Academy of Advanced Changework

24/02/2026

Are you a hypnotherapist or hypnotherapy student in the UK?

Have you ever worked with a client who begins to withdraw, misses sessions, laughs things off, shuts down, or seems ambivalent about change — and found yourself wondering how best to respond?

Avoidance in therapy is often misunderstood as resistance, lack of effort, or low motivation. In reality, it is frequently a threat-based protection response — and when we understand it that way, our clinical approach shifts profoundly.

I’m pleased to invite you to a live 3-hour CPD workshop:
Avoidant Coping – Managing Withdrawal and Low Engagement

This interactive online training is designed specifically for hypnotherapists and hypnotherapy trainees who want to feel more confident and effective when working with disengagement, ambivalence, and subtle relational ruptures.

You’ll gain:
• A clearer understanding of why disengagement happens
• Practical strategies to increase psychological safety
• Tools to respond to ambivalence, shutdown, or missed sessions
• Skills to repair subtle relational ruptures early

Live online dates (8:30am BST):
1 April 2026
10 June 2026
12 Aug 2026

Participants receive a statement of attendance for 3 CPD hours.

If this feels relevant to your work, I’d love to welcome you.
Register here to receive 10% discount: https://bit.ly/4s7TNCr

Warmly,
Karen Bartle
Postgraduate Health Psychology
Advanced Clinical Hypnotherapist
Clinical Supervisor
Co-Founder, Academy of Advanced Changework

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15/12/2025

Enrolling Now for courses starting, Feb 2026!

“The training with the Academy of Advanced Changework and especially the supervision by Karen was an amazing experience, which I can not recommend highly enough. The course was easy to follow while still being very in depth and through the client work I was able to practise, what we learned. Karen is a very knowledgeable and highly supportive coach, that guided me through this course and helped me gain the confidence to actually start as a Hypnotherapist.”

~ Elleen Berger, Clinical Hypnotherapist & NLP Practitioner

Hypnotherapy & NLP Diploma Training Australia, New Zealand, & S.E Asia. Face-face online training you can trust. Qualify within 9 months. Experienced/highly qualified trainers. Money-back guarantee. Flexible payment options. Early-bird & prepayment discounts saving up to $1000 on course fees!

15/12/2025

How hypnotherapy helps women navigate menopause

Hypnotherapy is gentle, safe, non-invasive, and rooted in the idea that our subconscious mind already holds the keys to healing.

Hypnotherapy helps address the psychological, emotional, and even physical symptoms that often arise during this hormonal transition — in a safe, drug-free, and empowering way. Here are 6 beneficial ways hypnotherapy can support women through peri/menopause:

18/07/2025

Autoimunity is a topic I'm passionate about working with so great to share a hypnotherapy study eidencing it's success with Rheumatoid arthritis 😉

https://www.hypnotherapy.training/blog/Hypnotherapy-for-managing-rheumatoid-arthritis
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic autoimmune disease where the body's immune system attacks its own tissues. Whilst there is no known cure to the autoimmune inflammatory process underlying RA, the symptoms of joint pain, swelling and stiffness can often be controlled and reduced by a range of medications. Unfortunately all medications have potential for negative side effects and don't work for everyone.

A study aimed to examine whether clinical hypnotherapy could be effective in treating the symptoms and disease activity of RA. Results found hypnotherapy produced more significant improvements in both the subjective and objective measurements, above relaxation and medication, and improvements were also found to be of clinical significance, and becoming more significant, when patients practised the hypnosis imagery regularly during the follow-up periods.

A study aimed to examine whether a psychological intervention such as clinical hypnotherapy could be effective in treating the symptoms and disease activity of rheumatoid arthritis.

25/04/2025

When we’re stressed/overwhelmed it typically boils down to a few things:

💪We’re trying to influence things we can’t control.

🤔We’re not taking enough responsibility and control for things within our control.

We are under resourced or have reached our capacity to manage the stressful event or situation👨‍🔧

🧠We’re trying to resolve a problem that really needs us to emotionally cope better with it rather than try to eliminate or change it 💚

If behaviours are not fully under our voluntary control, even though we may be highly motivated to tackle them, we may not actually perform the behaviour due to environmental or psychosocial factors getting in our way.

Need help to find ways to reduce stress and overwhelm? Feel free to reach out and DM me ;) 🙋‍♀️😊

6 Pillars of health free guide

31/01/2025

20% off The Advanced Hypnotherapist full course; limited offer! Download your free course manual today!

31/01/2025

Why some phobias might surface later in life...

We know phobias are common in the general population and they can be severely debilitating in disrupting to one's life. Most people can understand the ones that come about in childhood but what might be behnd the ones that arise out of nowhere in later life?

We know phobias are common in the general population and they can be severely debilitating in disrupting one's life. Most people can understand the ones that come about in childhood where a child observes, not untypically during pre-verbal development e.

24/01/2025

Last few places available to attend our online and fully supported supervised Hypnotherapy & NLP Diploma training starting Feb 8th! Get professional body recognition, a private health insurance provider number and set up your own practice in less than 12 months!

I'm based in Buddina on the Sunshine Coast. Please DM me and/or check out the website for more details

Hypnotherapy & NLP training with experienced trainers Karen Bartle, MSc & Dr Paul Peace. Start a new career in Brisbane, Sunshine Coast, Melbourne or Sydney!

14/01/2025

Free peer support group for hypnotherapists on the Sunshine Coast and surrounding areas who want to get more support and connect with peers to grow their practice.

This is the first group session and if it gets interest will run monthly If you want to join and give it a try use the link to book your spot!

This is a Zoom peer group for hypnotherapists on the Sunshine Coast and surrounding areas who want to get more support and connect with peers to grow their practice.

05/01/2025

Why can’t I do this? Barriers to lifestyle changes.

So what prevents us from implementing new lifestyle changes such as reducing stress and anxiety, quitting smoking, reducing alcohol, getting more physically active, and consuming a healthy balanced diet, for promoting good health and healing? 🤔

ℹ️We live in the information era where anything we could possibly want to know is at the end of our fingertips.

Most people, no matter what their educational background or socioeconomic status, are very aware of how living healthily can improve the quality and longevity of our lives and what the main risk factors are that can and do make the most difference.

If it’s not lack of awareness and knowledge, then what is it that prevent us from implementing healthier behaviours and habits and reducing our risks of disease and ill-health i.e., what are the barriers to change❓

Health psychologists have spent decades studying and researching different populations and health conditions to try and fathom what the key principles are that affect change behaviours.

What’s evident is that core psychological constructs such as low confidence, self-esteem, self-efficacy, and fear, often lead to behaviours such as procrastination, decision fatigue, rumination, denial, and avoidance. 😒

In turn, these can result in more serious and often chronic conditions e.g., self-neglect, physical and emotional self-harm, anxiety, stress, depression and ultimately disease and illness. 🤒

By tackling some or all of these constructs and/or the behaviours emanating from them, our convictions and commitment to implement new changes for our health and well-being becomes ever stronger 💪 🏆

Need help to remove psychological barriers to making dietary changes? Feel free to reach out and DM me ;) 🙋‍♀️😊

25/09/2024

Endometriosis is a debilitating chronic condition causing intense pain and discomfort for sufferers. So many sufferers are told it's not curable, you'll need to learn to manage it, but surgery can help to reduce the symptoms.

My guest this week on the 'Harmful Eating and How To Eliminate It' Podcast was having none of that, she found another way that prevented her from having to go through another traumatic surgery, and she shares her story of how she healed and reversed her condition!

Learn more about how Annette Henry empowered herself by changing what she was eating to not only eliminate pain and suffering but to reverse her symptoms, and hopefully for good!

My special guest today is Annette Henry who suffered with severely painful symptoms of endometriosis. Towards the end of the 1990’s she had major surgery to try and resolve her symptoms including removing a large cist on her o***y, but unfortunately, the results were not long lasting. To avoid...

27/07/2024

Here's my latest podcast offering! I think I'm getting the hang of it a little more now and lovin' learning so much about doing and making them. I'm learning to story tell which is a new marketing strategy for me that I've never really used before! If any of you have travelled to Asia, you'll be able to relate to this one 😂

Would love to hear your feedback as podcasters or otherwise; any critique would be very welcome, and if you know anyone who would be interested in sharing their story as a guest on the podcast please feel free to give me a shout out 💚

Welcome to the Harmful Eating and How to Eliminate It podcast. I’m Karen Bartle, behavioural change and resilience health coach, and thanks for tuning in to today’s episode where we’ll be unravelling a topic I’m very passionate talking about, an enigma called resilience; what it is, why we n...