The Professional Reiki Practitioner Diploma represents the pinnacle of professional recognition for practitioners in the UK. This comprehensive qualification enables graduates to register with the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC) and display the prestigious CNHC Quality Mark.
Designed for versatility, the curriculum prepares students to practice competently across all sectors, including private clinics, care homes, and NHS environments. The program is delivered through four in-person modules, integrating Gendai Reiki Level 1 (Shoden) and Level 2 (Okuden).
By blending Japanese and Western lineages with metaphysical and esoteric traditions, the course offers a truly holistic perspective on health. Beyond technical skill, the diploma prioritises the practitioner’s internal journey, featuring a structured self-healing program and dedicated periods for reflection to ensure profound emotional and spiritual growth.
Diploma course at the glance
Professional Accreditation & Standards
This course is designed for those looking to practice at a professional level:
- Core Curriculum: The syllabus strictly adheres to the Reiki Council’s Core Curriculum and the National Occupational Standards for Reiki.
- CNHC Registration: Graduates are eligible to register with the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC) via the UK Reiki Federation.
- Career Integration: Since most NHS trusts now mandate CNHC registration for practitioners, this Diploma serves as a vital credential for working within the healthcare sector.
When Can I Apply?
It is not necessary to commit to the entire diploma when you start learning Gendai Reiki Level I Shoden.
You can then add the other modules step by step.
However, the earlier you choose to join the Professional Reiki Diploma programme, the sooner you can begin working on your case files and submitting coursework. Because there is no time limit, you can progress through the Diploma at your own comfortable pace.
Dates for Gendai Reiki Level I Shoden classes are available on the Gendai Reiki Ho Training page.
Dates for Gendai Reiki Level II Okuden, Modules 3 and 4 will be discussed and mutually agreed upon once you are ready to advance further on your Reiki path.
In-person Training
- Module 1: Gendai Reiki Ho Level I Shoden (2 days = 16 contact hours)
- Module 2: Gendai Reiki Ho Level II Okuden (2 days = 16 contact hours)
- Module 3: Professional Reiki Practitioner and Practice (2 days = 16 contact hours)
- Module 4: Advanced Reiki Skills (2 days = 16 contact hours)
Level of this qualification against the Regulated Qualification Framework
The equivalent minimum level for Reiki qualifications is as follows:
- Level 3 in the Regulated Qualifications Framework for England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
- Level 5 in the National Framework of Qualifications for Ireland.
- Level 6 in the Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework.
Hours of study:
- A minimum of 240 hours of study is required:
- Guided Learning. 65 hours.
- 5 hours of development and supervision of practical skills and at least 40 hours of teaching with the simultaneous physical presence of the Learner and the suitably qualified tutor/supervisor must be included in the 65 hours of Guided Learning.
- Learning hours must include 75 documented treatments of others and 100 hours of received treatments (through self-treatment/received treatment).
- A minimum of 10 case studies of at least 4 sessions each must be completed. These 10 case studies can form part of the 75 treatments required overall.
- Final Practical Assessment should be by a minimum of one independent assessor who is occupationally competent.
Benefits
- Receive the CNHC quality mark: The Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC) is recognised by the NHS, GP surgeries, professional bodies, and some private healthcare companies as being of a high standard and quality assured.
- Apply for Practitioner Membership of the UK Reiki Federation, the Gendai Reiki Healing Association and other Reiki organisations in the UK and abroad.
- Apply for roles in the NHS, hospices, health centres: You can apply to work with the NHS and other medical institutions that may require applicants to be verified.
- Group Supervision: group supervision sessions are delivered online throughout the year.
- Individual Mentoring/Support: Benefit from ongoing teacher support and online supervisory sessions whenever you need them.
- Improved Credibility: The public will have a higher level of trust in you because you have been verified by a government organisation as complying with the highest standards of professional practice and code of ethics.
- Branding: You can use the CNHC quality mark on your marketing material and website as proof that you are a verified practitioner.
- Professionalism: All courses are offered teaching to the Core Curriculum and National Occupational Standards for Reiki.
Reiki Diploma Credit Transfer Policy
Please note that credits from independent Reiki 1 and 2 courses are not transferable to the Diploma programme.
Certificates for Gendai Reiki Level 1 Shoden and Level II Okuden levels are awarded only upon completion of the full course.
Graduates are then eligible to progress to the Gendai Reiki Level III (Shinpiden) class, provided they meet the standard entry requirements.
MODULES
MODULE 1: Gendai Reiki Ho Level I Shoden
2 days (16 hours in-person)
This two-day course will introduce you to Gendai Reiki Ho and will provide you with the knowledge and tools to give yourself healing and also give Reiki treatments to family and friends.
This course includes:
- How Reiki originated and evolved over the past one hundred years.
- What energy is and how to feel the flow of Reiki.
- Sensing your own energy and the energy of other people.
- Have an understanding of how energy works and acquiring healing abilities.
- The Japanese Reiki techniques.
- Hand positions to give yourself Reiki treatments.
- Use the 12 basic hand positions to treat others.
- The importance of Self-healing, Self-purifying and Self-Growth.
- Reiki as a spiritual practice.
You will receive three authentic and individual Gendai Reiki Level I Shoden attunements which will active your inner abilities to channel Reiki energy.
Click the button to check out the course dates and details.
MODULE 2: Gendai Reiki Ho Level II Okuden
2 days (16 hours in-person)
In the second level of Gendai Reiki you will work in depth with self-healing/purification and the healing of others. You will learn a series of techniques created by Mikao Usui in order to accelerate the healing processes. You will also receive the first three symbols to aid your development.
The second level constitutes an important step in the deepening of the contact with Reiki energy speeding us up in the path towards Anshin Ritsumei, spiritual fulfilment.
This course includes:
- Understand the symbols.
- Types of symbols and meanings.
- The purpose of the symbols.
- Purposes and types of Reiki sessions.
- A Reiki session for another person.
- Transcend space: distant Reiki sessions.
- Transcend time: send Reiki to the past.
- Transcend time: send Reiki to the future.
- Original Japanese Usui Reiki Techniques: Tanden treatment, Navel treatment, Propensity treatment.
- Self-Purification and Self-Development Exercises.
- Gendai Reiki Hatsurei Ho.
- Self-Purification Exercises.
- Cell-Energising Exercise
You will receive three authentic and individual Gendai Reiki Level II Okuden attunements which will allow you to significantly increase your energy, receive three Reiki Level II symbols and enhance your healing abilities.
MODULE 3: Professional Reiki Practitioner and Practice
2 days (14 hours in-person)
This workshop is based on the National Occupational Standards for Reiki and will help aspiring and experienced practitioners to gain more competence and confidence to their Reiki practice.
It provides knowledge of Reiki regulations in the United Kingdom, advance Reiki techniques and useful information that can be applied to create a successful Reiki practice.
This course includes:
- Basic Anatomy and physiology
- Red flag symptoms
- Complementary Healthcare
- Evaluating requests for complementary and natural healthcare
- The concept of physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health and wellbeing.
- Dealing with client enquiries
- Speaking and listening skills
- Client confidentiality
- Record keeping
- Explain the nature of the service and fee structures to the client
- Boundaries in a professional relationship
- The initial consultation
- Preparing yourself and your space
- Explaining Reiki to a client
- Exploring, establishing, and discussing the client’s needs and expectations
- Discussing your baseline assessment with a client
- Record keeping
- Practicing self-reflection
- Reiki regulations in the United Kingdom
- National Occupations Standards
- Professional Requirements (Health and Safety, Insurance, Code of Conduct)
- Working in a professional environment (NHS, Hospices, Hospitals, talking with healthcare professionals)
- Creating A Thriving Reiki Practice Part 1
- Vision, intention, and attitudes
- Business consciousness
- Money issues
- The secret of success
- Creating A Thriving Reiki Practice Part 2
- Marketing tools
- Business expenses, website
- Professional referrals
- Standards of practice
- Code of Ethics
MODULE 4: Advanced Reiki Skills
2 days (14 hours in-person)
Cords are energetic connections that connect a person with objects, people, animals, locations, ideas and thought forms. Spirit Release Therapy is the means used to assist a client with a condition known as spirit or energy attachment.
This course includes:
- Introduction to energetic cords
- The difference between positive and negative cords
- Places in the body where cords can connect
- Intention in the process of cord cutting
- Use of byosen scanning to detect cords
- How negative cords can impact a person
- Different approaches for cord cutting
- Reiki for Cord Cutting
- Introduction to Spirit Release
- What are spirit attachments?
- How and why spirits become earthbound
- Symptoms of spirit attachments
- How to detect earthbound spirits and spirit attachments
International Recognition and Accreditation
Gendai Reiki Ho and Gendai Reiki Network International
Gendai Reiki Ho is not a new Reiki system. It can be referred to as “original Japanese Usui Reiki Ryoho in the Gendai Reiki style,” as it allows people in modern society to learn and practice the original Japanese Usui Reiki Ryoho easily and comfortably. Gendai Reiki Ho has been accepted by many people as a very simple Body-Mind improvement technique that requires no hard training.
Gendai Reiki Healing Association (GRHA) is established by Hiroshi Doi, the founder of Gendai Reiki Ho. GRHA is dedicated to providing Gendai Reiki Official Manuals in multiple languages.
Gendai Reiki Network International (GRN) is a non-profit organisation approved by the Japanese government. The purpose of the organisation is to provide society with opportunities to experience Reiki as a lifelong learning, along with correct information about Reiki, and to contribute to realisation of a healthy, happy and harmonious society.
Gendai Reiki Network International
Gendai Reiki Healing Association
UK Reiki Federation
The UK Reiki Federation (UKRF) is an independent, not-for-profit, professional organisation run by members for members. It is the largest Reiki-only professional organisation in the UK and Europe that set the highest standard for Reiki.
Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council
The Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC) is the independent UK regulator for complementary healthcare practitioners.
CNHC was set up with government support to protect the public by providing a UK voluntary register of health practitioners. CNHC’s register has been approved as an Accredited Register by the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care, a body accountable to Parliament.
Registered CNHC Reiki Practitioners receive the Quality Mark and can work in professional environments where verification is required, such as the National Health Service (NHS), GP surgeries, professional bodies, and some private healthcare companies. GPs can refer their patients to professional practitioners on the CNHC register.
Learn more about the professional advantages of CNHC registration
Coursework & Practical Assessment
Distant/ Guided Learning
- Completion of Treatment Journal (75 treatments given to others).
- Completion of Self-Treatment Journal (100 self-treatments).
- Home Study: Reiki 1 + 2 manuals plus directed research on the internet and of recommended literature.
Coursework
Students are required to complete a portfolio of work that demonstrates that they have achieved the level of knowledge and understanding and practical application of Reiki to meet these standards in a professional capacity.
- 10 x 4-sessions Reiki treatments case study (75 Reiki treatments in total given to others, 40 of which are recorded treatments).
- 100 self-treatments recorded in a journal.
- Written questionnaire with multiple questions.
Fees
You pay for the diploma separately for each module:
- Gendai Reiki Ho Level I Shonden – £ 250
- Gendai Reiki Ho Level II Okuden – £ 350
- Module 3: Professional Reiki Practitioner and Practice – £ 250
- Module 4: Advanced Reiki Skills – £ 250
The total for the entire diploma training is £ 1,100.
Application
To assess the suitability of prospective students for this course, I invite applicants to a Zoom interview. Please complete the form below.
Giancarlo Serra
Giancarlo is a consultant and tutor at the College of Psychic Studies, where he originally completed his training in Spiritual Healing. A dual-style Reiki Master Teacher (Japanese and Western), his expertise also encompasses Spiritual Wellbeing, Spiritual Counselling, and Past Life Therapy. Read more
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