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Can I call myself a hypnotherapist?

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Can I call myself a hypnotherapist? As the Government tightens its guidelines for therapies hypnotherapy, among others, has come under scrutiny and now comes under the Complimentary Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC).  In the last couple of months, it has been upgraded from a voluntary registration body and it won’t be long before titles such as ‘Hypnotherapy Practitioner’ ‘Clinical Hypnotherapist’ and Hypnotherapist’ become protected terms meaning you could risk prosecution who you do not hold the appropriate accreditation. There are a number of organisations out there still offering ‘postal hypnosis training courses’ and some even claiming accreditation for hypnotherapy qualifications given as part of NLP courses etc. but these accreditations, if they exist at all, are for organisations that are not even UK based! What are the requirements in the UK? In order to be eligible for accreditation to Hypnosis Practitioner Status within the UK framework of hypnotherapy qualif...