Hypnotherapy College Blog

It seems to have become fashionable in the current climate of political fervour around the world, though particularly in the US and UK, for hypnosis professionals and authors to write about how politicians are using mass hypnosis, in particular there is a lot of...

Hypnotising animals is today’s theme. Hahahaha, I never thought I’d wrote those words… Yes indeed, in today's video clip, I am discussing how to hypnotise animals; hypnotising animals. There's a fair bit of tongue-in-cheek with this video, but I give instructions on...

It may initially seem quite obvious to ask the question "what happens when you label something as hypnosis" especially if you are a hypnosis professional of some kind. The answer, and the question itself actually creates much debate and has important implications for...

In this video, I tackle a subject I am asked about a great deal - subliminal messaging, subliminal hypnosis recordings and subliminal influence in general. In the video I discuss the main literature driving belief in such subliminal offerings and I discuss the...

In this video I offer up the kind of logic that many hypnotherapists seem to have about CBT not working. I also offer up some of the reasons I believe that perhaps NHS based CBT practitioners and psychologists may not always get the results we'd expect or want - with...

When I was growing up, the comedians Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse played a couple of caricature DJs called Smashy and Nicey on their very popular TV show. Towards the end of the careers of Smashy and Nicey, they got relegated to very late night radio show and...

In this video I go into detail about something that I see quite a lot out there in the hypnotherapy field….. Hypnotherapists and trainers making unsubstantiated claims, or making claims about who and how they are, rather than actually and genuinely being that. Here is...

In this video I talk in detail about a major bugbear of mine; a kind of anti-intellectual mindset and attitude that is not interested in how something works, why something works, and instead of understanding what we do, having a dismissive attitude of "as long as it...

Last Wednesday evening we had our end of year celebration and it was a splendid way to round off an incredibly busy and enjoyable year here at the college. The evening began with a couple of lectures. Both of our lecturers were people I had met during my PhD studies...