When you offer a special service, clients want to know that you’re qualified to provide it. Certification is a very important part of being a successful mental health practitioner. Even indeed.com notes that gaining extra credentials adds to your appeal when it comes to seeking employment or getting business in the mental health field. When you achieve proficiency in a specialized modality, it tells potential clients: 

• You have knowledge and skills that set you apart from other providers 
• You care enough to keep learning and finding new ways to help them 
• You have achieved a level of proficiency that proves your competence  

A quick trip to your favorite Internet browser will demonstrate just how many ways there are to learn hypnotherapy. While the vast number of training opportunities offer variety, not all of them offer certification that is recognized by a majority of organizations, institutions and government agencies. Some of these programs don’t actually teach hypnotherapy, which is the act of administering therapy to a client while in an altered state of consciousness. 
 
They might restrict their hypnosis sessions to making suggestions and helping clients to alter habits through collapsing anchors or reframing unwanted behaviors. This isn’t the same as hypnotherapy. What’s more, it’s not nearly as powerful Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy® as it is taught at The Wellness Institute. 
 
Practitioners who achieve Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy® certification guide the client to identify emotions underlying issues and behaviors that are disturbing and/or disruptive. Once the emotions are identified, the client is urged to express them, so that they may release the feelings, and the hold these emotions have on the client’s unconscious urges and the resulting impulses that dictate unhealthy thinking and behavior. 
 
After this, the client is offered another procedure that makes Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy® even more effective. 

Age regression is a very important part of Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy®, and goes much further toward truly allowing the client to heal than hypnotic suggestions and affirmations alone. Age regression carries the client back in time to events that provoked the feelings that cause them distress in the present.  
 
Following the emotional bridge back to other times when the client had same or similar feelings helps to illuminate the underlying cause of certain thinking and behavior patterns. The client is also offered additional opportunities to express emotions that had previously been suppressed, so that it becomes possible to release them from the mind, body, and spirit.  
 
Once this is accomplished, the therapist invites the client to see what thought patterns and behaviors were given birth by the misapprehensions and suppressed emotions the client experienced in the disturbing or traumatic incident discovered during regression. Then, the client can change the opinions and choices made at that time to reflect healthy and functional behavior. In this way, healing can truly be accomplished. 
 
The client is then invited to connect with that younger part of the self, to give that part the words, affection, and affirmations that are needed to get it to relax and stop “acting out” under the guise of unconscious urges and cravings. Through love, understanding, and reassurance, the client comes to the most important assets one can hope to obtain: self-forgiveness and self-compassion. 
 
Age regression is extremely effective and therapeutic. Clients exhibit strides in their development and progress in therapy that is very rarely possible with talk-based techniques alone. Also, clients are becoming increasingly aware of age regression, and want to know that you, as their hypnotherapist, are able to offer it to them. When you get certified as a Heart-Centered Hypnotherapist at The Wellness Institute, you will receive a second certification in age regression. 

The Wellness Institute’s way of offering hypnotherapy training is comprehensive and unique. You can become certified as a Heart-Centered Hypnotherapist and a Certified Age Regression Specialist in a very short period of time. The Six Day Hypnotherapy Training and Certification Program prepares you to conduct and complete the practice sessions you need for certification in both areas. 
 
The next step in your training is The Advanced Internship. After completion of this 16-month course that takes place over 8 weekends, you will be awarded certification as an Advanced Certified Heart-Centered Hypnotherapist and an Advanced Age Regression Specialist. In this program, you will go deeper into the issues that clients commonly present when they come to your office for hypnotherapy, including 

• Codependency 
• Addiction 
• Sexual Abuse 
• Mind-Body Connection 
• Eating Disorders 
• Relationship Addiction 
• Healthy Relationships 
• Healthy Completion (including grieving) 

 
During the Advanced Internship, you will deepen your skills in hypnotherapy, learn and experience Heart-Centered Breathwork, and participate in Heart-Centered Dynamic Psychodrama. This process will also enable you to grow and transform as you look within and learn how to change your ways of thinking and behaving, so you can be the best therapist–and human being–possible. 
 
The Six Day Hypnotherapy Training and Certification Program has several classes running throughout the year. The Advanced Internship, on the other hand, is offered less frequently. If you’ve already completed the Six-Day training, you can enroll in the next internship, which is coming up in August. 
 
If you have yet to complete your Six Day Hypnotherapy Training and Certification, what are you waiting for? Enroll now and get started on your journey in the fast lane to success with dual certification in Hypnotherapy and Age Regression! 

Enroll in the Six-Day Hypnotherapy Training and Certification Program 
or 
The Advanced Internship!