With over 18 years experience in delivering stress management training, we can offer you a range of courses leading to a qualification that will enable you to become a fully accredited stress manager, delivering stress management training yourself. Your stress management training consists of three components; each one can be taken as a 'stand alone' qualification.

Certificate in Stress Management

This award now forms an integral part of our Diploma in Hypnotherapy & Psychotherapy, Certificate in Stress Management, Diploma in NLP, Hypnotherapy Practitioner Diploma course (click HERE for further details). We can also offer this certificate as a DISTANCE LEARNING option for anyone interested in stress & the effects of stress.

The course is suitable for most learners and will be particularly helpful for those working, or considering employment in, psychology, human resources, teaching, counselling, alternative & complementary therapy and health service. Students will, on completion of the three modules, be able to demonstrate an understanding of stress: physiology, psychology & behaviour, in addition to recognising the causes of stress and its impact on personality. Additional learning will cover lifestyle & health promotion, including nutrition, as well as stress-related illness, maladaptive coping mechanisms, sleep disorders, substance abuse and the effect of physical activity on stress levels.

The course is divided into three modules, each provided on a downloadable disc, together with a range of handouts ready for you to photocopy for client use. There will be a short question paper provided for each module, which will be personally marked by the tutors with appropriate feedback. This must be completed before issue of the next module. On satisfactory completion of all homework, you will be awarded a Certificate in Stress Management, and may use the initials Cert.SM after your name.

The cost of the course is £330. For further details, please download the prospectus and complete the application form at the end. Note that, if you wish to apply for ISMA UK membership following completion of the Diploma (below), you must take the certificate as a 'live' option rather than the distance learning option.

Diploma in Stress Management

Our popular Diploma in Stress Management enables students to use the title 'stress manager' and is open to ...

• anyone who has gained the certificate in stress management or a comparable award from another organisation
• anyone working in the therapeutic or health-related sector
• HR personnel
• anyone having or working towards qualifications in psychology, nursing, counselling, alternative therapy, management, teaching

It may still be possible for oyu to enrol on the course without fulfilling any of the above criteria - please contact us.

The Diploma in Stress Management will enable you to work as a stress manager in both private or public sectors. As well as individual stress management, you will learn all about stress in the workplace, including organisational change, occupational stress, time management, and personal stress caused by financial, marital and family issues. Delegates will learn a number of stress management interventions, such as yoga, relaxation, thought stopping and hypnosis. Strategies for workplace stress will include stress mapping, dealing with workplace bullying, and effective management techniques. We will also study communication within the workplace and learn some effective NLP techniques to take into work environments.

Individual stress management will concentrate on valuable communication skills and building self-esteem. Students will learn all about body language and how to identify left and right brain dominance. You will also receive information and training in a variety of personality typing models, such as the Enneagram, Myers Briggs & Satir Categories.

Diploma in Stress Management continued

The course is delivered in three modules, building into a comprehensive course manual, with lots of useful handouts, scripts and exercises. As with the certificate, certification will be awarded on successful completion of the between-course homework. This course is normally available as 'live' training only, one weekend per month over three months. A distance learning option may be available under certain circumstances, please contact us for further information.

As with all our training courses, we run our 'live' training with TWO TRAINERS at all times. Your facilitators for this award are usually the course Directors, Alan Cooper & Carole Wan. The cost of this six day course is £650, payable as a deposit of £50 and two instalments of £300.00. On completion you will qualify you as a stress manager, allowing you to use the award Dip.SM after your name. You will receive the Diploma course on disc plus additional handouts on each module. Completion of the Diploma will qualify you for membership of ISMA.

Advanced Diploma in Stress Management

The Advanced Diploma, or 'trainer' award, enables graduates to train others to become stress managers as well as equipping existing stress managers and therapists with an effective toolbox of cutting-edge techniques. This award will also be useful for any individual working in the caring professions, management & HR, coaching and counselling, and any area of education.

The course runs over four weekends, one per month, leading to the qualification Adv.Dip.SM. Entry requirements are:

• existing Diploma in Stress Management, awarded by Academy of Clinical & Medical Hypnosis or similar
• AND you must be working in education, health services, HR, management, complementary therapy or related fields

This is a revolutionary training course which covers all aspects of stress management and includes

• cognitive therapy & stress
• pharmacology
• mediation
• post traumatic stress disorder and critical incident debriefing
• stress inoculation therapy
• coaching

You will learn some great goal setting techniques, how to dispute distorted thought processes, how to hold effective meetings and a range of relaxation skills, such as autogenics, meditation, breathing techniques and biofeedback. You will receive training on how to write and deliver stress management courses, employee assistance programmes and researching stress. We will also look at special cases, such as postnatal depression & psychosis, heart disease, shift work & depression.

An important part of this course will look at environmental stress - economic, political & circumstantial, as well as stress in education and teaching effective stress management and studying skills in schools. We will provide you with up-to-date research and discuss the mind/body connection, looking at the work of Dr Rossi.

Finally, we will learn what to do with the 'stress generators' found in every workplace and how to access other helping agencies in the fight against stress.

The cost of this eight day course is £850: a £100 deposit, plus FOUR instalments of £187.50. You will receive the advanced diploma on disc plus receive additional course handouts whilst training. There is a reduction of £130 for delegates booking both the Diploma and Advanced Diploma together.

Stress Management at ACMHL

All our qualifications in stress management are awarded by the Academy of Clinical & Medical Hypnosis Ltd. They are validated by ISMA, and follow the recommended core curriculum for stress management training. We were established in 1993 and have trained many people who have gone on to pursue successful careers in the growth area of stress management. Courses normally take place in Sheffield and London, but may be delivered elsewhere in the UK subject to demand. We ALWAYS run with small classes (max.12) and two trainers. We also run in-house and bespoke stress management training. Please contact us for further details