Regrettably there is almost no legislation for in the UK designed to regulate the training and qualification of hypnotherapy practitioners. The increase in acceptance by the public and the NHS of some complementary therapies and hypnotherapy in particular has led to a huge increase in the number of people offering to provide training. Unfortunately the quality of this training varies enormously. 

When you are looking for a hypnotherapist to help you with a particular problem there are a number of things to look out for:

Read the full article from the British Society of Clinical Hypnosis