CPD Event title: Unlocking the Neuroscience of Obesity
Brief Description Of Event:
This newly-updated CPD explores the neuroscience behind obesity, and shows how a Solution Focused approach can empower clients to achieve their weight management goals.
This newly-updated CPD explores the neuroscience behind obesity, and shows how a Solution Focused approach can empower clients to achieve their weight management goals.
The course will strengthen your Solution Focused Hypnotherapy practice by providing a clear, neuroscience-informed understanding of obesity that aligns naturally with SFH principles. You will gain greater confidence in working with clients around weight, food and self-regulation without relying on willpower. By understanding how the brain adapts to stress, reward and habit formation, you will be better equipped to explain change compassionately, respond ethically to client questions, and apply future-focused hypnotherapy interventions that support lasting, neurologically grounded change.
By the end of this workshop, participants will:
- Understand obesity as a neurobiological adaptation, not a failure of willpower
- Identify key brain systems involved in appetite, craving and weight regulation
- Understand recent neuroscience updates relevant to hypnotherapy practice
- Confidently apply neuroscience-informed Solution Focused Hypnotherapy interventions
Course Content
This workshop explores obesity through a modern neuroscience lens, moving beyond willpower-based explanations to understand how brain, body and environment interact to influence eating behaviour and weight regulation. Designed specifically for Solution Focused Hypnotherapists, the training translates up-to-date neuroscience into clear, practical insights that support ethical, compassionate and effective therapeutic work with clients around weight, food and self-regulation.
Participants will gain a deeper understanding of how appetite, craving, stress and habit formation are regulated by the brain — and how Solution Focused Hypnotherapy naturally supports neuroplastic change.
Course Content Includes:
- Obesity as a neurobiological adaptation rather than a failure of self-control
- Key brain systems involved in hunger, satiety, reward and motivation
- The neuroscience of craving, emotional eating and habit formation
- Stress, the nervous system and their impact on eating behaviour
- Neuroplasticity and how lasting change occurs in the brain
- Why willpower-based approaches often fail under stress
- How hypnotherapy supports learning, self-regulation and future-focused change
- A clear, non-promotional neurological explanation of weight-loss injections for client questions
- Ethical and compassionate language for working with weight-related issues
The importance of Neuroscience and Obesity is why this CPD is also an integral part of the Advanced Hypnotherapy Diploma course (AHD).
Date of event: May 17, 2026
Duration of Event: 1 day, 09.30am – 1.30pm
Venue for event: Online
Name of trainer: Jane Fox
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Website: https://www.cpht.co.uk/events/24-unlocking-the-neuroscience-of-obesity/
Maximum number of participants: 14
Cost of Course: £75
Cost for NCH members: £67.50
How to claim discount: Members should email coordinator@hypnotherapists.org.uk for discount code
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About your tutor
Jane lives in Stockport, South Manchester and has a full-time hypnotherapy practice working from her home therapy room.
Jane trained with CPHT in Manchester, achieving the DSFH and HPD in 2014. Further studies enabled her to become a Solution Focused Supervisor in 2018 and she achieved the Advanced Hypnotherapy Diploma in 2022.
Jane obtained a BSc in Biological Sciences in 1980 from the University of Aston in Birmingham and later achieved an MSc by research from Sheffield University in 1988.
After graduating in 1980, she worked in University Research in London, Sheffield, and in Manchester. Jane worked in the pharmaceutical industry for 30 years as a Clinical Research Associate, monitoring clinical trials of new medications and medical devices. Since leaving clinical research, Jane continues to have a strong interest in research and has set up a research programme for CPHT to evidence the efficacy of Solution Focused Hypnotherapy.
Additional Information
Counts as 3.5 hours CPD.
This CPD is for Solution Focused Hypnotherapists, graduates of CPHT.