Medical Hypnosis: Manchester Gut-Directed Hypnotherapy

This blended learning course is designed to support healthcare professionals in gastroenterology who are interested in exploring the use of Gut-Directed Hypnotherapy (GDH) within their clinical practice. Developed and delivered by a multi-disciplinary team who work within gastroenterology in the NHS, the programme offers a combination of online modules, live virtual sessions, and in-person experiential learning to introduce key concepts, techniques, and clinical applications of hypnosis in the context of functional gut disorders.

NB: Students should only treat with clinical hypnosis those conditions that they are qualified to treat without hypnosis

As a safe-guard for clients / patients, we will only train health care professionals who are eligible for membership of BSCAH. 

Dates:

• Day 1: Thursday 5th February 2026 (Online)
• Day 2: Thursday 26th February 2026 (Online)
• Day 3: Thursday 19th March 2026 (Online)
• Day 4: Monday 13th April 2026 (Face-to-Face, Midlands Hotel, Manchester)
• Day 5: Peer Support Session Thursday 14th May 2026, 14:30–16:30 (Online)
  (plus access to five optional peer support sessions over 12 months)

Cost:

• Standard: £1350
• Discounted (British Society of Gastroenterology & BSCAH members): £945

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Join BSCAH: https://bscah.co.uk/bscah-membership/

Course Components:

• Pre-Course Module: Foundations of Adjunctive Clinical Hypnosis: Therapeutic Communication (approx. 2 hours, self-directed)
• Live Online Training: Three days covering relaxation, symptom management, and clinical application.

Day one: Hypnosis for relaxation
Day two: Hypnosis for symptom management
Day three: Applying hypnosis to accompanying symptoms and in practice

• Face-to-Face Training: One full day of hands-on practice and peer case discussion in Manchester.
• Peer Support: One compulsory session plus access to five optional sessions over 12 months.

Aim: to develop students’ skills and knowledge in hypnosis, with specific attention to working with Irritable bowel syndrome and other gut disorders.

By the end of the course, we will have demonstrated how to
1. recognise and evaluate whether hypnosis is appropriate within the patient’s clinical care
2. identify relevant procedures for the application of hypnosis to IBS and other gut related symptoms
3. teach your patients suitable methods of self-hypnosis and use of imagery and suggestion
4. apply hypnotic procedures in your professional work
5. know when and how to refer on as appropriate

Who Should Attend: Healthcare professionals working in gastroenterology, including physicians, nurses, psychologists, and allied health professionals interested in enhancing patient care through adjunctive hypnosis.

Certification: Participants who complete all components will receive a Certificate of Completion.

CPD accreditation applied for

Program TBA

Indicative Content

Pre-Course Learning: Foundations of Therapeutic Communication Module: VLE (2 hours)

• Nocebo and placebo effects of language
• Advanced communication techniques & language patterns
• Enhancing positive suggestion techniques
• Rapport building and trance-equivalent states
• Informal hypnotic techniques in clinical practice

Optional, supportive resources; Self-Directed Learning: VLE (6 hours)

• Foundations of hypnosis: formal and informal trance
• Recognising trance states
• Historical and theoretical perspectives
• Hypnotisability and suggestibility
• Patient selection, preparation, and consent
• Safety considerations, including abreaction management and factors influencing effective suggestion

Live Blended Learning (24 hours)

• Ethical and professional considerations in clinical hypnosis
• Hypnosis induction techniques
• Deepening strategies and special place imagery
• Self-hypnosis for patient empowerment
• Effective positive suggestion and ego strengthening
• Anchoring
• Concept of Ideomotor signalling

Progression

BSCAH offers the only University accredited Level 6 & 7 course in the UK in Clinical Hypnosis, Language & Communication Techniques in Healthcare at Birmingham City University.

Further info: https://bscah.co.uk/advanced-diploma-in-professional-studies-bsc-graduate-certificate-pgcert-course-in-clinical-hypnosis-language-and-communication-techniques-in-healthcare/

Please visit https://bscah.co.uk/event-directory/ for a list of all training & events.

Cancellation policy: Full refund if cancelled up to 4 weeks prior to event; 50% refund if cancelled 2-4 weeks before the event, no refund if cancelled after this time.
There is a minimum number requirement for this training, and if this has not been reached by two weeks prior to the training, then BSCAH reserves the right to cancel with full refunds given.