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FND Training

Functional Neurological Disorder Hypnosis Course

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FND Hypnotherapy Practitioner Training

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Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) affects people in a variety of ways, with many experiencing seizures, difficulties with movement, changes in sensation and other neurological symptoms. The effects can be devastating, significantly affecting people's independence, relationships and quality of life. With growing demand for effective treatment, research into hypnosis for FND has produced some very encouraging results, providing a strong foundation for specialist hypnotherapeutic approaches.

This course teaches you how to work with clients experiencing FND, combining established hypnotherapeutic approaches with specialist techniques that you'll rarely encounter elsewhere in hypnotherapy training.

You'll learn how attention, expectation and a person's sense of agency can influence their experience of symptoms, and how to use this understanding therapeutically.​

Live FND workshop, 9.30am to 4.30pm (UK time)

Saturday January 23rd 2027

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Live Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) course

Online, self-paced course available soon!

Functional Neurological Disorder
Hypnotherapy Course Curriculum

Online. Self-paced. Includes optional assignments, feedback and support. Accredited Certification on completion.

Module 1: Welcome and Introduction

  1. Certification, Assignments and Course Navigation

  2. Welcome

  3. Who Is This Course Suitable For?

  4. About the Author

  5. Included Within Your Course

  6. Learning Outcomes

Module 2: What Is FND?

  1. What Is FND? Understanding the Symptoms

  2. The Software, Not the Hardware

  3. What Does Functional Mean?

  4. How People First Experience FND

  5. The Wider Impact of FND

  6. How FND Is Diagnosed

  7. The History of FND

  8. Treatment Options

Module 3: Understanding the Causes of FND

  1. Overview

  2. Physical and Biological Factors in FND

  3. Trauma and Adverse Life Experiences in FND

  4. Why FND Develops Differently in Different People

Module 4: What's Happening in the Brain?

  1. Overview

  2. Brain Networks and Functional Connectivity

  3. Predictive Processing

  4. The Sense of Agency

  5. Automatic and Voluntary Movement

Module 5: Hypnosis Research

  1. What Does the Research Show?

  2. Hypnosis for Functional Motor Symptoms

  3. Hypnosis and Functional/Dissociative Seizures

  4. Suggestion Without Formal Hypnosis

  5. Findings From Experimental Hypnosis

Module 6: Hypnotherapy Within Wider Therapeutic Research

  1. Overview

  2. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

  3. Psychodynamic Therapy

  4. Mindfulness

  5. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

  6. Bringing Psychological Approaches Together

Module 7: How Hypnosis Can Help

  1. Overview

  2. Utilisation

  3. Attention and Shifting Attention

  4. Splitting Attention: Understanding the Technique and Its Relevance to FND

  5. Expectation and Prediction

  6. Automaticity

  7. Agency and Choice

  8. Mental Rehearsal

  9. Changing Sensory Experience

  10. Fear Avoidance and Symptom Monitoring

  11. Arousal and Nervous System Regulation

  12. Dissociation and Altered Awareness

  13. The Mind–Body Connection

  14. Utilisation and Working With Exceptions

  15. Building Confidence in the Body

  16. Self-Hypnosis, Recordings and Independence

  17. Responding to the Individual

Module 8: The FND Protocol

  1. Overview

  2. Splitting Attention: A Theme Running Throughout the Sessions

  3. Expectation and Agency: Themes Running Throughout the Sessions

  4. The Pre-Session Phase

  5. How Many Sessions?

  6. Using Solution-Focused and Narrative Questions

  7. Metaphors and Utilisation

Module 9: Pre-Session Phase

  1. Overview

  2. Confirming a Diagnosis

  3. Intake Form

  4. Providing Information Before the Session

  5. Pre-Session Recording

Module 10: Session 1 – Defining and Setting Therapeutic Goals

  1. Hearing the Client

  2. Stages in the Session 1 Protocol

  3. Demonstrating the Mind–Body Connection

  4. Introducing Splitting Attention: Explanation and Practical Exercise

  5. Adopting a Solution-Focused Approach

  6. Hypnosis Script: Mind–Body Connection and Healing

  7. Finishing the Session and Establishing Goals

  8. Recording

Module 11: Session 2 – Regulation and a Sense of Safety

  1. Overview

  2. Stages in the Session 2 Protocol

  3. Catch-Up From the Previous Session

  4. Revisiting Splitting Attention: Supporting Regulation and Comfort

  5. Explanation

  6. Setting Up an Anchor

  7. Hypnosis Script: Strengthening Safety

  8. Setting Goals

Module 12: Session 3 – Changing Expectations and Rebuilding Agency

  1. Overview

  2. Stages in the Session 3 Protocol

  3. Catch-Up

  4. Explanation

  5. CBT: ABCDE Discussion

  6. CBT-Hypnosis Script

  7. CBT: ABCDE Case Studies

  8. Setting Goals

  9. Recording

Module 13: Session 4 – From New Expectations to New Patterns

  1. Overview

  2. Stages in the Session 4 Protocol

  3. Catch-Up

  4. Revisiting Splitting Attention: Supporting Automaticity and New Responses

  5. Exercise: The Story in Objects

  6. CBT-Hypnosis Script

  7. Setting Goals

Module 14: Session 5 – Focusing Attention and Trauma Release

  1. Overview

  2. Stages in the Session 5 Protocol

  3. Catch-Up

  4. Focusing Attention

  5. Trauma Release and Healing

  6. Self-Hypnosis

  7. Setting Goals and Final Session Discussion

Module 15: Session 6 – Consolidation, Confidence and Moving Forward

  1. Overview

  2. Catch-Up and Review

  3. Looking Ahead Questions

  4. Discussing Future Therapeutic Options

  5. Mindfulness

  6. Consolidation, Confidence and Moving Forward

  7. Recording

  8. Open-Door Policy

You'll develop practical skills in attention switching, mental rehearsal, nervous system regulation and working with unhelpful patterns of thought and behaviour. You'll also explore how to adapt your approach to each client's symptoms, experiences and goals, including working sensitively with past trauma where relevant.

The course includes a flexible six-session framework, practical exercises, client handouts and specialist hypnosis scripts. You'll gain the knowledge, resources and confidence to offer an individualised, evidence-informed approach to supporting people living with FND.

Included in your course...

Video demonstrations

Learn the techniques by watching Claire demonstrate them with clients.

 

Client resources

Whether you are an experienced hypnotherapist, or work with women in a different way, you'll find all the client resources, including forms, handouts, scripts and recordings, to work effectively with your clients.

 

Optional assignments

You have a choice of working through the course material in your own time and, on completion of the course, contacting me to issue your certificate. Alternatively, if you wish to have further support, you are welcome to complete and submit assignments for marking. 

 

Self-paced learning

You can complete this course at your own pace and are asked to submit your assignments within six months.

 

Free certificate in hypnotherapy

If hypnotherapy isn't your primary modality, you can access our Certificate in Hypnotherapy course free of charge. This course is designed to offer you an overview of hypnotherapy theory and techniques but it is not designed to qualify you as a hypnotherapist. If you wish to train as a fully qualified hypnotherapist, you are advised to complete a CNHC Accredited Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy.

 

Online portal access

You will have access to an online learning portal for twelve months from purchase of your course. Written materials can be downloaded so that you have permanent access to them.

 

Business support

You will receive advice and support in marketing your services and images, text and logos to launch your HypnoMenopause® service.

 

CPD hours

You have a choice of completing the course without assignments, by working through the online course materials. This counts for 8 hours CPD or CE. If you prefer to complete assignments, which you receive feedback on, this counts for 15 hours CPD or CE. Both options are accredited by the ACCPH. 

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