International Hypnotherapy Institute

Most hypnotherapists are trained for the session.
iHYPi trains you for the career.

Our careers can’t grow by trying to fit more clients into our diaries.

Hypnotherapy grows when experienced practitioners teach people how to use it.

Keep the client work you love.
Teach hypnotherapy beside it, and your income stops depending on how many sessions you can fill.

Download the Six Wisdoms — The Career Conversation Nobody Is Having

These six audio wisdoms introduce a different way to think about your career. You'll discover why a practice can look successful from the outside and still feel restricted from the inside. Download and listen in an afternoon.

Six Wisdoms for Hypnotherapists

Hypnotherapy Is At A Crossroads

Twenty years ago, mindfulness was niche. It did not grow because practitioners offered more sessions. It grew because practitioners became teachers.

Hypnotherapy is at the same crossroads. We teach hypnotherapists how to become instructors, launch their own hypnotherapy diploma course and develop a second income from teaching.

What makes us unique, is that we help them develop their own hypnotherapy teaching framework, something built from their own life and client work and put it in the centre of their hypnotherapy diploma course.

There is more to hypnotherapy than just one-to-one sessions and there's more to you too. Find your framework and claim your own unique IP on BUILD

Client Work Was Never Meant To Carry Everything

You know the maths before a slow week even starts.

A cancellation changes the day.
A holiday stops the income while the bills keep moving.
Your income depends on your diary.

Your capacity depends on your energy.
Your business depends on you being available.

That is the ceiling built into a career based entirely on filling a diary.

One-to-one work will always matter. It changes lives.

But it does not have to carry your entire career.

Teaching hypnotherapy gives your work a second professional container.

Working just one Saturday per month over the academic year will allow you to expand fully into your hypnotherapy career.

Different containers. One career.

What Shaped You Is Professional Currency

You came through something that shaped you.
It changed the way you see things.
You sit with clients differently because of what you have lived through.

It's all too easy to assume this is simply personal history.
But it's much more than that.
It is your professional currency.
Your unique intellectual property.

Every hypnotherapy teacher you admire took what they learned from life and built their career around it.

iHYPi helps you do the same.
The pathway below shows you how, one stage at a time.

iHYPi Career Pathway

1. UNSTUCK

Gestalt Informed Certificate in Somatic Pattern Interruption.

Discover the hidden patterns shaping your client work and your professional growth.

Develop sharper somatic calibration and translate what you notice into more precise hypnotic interventions.

Leave with practical skills for stronger sessions and a clearer, more sustainable path for your career.

Saturday 14 November and 17 and 19 Nov Online 7 to 9pm. Booking is now open.

GET UNSTUCK

2. BUILD

Hypnotherapy Framework Development Award.

Ninety days to build your own hypnotherapy framework. You're own intellectual property developed from your own life experience.

Together we find the process already inside your life and your client work, name it, and teach it live.

You leave with a professional teaching asset that can create a second, recurring income stream in your practice.

Next course starts Tuesday morning 2nd February and Thursday evening 4th February 2027.

See how BUILD works

3. TEACH — Launch Your Own Diploma Course

Certified International Hypnotherapy Instructor (CiHYPi) Award.

CPD makes you a better therapist. CiHYPi makes you the owner of a hypnotherapy training business.

Twelve months of private mentoring with Susan, with one agenda: launch your own diploma course with your first cohort enrolled, under your name and your brand. With your hypnotherapy framework at the centre of it.

You grow into the instructor role while we build the training business around you. Apply now.

TEACH HYPNOTHERAPY

What iHYPi Graduates Built

Patrick turned years of work with athletes into The Push for Progress Program. He is now building a diploma for personal trainers and sports professionals.

Mags ran a full client list and a strong reputation on a six-day week for twenty years. Teaching hypnotherapy is giving her income, space and a new stage for the same work.

iHYPi

Supporting the Practitioner.

Advancing the Profession.

What we offer isn't more CPD. It's career progression for hypnotherapists who want a rewarding, long-term, financially secure career.

You Don't Have To Choose Between Clients And Growth

Teaching does not replace the client work you love.
It sits beside it.

Teaching hypnotherapy to diploma level can be planned in advance.
One Saturday per month. Income mapped a year ahead. A full month to prepare for each module.

Your client diary becomes part of the business, not the whole business.

That is the shift iHYPi helps you make.

The Teaching Hypnotherapist Podcast.

Join Susan Wallace the Founder of iHYPi and Director of Education.

Every week she explores the realities of working in hypnotherapy.

The client work, the emotional experience and the questions that don't always get spoken out loud.

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