Code of Ethics

The Canadian Hypnotherapy Association is dedicated to the clinical and scientific utilization of hypnosis at the highest professional level and embodies the following principles:

  1. Members will meet the requirements of their professional organization and accept its ethical and scientific standards.

  2. Members shall limit their clinical and scientific use of hypnosis to the areas of their competence as defined by the professional standards of their field.

  3. Members shall at all times conduct themselves in a manner reflecting their humanistic, altruistic, holistic and eclectic concern with mankind.

  4. Members shall only make use of clinical and scientific hypnosis if it contributes to the welfare of the client and to the advancement of the professional knowledge of the science.