions for how you can practice the various techniques at home with a partner.  If you don't have a partner, they have solutions for that too.  I highly recommend the Learn Hypnosis at Home class for anyone who can't make the live class.
• NLP Practitioner Online Class (Certification Level; includes hypnosis certification): As you may have already seen on this website, hypnosis, success coaching and NLP are all closely related and complementary to each other.  Together they allow you to move through your own obstacles, and/or help clients do the same.  If you want to go big and get a full suite of certifications, this set of classes will provide hypnosis, NLP, and success coaching all in one.  It includes the Learn Hypnosis at Home class listed above, the CORE Success Coaching class, and the NLP Practitioner class, all at certification levels.  If you want to help yourself and others to achieve full potential, the NLP Practitioner Online Certification class will give you everything you need.  This is how I got my certifications.

Any of the above classes will help you start to identify, address and resolve your inner issues.  The certification=level classes will allow you to use your new skills in a variety of professional applications.  If you have any questions about these classes, visit that page, and feel free to ask the Transform Destiny staff for more information.  They are some of the most helpful folks I've ever had the pleasure of working with.

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