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No stars
It's a shame there's no option for no stars. Journey from beginning to end Interview: - No real questions about knowledge, understanding or capability. - Offered on the spot, no time to make an informed decision about the course. - Payment expected there and then. No explanation of course structure. - No time to research further. - Pressured to sign up for 3 years with no explanation of the implications of this : ie you can't leave after year 1, even though it's a stand alone course. - If you leave after year 1 you're still expected to pay for the next 2 years that you don't want to attend. The course - Not allowed tables in the class room. - Not allowed to use a laptop. - expected to print out pages and pages of materials each class. - Materials for the class are just a repeat of the online homework expected each class. - Tutor (although lovely) reads the class notes you've already read and then takes time I'm class to re write them on flip chart paper word for word. Practice - Year 1 is Hypnotherapy. Most people on the course want to do Counselling so there's a lack of interest and motivation for this topic. - Hypnotherapy does not relate to counselling yet you HAVE to do this year to get on to the counselling u less you have another counselling qualification from elsewhere...yet Hypnotherapy is not an equivalent qualification so that doesn't make any sense. - I tried to leave following the loss of a job and not being about to afford the monthly repayments but was told to check my contract as I'd, unknowingly, signed something in the small print to say I had to continue paying. I was offered to defer but I didn't want to do the course anymore for a number of reasons - You're asked to do a number of Hypnotherapy practice hours by the end of the course, these are not regulated and you can just write anything. - if you miss a submission or a class they just lock you out of your materials until its made up. Student Support Non existent. The replies have not been very supportive at all - not just my experience. Overall I wish I knew this before I applied because I would have steered clear from the very beginning.