Some of the Benefits of HAA’s Accelerated Hypnotherapy Training
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People choose our experiential hypnotherapy training because immersion training helps them develop the skills competency, and confidence to launch their professional hypnotherapy practice immediately upon completion. Many of our graduates have hypnotherapy clients scheduled and waiting for sessions before graduating.
If you want hypnotherapy skills that will be taken seriously by evidence-minded clients, physicians, nurse practitioners, wellness practitioners, and wellness clinics, prioritize attending a hypnotherapy school that:
a) their hypnotherapy techniques were used in peer-reviewed scientific research,
b) teaches an adaptable multi-session hypnotherapy system,
c) uses individualized clinical procedures (not just scripts),
d) prepares you for delivering tele-health style and in-person hypnotherapy sessions for private practice, as well as in medical and mental-health settings,
e) provides live instructor-led training, live demonstrations, and supervised practice,
f) is lawfully licensed to provide hypnotherapy certification training.
The best hypnotherapy school is the one that meets this criterion, and it's the Hypnotherapy Academy of America's 500-hour program that does just that!
(NO Previous College Credits Required)
10 Ways This Hypnotherapy School is Different from the Others
To help you understand what sets our program apart, we have outlined ten key distinctions. Click on each to learn more:
Hypnotherapy requires the skillful use of healing semantics. In essence, it’s like learning a new language, and we all know the most efficient way to do that is by immersion training, also known as “accelerated training format.” For this reason, we provide up to 500 hours of in-depth hypnotherapy training. In our three decades of teaching hypnotherapy for professional certification, we have learned that the best and only way for graduates to become fluent in healing semantics, and to leave with greater skills proficiency and confidence, is through our live training participation.
The Value of Immersion Training When Learning Hypnotherapy
Research shows that the adult learning systems that we utilize help students retain from 50% to 80% more information!
Together with our accelerated hypnotherapy training, you receive the state-of-the-art hypnotherapy training materials, including our nearly 1,500-page training manual, which was designed using the Information Mapping methodology. Researchers have shown that our teaching methods help you learn the technical hypnotherapy information with less effort. It is packed with all the step-by-step hypnotherapy processes and word-for-word hypnosis procedures to address clients’ issues.
From a Tenured Educator and Graduate
“A+ is the letter grade I give Tim Simmerman-Sierra for the instructional quality at Hypnotherapy Academy of America. The course construction, instructional materials and delivery methods are top drawer! Learning is gradual and steady, like walking up a ramp rather than lurching big steps. This is THE place to receive quality hypnotherapy instruction.”
Anthony Moon, PhD, CHt
(Educational Technology University
of Oklahoma, 1995)Arcadia, OK
As one of the earliest state licensed hypnotherapy training institutions (Originally named Southwest College of Hypnosis) we have honed the curriculum to provide you with everything you need to know to become a hypnotherapist or integrate hypnotherapy into an existing career to help people in profound ways. So far, we have alumni from 36 countries and all 50 U.S. states.
Our live accelerated hypnotherapy certification training provides you with valuable one-on-one support from our professional practical skills supervisors all throughout the program. This is especially important because we teach you how to address underlying subconscious issues helping people heal at the emotional level. Our experiential style (you get to participate in skill-building activities) provides you with time to develop confidence with the techniques.
Because we teach from the experiential model, you have the added benefit of experiencing the healing and transformational methods firsthand. Graduates leave feeling renewed, and many tell us the supervised practice sessions alone were worth the price of admission.
The Academy has the unique distinction of being the only hypnotherapy school, in the current era, to provide its methodology for National Institutes of Health funded research. Because of the success of a clinical trial using the Hypnotherapy Academy of America methodology, the NIH, in conjunction with the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH,) funded a four-year, three-million-dollar study utilizing the Academy’s methodology. By training at the Academy, you can rest assured that you are receiving instruction in a hypnotherapy system that is validated by the scientific peer-review process.
Hypnotherapy course tuition fees vary widely, as does the content of hypnotherapy training. Most courses teach you little to nothing about the business side of becoming a successful hypnotherapist. In contrast, we built into the program how to launch your hypnotherapy practice. We teach you robust, proven marketing strategies and practice-building techniques.
The demand for competent clinical hypnotherapists who can skillfully conduct sessions online and in-person is rapidly increasing as hypnotherapy gains mainstream acceptance. Hospitals, medical clinics, and mental health professionals are integrating hypnotherapy into their services. Our comprehensive training ensures you are well-prepared to meet this growing demand and make a meaningful impact in the lives of others.
Developed by our lead instructor, Tim Simmerman-Sierra, Integral Hypnotherapy® is a complete system that integrates classical hypnotherapy with modern, updated hypnotherapy techniques, perennial wisdom traditions, philosophical counseling, life skills coaching, and applied mind sciences. This methodology has been scientifically validated through National Institutes of Health-funded research, distinguishing our methodology as uniquely effective, and because Integral Hypnotherapy® is a trauma-informed, solution-focused, eclectic and holistic approach, clients LOVE IT!
Only a comprehensive curriculum can prepare you for working with all issues and goals within hypnotherapy’s scope of practice.
Technical Standards for Admission into
Hypnotherapy Academy of America
The hypnotherapy curriculum requires demonstrated proficiency in a variety of cognitive, communicative, and interpersonal skills. To achieve these proficiencies, HAA requires that each applicant/student be able to meet the following technical standards:
Observation:
Through independent observation, the student must be able to acquire information on the practice of hypnotherapy, including that obtained from demonstrations, case histories, and experiential activities. The student must be able to observe and accurately acquire information directly from the client as well as from other sources, including written documents, digital documents, including email, images, slides, videos, and have basic laptop or desktop computer skills. These skills require the use of vision and hearing.
Communication:
The student must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently with hypnotherapy clients, healthcare personnel, classmates, colleagues, faculty, and administrative staff. The student must be able to obtain the client’s history, and the issue or goal that the client wishes to address in a timely fashion, interpret nonverbal aspects of communication, and establish the therapeutic relationship with a client. Students must be able to write and type information accurately and clearly, and communicate effectively and efficiently in English.
Motor Coordination:
The student must be able to provide hypnotherapy sessions. These activities require some physical mobility, coordination of both gross and fine motor neuromuscular function, balance, and equilibrium.
Intellect:
The student must be able to identify and understand the client’s goals, utilize the appropriate hypnotherapy techniques, design and utilize therapeutic suggestions and imagery in a timely and effective manner. This crucial skill set of hypnotherapists requires the ability to work effectively with people of all backgrounds. The ability to learn and reason in a variety of settings including formal lectures, small group discussion, clinical teaching sessions, case presentations, and independent learning activities, to self-evaluate, and to integrate, analyze, and synthesize.
Behavioral and Social Attributes:
The applicant/student must possess emotional health. The applicant/student must demonstrate self-discipline for full use of their intellectual abilities, the use of good judgment, the ability to get along well with people from different backgrounds, classmates, colleagues, faculty, and administrative staff, and the timely and safe completion of all tasks and responsibilities.
They must be able to adapt to rapid change, to display flexibility, and learn to function in the clinical and educational settings. The applicant/student must consistently demonstrate honesty, transparency, integrity, altruism, empathy and concern for their clients, classmates, colleagues, faculty, administrative staff and members of their healthcare team, and the community at large.
Accelerated hypnotherapy Training
What Our Graduates Are Saying
Our graduates have experienced profound personal and professional transformations through our program.
"After having an MRI, my doctor decided I needed surgery to restore full range of motion to my arm.
I came to the Hypnotherapy Academy of America, and during the training to become a Clinical Hypnotherapist, I had several private hypnotherapy sessions with staff and have regained almost all the movement in my right shoulder; therefore, the surgery is no longer necessary!"
David Clarke
Airline Pilot, Salt Lake City, Utah
What a 40-Year Education Veteran and Program Manager with the NM Office of Children Youth & Families Department, Office of Child Development has to say:
“Tim Simmerman-Sierra of the Hypnotherapy Academy of America provides a superior model of the principles of adult learning in action. He skillfully sets positive expectations and clear guidelines for classroom procedures, homework and coached practice sessions.
“Technology is used in appropriate ways to bring in outside speakers and to permit efficient submission of written practicum exercises. Student engagement is kept high by alternating sessions of lecture, guided practice, small group and individual work. “Well- trained coaches with small groups to provide timely feedback and suggestions to improve written and spoken practice exercises. Questions are encouraged and content is delivered with clear expectations of the practical application in real world situations. Humor and stories that illustrate important points are liberally sprinkled throughout presentations. “Other staff members of the Academy and students themselves are actively involved with contributions from their specialized fields of knowledge. Music, dramatizations, adequate breaks that permit informal sharing combines to keep energy levels and focus high during daylong training. “Written Materials are organized to provide content, practicum exercises, questions and answers for review, and sample protocols for examples. Materials are well annotated and references provided that synthesize knowledge from a broad range of disciplines from Quantum Physics, cutting edge medical knowledge and wisdom traditions from around the world. The essential underlying unity of complex material is presented and experienced in ways that are accessible and transferable to anyone interested in personal growth for self and others. “Each student of this Master Educator will receive the personalized yet universal lessons needed to make positive changes for self and others. Come with a beginner’s mind and be prepared for both personal and career transformation.”
Judith Paiz, MA, MBA
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Learn the Medical Support Hypnosis Methods Hospitals Want By completing through weeks 7 and 8, (400 hours of hypnotherapy training)
you will receive specialized training in medical support hypnotherapy. While all of our graduates use these methods in their private practice, some are working in hospitals. One such practitioner recently reported the following:
“Recently, I was called to the hospital, to work on an inpatient basis, with a pregnant woman, who was experiencing extreme nausea/morning sickness to the point of dry heaves (hyperemesis gravidarum). “Her physician had prescribed every anti-nausea and additional pain killing drug available, to no avail. The patient’s physician is a renowned surgeon, who was somewhat skeptical about medical hypnosis. “Using one of Tim Simmerman Sierra’s pain control methods, I was able to assist the patient to ameliorate her pain significantly. (On a scale of 0 to 10, 10 being worst possible—she reported going from a 10 down to a 2 in severity). “When the patient came out of hypnosis, she said she was ‘surprised how well she felt.’ “I learned later that the skeptical surgeon had reported, ‘hypnosis worked far more effectively than any drug she had prescribed, to provide reliable pain relief for her patient.’ “We’re changing even the ‘old school’ doctors’ thinking!”
Alena Guest
Clinical Hypnotherapist specializing in Medical Support Hypnotherapy Mendocino, CA
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Advanced Teaching Methods
Adult Education At Its Finest
Because everyone learns differently, we utilize lectures, classroom discussions, and feedback sessions, live demonstrations, and multimedia educational systems. Live demonstrations of hypnotherapy methods are often filmed for post-session analysis. Students then have an opportunity to study deeply how to process what emerges during therapy while watching a playback. Films are carefully examined so each step is clearly understood, and questions can be answered without interrupting the flow of the session during live demonstration.
The Wall Street Journal recently predicted that hypnotherapy will be one of the top career choices for the new millennium. Now you can become part of this expanding field, helping others — and yourself — as you build a stable, successful professional practice.
The professional certification course at the Hypnotherapy Academy of America is one of the most comprehensive and extensive courses available. As part of our course, you will go through a carefully planned curriculum during which you will personally experience the techniques we teach.
As a result, the door to your subconscious will open, helping you to tap into the endless flow of mind power. You will be able to move to your next level while you learn how to do this for others.
Feedback on Post-Graduation Support
“The Hypnotherapy Academy of America has been tremendously supportive of my practice since I’ve graduated. Every time I’ve talked with a coach about complex situations they have been very informative. I feel more confident knowing that the Academy’s ready and willing expert postgraduation support is as close as a phone call!”
Candace M. Gates
CHt, M.Ed., teacher, author Tucson, Arizona
Enroll Today
Take the next step toward a fulfilling career in hypnotherapy. Give us a call at 505-767-8030 to receive the course catalog, schedule, and tuition options.
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