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Learn Practical Psychology Skills, Whether You're Building a Career or Building Yourself.

Live, hands-on training in Trauma-Informed CBT, DBT, Hypnotherapy, and NLP Coaching for psychology students, graduates, therapists, and anyone invested in personal growth. Join 200+ who've trained with PIMS.

Accredited by PIMS & GIMP Malaysia  ·  Live on Zoom  ·  Capped at 10 students  ·  Lifetime recordings

What students say

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Finally, a hypnotherapy course that shows how to apply the tools in real time. It was the best addition to my qualification, and it changed me personally too.

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I'd been practicing for two years and still felt shaky with certain clients. This gave me actual techniques I could use the same week, not just more theory.

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As a fresh grad, I didn't know what a real session even looked like. Watching Ibrahim work through cases live, then practicing it myself, closed that gap fast.

The practicum chasm

Your degree taught you the theory. It didn't teach you the room.

Four years of school gave you diagnostic criteria, statistics, and case studies. What it rarely gave you was practice with a real client. A client who goes silent mid-session. A client who dissociates. A client who doesn't respond the way the textbook said they would.

This gap has a name: the practicum chasm. You feel it during your first real intake, when you freeze and don't know what to say. You see it in hospital "internships" that charge you a monthly fee to file paperwork instead of actually training you. And you feel it quietly, in the fear that you're not ready for the work you spent years studying for.

Practice, not memorisation

If you've ever frozen mid-session, you're not behind. You're undertrained.

That's an important difference. A degree tells you what psychology is. It doesn't rehearse what to say in the first fifteen minutes of an intake. It doesn't teach you how to steady a client who's dissociating, or how to keep a session on track when someone goes quiet. Those are skills. And skills are built through practice, not memorized from a syllabus.

Picture your next intake. This time, you know exactly what to say.

Right now you might feel like this: "I have a degree, but I don't know what to do with it." After this training, you'll feel more like this: "I know how to handle real situations with structure and clarity."

That shift is what this training is built around. You'll learn frameworks you can actually use with a client in the room, not just concepts you memorized for an exam.

Before PIMSYou know the concepts from your textbooks, but you've never actually practiced them on a real person.
After PIMSYou've run the technique in a roleplay, gotten feedback on it, and used it enough times that it feels natural in session.
Before PIMSYour toolkit is mostly theory: one or two approaches you learned in a lecture hall.
After PIMSYou walk out with specific tools you can use the next day, whether that's a grounding technique for a dissociating client or a structured coaching framework for someone who needs direction.
Before PIMSYou second-guess yourself mid-session and default to whatever feels safest, even if it's not what the client needs.
After PIMSYou have a clear method to reach for, so you're responding to what's actually happening in the room instead of guessing.

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Why PIMS

PIMS doesn't replace your education. It fills in what four years of lectures couldn't.

PIMS is a certification and training institute led by Ibrahim Siawash, a practicing counseling psychologist who sees clients daily in DHA Lahore. Here's what training looks like:

  • Live. You get real-time Zoom instruction, not pre-recorded slides.
  • Small. Each course is capped at 10 students, so you practice instead of just watching.
  • Practical. You'll do roleplays, case simulations, and get direct feedback on your technique.
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Next cohort

One cohort. Four live courses. Ten seats each.

The October 2026 to January 2027 cohort is open now. Early-bird pricing ends September 15. Admissions close September 30. The next cohort doesn't open until February 2027.

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Choose your craft

Five ways to build real skills. Pick the one that fits your practice.

Monday

Trauma-Informed CBT

Learn to steady the nervous system before you challenge a thought. This approach is unique to PIMS.

Tuesday

DBT Skills Certification

Learn mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal skills for clients in crisis.

Wednesday

Professional Hypnotherapy

An evidence-based approach for treatment-resistant clients, taught without the stage-magic reputation.

Thursday

NLP Life Coaching

Structured coaching tools for clients who need direction more than diagnosis.

Friday, once a year

Training of Trainers

Turn what you know into workshops, corporate training, and extra income.

Personal and professional growth

Not a Psychologist? You’ll Still Benefit From This Course.

You don’t need a degree in psychology to benefit from learning how the mind, emotions, and behaviour work. Beyond professional development, the skills and frameworks you learn can help you better understand yourself, communicate more effectively, navigate relationships, and approach everyday challenges with greater awareness and confidence.

This course can help you:

🧠 Understand your own thoughts, emotions, and behavioural patterns
💬 Improve communication and interpersonal relationships
🌱 Develop greater self-awareness and personal growth
🎯 Build healthier habits and work toward meaningful goals
🧩 Understand how beliefs and patterns can influence behaviour
💪 Develop practical tools for managing everyday challenges
🤝 Better understand and support the people around you
🚀 Invest in skills that can benefit both your personal and professional life

No psychology background is required to start learning.

Find your fit

Not sure where to start?

Clients who shut down or dissociate:Trauma-Informed CBT
Clients in crisis or at risk of self-harm:DBT
Want a second modality that sets you apart:Hypnotherapy
Want to coach, not just diagnose:NLP Life Coaching
Ready to teach what you already know:Training of Trainers

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Build your toolkit

Real clients don't fit into one framework.

A client who dissociates needs different tools than a client stuck on a limiting belief. Most working therapists end up building a toolkit of two or three modalities over time. Because these courses run in the same cohort window, adding more than one now costs less than enrolling in them separately later, one at a time.

Small enough that you can't hide in the back row.

  • Cohorts are capped at 10 students, not 100.
  • Every lecture is taught live, directly by Ibrahim Siawash.
  • You get lifetime access to recordings, so missing a session doesn't mean losing the material.
  • We're upfront about what your certificate does and doesn't do. No vague licensing claims.
  • Training is accredited by PIMS & GIMP Malaysia.
  • Graduates join a directory that helps connect certification to an active practice.

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International Accreditation

International Accreditation

What PIMS gives you is accredited, professional skills training, recognized by PIMS and GIMP Malaysia. You'll leave with case formulation skills, intake frameworks, and ethical boundaries you can use in private or clinical practice.

Seats are filling now.

There are 10 seats per course. A seat is only confirmed once you pay, and it's first come, first served. Early-bird pricing ends September 15. Admissions close September 30. The next cohort doesn't open until February 2027.

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Details

Questions before you sign up

Is this a license to practice?

No. This is accredited skills training, not a government license. We'll be honest with you about what that means for your goals.

Can I fit this around work or family?

Yes. Classes run one evening a week, live, and you get lifetime access to every recording in case you miss one.

Will this just be more theory?

No. Every cohort is capped at 10 students, so you'll be practicing roleplays and case work instead of watching slides.

Who teaches it?

Ibrahim Siawash teaches all 15 lectures himself.

Can I pay in installments?

Yes. We'll set that up with you directly.

October 2026 – January 2027

Become the professional you studied to be

You didn't spend years studying psychology to stay unsure of yourself. The October 2026 to January 2027 cohort is open now. Early-bird pricing ends September 15.

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