Titles and Descriptors:
- Upon completing the certificate stage (Stage 2), we recommend that you refer to yourself as a hypnotherapist with additional psychotherapeutic training
- Upon completing the diploma stage (Stage 3), you can add the descriptor hypno-psychotherapist or hypno-psychotherapeutic counsellor
- Upon completing the advanced diploma course (Stage 4) and admission to the UKCP, you can use the descriptor of UKCP accredited/registered Hypno-Psychotherapist or Integrative Psychotherapist or Hypno-Psychotherapeutic Counsellor or Integrative Psychotherapeutic Counsellor depending on your pathway.
Client Groups:
The NCHP trains people to work with individual adults, and therefore without supplemental training, students, trainees or graduates are not qualified to work with:
- Children (under 18)
- Couples/intimate partners
- Families
- Groups
Presenting Issues:
Without supplemental training, students, trainees and graduates are not qualified to work with:
- Clinical depression
- PTSD
- Anorexia
- Psychosexual disorders
- Psychosis
- Personality disorders
Avoidance of Doubt:
With the list above we recognise that there will be many presentations where there may be ambiguity, If you doubt your scope of competence or ability to work with someone or an issue, you must refer the matter to your supervisor for consideration.
Date of the last amendment to this document and ratification by The Academic Board – 16/5/22