Become a Certified Hypnotherapist

Accredited Foundation Diploma Course - Glasgow & Online

Hypnotherapy Training Certificates Piece of Mind
If you’re considering training as a hypnotherapist, this course is yourstarting point. It’s designed for people who want to work in a way thathelps others create real, lasting change whether that’s through a newcareer, a side path, or personal growth.
Train with us in Glasgow or join live from anywhere. You’ll receive a nationally recognised qualification and practical, supportive training from experienced tutors.

How This Course Works?

You don’t need previous experience just a willingness to learn, reflect,
and apply what you’re taught.

This is where to begin if you’re serious about becoming a qualifiedhypnotherapist.
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Unsure Where to Begin?

Start your hypnotherapy journey with the foundation diploma course in Glasgow

What You’ll Learn

Over 55 hours of structured training which will takes place over 4 training weekends spread over four months, plus full access to our online learning platform.

 

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The First Step in Your Training Journey

Most people who join this course come from completely different walks of life. Some are looking for a new career. Others just want to help people. A few have tried other courses that felt too rigid, too expensive, or just didn’t work.

If you’re feeling nervous or unsure, that’s normal. I was you once.

This Foundation Diploma is designed to be the beginning. On this course you’ll start learning the Piece of Mind Method, how I’ve adapted and combined these skills to create real change for clients.

It’s your opportunity to gain a strong base in hypnotherapy and coaching before deciding if you want to progress to the full Diploma. It’s taught in a way that’s practical, supportive, and human without loads of theory to memorise or pressure to get everything right straight away.

Course Contents

The course consists of 4 training weekends over 4 months (or a 7-day fast track). This provides over

55 hours of in class training.

Module One - Foundations of Hypnosis & Relaxation

Discover what hypnosis really is—and what it isn’t. In this opening module, you’ll learn how to guide someone into hypnosis confidently and safely, using powerful yet simple tools to help the body relax and the mind shift. We’ll explore how the brain works under hypnosis and the foundations of effective therapeutic language, with real-world skills you can apply straight away.

  • How to explain hypnosis in a grounded, client-friendly way
  • What hypnosis feels like and how to deepen it effectively
  • The brain’s left/right functions and why they matter in therapy
  • Induction techniques you can personalise to each client
  • Types of hypnotic inductions and how to choose the right one
  • Suggestibility tests (yes, you’ll be doing the famous ice bucket!)
  • Building progressive relaxation and linking techniques
  • Exploring the work of Milton Erickson and the Ericksonian style
  • The role of metaphor and the power of language in change work
  • How to use visualisation to shift emotional and physical state

You’ll leave this module knowing how to safely guide someone into hypnosis—and how to make that moment feel like the start of something powerful and purposeful.

Module Two - Language, Mindsets & Modern Therapy Tools

This module goes deeper into the change work. You’ll learn how language shapes the brain, how to listen like a counsellor, and how to begin working with the unconscious mind in a way that feels both structured and human. You’ll start to recognise what hypnosis looks like in the real world—and how to create the conditions for it without overcomplicating the process.

  • How to use direct and indirect suggestion like a pro
  • Full ego-strengthening sequences that build confidence and internal safety
  • Ericksonian language patterns—and how to use them naturally
  • How to bypass the critical faculty and access the unconscious mind
  • Spotting the signs of hypnosis (even subtle ones)
  • Listening as a counsellor: how to hear what’s not being said
  • Understanding the positive intention behind every symptom
  • NLP foundations: clean language, representational systems, and more
  • Taking a case history that actually helps the work
  • Contraindications and when not to treat
  • Managing abreactions with calm confidence
  • How to close a session with clarity and containment

By the end of this module, you’ll feel more confident using your voice, your presence, and your language to guide real therapeutic change through hypnosis.

Module Three - Belief Systems, Safety & Practical Hypnosis

This module is where theory starts turning into solid practice. You’ll explore how belief systems are formed—and how to shift them. You’ll learn how to work with clients ethically, safely, and confidently, and how to begin using advanced tools like NLP, clean language, and client metaphors to make deep change possible.

  • How belief systems are formed—and how to shift them
  • Using clean language to uncover unconscious patterns
  • Recognising and interrupting behaviour loops
  • How to reverse or reframe a client’s metaphor
  • NLP techniques for change and emotional flexibility
  • Eye referencing: what to look for and how to use it
  • The structure of post-hypnotic suggestions that stick
  • Working with weight loss and eating behaviours
  • Parts therapy basics: how to speak to “the part of me that…”
  • Anchoring safety and emotional regulation
  • When to use regression, and when not to
  • Confidentiality, ethics, and professional boundaries
  • Good practice: paperwork, records, and knowing your limits

You’ll leave this module with real tools to help real people—confident in both the techniques you’re using and the professional standards you’re holding

Module Four - Emotional Integration, Stress, and Behaviour Change

This module brings everything together combining the therapeutic tools, client confidence, and professional know-how you need to start working with real clients. You’ll learn how to tackle common issues like smoking, weight loss, stress and performance anxiety, while also deepening your ability to hold emotional space, reflect on your practice, and run a professional, ethical service.

  • Creating and installing new, positive belief systems
  • EFT tapping: techniques for emotional release and regulation
  • Working with stress and the nervous system
  • Smoking cessation: how to do it without scripts or scare tactics
  • Hypnosis for pain relief: realistic tools and ethical use
  • Confidence, public speaking, and performance anxiety
  • Post-hypnotic suggestions for long-term behavioural change
  • Future pacing and visualisation to reinforce results
  • Reflective practice: learning and growing from every session
  • Supervision: how to get support and stay grounded
  • What to say (and not say) in your early client sessions
  • Boundaries, safeguarding, and emotional containment
  • Managing expectations and knowing your professional limits
  • Setting up in practice: records, policies, referrals, and marketing
  • Ethical frameworks and staying within scope of practice

By the end of this module, you won’t just feel ready to help people you’ll feel ready to build a safe, ethical, and effective practice that reflects your own values, skills, and voice.

Life Coaching - Moving Forward with Purpose

Not every client needs deep therapy. Some are stuck in habits, choices, or lack of direction—and what they need is clarity, accountability, and support. This module teaches you how to step confidently into the role of coach, helping clients move forward, take action, and reconnect with their potential.
You’ll learn how to spot when someone is ready for coaching over therapy—and how to guide meaningful change without needing to “fix” the past.

  • The difference between therapy and coaching (and how to combine them safely)
  • Values-based coaching: how to help clients connect with what truly matters
  • Setting goals that are meaningful—not just measurable
  • Identifying resistance, self-sabotage, and fear of change
  • Building emotional accountability and realistic action plans
  • Coaching language: empowering, clean, and forward-focused
  • How to track progress (even when the client can’t see it yet)
  • When not to coach: recognising when deeper work is needed
  • The role of challenge, reflection, and support in lasting growth
  • Blending coaching with hypnosis, NLP, and therapeutic insight

You’ll leave this module able to support clients who are ready to move forward—not by fixing them, but by walking alongside them as they do the work to change their own lives.

Upcoming Training Dates

This will be a captivating journey of discovery, where you’ll gain the tools to profoundly impact lives.

As you immerse yourself in the course and deepen your mastery of hypnotherapy, you’ll unlock your full potential and achieve remarkable transformations.

I promise you will never view life in the same way again.

Start Your Hypnotherapy Journey

Your hypnotherapy training will be a time of amazing personal growth. We guarantee it!

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Fully Accredited Training

Externally verified training accredited by the GHSC and Hypnotherapy Association.

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Online Portal

To support your classroom learning you can access all the training material online.

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Community

Meet fellow students in our online community, ask questions, share ideas and be inspired.

This is your time to explore who you are, who you want to become, and how you’ll play a part in the
world.

As a student you will be welcomed to our online community where you can ask questions and share ideas with other students.

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You will have support after your training from me as your teacher either through email, telephone or on a zoom session.

Flexible payment options make the Certificate Course as accessible as possible.
When you are ready to get started all you need to do is click the enrol button below

What’s in the course?

Training & Videos

Study outside the classroom in your private online student portal. Access a series of videos and practical exercises that will engage and motivate you as you learn at your own pace.

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GHSC Accreditation

External accreditation through the GHSC General Hypnotherapy Standards Council and the Hypnotherapy Association.

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Training Manual

All students receive a comprehensive training manual to support their classroom learning.

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Private Facebook Group

Access to our private Facebook group which is a central part of our mentorship and activities.

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Live classroom training (via Zoom)

We provide additional regular live classroom teaching as part of your training. An excellent opportunity to engage with other students and ask questions to support your learning

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Learn at your own pace

Improve your knowledge from anywhere using our online student portal.

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What You Get...

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Access to online training platform

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GHSC and ACCPH Accreditation

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Private Facebook Group

Additional live online training (via Zoom)

What Happens After the Course?

Once you’ve completed the Foundation Diploma:

  • You’ll have the skills to start working with issues like stress,
    habits, and confidence
  • You’ll also receive a recognised coaching
    qualification
    alongside hypnotherapy skills
  • You can keep it as a standalone qualification, or continue on to to complete the full Diploma

Whether you’re starting a new career or adding to what you
already do this is a solid foundation.

Your Next Step

If something about this work resonates with you, trust yourself to take the next step.

This course gives you structure, support, and the skills to make a difference.
Whether you want to build a career, learn something new, or create space for change this is a strong place to start.

How to Attend

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In Person

Join your fellow classmates in person at Orchard Park Centre in Glasgow.

Online via Zoom

Join us from your own home over Zoom.

Switching from in-person to online or vice versa during the course is not possible. So, please be sure
to choose carefully how you would like to attend as you cannot change later.

Course Fees

To make enrolling as easy as possible, we have 3 payment options.

Click on the course dates below for payment options and prices. 

Flexipay 4x

Spread your payments over 4 instalments
£ 300 to enrol and then 4 x £250
  • Classroom Training
  • Access to online training platform
  • GHSC and ACCPH Accreditation
  • Training manual
  • Private Facebook Group
  • Additional live online training (via Zoom)

Single Payment

Clear the full amount due in one easy payment
£ 1,300 One-time payment
  • Classroom Training
  • Access to online training platform
  • GHSC and ACCPH Accreditation
  • Training manual
  • Private Facebook Group
  • Additional live online training (via Zoom)

Early Bird Price (One-Time Payment)

Save £100 when enrolling three months before course
£ 1,200 One-time payment
  • Classroom Training
  • Access to online training platform
  • GHSC and ACCPH Accreditation
  • Training manual
  • Private Facebook Group
  • Additional live online training (via Zoom)

Flexipay 4x

Spread your payments over 4 instalments
£ 300 to enrol and then 4 x £250
  • Classroom Training
  • Access to online training platform
  • GHSC and ACCPH Accreditation
  • Training manual
  • Private Facebook Group
  • Additional live online training (via Zoom)

Single Payment

Clear the full amount due in one easy payment
£ 1,300 One-time payment
  • Classroom Training
  • Access to online training platform
  • GHSC and ACCPH Accreditation
  • Training manual
  • Private Facebook Group
  • Additional live online training (via Zoom)

Early Bird Price (One-Time Payment)

Save £100 when enrolling three months before course
£ 1,200 One-time payment
  • Classroom Training
  • Access to online training platform
  • GHSC and ACCPH Accreditation
  • Training manual
  • Private Facebook Group
  • Additional live online training (via Zoom)

Any questions?

If you’re anything like me, you get to this part of the page and you’ve still got some questions.
Well, don’t worry, let’s jump on a call and I’ll do my best to help.
The booking widget below lets you pick a day and time that suits you directly in my calendar.

What Our Students Say...

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One of the best training courses I have been on. So glad I signed up for it as I learned so much and I can’t wait to do the Diploma!! Would highly recommend this course to anyone not only because it is accredited and great value for money but because of the support during and after the course too.

Norrina Meechan

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I have just completed the first part of my hypnotherapy course, it was amazing! I would highly recommend learning with Andy, he is very professional, helpful and friendly at the same time. He will make you feel very relaxed and welcome. I can’t wait to go on and do my diploma course in the summer with such a lovely bunch of girls I met on the course.

Carol Mcbride

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I have just completed the Hypnotherapy Diploma Course delivered by Andy the whole learning experience was amazing. Andy s experience and teaching approach helped me get the most out of the course. I feel properly prepared to go out and begin my work as a therapist. Thank you Andy.

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Enrol Foundation Diploma

Flexipay 4x

Spread your payments over 4 instalments
£ 300 to enrol and then 4 x £250
  • Classroom Training
  • Access to online training platform
  • GHSC and ACCPH Accreditation
  • Training manual
  • Private Facebook Group
  • Additional live online training (via Zoom)

Single Payment

Clear the full amount due in one easy payment
£ 1,300 One-time payment
  • Classroom Training
  • Access to online training platform
  • GHSC and ACCPH Accreditation
  • Training manual
  • Private Facebook Group
  • Additional live online training (via Zoom)

Early Bird Price (One-Time Payment)

Save £100 when enrolling three months before course
£ 1,200 One-time payment
  • Classroom Training
  • Access to online training platform
  • GHSC and ACCPH Accreditation
  • Training manual
  • Private Facebook Group
  • Additional live online training (via Zoom)

Flexipay 4x

Spread your payments over 4 instalments
£ 300 to enrol and then 4 x £250
  • Classroom Training
  • Access to online training platform
  • GHSC and ACCPH Accreditation
  • Training manual
  • Private Facebook Group
  • Additional live online training (via Zoom)

Single Payment

Clear the full amount due in one easy payment
£ 1,300 One-time payment
  • Classroom Training
  • Access to online training platform
  • GHSC and ACCPH Accreditation
  • Training manual
  • Private Facebook Group
  • Additional live online training (via Zoom)

Early Bird Price (One-Time Payment)

Save £100 when enrolling three months before course
£ 1,200 One-time payment
  • Classroom Training
  • Access to online training platform
  • GHSC and ACCPH Accreditation
  • Training manual
  • Private Facebook Group
  • Additional live online training (via Zoom)

Enrol Diploma Course

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Spread your payments over 9 instalments
£ 300 to enrol and then 9 x £300
  • Classroom Training
  • Access to online training platform
  • GHSC and ACCPH Accreditation
  • Training manual
  • Private Facebook Group
  • Additional live online training (via Zoom)

Single Payment

Clear the full amount due in one easy payment
£ 3,000 One-time payment
  • Classroom Training
  • Access to online training platform
  • GHSC and ACCPH Accreditation
  • Training manual
  • Private Facebook Group
  • Additional live online training (via Zoom)

Early Bird Price (One-Time Payment)

Save £100 when enrolling three months before course
£ 2,900 One-time payment
  • Classroom Training
  • Access to online training platform
  • GHSC and ACCPH Accreditation
  • Training manual
  • Private Facebook Group
  • Additional live online training (via Zoom)

Flexipay 9x

Spread your payments over 9 instalments
£ 300 to enrol and then 9 x £300
  • Classroom Training
  • Access to online training platform
  • GHSC and ACCPH Accreditation
  • Training manual
  • Private Facebook Group
  • Additional live online training (via Zoom)

Single Payment

Clear the full amount due in one easy payment
£ 3,000 One-time payment
  • Classroom Training
  • Access to online training platform
  • GHSC and ACCPH Accreditation
  • Training manual
  • Private Facebook Group
  • Additional live online training (via Zoom)

Early Bird Price (One-Time Payment)

Save £100 when enrolling three months before course
£ 2,900 One-time payment
  • Classroom Training
  • Access to online training platform
  • GHSC and ACCPH Accreditation
  • Training manual
  • Private Facebook Group
  • Additional live online training (via Zoom)
Ian Young

Ian Young

Training & Development

Tagline: Grounded, real and genuinely hard to forget.

Ian is an experienced therapist whose work spans trauma, addiction, anxiety and recovery. His approach is shaped as much by lived experience as by professional training and that combination makes him exceptionally relatable to the people he works with.

People who’ve worked with Ian consistently say the same thing — he gets it in a way that goes beyond what most trainers can offer. He doesn’t just understand the subject. He understands people.

Within Piece of Mind Training, Ian also plays a key role in business and strategic development, bringing a practical, grounded perspective to how the organisation grows and evolves.

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David Gowans

Training & Development

Tagline: He’s seen mental health crisis at its most acute. And he knows what actually helps.

David’s background is probably unlike anyone else you’ll meet in a mental health training room.

Twenty-three years on the frontline of emergency services first as a police officer, now as an HCPC-registered practising paramedic. He hasn’t studied stress, trauma and burnout from a distance. He’s carried them, in uniform, responding to people at the absolute worst moments of their lives. He understands the culture that makes asking for help feel like the hardest thing in the world because he’s lived inside that culture.

That frontline experience sits alongside his clinical practice as a qualified hypnotherapist and accredited EFT practitioner. David works with real people navigating real challenges every single week. What he brings to Piece of Mind Training isn’t theoretical. It’s current, grounded and built entirely from the inside out.

As part of the team, David delivers training, practises as a therapist and plays a key role in the development and direction of the organisation making sure that everything Piece of Mind produces is professionally rigorous and genuinely human.

David is responsible for development and ensures that Piece of Mind Training programmes are grounded in real-world application. Not what the textbook says should happen. What actually works when it matters.

Iona

Iona Russell

Growth & Partnerships

Tagline: She’s written the book. Literally.

Iona has spent more than twenty years working at the intersection of human potential and real-world impact — across psychology, coaching, education, broadcasting, the charitable sector and social policy, in both the UK and the USA.

She is a Master Positive Psychology Coach and twice bestselling author who has supported hundreds of people through coaching qualifications and worked alongside some of the most respected names in positive psychology and personal development. As a keynote speaker and leadership advisor, she helps organisations rethink what success and human flourishing actually look like.

But what drives Iona’s commitment to mental health work goes deeper than her professional background. She lost her brother to suicide. That experience — and everything it taught her about the gap between what people are going through and the support available to them — shapes everything she brings to Piece of Mind Training.

At Piece of Mind, Iona leads our partnerships, builds community impact and drives our growth across Scotland and beyond. She brings commercial insight, deep human understanding and a personal reason for being here that no CV can fully capture.

Ann

Ann Stewart

Head of Training

Tagline: The person who makes sure the learning delivers every time.

Ann has spent her career helping people make sense of the things that are weighing on them and finding a way forward when everything feels tough.

Her background is genuinely rare. A qualified teacher, certified hypnotherapist, coach and First Aid for Mental Health practitioner, Ann brings together an understanding of how people learn with a deep, practical knowledge of how people struggle. She still works directly with adults and young people every week supporting those experiencing anxiety, low confidence, emotional distress and the kind of quiet difficulties that don’t always have a name but make everyday life feel impossibly hard.

As a trainer, Ann knows that the best mental health training doesn’t just inform people, it changes how they see themselves and the people around them. She brings that belief into every session she delivers, whether she’s working with a room full of HR professionals or a team who’ve never talked about mental health at work before.

As a therapist, trainer, teacher and mum of three, Ann understands that most people are dealing with far more than anyone around them realises. That understanding is the foundation of everything she does.

At Piece of Mind Training, Ann leads on training quality and consistency, making sure that what we promise is what every learner experiences, every time.

Andy Griffiths

Andy Griffiths

Founder

Tagline: The man who built this because he needed it himself.

Qualifications include:

Clinical Hypnotherapy

NLP

Psychotherapy

CBT Coaching

Trauma-Informed Practice.

Andy is a practising therapist, clinical hypnotherapist and the founder of Piece of Mind Training. He’s spent over a decade working with clients across anxiety, trauma, panic disorder and complex mental health presentations not as a theorist, but as someone who has experienced many of these challenges himself.

His personal journey through mental health struggles, panic disorder and years of pretending everything was fine is the reason Piece of Mind Training exists. He built what he wished had existed when he needed it most.

As a trainer, Andy is known for his directness, his warmth and his ability to make people feel genuinely seen. He doesn’t stand behind a slide deck and talk at people. He brings the subject into the room.

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