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PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT

1. A practicing hypnotherapist must provide treatment consistent with a diligent duty of care within their knowledge, competence and experience.  They must never misrepresent or misinterpret their work as medical in nature or misrepresent their training as medical training unless they hold such medical qualifications.

2. A Practicing therapist shall at all times conduct him or herself in a professional manner.

3. Therapists shall recommend, where the clients' condition is suspected to have a physical basis or cause, that the client seeks medical advice first.  Therapists should never make any exaggerated claims to cure any person during any form of treatment.

4. Therapists shall at all times maintain strict confidentiality during and after treatment.

5. Therapists must work with the clients best interest in mind.

6. Therapists must obtain permission form the client before using audio or video to record any part of a therapeutic session.

7. Therapists must take all reasonable steps to ensure the safety of the client and those accompanying them.

8. No therapist shall work whilst he or she is suffering from any form of severe emotional disorder that could impair their judgment during therapeutic work, for example psychosis or severe depression.

9. Therapists must ensure those rooms and other facilities to be used for hypnotherapy and/or associated practices are suitable for such purpose.

10. Therapists must not in any way discriminate any other form of alternative or medical practice.

11. Therapists to be aware when working with clients of the opposite sex to either record such sessions or have a third party sitting in on the therapeutic session.