Want to work professionally with hypnotherapy?
Start with a strong foundation, develop practical experience and then choose the direction that fits you and the people you want to support.
Becoming a hypnotherapist is not a decision you need to make for years ahead in one go. You start with OMNI hypnosis basic and hypnotherapy advanced. Across eight classroom days, you learn to work safely, practically and systematically with hypnosis and hypnotherapy. Afterwards, you build experience, discover the clients and themes that fit you, and decide how you want to deepen your work.
Whether you are a coach, healthcare professional, therapist or changing careers, a strong foundation gives you room to make better-informed choices later. You do not need to know every specialization or exactly what your practice will look like before you begin.
Start with OMNI basic and advanced. You learn intake, safety, inductions, deepening, suggestions, self-hypnosis, regression and professional practice.
Practice what you learn, gain experience and discover the client groups, questions and ways of working that suit you best.
Specialize when it fits your development, for example in medical hypnosis, pain management, hypnosis for children, EMDR in hypnosis or scent psychology.
The OMNI hypnosis and hypnotherapy training provides a clear, practical starting point. You do not only learn what hypnosis is: you practise how to apply it carefully, professionally and in a way that is tailored to the client. From day one, you work with demonstrations, exercises and feedback.
The training builds on the work of Dave Elman. The focus is on clear, reproducible techniques and on developing skills that you can practise directly in your own context.
The eight days of OMNI basic and advanced give you a strong content foundation. Longer routes often add specializations, intervision, practice development, medical or psychosocial foundation knowledge and professional development. The right route depends on your background, ambitions and the work you want to do.
After OMNI basic and advanced, you can choose from a range of specializations. This lets you expand your knowledge and practical experience in a direction that fits your interests and the people you want to support.
If you want to complete a full professional route, you build core competencies, intervision, practical assignments and a final assessment as well. This is not a separate place to start, but a professional completion of a route you have built carefully over time.
Whether clients can receive reimbursement for hypnotherapy depends on the insurer’s conditions, the professional association, your prior education and additional qualifications. The eight days of OMNI basic and advanced do not by themselves guarantee reimbursement.
If reimbursement is part of your goal, you can explore with a professional association such as CATcollectief which additional steps fit your situation. HypnoseMentor cannot make commitments about professional registration or insurance reimbursement.
You can also work professionally without client sessions being reimbursed by insurers. The best route depends on your intended practice, background and target group.
Participants especially value the combination of intensive practice, clear structure and direct applicability.
“Regression, Ultra Height, demos and practising yourself.”
Rachella Sahtoe
“Intensive knowledge transfer and plenty of practice.”
Michel Werneri
“Learning step by step and practising directly with guidance.”
Hans v. Buijten
Linda Matijsen on her routeIn the autumn of 2020, Linda Matijsen decided to start hypnosis training at HypnoseMentor. A personal experience as a client of a hypnotherapist in Breda made her curious about this profession.
“I found it so remarkable: if hypnotherapy can work in this way and bring results so quickly, I wanted to know everything about it!”
Linda began with basic and advanced training. Her experience then grew step by step, through practice and further development.
“Your first clients are the clients you need. You can practise with them, and their questions are often not the most complex ones yet. But the further you develop, the deeper the questions become.”
At first, the fixed structure of the training gave her support. As her experience grew, she could increasingly integrate that knowledge into her own way of working.
“At the beginning you need that structure. Later you can let it go and weave in everything you have learned. That makes it even more enjoyable.”
The vocational route brought further depth in mission, vision, strategy and intervision. Linda completed her route as an Integral Hypnotherapist.
“I would simply go for it and learn it fully. It has a great deal of value for me. For me, something is complete.”
Voor de OMNI Hypnose- en Hypnotherapieopleiding heb je minimaal mbo-4 of hbo werk- en denkniveau nodig. Je hoeft geen medische of psychologische achtergrond te hebben. De opleiding begint bij de basis en bouwt stap voor stap op, zodat iedereen die gemotiveerd is hypnotherapeut kan worden.
De basis- en gevorderde opleiding bestaat uit 8 klassikale lesdagen, gecombineerd met online modules en zelfstudie. Na afronding kun je al met cliënten werken. Wil je verder groeien, dan kun je specialisaties volgen en uiteindelijk doorstromen naar de Vakopleiding Integraal Hypnotherapeut.
Na het afronden ontvang je een internationaal erkend OMNI-diploma. Dit diploma laat zien dat je professioneel bent opgeleid en geeft toegang tot beroepsverenigingen en het OMNI Hypnotherapist Register.
Korte opleidingen, zoals de 8-daagse hypnotherapieopleiding, zijn niet direct vergoedbaar. Voor vergoeding vragen verzekeraars meestal een traject van 2–3 jaar, inclusief psychologische of medische basiskennis. Via het Catcollectief kun je een persoonlijk pad naar vergoedbaarheid uitstippelen, afhankelijk van je c.v. en eerdere opleidingen.
Ja. Je kunt stap voor stap verder studeren: start met de OMNI basis- en gevorderde opleiding, kies daarna uit verschillende specialisaties en rond af met kerncompetenties en opdrachten. Zo spaar je studiepunten en bouw je in je eigen tempo toe naar het diploma Integraal Hypnotherapeut.
Ja. Veel studenten combineren de opleiding met hun baan of eigen praktijk. De lesdagen zijn planbaar en een groot deel van de studiebelasting bestaat uit oefening en zelfstudie die je flexibel kunt indelen. Zo kun je hypnotherapeut worden naast je huidige werk
Een hypnoseopleiding richt zich vooral op de technieken om iemand snel en veilig in hypnose te brengen. Een hypnotherapieopleiding gaat verder: je leert ook therapeutische interventies en hoe je cliënten helpt bij diepgaande thema’s en blijvende verandering. Bij OMNI worden beide onderdelen gecombineerd, zodat je meteen breed inzetbaar bent.
Ja. We bieden gratis proeflessen aan zodat je zelf kunt ervaren hoe de opleiding werkt, wat de sfeer is en hoe onze docenten lesgeven. Dit helpt je een bewuste keuze te maken als je hypnotherapeut wilt worden.
Start with a strong foundation.
Want to work professionally with hypnotherapy? Start with OMNI hypnosis basic and hypnotherapy advanced. From there, you can use your experience to decide which specializations and further professional route fit you.