About the College of Medical Hypnosis

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The College of Medical Hypnosis (CMH) is a training organisation which is conducted by Nationally Registered Health Professionals for Nationally Registered Health Professionals and for social workers who are members of the AASW and Accredited Practising Dieticians who are full members of Dieticians Australia with Medicare eligibility. Training Courses have been conducted in all states of Australia and the ACT and the NT in previous years but were most regularly conducted in New South Wales (NSW), Queensland (QLD), Victoria (Vic) and the Northern Territory (NT) until 2019 and will only be held in NSW in 2025 due to Coronavirus related issues.

The principal presenter at CMH training is Dr Alan Fahey who is a medical practitioner with expertise in psychiatry, psychological medicine, hypnotherapy and psychotherapy including Cognitive Behaviour Therapy - CBT and the Focussed Psychological Strategies - FPS, Gestalt Therapy and Ericksonian principles plus general medicine plus neuropathology including infectious amyloidopathies with transissible spongiform encephaloapthies such as CJD. Other Nationally Registered Health Professionals also present at training activities including Ms Carole McGregor Clinical Psychologist MAPS who is currently undertaking a Doctor of Sports Psychology and who was until relatively recently the Sports Psychologist for Collinwood Women's Netball and Football Teams. We also have also an experienced dentist who's role included being the long term Flying Dentist across Northern Australia, with expertise in pain and anxiety control. Consumers and Carers also present their perspectives at the training.

Eligible professionals include: medical practitioners both general practitioners (GPs) and other specialists, psychologists and clinical psychologists, nurses, midwives, occupational therapists, social workers, dentists, physiotherapists, chiropractors and osteopaths plus accredited dieticians.

Training is approved or endorsed or accredited or was approved in recent years by the: GPMHSC (includes the APS and the ANZCPsychiatrists and the Mental health Council of Australia), RACGP, ACRRM, ACMHN, ACN, ACM, APHCNA (APNA), ANZCA. Training also meets ADB criteria for CPD training for dentists. Psychiatrists and physicians can record this training for CPD. The AASW and OT Australia previously approved these training courses but they each no longer endorse any training external to their own training activities.

Training is being conducted only in Sydney in 2025 and it is hoped to conduct courses again in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne in the future. A Single Mental Health Module can be attended by any eligible health professional if it is the first day of a clinical course or by any past graduate of the CMH courses provided that the post graduate has attended that module previously, and provided that there is a vacancy due to coronavirus (and RSV and influenza) restrictions. The One Day Mental Health Module will also be conducted in Sydney and hopefully again in the future in Melbourne, Brisbane and Darwin.

The courses are amongst the highest accredited or endorsed training activities in Australia and are Nationally Accredited for eligible professionals. The CMH has trained thousands of health professionals from Australia and hundreds of eligible professionals from overseas.

The CMH FPS-ST training (4 modules) within the Clinical Course (6 modules) has been approved by the GPMHSC to enable Australian GPs to register with the Australian Federal Govenment for MEDICARE registration to use the extra mental health item numbers for the provision of Focussed Psychological Strategies FPS FPS-ST (level 2) to assist their patients. 

CMH training has been re-approved for GPs for FPS continuing professional development (FPS-CPD) to maintain Medicare registration to continue to use the FPS item numbers and also for Mental Health-CPD. These approvals include 5 modules of the Clinical Course and also for module/s of the Advanced Clinical Courses as well, during the 2023-2025 triennium.

The RACGP has approved 5 modules of the Clinical Course for CPD with the 5 AA modules each having circa 16 CPD hours per module including EA, RP and MO, required for doctors to meet AHPRA's yearly re-registration criteria and in addition there is approval for module/s of the Advanced Clinical courses for RACGP CPD with EA, RP and MO plus FPS-CPD.

These accreditations can be used by both GPs and other health profesionals including clinical psychologists, social workers and occupational therapists who require evidence of ongoing continuing professional development CPD aquisition for their annual registration by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).

For 2025 the Australian Society of Hypnosis is collaborating with the College of Medical Hypnosis from 2025.

Completion of the 6 day Clinical Course offered by the CMH will qualify health professionals for Associate Membership of ASH. Upon further training and completion of an Advanced Clinical Course and a further 1 day training of a specific topic, professionals will qualify to become eligible for Full Membership of ASH and will also be awarded the Diploma of Clinical Hypnosis CBT-FPS, presented by the College of Medical Hypnosis. Aspirants for ASH membership are encouraged to enrol for the Clinical Course being offered by the CMH in early November 2025 and to note on the application form both name and "2025 ASH" IF being referred by ASH, otherwise do not DO NOT add the "2025 ASH" e.g “John Smith 2025 ASH”. All CMH post graduates can apply to the ASH for membership status related to the level of CMH training achieved.

The CMH has certification of all training, leading to the Diploma of Advanced Clinical Hypnosis CBT-FPS supplemented by Advanced Master Courses eg for PTSD and regression management.