🌀Hypnotherapy | Free Course
Updated: Aug 24
Welcome to the Free Hypnotherapy Course for Everyday People
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Hypnotherapy is one of the rare modalities with no single founder to name, and that's part of its fascination: it was built as a relay across two and a half centuries, from James Braid, the Scottish surgeon who coined the word "hypnotism" in 1843, through the French suggestion pioneers, to the twentieth-century giants Dave Elman and Milton Erickson, and it earned formal recognition from the British and American Medical Associations in the 1950s. Its history even includes major surgery performed with trance as the only anesthesia. Underneath all of it runs one central insight: the human mind has a natural state of focused attention, one you enter on your own every day, and that state can be used deliberately to create real change.
This course teaches pure hypnotherapy, with no other modalities blended in, written in plain, everyday language. Maybe you're considering hypnotherapy, currently working with a hypnotherapist, supporting someone who is, or simply curious how a focused state of mind could change a habit or calm a fear; this course was built for all of you. First it sets the record straight: real hypnotherapy is nothing like the stage shows, and no one is ever under anyone's control. Trance is simply that absorbed, highway-driving, lost-in-a-book state you already know. From there you'll learn how inductions work, what makes a suggestion land, and how self-hypnosis puts the whole method in your own hands. Each module offers clear teaching and real-life examples, and ends with a simple hypnotherapy practice so you can begin using the skill right away. It isn't clinical training for therapists and doesn't offer continuing education credits; it's hypnotherapy you can put to use in your own life.
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Every course is self-paced, with no tests, exams, or homework. Feel free to go through it in order, or jump around to whatever interests you most. Simply click any module below to begin.
Course outline
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The Basics 1. What Is Hypnotherapy 2. Who Created Hypnotherapy 3. The Trance State
Entering Trance 4. Suggestibility & the Suggestibility Tests 5. Hypnotic Inductions
6. Deepeners
The Language of Change 7. Direct Suggestion
Working in Trance 10. Visualization and the Safe Place 11. Self-Hypnosis
Living It 15. Using Hypnotherapy in Everyday Life
Disclaimer:
Everything IFS Academy is an independent educational platform and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the IFS Institute. While we strive for accuracy, errors can occur, and users are encouraged to cross-reference critical information. These courses, lessons, skills, and practices are offered for educational and self-reflection purposes only. They do not constitute therapy, mental health treatment, clinical training, or crisis support, and they should not be used as a substitute for professional mental health care.
Crisis Support: 🚨 If you are experiencing a mental health crisis, feel unsafe, feel at risk of harming yourself or someone else, or feel too overwhelmed to safely use self-directed practices, please pause this material and reach out for immediate support. Contact a licensed mental health professional, call or text 988 in the U.S. or Canada, or use your local emergency or crisis resources.
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