UKHTC Training methods

PRISM Therapy
Modern hypnotherapy has become the most dramatically effective short-term therapy developed to date.
The approach outlined in this course is principally based on the work of two people.

The first is the renowned hypnotherapist, the late Milton Erickson, MD; famous for his unique approach to the phenomenon of hypnosis and the sheer volume of research he carried out and published in his lifetime. The developers of NLP,
John Grinder and Richard Bandler, closely studied Dr. Erickson's method of hypnotherapy and modelled the methods
that made him achieve such outstanding changes in others.Their study of Dr. Erickson's work formed the basis of NLP.

The second is Freddy H. Jacquin, a hypnotherapist based in the UK and founder of the UK Hypnotherapy Training College (UKHTC). He has personally shown thousands of people how they can achieve their goals and free themselves from any limiting beliefs that have held them back. Freddy Jacquin has built on a unique interpretation of Erickson's work, NLP and the psycho-physiological approach of Ernest Rossi and developed his own style that is known as PRISM.

The increasing numbers of highly specialized hypnotherapists helping others achieve rapid and lasting change in their lives threaten to undermine the basic assumptions that support psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Perhaps the biggest shift in understanding is a move away from the assumption that the motivations for human behaviour are so complex and deep rooted that the effectiveness of psychotherapy is directly equated with the duration of the treatment.

"Psychotherapy is sought not primarily for enlightenment about the unchangeable past
but because of dissatisfaction with the present and a desire to better the future"
Milton Erickson - Change

We believe therapy is at its most effective as a short-term intervention to produce behavioural change. Therapy of more than limited duration is often counterproductive. It promotes a reliance on the therapist, delays and avoids coping with real life problems and can be financially exploitative.

The second major shift in understanding has been the way our unconscious mind has been viewed. A basic assumption of the PRISM approach is that we have a conscious mind and unconscious mind. The conscious being the few things we are aware of in any given moment and the unconscious being everything else.

For much of the 20th century psychological thought was influenced by the work of Sigmund Freud. Freud's view of the unconscious mind was that it was an area where there were repressed negative emotions, deep-seated urges and rampant sexual fantasies. His theories attempt to persuade us that this vast repository of destructive primal energy was something that needed taming and re-socializing or we would live our lives in constant turmoil and upheaval.Should we say a less than healthy view of the unconscious mind?

Today this view has crumbled. This approach to therapy perceives the unconscious as essentially a storehouse that is simultaneously storing all that is helpful, beneficial and useful as a resource, as well as habits, patterns and emotions that may no longer serve the individual. A guiding assumption for this training and foundation of the PRISM approach is that any individual at some level of awareness knows everything they need to know about their problems and difficulties.
They also know everything they need to know to change those things perceived as problems.