The demand for competent clinical hypnotherapists who have a broad base of knowledge and effective practical skills is growing by the day. Just last week a local physician called the school to arrange medical hypnosis sessions for a patient who has non-organic chronic headaches.

It seems like every day a new study proving the efficacy of hypnotherapy appears in the media. Hospitals, Medical Clinics and Urgent Care facilities and are bringing medical hypnosis to their patients. Both Masters and Doctoral level counselors, psychologists and Social Workers and learning hypnosis to assist their clients. Lay people getting off the conventional corporate career track are becoming hypnotherapists because they want to make a difference in the world. Hypnotherapy has come a long way in the last thirty years.

To assist taking hypnotherapy into this new era of acceptance by the mainstream, hypnotherapy schools must increase their contact hours with students, improve the quality of their curriculum and update their teaching methods. Sure, in the 1970's and 80's a course with 100 or 150 hours of hypnotism training and the outdated "just watch me and learn" style seemed like a enough, but in the 21st century with billions of dollars being spent annually on complimentary therapies and alternative medicine by intelligent, well-informed-consumers, a superficially educated hypnotherapist just won't cut it. What's even worse are the hypnotism diploma mills that claim that a distance learning format or correspondence course prepares a person as a professional in the people-helping field.

The Hypnotherapist most likely to meet the demands of this evolving climate is the one with the best education. Hypnotherapists skilled in advanced techniques simply help people reach goals quicker, solve problems with more ease and achieve greater degrees of personal growth by empowering them with self-help methodology. This saves the consumer money, time and effort while on their path to wellbeing.

Because we are committed to your future success as a hypnotherapist and hypnotherapy being one of the primary tools for helping people heal emotional and physical issues, we designed our hypnotherapy training course to present you with ample theoretical background, an actual training manual (900+ pages) developed by masters level educational designers, live demonstration of the hypnotherapy methods, live video case histories of extraordinary sessions, hands-on practice with individual performance based coaching, dynamic classroom lectures and feedback sessions.

The Hypnotherapy Academy of America focuses on in-depth instruction in the most effective hypnotherapy methods. This is why we are rapidly becoming the most sought after professional hypnotherapy certification program in the world.

Most other schools provide a very limited training. Students may receive only a few hypnosis induction methods and therapeutic techniques. For example, only suggestion therapy and guided imagery and a handful of pre-structured scripts to follow. If you have been searching the web you've probably run across many so-called "hypnosis schools" with impressive sounding names, that are only three to six days in length, or only on-line or only train by correspondence.

Since, there is no federal regulation of hypnotherapy, we are left to self-regulation and "buyer beware."