I feel the basis of ethics within my work involves the respect for self and the other person/people involved; basically so we both know where we stand and so the other person/client understands I have the utmost respect for their well-being.

Attending therapy and even listening to a self-hypnosis CD or MP3 hypnosis download requires a certain amount of trust on the client’s part. Therefore, I maintain a standard of integrity, compassion and dignity towards all involved.  This includes treating the client’s details and information as private and confidential at all times.

I offer a genuine and honest approach to my therapy and would not offer a hypnosis CD or work with a client unless I felt it would help them. I am not the kind of therapist who offers unrealistic expectations from therapy or any self-hypnosis. For the client to achieve any kind of result, certain conditions and stipulations are expected from both parties involved. That is why I suggest a client only has therapy for themselves and not because of someone else or because they have been sent to me. It has to be something they feel they would genuinely like to change about themselves.  This applies to the self-hypnosis recordings too.

The media can (and do quite regular) give hypnotherapy and hypnosis a bad press; suggesting it is about ‘control’ and people being ‘under the hypnotherapist’s spell’. And some hypnotherapists would like people to continue believing they need to be in this kind of submissive state of awareness.  I would challenge their ethical values because, for me, the therapeutic relationship (including the listening to one of my hypnosis CDs) is an equal one. Both the client and the therapist deserve as much respect as each other. They are a team. I believe that if the client wants to achieve results – then the CD or the hypnotherapist is there to facilitate the clients own process – not to satisfy the therapists!