Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy – Glasgow & Online
Advance Your Skills. Build a Confident Practice.
The Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy is the next step after completing your Certificate Course. It’s designed to deepen your knowledge, expand your skill set, and prepare you to work confidently with a wide range of real client issues.
Whether you’re planning to run a full-time hypnotherapy practice, integrate this work into your current career, or want to take your ability to help others to a new level — this course gives you the tools, structure, and support to do it well.

Why Choose This Diploma Course?
You don’t need previous experience — just a willingness to learn, reflect, and apply what you’re taught.
🔹 Nationally Recognised Qualification
🔹 Accredited by the GHSC, CNHC, and The Hypnotherapy Association
🔹 Blends Hypnotherapy, Psychotherapy, and Neuroscience
🔹 Practical, real-world tools you’ll actually use
🔹 Taught by Andy Griffiths — with thousands of hours in the therapy room
🔹 Learn in person, online, or through supported distance learning
🔹 Relaxed, down-to-earth teaching style with real support
This is where to begin if you’re serious about becoming a qualified hypnotherapist.
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Why Choose This Diploma Course?
🔹 Nationally Recognised Qualification
🔹 Accredited by the GHSC, CNHC, and The Hypnotherapy Association
🔹 Blends Hypnotherapy, Psychotherapy, and Neuroscience
🔹 Practical, real-world tools you’ll actually use
🔹 Taught by Andy Griffiths — with thousands of hours in the therapy room
🔹 Learn in person, online, or through supported distance learning
🔹 Relaxed, down-to-earth teaching style with real support
This is where to begin if you’re serious about becoming a qualified hypnotherapist.
Ready to Deepen Your Skills?
Take the next step in your hypnotherapy career with our Diploma in Professional Hypnotherapy—designed for students who’ve already completed their Certificate and are ready to deepen their clinical skills, confidence, and client outcomes.
Advanced, Accredited Training
Our diploma course builds on the foundation laid in the Certificate course, adding powerful tools, techniques, and real-world applications that help you move from capable practitioner to confident, competent therapist.
- Led by Experienced Tutors
Taught by practising therapists with years of experience in anxiety, trauma, and rapid change work, you’ll be mentored by professionals who use these methods every day in clinic.
- Delivered in Our Glasgow Training Centre
Held at our dedicated training facility just outside Glasgow city centre, the course is easily accessible by car, train or bus, with flexible local accommodation options if you’re travelling.
- Fully Accredited and Recognised
Our Diploma is nationally accredited by:
- The General Hypnotherapy Standards Council (GHSC)
- The Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC)
- The Association for Coaching & Counselling Professionals (ACCPH)
- The British Society of Clinical Hypnosis (BSCH)




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 Certificate Course is designed to be the beginning. It’s your foundation before progressing to the full Diploma. And it’s taught in a way that’s practical, supportive, and human without loads of theory to memories or pressure to get everything right straight away.
I invest a lot of time in creating a relaxed, fun, and engaging space to learn. You’ll get real techniques you can actually use drawn from my thousands of hours in the therapy room and plenty of support as you build your confidence.
This is about helping people. And it starts with helping you feel ready to do that in your own way, at your own pace.
Andy Griffiths, Piece of Mind.
Course Contents
The course consists of 5 training weekends or alternatively 10 days fast track training. This will provide over 70 hours of in-class training. over 70 hours of in-class training..
This module is all about fast, effective change. You’ll learn how to use advanced NLP strategies to work directly with the unconscious mind—releasing phobias, disrupting long-held patterns, and helping clients feel empowered in record time.
You’ll also explore how to work with fear-based behaviours using proven desensitisation and reprocessing techniques—so that you can confidently support clients with everything from flying fears to spider phobias.
- Spinning, reversing, and transforming emotional states using NLP
- The Rewind Technique (Fast Phobia Cure) and how to deliver it safely
- Systematic desensitisation: how to gradually reduce anxiety or fear
- Shape-shifting: energetic release techniques for physicalised emotions
- EMDR and eye-processing techniques
- NLP anchoring, state switching and rapid rapport tools
- Real-life phobia work: spiders, cats, dogs, needles, flying
- Hypnosis in sport and performance
- Installing new emotional pathways quickly and gently
You’ll leave this module equipped with techniques that work fast—without skipping over the depth. You’ll be ready to support clients through fears, phobias, and emotionally stuck states using safe, structured, and impactful approaches.
This is the emotional engine room of the course. You’ll explore regression in all its forms—diagnostic, age-based, free-floating, and even past life regression—learning how to uncover and work with the beliefs and emotional experiences that shape how clients think, feel, and behave.
Whether the source of pain is early childhood or something more symbolic, this module gives you the tools to meet it gently, hold it safely, and guide clients through deep resolution.
- How to use regression safely and ethically
- Diagnostic, age, free-floating and symbolic regression
- Past life regression: how to use it appropriately and when to offer it
- Rebirthing and pre-birth experiences
- Symptom analysis and emotional pattern mapping
- Dreams, nightmares and subconscious metaphor
- Time distortion and pseudo-orientation in time
- Belief work and emotional reframing
- Dissociation, safety protocols, and emotional pacing
- Complex client issues: asthma, allergies, skin conditions, insomnia
- Supporting clients through catharsis and emotional release
- Integrating new beliefs with strength, safety and clarity
By the end of this module, you’ll be confident guiding clients through layered emotional work—whether that’s rooted in real memory, symbolic narrative, or imagined experience with meaning. You’ll be working at the level where change truly happens.
In this module, we go beyond the obvious. You’ll learn how to work with anxiety not just as a feeling—but as a symptom of deeper patterns, emotional conflict, and unmet needs. You’ll also learn how to support clients through physicalised symptoms and compulsive behaviours where the root is often unconscious and emotional.
From eating disorders to bruxism, from hair pulling to memory lapses—this module is about helping clients reclaim safety, confidence, and control in their body and mind.
- What anxiety really is—and why it often masks deeper needs
- How to treat panic, OCD, health anxiety and generalised fear
- Working with compulsive behaviours including trichotillomania (hair pulling)
- Understanding and supporting eating disorders with care and ethics
- Bruxism (teeth grinding) and unconscious tension patterns
- Memory enhancement techniques for focus, recall, and clarity
- Hypnotic strategies for tinnitus, snoring, and sleep apnoea
- Supportive tools for clients with dyslexia and processing differences
- Emotional patterning: shame, perfectionism, and control
- When to refer and how to work collaboratively with other professionals
- Anchoring calm and safety through structured behavioural change
By the end of this module, you’ll be equipped to support clients dealing with issues that don’t always “look emotional”—but have emotion at their core. You’ll know how to respond with care, clarity, and tools that make a real difference.
This module focuses on the heavier emotional realities that clients bring into the room—grief, depression, anxiety, trauma, and chronic illness. You’ll learn how to use hypnosis in a grounded, ethical, and sensitive way when working with complex emotional presentations and physical health conditions.
You’ll also gain the confidence to work with specific client groups, including children and those navigating serious illness or loss.
- Working safely and effectively with depression and low mood
- Understanding and treating anxiety and panic attacks
- Grief, bereavement, and loss: how to hold space without “fixing”
- Using hypnosis with children and young people (ethics and techniques)
- Supporting clients with cancer—navigating fear, pain, and emotional overwhelm
- Hypnotherapy for heart conditions and medical anxiety (in partnership with care teams)
- Grounding techniques for emotional intensity
- How to identify red flags and know when to refer
- Containment, pacing, and creating a trauma-aware practice
- Anchoring confidence, resilience, and internal safety in clients with chronic stress
- Language that empowers rather than pathologises
- Developing post-hypnotic anchors and emotional regulation strategies
You’ll leave this module more prepared to meet your clients in their most vulnerable moments—and more capable of working compassionately within your scope of practice.
In this final module, we bring together everything you’ve learned—refining your therapeutic style, expanding your clinical range, and preparing you to practise safely, ethically, and professionally. You’ll explore more advanced client presentations, complete your assessments, and gain a clear understanding of your responsibilities as a qualified hypnotherapist.
This is where theory becomes readiness—so you feel equipped to support real people with real lives.
- Supporting clients with paranoia and high mistrust
- IBS and migraines: when the body holds emotional pain
- Hypnosis in dentistry: pain management, gag reflex, procedural anxiety
- Sleep disorders, insomnia, and sleep pattern resetting
- Final written exam and practical assessment: demonstrating competence
- Client care, case notes, and best-practice follow-up
- Understanding your role as a hypnotherapist (not a fixer, saviour, or substitute)
- Legal responsibilities, insurance, and data protection (UK-compliant)
- Complaints handling, safeguarding, and ethical dilemmas
- Scope of practice: how to work safely within your remit
- Creating a reflective, ethical, and client-centred approach
- Building your professional network and accessing ongoing supervision
You’ll leave this module ready to practise safely, confidently, and with integrity—knowing not just how to deliver effective therapy, but how to hold yourself to a standard that earns trust.
Upcoming Training Dates
Diploma in Hypnotherapy / September - October 2025 - Click here for more details
- 6th / 7th September 2025
- 13th / 14th September 2025
- 27th / 28th September 2025
- 4th / 5th October 2025
- 11th / 12th October 2025

Start your hypnotherapy journey
Fully Accredited Training
Externally verified training accredited by the GHSC and Hypnotherapy Association.
Online Portal
To support your classroom learning you can access all the training material online.
Community
Meet fellow students in our online community, ask questions, share ideas and be inspired.
As a student you will be welcomed to our online community where you can ask questions and share ideas with other students.

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 Diploma 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
GHSC Accreditation
Training Manual
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
Private Facebook Group
Access to our private Facebook group which is a central part of our mentorship and activities.
Learn at your own pace
What Our Students Say...






What You Get...
Classroom or Online Training via Zoom
Access to online training platform
GHSC and ACCPH Accreditation
Training manual
Private Facebook Group
Additional live online training (via Zoom)
Who This Is For
- You’ve completed the Certificate Course and want to go deeper
- You’re serious about working with clients professionally
- You want to confidently handle more complex client issues
- You value therapy that blends science, psychology, and practical tools
Whether you’re looking to build a new business or integrate these skills into the work you already do — this is your next step.
What You’ll Walk Away With
- A Diploma qualification recognised by the GHSC, CNHC, and The Hypnotherapy Association
- A toolkit of evidence-based techniques and client strategies
- Confidence to support people through meaningful, lasting change
- Clear next steps to start or grow your practice — with support
Student Feedback
“Doing the Diploma gave me the confidence to actually take on clients and start charging — not just because I had the certificate, but because I knew what I was doing.”
“This training gave me the depth and structure I was missing. I finally feel qualified, not just certified.”
You’re Not Just Learning More — You’re Becoming a Practitioner
This isn’t just about collecting certificates. It’s about learning to help people in a way that works.
If you want the depth, the science, the psychology — and the real-world tools to make it work — this is where it all comes together.
What Happens After the Course?
Once you’ve completed the Certificate:
- You’ll be ready to start working with real clients
- You’ll be eligible for registration and insurance
- You’ll have the tools and understanding to help people with
confidence
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 that.
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
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'd like to attend as you cannot change later.
Your investment
To make enrolling as easy as possible, we have 3 payment options.
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Classroom Training
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Access to online training platform
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GHSC and ACCPH Accreditation
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Training manual
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Private Facebook Group
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Additional live online training (via Zoom)
Flexipay 4x
Spread your payments over 4 instalments-
Classroom Training
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Access to online training platform
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GHSC and ACCPH Accreditation
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Training manual
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Private Facebook Group
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Additional live online training (via Zoom)
Flexipay 6x
Spread your payments over 6 instalments-
Classroom Training
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Access to online training platform
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GHSC and ACCPH Accreditation
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Training manual
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Private Facebook Group
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Additional live online training (via Zoom)
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Clear the full amount due in one easy payment-
Classroom Training
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Access to online training platform
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GHSC and ACCPH Accreditation
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Training manual
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Private Facebook Group
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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.
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...

One of the best training courses I have been on. So glad I signed up for it as I learned so much and 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

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 friendy at the same time. He will make you feel very relaxed and welcome. I cant 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

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.
Sheila Thomson
Certificate in Past Life Regression
This specialist module offers a focused exploration into the world of spiritual and symbolic regression. You’ll learn how to safely and respectfully guide clients through past life experiences, soul journey work, and healing through deeper spiritual insight. Whether taken as a standalone qualification or as a complement to your Diploma, this course will add a powerful new layer to your therapeutic toolkit.
🔹How to guide clients through Past Life Regression
🔹 Exploring Lives Between Lives and the soul’s journey
🔹 Angelic Past Life Healing and spiritual energy work
🔹 Past Life Regression scripts and adaptable session frameworks
🔹 Useful resources and trusted links to deepen your knowledge
🔹 Safety considerations and ethical boundaries when working symbolically
🔹 How to support clients who are curious, sceptical, or deeply moved
Whether a client believes literally in past lives or sees them as metaphors, this module shows you how to use those stories to support deep insight, emotional release, and healing at the level of identity and meaning.
