Hypnotherapy

The National Board for Certified Clinical Hypnotherapists is an established certification board that has provided a widely respected credential to over three thousand of your different colleagues. The National Board for Certified Clinical Hypnotherapists is unique in that it provides certification and networking opportunities to potential professionals from all mental health and medical disciplines who meet the Board’s particular standards.

- Certification Categories:

The National Board for Certified Clinical Hypnotherapists provides six certification categories to potential professionals. The categories go as follows: National Board Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist (NBCCH), National Board Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist in Public Service (NBCCH-PS), National Board Certified Diplomate in Clinical Hypnotherapy (NBCDCH), National Board Certified Diplomate in Clinical Hypnotherapy in Public Service (NBCDCH-PS), National Board Certified Fellow in Clinical Hypnotherapy (NBCFCH), and the National Board Certified Fellow in Clinical Hypnotherapy in Public Service (NBCDCH-PS).

- Eligibility Requirements:

All applicants whether mental health, health care practitioners, and/or pastoral counselors have earned a graduate level degree. This degree must have be in any of the full spectrum of appropriatte academic disciplines from a regionally accredited educational institution. In the event that the individual wants to become involved in the medical aspect of hypnosis, he/she must hold an appropriatte Masters or Doctorate degree.

Individuals who are attempting to achieve this level of accreditation must have earned a degree in one of the following: social work, school counseling, psychology, psychiatry, physics, psychiatric nursing, pastoral counseling, mental health counseling, marriage and family therapy, chiropractic, and addiction and substance abuse counseling.
In addition to having a degree, each individual is required to have hypnotherapy training. Within this spectrum each individual is required to participate in 60 or more contact hours of classroom instruction. During this training the hypnosis courses must be at least 18 hours, which include in-class supervised practice.

The application for any one of the National Board for Certified Clinical Hypnotherapists may be made with at least 30 hours clinical hypnotherapy training, and as long as all the other current requirements are met. Although the board will be eligibly documented in the NBCCH records, it is not a clear cut substitute for certification.
Both of the Diplomate and Fellow certification require an additional amount of clinical experience past the initial certification requirements. The Diplomate accredidation can only be sought out after three years in hypnotherapy practice. On the other hand the Fellow accredidation can only be sought out four years after receiving the origal certification.