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My Chrysalis experience was very mixed.
Our initial tutor left a lot to be desired. It could be that she was just the wrong tutor for our group, but I think there's more to it than that. At one point she even said, "I'm a counsellor, who uses hypnotherapy on rare occasions." That left more than a few of us thinking, "What are you doing teaching it then?!"
However, I know of a few other classes - and received training from two other tutors - and the standard there was much higher.
The main conclusion that I had when I completed my diploma was that no training course is sufficient to give you everything you need to work as a hypnotherapist. Anyone who thinks it is and who shows no desire to carry on learning and developing as a therapist (not to speak of their own personal development) is really entering the wrong industry.
My recommendations for anyone doing a Chrysalis hypnotherapy course are to learn widely whilst doing the course and to train further on completion of the course.
Other places to learn include:
British Hypnosis Research
Uncommon Forum
Hypnothoughts
Youtube
Other courses to take, or skills to develop could include:
Brief Solution-Focused Therapy
Human Givens
Motivational Interviewing
Chrysalis - a road to disappointment?
I am currently training Hypnotherapy with Chrysalis, however I do not wish to practice as a hypnotherapist since I am already a psychologist-in-training and am working towards my Doctorate in Clinical Psychology. I see Hypnotherapy as an extra tool to add to my toolbox, rather than a therapy that I wish to use on its own. Thus, why should I call myself a Hypnotherapist?
When I joined Chrysalis I was led to believe, due to my eagerness to join the course and lack of information in the literature, that a person who signs up for a Professional Diploma will get it at the end if one studies, passes the required coursework and is fit to practice. I was wrong!
This week, by chance - or not - I was reading some literature that I was given after I signed up for the course, which states that one will only receive the Professional Diploma if, after we passed all assignments, we also join the Hypnotherapy Society, which will cost £80 more a year. I have never seen anything like this in my life!
So I contacted Chrysalis and to my dismay I was informed that if I do not join the Hypnotherapy Society (after year 1) and the Counselling Society (after finishing year 2) I will not receive the respective Diploma (which I am studying and paying for) and rather receive a non-professional certificate.
People reading this may think – “so what! If you wish to practice you need to show that you are fit for the purpose”. I agree, but I don’t agree with the compulsory basis of joining a Society to receive the Diploma I am paying for. What if Universities started doing the same – We pay and study for a degree, but at the end before it is released we need to sign up for a society or association to validate the degree and having to pay £80 or more a year!!!! This is why Societies have what is called “practitioner membership certificate” for those people who, after studying for a topic, have contemplated that they wish to practice and want the back-up of a society.
These are my counter-arguments:
• First of all, Hypnotherapy is not a regulated profession and Chrysalis, or any other institution, has no legal grounds to force people to join a professional group.
• Chrysalis misleads its potential students by omitting such information from pre-course literature, and knowingly that most people will not read small print after they receive any contract.
• Chrysalis and the Hypnotherapy Society are very much connected, they even share the same address – if this is not bias then I don’t know what else is…
• Chrysalis promises that students that their “graduates join the HS (hypnotherapy Society) as an automatic right as fully recognised, professional members”. This is a false statement since there is no ‘right’, rather a privilege for those who pay for the membership.
• Chrysalis states that Hypnotherapy is not a profession that can be easily found on the NHS or healthcare institutions, there are not many jobs around, and people may have to be self-employed, and still they have the nerve to force people to join a society that charges for £80 for nothing. In this current climate, how can people afford this?
• Why should then, a GP, Psychologist, or Dentist, or Psychiatrist, studying with Chrysalis, would have to join their Society to show they are fit to practice. After all, these professions are already regulated and Chrysalis presumption that EVERYONE doing their course needs to join THEIR society as if they are better than anyone else.
I shall keep you updated, but based on my current prognosis I am not recommending Chrysalis to anyone else. I already made the mistake of doing it to friends who are now studying with Chrysalis and facing the same dilemma. There are many course providers out there who will not force people to join their Pseudo-societies.