Continuity, Care, and Clinical Practice: Reflections on learning, depth, and the year ahead

As we step into a new year, it feels right to pause — not simply to announce what is coming next, but to reflect on what has been built, tested, and strengthened over the past twelve months.

2025 was not a year of noise for us at LCCH.

It was a year shaped by substance.

Introducing Change

Across Malaysia and internationally, the expectations placed on therapists has continue to evolve. Clinical presentations are more complex. Trauma awareness has deepened. Ethical scrutiny has rightly increased. Above all, there is a growing recognition that good therapy requires more than technique. It requires maturity, reflection, and a capacity to work thoughtfully with uncertainty.

It is within this landscape that several important LCCH milestones have taken root.

One of the most significant developments was the introduction of Integrative Psychotherapy (IP) into our academic offering. This was not designed as a departure from clinical hypnosis, but as a deepening of it. A recognition that modern practice increasingly requires therapists to think across modalities, work relationally, and formulate cases with greater nuance. IP has already begun to attract practitioners who are thoughtful, experienced, and committed to long-term clinical development rather than short-term certification.

Multi-dimensional Practice

What continues to distinguish LCCH is how learning happens in practice. Our classrooms have become genuinely multicultural, bringing together students and clinicians from different countries, cultures, and professional backgrounds. This diversity is not incidental — it is central to how therapists learn to think flexibly, work ethically, and remain curious rather than certain.

Clinical practice at LCCH is not treated as an add-on, but as an integral part of training. Students receive structured feedback, guided reflection, and specific coaching around common clinical presentations — including anxiety, trauma-related symptoms, stress, identity transitions, and psychosomatic concerns. Our intention is simple: that graduates leave training not only knowledgeable but equipped to meet the realities of clinical work with confidence and care.

Partnership and Growth

Alongside this, 2025 marked an important year for international collaboration in trauma-informed practice. Through partnerships with global trauma and clinical networks, we strengthened our commitment to evidence-informed work that respects both neuroscience and lived experience. These relationships are not branding exercises; they are part of a longer-term intention to ensure our graduates are conversant with international standards, contemporary clinical language, and ethical standards — whether they practise in Asia, the UK, Europe, or beyond.

It has also been a year of alignment with LCCH and LSCCH working together more clearly as one international organisation, united by shared values, teaching standards and clinical purpose.

Working Together

Another meaningful development is the growing collaboration between BSCAH and BSCHIP, with the former providing access to valuable publications, and professional writing to our student and graduate community. This encourages community between medical and clinical hypnotherapists and reflects something that we care deeply about. Learning does not end at qualification - professional identity is strengthened through ongoing engagement with ideas, discourse, and scholarship. In a field that can sometimes feel fragmented, this spirit of collegiality matters.

It also feels appropriate to acknowledge a change that has prompted thoughtful reflection for many within the profession. In 2025, the founders of LCCH stepped away from BSCH and went on to establish BSCHIP (British Society of Clinical Hypnotherapists and Integrative Psychotherapists). This decision was not made lightly, nor in opposition, but out of a desire to create a professional body with a clear emphasis on clinical standards, ethical maturity, and contemporary, evidence-aligned practice. Our intention has always been to contribute positively to the profession — through dialogue, scholarship, and support for practitioners — and BSCHIP reflects that same values-led commitment.

Supporting Clinical Practice

Looking ahead to 2026, our focus is clear: practice must be accessible, supported, and sustainable.

This is why we are relaunching the LSCCH Therapy Centre — not as a commercial showcase, but as a clinical ecosystem designed to support graduates in real-world work. For many newly qualified or early-career therapists, the transition from training to practice can feel isolating. The Therapy Centre will offer structured pathways into clinical work, supervision-led development, and a place where professionalism is modelled, not assumed.

It is our intention to reconnect, and in some cases connect for the first time — with graduates across Malaysia and internationally. Our alumni are doing remarkable and varied work: integrating clinical hypnosis into medical settings, developing trauma-informed community services, working online across borders, contributing to research, and shaping ethical practice in their local contexts. In 2026, we will be creating more space to share these stories — not as marketing testimonials, but as peer-to-peer inspiration for what thoughtful clinical careers can look like.

Building Community

We invite our alumni, current students, practising clinicians and even those considering their next step into the profession to reach out or reconnect with us. An ecosystem only thrives through people and voices. Whether you are building a practice, working within organisations, developing new ideas, or simply reflecting on the next stage of your professional journey, we would value the opportunity to stay in conversation.

Beyond the classroom, we are exploring new ways to support graduates and practitioners through reflective CPD forums, practitioner round-tables, writing and publication opportunities, and cross-disciplinary conversations that allow clinicians to stay intellectually alive in their work. Therapy is not sustained by technique alone; it evolves through meaning, connection, and professional belonging.

Looking Ahead with Care

As the year unfolds, you will hear more from us, not more often, but more purposefully. Our intention is to communicate in a way that respects your time, your intelligence, and your professional identity.

If 2025 was about laying foundations, then 2026 shall be about inhabiting them, through integrity, with curiosity, and a renewed commitment to clinical excellence.

Wherever this year finds you in your professional journey, we look forward to continuing the conversation.

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