Recently I was planning to take up a course on hypnosis.
However the courses are expensive.
What’s the science on it? Any credible body that recognizes it as a therapy or profession?
Hypnotherapy in conjunction with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy has shown good results
for a wide variety of conditions.
A DNP nurse practitioner I know once attempted to hypnotize me. Despite my best efforts at being cooperative, no dice.
I believe the human interaction inherent in much CBT is one of the main reasons it has success. That said, online programs are getting a lot of attention.
Per the Wiki page, NIH (a very credible body) recognizes hypnotherapy as an effective treatment.
I don’t know whether insurance programs would agree enough to pay for it.
Why the interest in becoming a hypnotist rather than something else?
It’s been very successful at creating people who think they were abducted by aliens or who have other false memories.
See, for example: Susan Clancy
Though the science may be credible the teaching organization may not be. Caveat Emptor.
Is this being taught at a real college? What share of the graduates of this program go on to work in the hypnotherapy field? Or is this entertainment related? If it’s the latter, I suspect another route might be appropriate.