Hypnotherapy Training International (HTI) is the main teaching faculty of the British Society of Hypnotherapists (1950). HTI is the only UK training organisation, as far as is known, that offers courses in excess of 200 hours exclusively dedicated to specialised training in hypnotherapy. Training is provided to Foundation, Intermediate and Advanced levels as well as teaching highly specialised applications of hypnosis. The training programme incorporates the most dynamic and effective methods of classical hypnotism for achieving results. The most effective techniques, proven over the long history of hypnotism, are combined with modern developments from the most effective practitioners of the 20th century, including Gil Boyne, Dave Elman and Milton Erickson.

The programme provides the student with new concepts and methods of hypnotism and aims to remove old limiting beliefs about the mind and its potential. The use of dynamic hypnotic methods combined with powerful insights into the workings of the mind provides the necessary practical and theoretical basis for dramatic results in therapy. In contrast, many hypnotherapy courses traditionally have taught what is essentially an elaborated form of “suggestion” therapy which, for many psychological problems at best provides only limited benefits that are frequently transient. These courses do not teach in-depth procedures of hypnoanalysis and other methods of advanced clinical hypnotherapy.

The programme incorporates the radical, rapid-acting methods of the renowned hypnotherapist Gil Boyne. The Institute is the only training body in the UK licensed to teach Transforming Therapy™, the hypnotherapy system developed by Gil Boyne. The level of training in Transforming Therapy™ in this course is not available anywhere else in the world outside the USA. All of the powerful, radical methods of hypnotherapy developed by Gil Boyne in almost 50 years of practice, study and teaching are included in the training programme. An outstanding practitioner and teacher, Gil Boyne studied with pioneering figures in therapy including Dr. Fritz Perls, founder of Gestalt Therapy, Dr. Carl Rogers, the principal figure in modern counselling and Dr. Alexander Lowen, founder of Bioenergetics. Gil Boyne adapted and included the best therapeutic procedures from various therapy systems in hypnotherapy practice. These procedures, together with classical hypnotism methods and new techniques and principles which he developed for therapeutic work were incorporated into Transforming Therapy™.