Train at the level where patterns actually live.
The Subconscious Shift Method™ is a complete clinical architecture for subconscious change — taught through a four-level, NBCC-approved certification path for therapists, coaches, and helping professionals.
Beyond insight alone.
You already know how to help clients understand their patterns. Understanding, on its own, rarely changes them.
The Subconscious Shift Method™ trains you to work beneath the story — a repeatable, trauma-informed session architecture that moves clients from insight to actual subconscious change. Clinical enough for licensed professionals. Deep enough for the work you feel called to do.
Explore the MethodFour levels. One method. A complete practitioner.
Each level is live, experiential, and faculty-delivered — with NBCC-approved continuing education at every step.
SSM™ Hypnotherapy Certification
The complete foundation: clinical inductions, regression, parts therapy, and the full SSM™ session architecture. 4 days live online · 32 NBCC CE hours.
Level 1 detailsAdvanced Hypnotherapy
Advanced protocols and deeper clinical mastery for complex presentations — anxiety, trauma, and entrenched patterns.
Level 2 detailsGroups & Retreats
Facilitate subconscious work in groups, workshops, and retreat settings — and expand what your practice can hold.
Level 3 detailsThe Jungian Approach
Symbol, archetype, and the deep psyche — transpersonal depth work for the practitioner ready to master the inner world.
Level 4 detailsClinical Past Life Regression Certification
A trauma-informed, clinically grounded approach to regression work — 18 NBCC CE hours. For practitioners drawn to the deeper edges of the work.
For professionals who are done with surface work.
Therapists & clinicians
Licensed professionals who love their work but feel the ceiling of insight-based approaches — and want ethical, trauma-informed tools that create change at the root.
Coaches & practitioners
Skilled helpers ready for a real methodology: a structured, repeatable way to work with the subconscious that raises both results and confidence.
Called to deeper work
Professionals in transition who know there's more — and want a training home that bridges clinical credibility with the depth they've been missing.
Credibility you can build a practice on.
Founded by a clinician. Delivered by an institute.
Boulder Hypnotherapy Institute was founded by Kelly Bearer, MA, LPC, ACHT — a licensed psychotherapist and clinical hypnotherapist who built the Subconscious Shift Method™ to close the gap between talk therapy and true subconscious change.
Today the method is taught by BHI Certified Faculty, held to a single standard of clinical rigor and transformational depth — so every cohort, every certificate, and every graduate carries the same signature of quality.
Become the practitioner your clients need.
Begin with SSM™ Level 1 — live online, 32 NBCC CE hours. Payment plans available.
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