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3702 Mt. Diablo Boulevard DIRECTIONS
HISTORY AND
PHILOSOPHY
HCH is one of the oldest and most comprehensive state-approved hypnosis
training institutes in California.The school is situated in a peaceful wooded hillside with a
sweeping view of the Contra Costa County hills. Our classrooms are fully carpeted and
warmly furnished. Sliding glass doors open to balconies which overlook the natural
environment. Deer, squirrels, and birds are commonly
seen from the classroom windows. TRAINING OVERVIEW USES
OF HYPNOSIS
Accelerated personal growth and transformation
A certificate in Hypnotherapy or Clinical OUR DOORS ARE OPEN WIDE
HCH students have ranged from 18 to 86 years of age and come from varied backgrounds: high school graduates to PHDs,
students, homemakers, business professionals, educators, health care workers, dentists and doctors, psychologists, counselors, psychiatrists,
massage practitioners, musicians, scientists and clergy. All are pursuing personal growth and more effective and rewarding ways to be in their own lives and in the world.
3702 Mt Diablo Blvd Lafayette, California 94549
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An Institute for Hypnotherapy and Psycho-Spiritual Trainings
Lafayette, CA 94549
Voice: (925) 283-3941
Administrative Hours:
Tuesdays through Thursdays
10am to 2pm
Email: HCH@HypnotherapyTraining.com
From Oakland: Take highway 24 East, through the tunnel. Pass town of Orinda.
Take Mt. Diablo Blvd./Acalanes exit. Go through stop lights onto Mt. Diablo Blvd. Pass the
Lafayette Reservoir on the right. Drive approximately 1/4 mile further. Pass the Veterans Memorial Building(on left)
and be prepared to make the very next left turn up the hill. (There is a center
turn lane.) As you drive up the road you'll veer right two times. Look for the HCH signs. Our building is the first
building on the right. It's nestled in the trees on the right side of the parking area.
From Walnut Creek: Take highway 24 West. Take Central Lafayette exit. At
the light, turn left on to Deerhill Rd. When Deerhill ends (past the BART station), turn
left onto Happy Valley Rd. Drive one block. Turn right onto Mt. Diablo Blvd. ++Drive
through one light (Dolores/Mt. View), and one long city block from this intersection, then
turn right at the Veterans parking lot. Proceed from * above and look for the HCH signs.
By BART: Exit at Lafayette BART station. Walk one block south to Mt. Diablo
Blvd. Walk right on Mt. Diablo Blvd. And continue from ++ on above directions. Walking
from BART will take 15 to 20 minutes.
On the premises we offer an extensive hypnosis library for
browsing and books, tapes, and hypnosis tools are for sale in the HCH
Book Store.
HCH provides tea for the trainings and a
refrigerator and microwave oven are available for student use during breaks and meal time.
Our training center is within walking distance of the
Lafayette BART station, the Lafayette Reservoir, and downtown
restaurants. Local motels are within a 15 minute drive.
HCH was founded as The Hypnosis Clearing House by Dr. Freda Morris. Holly
Holmes-Meredith, a licensed Marriage Family Therapist, became the owner and Clinical
Director of the school in 1986.
HCH enjoys status as a postsecondary school in California as approved by the California Council for Private
Postsecondary and Vocational Education.
The training at HCH is comprehensive and multi-dimensional. It's designed to insure systematic integration
of Ericksonian Hypnotherapy, Neuro-linguistic Programming and many transpersonal
modalities of healing through altered states of consciousness.
As a result, HCH graduates
are insured competency in a wide variety of practical and effective therapeutic skills.
One of the most significant elements in the HCH training is the emphasis on students
personally experiencing the hypnotic process as hypnotees through demonstrations and
partner practicum. Because graduates understand the transformational effects of
hypnosis from the inside out, they are better prepared to empower clients to move through
their own inner territories.
Each HCH instructor follows
the path of empowerment and teaches the importance of supporting clients in healing
themselves -- demystifying hypnosis as a power or force the hypnotherapist uses on someone
else. This approach minimizes co-dependencies between the client and therapist and
helps clients more consciously experience being the creative healing force in their own
lives.
Through the HCH learning
approach utilizing hypnotic consciousness and the on-going supervised practice of
techniques, students are also trained in the art of doing hypnotherapy. It is in
this realm of the art of hypnotherapy that a state of grace and healing takes place for
the client.
Our hypnotherapy training
supports graduates in meeting both personal and professional goals. Many begin a new
satisfying career as a hypnotherapist and many combine the newly acquired hypnotherapy
skills with a current helping profession. All HCH students experience the benefits
of profound accelerated personal growth and transformation.
While HCH began as one of the
first hypnotherapy schools in the US, our curriculum has evolved to include other psychospiritual training
of modalities that enhance and expand the practitioner's flexibility and capacities as a helping professional.
We are the first school in California to offer a Certification Energy Therapy and a Certificate in Parapsychological Studies.
HCH also offers a unique Intuitive Development Training to support the development of the student's intuitive skills in
their personal or professional life.
Currently HCH is developing a new curriculum for an eighteen month Shamanic
Mentoring Program which will guide participants through a spiritual initiation into shamanic states and walking a
spiritual path in daily life.
Our HCH Institute Hypnotherapy Training provides 200 hours of comprehensive training and mentoring of hypnotherapists that
surpasses other trainings available. We are committed to train hypnotherapists that are thoroughly versed in the laws and ethics
of working in the field and are competent to provide professional services. We often re-train graduates of other programs who complain
about too short of training, inadequate supervision, and feeling unprepared to go into practice.
At HCH we have small classes that meet in a circle format in a warm and comfortable healing environment surrounded by nature.
The largest class is 22 people. Classes average 12 students.
We have on-going supervision by teachers of practice sessions with written feedback.
Students train in a hypnotherapy clinic facility where they have access to therapy rooms for practice sessions.
We require that each student present in class a video of themselves facilitating an actual session of hypnotherapy.
Students and the instructor give written and verbal feedback to the hypnotherapist. The students skill levels and confidence to provide
services competently and ethically is DRAMATICALLY enhanced through the video assignment. HCH is the only school that requires a video practicum.
Through out the training, emphasis is placed on the student's personal process of experiencing all of the techniques taught.
Learning takes place not only by facilitating the process but through experiencing themselves as the client and taking time in class
to talk about their hypnotic experiences much like a client would do with the hypnotherapist in a session. Learning takes place from the inside out,
and integrates on a much deeper level than through typical intellectual or academic learning. By being the client as much as practicing being the hypnotherapist,
students learn about the territory of non-ordinary states and can be more confident in being a seasoned guide to a client who is new to the experience of hypnosis.
HCH generally attracts the student who demands excellence in training and in themselves, and who have an understanding that being a hypnotherapist
is an art: that skills are cultivated and honed, not just learned through lectures and watching demonstrations.
Our graduates are eligible to apply to our 100 hour, six month, Clinical Internship program in which students provide hypnotherapy services to the public in our
Hypnotherapy Community Clinic. Students receive weekly group supervision with Holly to focus on client progress, strategies for working with clients and legal and
ethical issues that come up in the therapeutic interactions. To ensure the development of the art of hypnotherapy and the skills necessary to run a practice,
HCH also offers an externship program where graduates in private practice can continue the mentoring and supervision with Holly through monthly group
on-site or conference call supervision groups and a monthly private phone or video conference consultation with Holly.
In both the internship and externship programs, students earn the 100 additional hours required for the Clinical Hypnotherapy Certification. No other hypnotherapy
trainings offer programs like these and students must be HCH graduates to participate.
Please take time to watch our THE HCH EXPERIENCE video on our welcome page, watch videos of our instructors (coming soon), and to read our testimonials.
We welcome you into our learning and healing community.
Hypnotherapy is a versatile therapeutic modality that can be applied to any area of human
concern and experience. Hypnotherapy can facilitate growth and change in the areas of:
Achieving Goals
Learning Enhancement
Behaviors and Attitudes
Creativity
Health and Self-healing
Spirituality
Self-Mastery
Meditation
Relationships
Pain Management
Finding Purpose and Life Direction
Career Concerns
Grief and Loss
Addictions
An expanded sense of Self
The experience that you can and do make a significant
difference in the world
The experience that learning is an organic and joyful
process
An experience of being empowered and respected for your own
innate wisdom
An experience of community.
Hypnotherapy from an established state-licensed school.
In-depth supportive hands-on training with written feedback
Approved by Ca. EDD for Vocational Rehab Training Provider #CEP 6875.
Approved by the California State Approving Agency for Veteran's Education to enroll veterans and other eligible persons under GI Bills.
CE Credit for Nurses: 36 Contact Hours, repeatable. Provider #CEP 6875.
CE Credits - MFT's and LCSW's #PCE277.
CE Credits - Acupuncturist's #CEP828
On-site Clinical Internship program for HCH graduates.
Training by Licensed Therapists and Certified Hypnotherapists
An integrated transformational approach to hypnotherapy
A solid grounding in the legal and ethical aspects in the field
Eligibility for membership in a variety of international professional and certifying organizations
On-going advanced trainings and supervision to insure clinical and business success.
Our local students come from throughout the greater Bay Area including San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, and Sacramento.
The counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Lake, Marin, Mendocino, Monterey, Napa, San Francisco,
San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma.
Within the United States, our graduates have come from Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado,
Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland,
Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico,
New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota,
Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Washington, D.C.,
West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
Our students have traveled from far and wide!
Countries such as Mexico, Germany, Finland, Switzerland, Denmark, South Africa, India, England, France, Belgium, Israel, Turkey,
Ireland, Scottland, Wales, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Canada, Philipines, Russia, Australia, Japan, China, Korea, Iran, Iceland, and others.
Voice: (925) 283-3941 or (925) 283-3940
Administrative Hours:
Tuesday-Thursday: 10am - 2pm
Email: HCH@HypnotherapyTraining.com