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Hi, who was your fantastic tutor if you dont mind me asking?

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I trained with Chrysalis too. However I have completed lots of CPD including some with Holly Wincote and others which has really helped me to grow in confidence and teach me additional knowledge and skills. Trust in the process and do as much CPD as you can.

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I am an instructor with The Institute for Interpersonal Hypnotherapy. Highly recommend!

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Hi Vicky, did you study at the Hitchin branch? I'm undecided about joining them. Who was your tutor please?

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This is what my Chrysalis tutor told me wouldn't happen. Practical classroom training virtually nil!

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Can you elaborate what she wasn't impressed with? I'm about to get legally involved with chrysalis

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I qualified with chrysalis in 2018 and have been in private practice (counselling and hypnotherapy) ever since. My experience initially with them wasn't great, but after the first year, I had a fantastic tutor who was extremely knowledgeable, they understood the difficulties faced on the course and did everything they could to support us. It does depend very much on the tutor and their experience I used to run a student morning to help with practice and discussing the material which helps with a distance course.

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I would recommend what Vicki said above. I qualified as a counsellor last year, the course was run via a college then university as you progress. You register with the BACP as a student. My previous course tutor has just openeher own

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Hey Vikki, you mentioned the level 4 with lots of classroom and supervision. Would you have any idea of where to find this course from your experience with trainees etc?

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I've just received my hypnotherapy certificate from Chrysalis and am continuing with the 2nd year of counselling. I've found the course really
interesting. It's worth persevering with if you have the time to put into it each week and enough people to practice on from the start. I do recommend the extra CPD courses (so far I've done trauma, hypnobirthing and pain management) and do ask your tutor or the local office for anything extra you need.

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I was about to sign up with chrysalis but now I am hesitant ! I was going for the 3 year course to become psychotherapist. The longer diploma up to level 5. Does anyone have feedback on that course ? Thank you

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Chrysalis offer a level 5 counselling and therapy diploma which is accredited ??

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I am glad to have seen this - I was thinking about signing up with them, I am already a trained hypnotherapist and pet bereavement counsellor but I wanted to move into mainstream counselling. I think I will look for alternatives now. I wasn't convinced about how good they were anyway.

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Hi
Did you start the course, how is it going if so. If not what did you do.
Jo

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Hi,
Reading the above posts has made me sceptical about doing this Level 4 with Chrysalis. Anyone start Autumn 22 in West Sussex that can share thier course experience?
I am already doing an ou open degree around Mental health and work in this role supporting people and wanted to go into counselling in MH. ...
Starting Crysalis end May

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Linda Burley I wonder if I could discuss with you further on what you did after completing chrysalis. My emails is katetdr@gmail.com if you'd be happy to answer some questions I would be grateful if you could drop me an email

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Only NCS, from what I can tell.

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I trained with Crysalis and was fortunate enough to have two excellent tutors for hypnotherapy and Counselling. However, it's not BACP registered which a lot of employers look for. If you complete a fourth year you can join BACP

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Hie , do you know anyone please that has done this that will be willing to help with some more information please as it's soo confusing !!

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Hello,

I have just been reading this thread.
I have just paid deposit with Chrysalis courses to start learning with them next spring.
Once qualified with them I was hoping to practise my hypnotherapy and counselling skills and further my training by doing a course in Cognitive behavioural therapy.
Will I be able to train further after doing a Chrysalis course or will I need to go through university ?

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they are not accredited with the bacp if you do a level 5 diploma in hypnotherapy /psychotheraputic councelling you are accredited with the nationa councelling society, if you wish to be accredited with the bacp you can do this once qualified and with 45o practice hours

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Hi, a friend of mine trained with Chrysalis but wasn’t impressed. I gave her the details of the trainer provider that I used and she retrained. She said that these people were so much more informative and helpful and as training is on a one to one basis, she always felt that she had undivided attention and support. . I wholeheartedly agree and am now running a successful Hypnotherapy Practice. The provider is in Norfolk, however they offer online training too, so location should hopefully not be an issue. Joy also provides unlimited, continued support Please contact Joy Gower Hypnotherapy and Training on 01493 604982 for further information. Good luck with your training and new venture.

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I am confused, I thought the Chrysalis courses were accredited with BACP. Can anyone clarify?

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Hi both, I trained with Chrysalis and I found their hypnotherapy not great, how I got through and I now have my own business. I think the key for me was to practice loads to build your confidence up. Unfortunately you don't know it is a bad course until you are on it. I qualified in Oct 19.

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Hi Stephen,
I wondered how you are getting on with Chrysalis. I started last year on the hypnotherapy and have had two classes in 6 months. I feel as though the course content provided is lacking and I expected more practice time with fellow students.
How have you managed to gain 50 hours practice time?
Thanks,

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It depends on what area of therapy you wish to work in; for example if you're wanting to work primarily as a Counsellor or Psychotherapist in the NHS, then you will need to be a member of either BACP or UKCP and in order to meet their criteria, normally you need to have undertaken accredited training, usually at a university or higher education college/institution. Training can typically take anywhere from 2 years upwards, depending on the course and whether it's full or part time. Both the BACP and UKCP have details on their websites of accredited training courses. Unfortunately Chrysalis training is not recognised in the NHS or in many of the mental health organisations and charities; possibly because the actual teaching hours fall considerably short of the more established and recognised training courses.

On the other hand, if you want to develop your own private therapy practice, then you could do this with your Chrysalis training and then build on that with further training depending on your what area(s) you want to specialise in.

If you want to work mainly with hypnotherapy, it is possible to set up a private therapy practice following completion of the Chrysalis certificate, however based on what I have heard from other people who have completed their course along with some of my supervisees who did their training with Chrysalis but then subsequently undertook further hypnotherapy training with other providers, I would recommend doing a hypnotherapy course which is at diploma level (level 4), has plenty of practical classroom tuition (i.e. actual practise of the techniques being taught with supervision and input from experienced lecturers) and which meets the National Occupational Standards for hypnotherapy training - currently this is a minimum of 450 hours of study/learning, of which 120 hours must be classroom based tuition).

Hope this helps and good luck.

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