In-Person, Small-Group Hypnosis Training

Our next professional hypnosis certification program will start in early 2025. It typically runs for twelve consecutive Sundays (except for long weekends), from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.

This results in nearly 100 in-class hours, with additional homework hours as assigned. It’s in-person training, and our permanent classroom at 49 Elm Street in downtown Toronto is shown below.

Your instructor is Luke Chao, a well-known hypnotherapist who has been practising in Toronto since 2006 and teaching since 2008.

You can hear him speak on our YouTube channel: in particular, we bring your attention to our Hypnosis Made Simple mini-course as a representation of how he teaches from first principles.

You can also read his booklet, The Skeptic’s Guide to Hypnosis, for an introduction to his background and approach to hypnosis.The course fee is $3900 (plus HST).

A $500 deposit is required to confirm your seat. If you are unable to pay the entire course fee at the start of the course, we offer 12-month payment terms at a reasonable interest rate.

There are limited seats remaining. To register or learn more, please call us at 416-556-4068 or click here to request a meeting with Luke.

What Do We Teach?

This twelve-week course teaches you how to perform hypnosis in a hands-on, small-group setting, with a solid grounding in the fundamentals of hypnotism. You’ll learn a variety of hypnotic inductions, how to structure hypnotic suggestions, and protocols for working with issues like smoking, stress and overeating.

Richly informed by 17 years of clinical experience, it’s distinguished by its principles-driven, mysticism-free approach (see our philosophy of practice). The course content goes far beyond the NGH’s required material and includes advanced inductions, theory and techniques.

We teach you to practice in a way that takes into consideration the laws of Ontario. Gain a solid practical understanding of hypnosis, allowing you to begin or advance your career as a confident practitioner.

Here’s a high-level overview of each week’s topics (subject to change):

• Week 1: Introductions, frameworks and models, how to give a pre-talk
• Week 2: How to do intakes, how to phrase suggestions, risks to be aware of
• Week 3: Inductions, deepeners and emergence, depth testing
• Week 4: Supervised practice
• Week 5: Basic NLP for hypnotherapists, conversational reframing
• Week 6: How to work with common issues, a universal philosophy of life
• Week 7: Supervised practice
• Week 8: Treatment planning with examples
• Week 9: Supplemental techniques, technological tools
• Week 10: Supervised practice
• Week 11: Business, marketing and ethics, certification exam
• Week 12: Review, final questions, book recommendations

We do not focus too closely on step-by-step techniques that you can learn in other courses, although these techniques will be included as part of the training. In our view, the right order of priorities would be to learn applied philosophy first, word choice second and techniques last.

Although we are not aware of other schools of hypnosis that focus as much on philosophical principles as we do, if we are to teach you what we actually do with our clients to give them happiness and peace of mind, we have to go deeper than techniques and provide the reasoning behind why hypnotists say the things we do.

The words or techniques we use are packaging for the ideas we deliver, and once our client understands the ideas, they can discard the words we’ve used to deliver them.

This course leads to a Certified Consulting Hypnotist certificate with the National Guild of Hypnotists (NGH), and once-weekly training makes it easy to fit into a busy work schedule.