Academy of Advanced Changework

22/04/2026

We are proud to announce we are now an approved training provider with the Australian Counselling Association (ACA), and our courses are endorsed by PACFA, so they count toward your professional development requirements while staying firmly focused on real-world application!

We have 2 new OPD courses for mental health professionals OPD in 2026:

1. Avoidant Coping: Managing Withdrawal and Low Engagement (CPD Training) https://shorturl.at/MhlqK

A clinically focused and psychologically informed training on recognising and working with disengagement, shutdown, and subtle withdrawal in therapy. (promo code UA10MH)

And...

2. Unmitigated Agency: Managing Over-Control and Relational Dominance (CPD Training) https://shorturl.at/WuKPS

Exploring patterns where clients over-rely on control, self-sufficiency, or rigid agency in ways that limit change.
(promo code AC10MHP)

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Both courses are designed to be immediately applicable — giving you tools, language, and frameworks you can use straight away with clients.

If either of these areas shows up in your practice (and for most clinicians, they do), you can find more details and enrol below with a special 10% discount using the promo codes above!

10/04/2026

Are you looking to upgrade your membership and need more training hours?

Special offer for THIS WEEK ONLY to enrol on our Advanced Diploma in Hypnotherapy (AdvDipH) course (distance learning) which attracts a total of 136 hours, or you can use it as 10 points of CPD for this year's registration.

Invigorate your work by learning new knowledge and techniques, developing critical and analytical thinking, as well as covering less commonly taught presenting issues, more ways to motivate clients and maximize success, and sophisticated questioning skills.

What you'll get:

A full copy of The Advanced Hypnotherapist course manual
6 months complimentary access to group supervision & CPD workshops. Full refund within 14 days.

The course is paid over 6 monthly installments making budgeting that bit easier ;)
Apply until 17 April and save 40% off!

https://www.hypnotherapy.training/offers/K5gLzzys?coupon_code=ADVDIPAPR

08/04/2026

Magnificent Minds of Hypnotism Clark Hull: Putting Hypnosis to the Test

By the 1930s, the debates about magnetism and sleep were largely settled.

The question now was different:
Could hypnosis withstand scientific scrutiny?

Clark Hull, a pioneering behavioural psychologist who revolutionized the study of hypnosis, believed it could — but only if it was tested carefully by applying rigorous, quantitative experimental methods.

In Hypnosis and Suggestibility (1933), Hull conducted controlled laboratory studies that measured responsiveness to suggestion. He treated hypnosis not as mystery or spectacle, but as behaviour that could be observed, recorded, and analysed, proving it was a state of heightened suggestibility rather than a form of sleep.

Rather than asking what hypnosis felt like, Hull asked what it did.

His work helped integrate hypnosis into mainstream American psychology, not through drama, but through data.

Hypnosis did not need defending.
It needed measuring.

Interested in learning more about the wonderful world of hypnotherapy?
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03/04/2026

Fun Fact: Hypnosis Is Not Sleep

The word hypnosis comes from Hypnos, the Greek god of sleep — which has led to more than a century of confusion.

Trance is not sleep. Brain imaging shows patterns linked to focused attention and absorption, not the patterns seen in sleeping brains.

From the outside, someone in trance may look deeply relaxed.

Internally, awareness remains active.

Takeaway: Trance is focused attention, not sleep.

Enrolling Now for our course starting 16-18 May 2026!
See the website for more details https://www.hypnotherapy.training

03/04/2026

Struggling with clients who seem…
withdrawn, disengaged, or “unmotivated”?

Having experiences such as...
• Missed appointments
• Clients agreeing… then not following through
• Humour deflecting deeper work
• Sudden shutdown or disengagement

It’s not random.
And it’s not personal.
Learn how to recognise what’s actually happening — early.

This 3-hour live CPD workshop, is especially suited to hypnotherapists/students working with anxiety, shame, overwhelm, health behaviour change, or ambivalence around change.

You’ll learn how to understand avoidance as a threat response — and work with it, not against it.

If you want to feel more confident working with disengaged clients — this is for you.
📅 Dates: 22 April / 20 May
⏰ Time: 12:30pm AEST
🕒 3 CPD hours (statement of attendance included)
👉 Register here https://bit.ly/4rftYQV to receive10% discount as an AHA member

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.