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Certified Hypnotherapist

Online Certification  ·  9 Week  ·  Globally Recognised  ·  (CHY)

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Executive Summary

Certified Hypnotherapist

Designed for today’s high-impact professionals, the Certified Hypnotherapist (CHY) delivers a rigorous Intermediate-level curriculum that equips participants with the knowledge, tools and frameworks needed to excel in counselling, coaching and psychological wellbeing.

This 9 Week programme is structured around recognised counselling, coaching and ethical practice standards, ensuring every graduate applies internationally validated methods to real-world challenges.

GLI’s CHY holders are recognised by leading organisations across Africa, the Gulf, Europe and the Americas as qualified, results-driven professionals. Whether you are advancing your current career or transitioning into new responsibilities, this certification provides the competitive edge you need in 2026 and beyond.

Programme Overview

Certification at a Glance

Certification
Certified Hypnotherapist
Acronym
CHY
Category
Counselling & Coaching
Level
Intermediate
Duration
9 Week
Delivery Mode
100% Online
Assessment
Online Examination
Certificate
Digital + Physical
CPD Eligibility
CPD Accredited
Alumni Benefits
GLI Network Access
Self-Paced
USD 349
Live Virtual
USD 549
Target Audience

Who Should Enrol?

  • Outcomes and Review — applied to your own work
  • Scope, Boundary and Referral — applied to your own work
  • The Therapeutic Alliance — applied to your own work
  • Contracting and Confidentiality — applied to your own work
  • Listening, Reflection and Restraint — applied to your own work
  • Ethics, Supervision and Safety — applied to your own work
Programme Inclusions

Everything Included in Your Enrolment

  • All study materials and study guide
  • Access to GLI online learning portal
  • Online examination and assessment
  • Digital certificate and digital badge
  • Physical certificate (shipped to you)
  • CPD credits for professional bodies
  • GLI alumni network membership
  • Facilitator and tutor support
  • Resource downloads and reference library
  • Automatic enrolment confirmation
Certification Benefits

Why This Certification Matters for Your Career

Career Advancement
Accelerate your career towards senior counselling, clinical and practice-leadership roles
Professional Recognition
Credential aligned with recognised counselling, coaching and ethical practice standards
Leadership Capability
Develop the strategic and operational skills to lead complex counselling functions
Organisational Impact
Design and implement counselling systems that drive performance and measurable results
Compliance Readiness
Master the standards, compliance and ethical governance central to counselling
Global Employability
Qualify for counselling roles across clinics, NGOs, schools, community organisations and private practice worldwide
Competency Framework

Core Competencies You Will Develop

✦Counselling Theories, Models and Approaches
✦Assessment, Case Formulation and Treatment Planning
✦Therapeutic Skills, Alliance and Communication
✦Specialised Populations and Presenting Concerns
✦Coaching, Wellbeing and Positive Psychology
✦Professional Ethics and Governance
Course Curriculum

Programme Modules

Click any module to explore the detailed curriculum topics included in this certification.

1
Foundations and Professional Context of Certified Hypnotherapist
  • Certified Hypnotherapist: industry context, trends and professional standards
  • The helping relationship and its purpose
  • History and scope of counselling and coaching
  • Professional roles, boundaries and settings
  • Ethical principles and codes of practice
  • The self of the practitioner
  • Cultural competence and diversity
  • Confidentiality, consent and safeguarding
  • The evidence base for talking therapies
  • Wellbeing and the biopsychosocial model
  • Career pathways and professional development
2
Outcomes and Review
  • Evaluating coaching outcomes
  • Goal setting and behavioural change in coaching
  • Ethics, supervision and reflective practice
  • Strengths-based coaching
  • Group and team coaching
  • Preparing financial statements
  • Habits and behaviour design
  • Management accounts and dashboards
  • Budget vs actual and variance
  • Cost and profitability analysis
  • Forecasting and planning
  • Psychodynamic and psychoanalytic approaches
  • Peer support and consultation
  • Sustaining ethical, effective practice
  • Duty of care and risk management
3
Scope, Boundary and Referral
  • The boundary between coaching and therapy
  • Ethics, supervision and reflective practice
  • Contracting and the three-way agreement
  • Brand guidelines and consistency
  • Measuring brand health
  • Digital marketing strategy and channels
  • Content marketing and editorial planning
  • Record-keeping and data protection
  • Complaints, accountability and fitness to practise
  • Social media and community management
  • Email marketing and automation
  • Legal responsibilities and professional bodies
  • Marketing technology and the stack
  • Presenting, demonstrating and proposing
  • Negotiation and closing techniques
4
The Therapeutic Alliance
  • The working alliance and coaching presence
  • Questioning, listening and the coach’s restraint
  • Feedback, challenge and psychological safety in coaching
  • Risk, protective and social factors
  • Evidence-based improvement
  • Stages of change and readiness
  • Managing risk and difficult cases
  • Lessons learned and development
  • Designing and facilitating groups
  • Psychoeducation and workshops
  • Designing an intervention or programme
  • Relapse prevention planning
  • Evidence-based practice
  • Risk assessment and safety planning
  • Treatment planning and review
5
Contracting and Confidentiality
  • Contracting and the three-way agreement
  • Ethics, supervision and reflective practice
  • The boundary between coaching and therapy
  • Brand equity and positioning
  • Integrated marketing communications (IMC)
  • Advertising and creative development
  • Managing complexity and comorbidity
  • Workplace and organisational contexts
  • Reputation and crisis communications
  • Sales forecasting and territory planning
  • Mentoring, sponsorship and developmental relationships
  • Team coaching and the team as client
  • Cultural context and coaching across difference
  • Building and running a coaching practice
  • Clinical assessment and shared formulation
6
Listening, Reflection and Restraint
  • Questioning, listening and the coach’s restraint
  • The working alliance and coaching presence
  • Cultural context and coaching across difference
  • Outcome monitoring in therapeutic work
  • Referral, multi-agency work and the client pathway
  • Change talk and readiness
  • Habit change and behaviour design
  • Accountability and follow-through
  • Behavioural and process addictions
  • Strengths, flow and engagement
  • Recovery capital and community
  • Case management and referral
  • Meaning, purpose and values
  • Evidence-based practice and research literacy
  • Data, records and confidentiality tech
7
Ethics, Supervision and Safety
  • Ethics, supervision and reflective practice
  • The boundary between coaching and therapy
  • The working alliance and coaching presence
  • Professional standards in the field
  • Coaching principles and ethics
  • The coaching relationship
  • Practice management systems
  • Values-based living
  • Coaching for resilience and wellbeing
  • Emerging tools and innovation
  • Brand strategy, identity and architecture
  • Therapeutic modalities and choosing an approach
  • Risk assessment and safeguarding in practice
  • Trauma-informed delivery and its limits
  • Working with ambivalence and motivation
8
Workplace Context
  • Future of work and workforce transformation
  • Customer (employee/manager) satisfaction
  • The employee lifecycle and HR value chain
  • Strategic workforce planning and demand forecasting
  • Stakeholder engagement and risk management
  • Employer branding and employee value proposition (EVP)
  • Employee voice, surveys and action planning
  • Employee and manager self-service
  • Workforce reporting and storytelling with data
  • Cost of workforce and ROI of HR interventions
  • Collective relations and union engagement
  • Team and engagement metrics
  • Community and tenant engagement
  • Structuring engagements: scope, deliverables and expectations
  • Managing engagement risk and professional liability
9
Practice and Business
  • Treasury function and money markets
  • Funds transfer pricing
  • Development banking and project finance
  • SME lending and value-chain finance
  • Microfinance and group lending
  • Financial inclusion and agency banking
  • Working with referrers and multidisciplinary teams
  • Impact, blended and concessional finance
  • Supply market analysis
  • Financial inclusion strategy
  • Business process mapping
  • Financial reporting frameworks (IFRS/GAAP)
  • Interpreting financial statements
  • Data visualisation for finance
  • Communicating financial results
10
Digital Delivery
  • Emerging project technologies
  • Managing virtual and cross-cultural teams
  • Digital disruption and modern go-to-market
  • Digital and data-driven go-to-market
  • Digital marketing strategy
  • Marketing technology stack
  • Scaling technologies and business models
  • Digital and market transformation
  • Digital advisory, e-extension and mobile services
  • Digital and self-service transformation
  • Self-service and digital support
  • Customer service technology stack
  • Technology selection and integration
  • Emerging service technologies
  • Digital, mobile and internet banking
11
Programme Delivery
  • Driving measurable delivery improvement
  • Financial risk in projects
  • Realising and measuring project value
  • Capstone scoping: a real project or programme
  • Designing the project plan and schedule
  • Delivery, quality and stakeholder plan
  • Project initiation and chartering
  • Integrated project planning
  • Project management plan development
  • Resource planning and levelling
  • Quality planning and assurance
  • Professional writing and reports
  • Managing difficult conversations
  • Implementation planning and risk management
  • HACCP principles and prerequisite programmes
12
Community and Family Context
  • Social media customer care
  • Customer and community engagement
  • Social performance and outreach
  • Corporate social responsibility communications
  • Building trust and engagement
  • Corporate social responsibility and ESG
  • Environmental, social and governance (ESG)
  • Corporate responsibility and community
  • Social media management: platforms, communities and algorithms
  • Measurement and analytics for media and social campaigns
  • Sustainability and social impact in projects
  • Corporate social responsibility and community impact
  • Group dynamics, facilitation and community mobilisation
  • Leading groups and workshops
  • Wellbeing, fatigue and psychosocial risk
13
Health Context
  • Collaboration and teamwork
  • Health records, data and confidentiality
  • Telehealth and digital care delivery
  • Public health programmes: prevention and outreach
  • The consulting mindset and trusted advisor positioning
  • Healthcare quality, safety and accreditation
  • Health financing: budgets, insurance and out-of-pocket realities
  • Procurement and stock management for health commodities
  • Health, safety and compliance in delivery
  • Customer and brand health metrics
  • Brand health and measurement
  • Absence, capability and ill-health management
  • Wellbeing and holistic health strategy
  • Confidentiality and health data
  • Leadership impact and organisational health metrics
14
Standards and Quality
  • Continuous improvement of delivery
  • Design review and quality assurance
  • Quality assurance and standards
  • Continuous improvement of programmes
  • Ethics and professional standards in finance
  • Standard costing and variance analysis
  • Continuous improvement of finance processes
  • Product safety and standards
  • Sustainability standards (GRI, ISSB)
  • Cost, quality and cycle-time metrics
  • Professional accreditation and CPD
  • Assurance engagements and standards
  • Process improvement and HR operating efficiency
  • Time-to-hire, quality-of-hire and cost metrics
  • Data quality, integration and master data
15
Conflict and Resistance
  • Negotiation and influencing
  • Handling difficult customers and disputes
  • Managing resistance and reskilling
  • Integrity, confidentiality and conflicts
  • Working with conflict and change
  • Conflicts of interest management
  • Offer management, negotiation and pre-boarding
  • Conflict resolution and mediation
  • Managing resistance and engagement
  • Conflicts of interest and fairness
  • Difficult conversations and feedback
  • Conflict resolution over land, water and resources
  • De-escalation and difficult customers
  • Managing difficult stakeholders
  • Negotiation and conflict resolution
16
Records and Reporting
  • Record keeping, notes and professional documentation
  • Incident reporting and record-keeping
  • Diagnosing client problems before prescribing solutions
  • Sustainability reporting and disclosure
  • Board and management reporting
  • Professional report writing
  • Risk registers and reporting
  • Proposal development and donor reporting
  • Vehicle documentation, compliance and consumer protection
  • Integrated and sustainability reporting
  • Reporting quality and governance
  • Management reporting and decision support
  • Board and executive reporting
  • Monitoring, evaluation and reporting
  • Board reporting and information flows
17
Coaching Practice
  • Quality monitoring and coaching
  • Coaching and quality monitoring
  • Coaching for performance
  • Building a coaching culture
  • Measuring coaching and mentoring impact
  • Coaching models and frameworks (GROW)
  • Facilitation, coaching and mentoring
  • Creating a coaching culture
  • Mentoring and sponsorship
  • Solvency, capital and prudential supervision
  • Wellbeing and resilience coaching
  • Coaching and developing team members
  • Sales enablement and coaching
  • Measuring coaching outcomes
  • Coaching and skill development
18
Therapeutic Practice
  • Employment relationship and the psychological contract
  • Resilience, wellbeing and stress management
  • Discovery interviews and evidence gathering
  • Working with organisations on wellbeing
  • Root cause analysis frameworks in advisory work
  • Workplace wellbeing strategy
  • Voice, communication and delivery
  • Learning strategy and roadmaps
  • L&D operating models and governance
  • Aligning learning to performance
  • Stakeholders and users of financial information
  • Writing advisory reports that drive decisions
19
Ethics and Safeguarding
  • Ethical frameworks and codes of practice
  • Driving effective, ethical outcomes
  • Ethical, risk and feasibility considerations
  • Ethics of technology in practice
  • Ethics and independence in advisory relationships
  • Professional ethics and responsibility (PMI)
  • Conflicts of interest and procurement ethics
  • Professional standards and ethics
  • Marketing and sales ethics
  • Professional roles, ethics and standards for agricultural practitioners
  • Presenting recommendations to senior decision-makers
  • Professional ethics in customer service
  • Responsible and ethical service
  • Ethics and integrity in banking
  • Professional ethics and banking conduct
20
Communication Skills
  • Safety communication and campaigns
  • Communicating risk to the workforce
  • Toolbox talks and safety communication
  • 360-degree feedback and leadership assessment
  • Communicating vision and telling stories
  • Executive communication and presence
  • Cross-cultural communication
  • Giving and receiving feedback
  • Voice of the customer and feedback
  • Managing sensitive communications
  • Presenting risk and recommendations
  • Client feedback and satisfaction
  • Professional case study and presentation
  • Communicating with families and carers
  • Psychoeducation and public communication
21
Development and Learning
  • Learning cultures and the learning organisation
  • Blended and hybrid learning design
  • Feedback and developmental conversations
  • Career and talent development
  • Motivation and self-directed learning
  • Capability and skills frameworks
  • Building the learning brand
  • Leading the learning function
  • Leadership and management development
  • Training needs analysis and learning strategy
  • Organisation development principles and practice
  • Supplier development and improvement
  • Real estate development and project appraisal
  • Monitoring, evaluation and learning for accountability
  • Attachment and developmental theory
22
Groups and Facilitation
  • Group facilitation and group process
  • Servant leadership and self-organising teams
  • Facilitation and workshops
  • Virtual and distributed teams
  • Team leadership and motivation
  • Leading project teams
  • Building high-performing project teams
  • Cross-functional collaboration with product and service
  • Team leadership in sales and marketing
  • Facilitation, training and public presentation skills
  • Team leadership in field and project settings
  • Leading service teams
  • Stakeholder mapping and collaboration
  • Team leadership in customer service
  • Team leadership in banking operations
23
Behaviour and Change
  • Change and adoption in projects
  • Measuring change and project impact
  • Baseline setting and change control
  • Motivation and engagement
  • Soil chemistry, pH and cation exchange capacity
  • Pricing, value articulation and professional fees
  • Behaviour change and adoption of innovations
  • Foreign exchange and treasury operations
  • Technology governance and change control
  • Foreign exchange and hedging
  • Engagement and motivation
  • Regulatory change management
  • Communication strategy in change programmes
  • Embedding values and behaviours
  • Safety culture, leadership and behaviour
24
Goals and Measurement
  • Projects, programmes and portfolios
  • Leading and lagging metrics
  • Policy, planning and objectives
  • Measuring HSE performance
  • Productivity and effectiveness measurement
  • Setting goals, roles and accountability
  • Managing team performance and dynamics
  • High-performance team rituals and cadence
  • Contract performance and exit
  • Risk treatment and countermeasures
  • Sales analytics and metrics
  • Goal setting and contracting
  • Goal setting and action planning
  • Outcome and process measures
  • Psychometric and screening tools
25
Leadership Context
  • Project management standards (PMI, PRINCE2)
  • Project roles and the project manager
  • Stakeholder and sponsor management
  • Organisational change management
  • Building project management maturity
  • Lessons learned and knowledge management
  • Project management maturity assessment
  • Value and benefits management
  • Requirements gathering and management
  • Earned value management
  • Procurement and contract management
  • Influencing and advising leaders
  • Knowledge management and capability building
  • Vendor management and system governance
  • HR service delivery and case management
26
Culture and Inclusion
  • The project environment and stakeholders
  • Climate-smart agriculture and seasonal risk
  • Service culture and brand promise
  • Building a customer-centric culture
  • Building a service culture
  • Building a culture of compliance
  • Nomination, succession and diversity
  • The business case for diversity and inclusion
  • Cross-cultural and global inclusion
  • HR's role in culture, values and employer brand
  • Diversity, inclusion and inclusive leadership
  • Team diversity and inclusion
  • Business case and strategic alignment
  • Brand strategy, identity and equity
  • Policy, institutions and the enabling environment for agriculture
27
Client Relationships
  • Procurement and contract value
  • Stakeholder identification and analysis
  • Stakeholder engagement strategy
  • Building project relationships
  • Building strategic customer relationships
  • Negotiation with clients and partners
  • Project governance and assurance
  • Partnership building and multi-stakeholder platforms
  • Relationship management and retention
  • Stakeholder mapping in banking
  • Relationship management and cross-selling
  • Project governance frameworks
  • Reporting to boards and executives
  • Subcontractor and supplier management
  • Managing boundaries and dual relationships
28
Risk and Compliance
  • Environmental governance and climate risk
  • Legal and regulatory responsibility
  • Managing organisational politics
  • Environmental legal compliance
  • Compliance and regulatory projects
  • Legal, cost and feasibility analysis
  • Risk assessment methodology and matrices
  • Dynamic and site-specific risk assessment
  • Residual risk and ALARP
  • Risk registers and monitoring
  • Change control and configuration
  • Compliance monitoring and enforcement
  • Risk assessment that changes what happens
  • Permit to work and high-risk task control
  • HSE legal duties and enforcement
29
Evidence and Research
  • Leading project governance
  • Baseline surveys and data collection tools
  • Data quality, analysis and reporting
  • Innovation and continuous delivery
  • Agile and digital transformation projects
  • Portfolio of evidence and reflective practice
  • Data-driven decision support and analytics
  • Statistics and exploratory data analysis
  • Complaint data and learning
  • Service analytics and dashboards
  • Text and interaction analytics
  • Investigation practice and evidence handling
  • Comparable sales analysis and market evidence
  • Analytical techniques and bias
  • Decision support and insight
30
Wellbeing and Resilience
  • Managing growth, risk and resilience
  • Operational risk and resilience
  • Stress testing and scenario analysis
  • Stress and psychosocial risk
  • Root cause analysis and corrective action on the line
  • Costing production: standard costs, variances and the true cost of scrap
  • Range planning and category management
  • Retail performance metrics: sales densities, conversion and basket
  • Mine planning and methods: surface and underground
  • Managing resistance and readiness
  • Scaling delivery capability
Learning Outcomes

What You Will Achieve

  • Outcomes and Review — applied to your own work
  • Scope, Boundary and Referral — applied to your own work
  • The Therapeutic Alliance — applied to your own work
  • Contracting and Confidentiality — applied to your own work
  • Listening, Reflection and Restraint — applied to your own work
  • Ethics, Supervision and Safety — applied to your own work
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Frequently Asked Questions

Common Questions

What is the CHY certification?

Yes. GLI certifications are recognised across 100+ countries and are aligned with recognised counselling, coaching and ethical practice standards. Graduates receive a digital certificate, a physical certificate and CPD credits recognised by employers worldwide.

Who should enrol in the CHY?

This certification is ideal for Counsellors and Therapists, Coaches and Wellbeing Practitioners, Social and Community Workers and Helping-Profession Practitioners, and other professionals seeking to formalise their expertise in counselling, coaching and psychological wellbeing with a globally recognised credential.

How long does the CHY certification take to complete?

The programme is structured over 9 Week and offers flexible learning modes. Self-paced learners can progress at their own schedule, while live virtual participants follow a structured cohort schedule with facilitator-led sessions.

Is the CHY internationally recognised?

Yes. GLI certifications are recognised across 100+ countries and are aligned with recognised counselling, coaching and ethical practice standards. Graduates receive a digital certificate, a physical certificate and CPD credits recognised by employers worldwide.

What is the cost of the CHY certification?

The Certified Hypnotherapist is offered in two formats: Self-Paced at USD 349 and Live Virtual at USD 549. Corporate group rates are available for organisations enrolling 5 or more participants. Contact GLI for a bespoke corporate training quotation.

What does the CHY certification include?

Enrolment includes all study materials and study guides, access to GLI's online learning portal, online examination, digital certificate and badge, physical certificate (posted), CPD credits, GLI alumni network membership, and ongoing facilitator support.

What is the assessment format for the CHY?

The Certified Hypnotherapist is assessed through an online examination consisting of multiple-choice questions, case study analysis, and practical application assignments. The assessment is designed to evaluate real-world competency, not just theoretical recall.

What CPD credits do I earn from the CHY?

The Certified Hypnotherapist carries Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credits, which can be applied towards professional body requirements including recognised international professional associations.

Can I study the CHY while working full-time?

Absolutely. The self-paced option is designed for busy working professionals and allows you to study when and where it suits you. Live virtual sessions are typically scheduled in the evenings or on weekends to accommodate professional commitments.

What career outcomes can I expect from the CHY?

Graduates progress towards senior counselling, clinical and practice-leadership roles. The CHY strengthens your expertise in counselling, coaching and psychological wellbeing and positions you for advancement across clinics, NGOs, schools, community organisations and private practice.

Graduate Voices

What Our Alumni Say

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The curriculum was directly applicable to my daily work. I immediately applied what I learned and saw results within weeks of completing the programme.

Clinical Lead
Private Sector
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GLI's certification is the most practical professional programme I have attended. The international frameworks gave me credibility with my employer and clients.

Senior Counsellor
NGO Sector
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I earned my CHY while working full-time. The self-paced format made it possible, and the quality of the content is genuinely world-class.

Wellbeing Programme Manager
Government
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