Transpersonal Hypnosis
Transforming Therapy™
McGill MasterMind Hypnosis™
Clinical Guided Imagery
Advanced Ideomotor Methods

Emotional Clearing
Inner Child Processes
Emotional Freedom Techniques
Parts Therapy
Hypno-Healing

Analytical Hypnotherapy
Ericksonian Techniques
Hypnotic Dreamwork™
Advanced Systematic Desensitization
Models of Transformative Regression

Originality, Integrity, Leadership

Randal Churchill founded Hypnotherapy Training Institute, as one of the first licensed hypnotherapy schools in 1978. Many now consider HTI to be the world's leading hypnotherapy school, drawing many students each semester from throughout the United States and the world. The expanding success of our classes occurs because we are continually improving a well-organized, selectively eclectic, highly experiential program, taught by exceptionally skilled, creative, experienced instructors who care deeply about our students.

We have also been leaders in the field, developing new therapy and teaching methods, writing leading texts, frequently educating through the media about the benefits of hypnotherapy, and leading legislative battles to protect and strengthen our profession. Randal Churchill has provided visionary leadership as the first and subsequent President of the original Hypnotherapy Certification organization, the American Council of Hypnotist Examiners, which has repeatedly raised its high certification standards.

Our personalized attention with each of our students goes a long ways. We appreciate the opportunity to assist our students to develop their abilities to achieve profound change in themselves and others. With our tradition of excellent student satisfaction and success (including through our teaching of innovative business and marketing strategies), we continue to strive to make our highly practical program even better.

Many hypnosis schools have been developed over the years. Many instructors have been trained by us. We invite you to come to a source of continual development of transformational therapy, which respects your experience, talent and creativity, and encourages the further blossoming of your healing capabilities.

Forging New Directions in an Emerging Healing Field

Including powerful live demonstrations, practice and group processes in an intimate, supportive setting, we teach safe and effective ways to do many forms of hypnotherapy in our highly practical courses. The integration of many modalities including Gestalt is also covered. Your skills are further developed by homework assignments which include outstanding texts (including award-winning cutting-edge texts designed for our program), many important class materials which are provided, and further practice. These fascinating courses are carefully designed to give you extensive training to either practice hypnosis as a career or integrate these skills within another profession in the health or counseling fields.

The supervised practice sessions are a vital part of our program. All participants practice hypnotic techniques with each other, beginning the first day of class. We encourage you to develop your own creative induction and therapy styles and to explore many facets of giving and experiencing hypnotherapy.

We do our utmost to create a safe environment for the option of powerful growth opportunities within the context of a well-organized training. On the way to becoming Certified Hypnotherapists, many of our students report dramatic improvements in their lives.

Every new season we update and develop our dynamic program, evolving along with our discoveries and insights and those of others in the field. We listen to our students, and continue to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of our teaching methods.

Our commitment to teaching an eclectic array of methods is grounded in HTI instructors' many years of successful experience using many forms of hypnotherapy. We focus on the most important issues and modalities in substantial depth. Emphasizing comprehensive solutions to achieve lasting change, we work interactively with the whole person, clearing underlying causes of unwanted attitudes, emotions and behavior. And we teach how to tap into many forms of wisdom and healing capabilities of the subconscious. A combination of appropriate hypnotic methods over a series of sessions will usually yield the most profound, lasting results for your clients.

Uniquely Effective Teaching

"The best investment in time and money I've ever made", "a life changing and profoundly deep spiritual experience", "far exceeded my wildest expectations", "like a fairy-tale where miracles can be worked easily...". See our detailed graduate comments.

We all know from experience what a tremendous difference a very special teacher can make. Randal Churchill is dedicated to the highest quality education, continuing to use his vast skills and experience to teach a majority of our courses. No one could copy the transformative live demonstrations and follow-up discussions given by this master teacher. HTI's other instructors have all mastered particular aspects of the field as well as providing wonderful teaching skills.

Obviously, as important as the number of classroom hours is the quality of time spent. While we provide additional exciting advanced classes beyond Level 4, we teach an extraordinary repertoire of skills for the hypnotherapy field in our first four levels (which don't have to be completed in one semester).

For further reasons besides exceptional teacher quality, we believe we teach more in less time than any school in the field. For example, Randal Churchill has written award-winning teaching texts designed for our comprehensive courses. We also provide a wealth of written materials added to each class level.

Also, instead of teaching 5 days in a row during accelerated classes, then taking each weekend off, we never teach more than 3 days at a time. Because of the concentration of fascinating material we cover each day, it's best by then to have a day outside of class to assimilate and do some homework. Homework includes study of books, notes and written materials, self-hypnosis explorations, and further practice sessions beyond the supervised practice in class. We couldn't possibly cover as much and you couldn't learn nearly as effectively if we met the traditional 5 straight days. These are just a few samples of how we cover an amazing amount of invaluable instruction so quickly.

Furthermore, we strongly believe the most effective way to further enhance your hypnotherapy skills after the highly focused month of our accelerated intensive is to start a practice. We've been honing our program, improving with each semester for over four decades, to provide the strongest preparation for the field. We offer further exciting training beyond the vast range of learning experienced in the first four levels, but you'll get far more value from our most advanced levels after starting to develop your experience and expertise in your practice.

The American Council of Hypnotist Examiners recognizes 200 hours of class instruction from a licensed school as the standard to become a Certified Hypnotherapist. There is also a level of Clinical Hypnotherapist for an additional 100 hours, which we are happy to provide for those who are interested further advanced training. But don't let anyone suggest that you should have 300 or more hours before starting a hypnotherapy practice. That is not the opinion of the A.C.H.E., which has always led the way in setting appropriately high standards in the field, nor the opinion of any national government nor any major certifying organization in the world.