What We Teach

Hypnotherapy

Hypnotherapy is the use of the hypnosis for therapeutic purposes. This is either through accessing a trance state where we are more in touch with our unconscious mind (which is responsible for controlling most of our behaviours in life) or through being able to change our behaviours in a more conscious state. What is particularly valuable about working with hypnosis is having the ability to use language in a way which can change a person’s ongoing experience, either with or without their awareness. Over recent years hypnosis, through mediums such as stage hypnosis, has developed a reputation for being manipulative an misused. The style of hypnosis taught on The Optimum Health Clinic’s courses is permissive and empathic, and so although still very powerful, is driven by ethics and compassion.

NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming)

NLP is the science of understanding how people create their experience of the world, and how this can be changed. It was originally created by Dr Richard Bandler and Dr John Grinder in the 1970’s, and has been developed by a number of different clinicians and practitioners since that time. NLP effectively provides the tools and processes to work with patients’ conscious and unconscious minds. NLP is most famous for its ability to wipe out life long phobias in as little as a few minutes, but it has groundbreaking applications in a whole range of therapeutic areas.

Life coaching

Life coaching is about finding out where people are, where they want to be, and then helping them create a plan to get there. This provides a much more focused approach to therapy than the more traditional psychotherapeutic model of just looking at someone’s past.

EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique)

EFT works on the premise that all negative emotion is stored as an imbalance in the energy system. Therefore, by tuning into emotional issues, and then tapping on various acupuncture points, it is possible to help people let go of emotional issues that they have felt trapped by for years.


To be able to help the largest number of people, it is necessary to be experienced in all of these fields… effectively, hypnotherapy provides the communication skills, NLP and EFT the methodology and techniques, and life coaching the attitude and approach. Just as important as all of this is the insight and understanding to really see what is going on with people. Due to their clinical nature, this is a key part of the training style at The Optimum Health Clinic.

The kinds of issues that students are trained to treat are:

  • Stress and anxiety
  • Low self-esteem
  • Depression
  • Confidence issues
  • Emotional problems
  • Trauma and abuse
  • Phobias
  • Smoking cessation
  • Hypnosis for pregnancy
  • Eating disorders
  • Fatigue

To learn more about our various courses, please click here.

Student Feedback

Dan"Joining this course has changed my life. Not only has it given me the tools and techniques which I hoped that I'd learn, it has taught me how I can keep getting healthier and happier with every step of my life path." Daniel Hill, Worcestershire

"This course has helped me turn my life around, I've learnt as much about healing myself as about helping other people heal. The tutors are superb, all experts in their fields, and they're also inspiring people to be around. I've made some good friends on the course too which has been an added bonus. Highly recommended." Phil Hare, Oxford

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