Karen Salmon Hypnotherapy Terms of Service
The aim of Hypnotherapy is to provide you with a confidential opportunity to explore your thoughts and feelings in a safe environment. This is in order for you to assist your learning, healing, understanding and growth. My role is to help you through this process without judgement, or telling you what to do. I may on occasion give information or offer suggestions and we may, if you felt comfortable and with your agreement, use hypnotherapy as one of the ways to assist us in this process. If at any time I feel I cannot help you in some way, I will offer to refer you to someone who can.
Commitment
This process requires both commitment and honesty with yourself and with me as well as a genuine desire to change. On my part, I have a genuine healing intent and provide commitment, integrity and utmost respect for you as an individual as well as my therapeutic skills.
Confidentiality
Our work together remains completely confidential and I will not discuss what we talk about in sessions outside of the sessions. There are however some exceptions to this.
I am required to attend supervision, as part of continuing professional development, in order to ensure that you receive the best possible service but any information discussed under supervision would be anonymous.
If, in exceptional circumstances I feel that either you or someone else are in danger or at risk of harm. Whilst I would discuss with you the possibility of breaking confidentiality first, if the risk was serious enough I may have to break confidentiality immediately.
Ethical Standards
I am a member of The Hypnotherapy Society and I am bound by their code of ethics, copies of which can be provided to you.
I take your individual boundaries seriously and seek to work in the most ethical way.
Sessions
Intial consultation is approx 90 mins and follow up sessions are approx 50-60 mins. I may be able to give an indication of the amount of sessions needed up front but this can vary from client to client. We will set mutually convenient days and times for these appointments. We may however mutually decide to change the interval of time between sessions. If for any reason I have to cancel a session, I will aim to provide you with 48hrs notice. Likewise I will expect you to give me 48 hours’ notice if you are unable to attend. I reserve the right to charge for a missed session where no or insufficient notice is given.
Number of Sessions / Ending Hypnotherapy
When therapy is open-ended, as opposed to limited, it is important not to end therapy suddenly, so we will regularly review progress to help determine the duration of our work together.
Record Keeping
I keep brief written notes and you are welcome to see these at any time. These notes are kept confidentially and no personal details will be kept on a computer or passed to other agencies. At the end of our work together my notes will be stored securely for a period of 5 years in case you wish to return to hypnotherapy. After that time they will be destroyed by secure shredding. No electronic records will be stored after the end of Hypnotherapy.
Insurance
I hold both public liability and professional insurance.
Fees
Please get in touch to discuss fees.
Complaints
Should you wish to make a complaint about the service you have been offered please contact organisations under whose ethics I work (available upon request).