The Australian National Hypnotherapy Register is the official National Hypnotherapy Register of the Council of Clinical Hypnotherapists - Australia, the voice of most hypnotherapy associations in Australia.

The Council of Clinical Hypnotherapists (CCH) is not an association, but a confluence of the professional clinical hypnotherapy associations, and is the voice of hypnotherapy to government and other stakeholders, including the traditional medicine and health insurance industries.

HYPNOTHERAPY CODE OF CONDUCT

Each of the member associations complies with a strict Code of Conduct and complies with the requirements of the Private Health Insurance (Accreditation) Rules 2008 which state:

If the treatment is provided by a health care provider who is not referred to in subrule 7(1) or rule 8 or 9, the standard for that treatment is that the health care provider providing the treatment must be a member of a professional organisation which covers health care providers who provide that type of treatment (the profession) and which:

(a) is a national entity which has membership requirements for the profession; and

(b) provides assessment of the health care provider in terms of the appropriate level of training and education required to practise in that profession; and

(c) administers a continuing professional development scheme in which the health care provider is required, as a condition of membership, to participate; and

(d) maintains a code of conduct which the health care provider must uphold in order to continue to be a member; and

(e) maintains a formal disciplinary procedure, which includes a process to suspend or expel members, and an appropriate complaints resolution procedure.

CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

Members of the Australian National Hypnotherapy Register (ANHR) are trained Clinical Hypnotherapists who have completed the full membership requirements of an approved professional association. As such they have completed extensive education in hypnotherapy and associated disciplines and comply with a strict Code of Conduct and continuing professional education requirements.

AUSTRALIAN HYPNOTHERAPY ASSOCIATIONS

Supporting the Australian National Hypnotherapy Register

These Australian hypnotherapy associations support the ideals and goals of the Council of
Clinical Cypnotherapists to unite and promote the profession of hypnotherapy in Australia

See the list of All ANHR Recognised Organisations

The Australian National Hypnotherapy Register is Sponsored by the Council of Clinical Hypnotherapists
"The Voice of Professional Hypnotherapy"

Nobody would disagree that for clinical hypnotherapy to move forward as an independent and recognised profession in Australia it must come together as an integrated group. For nearly 50 years the profession has been fragmented, with its proponents unable to agree on anything. Petty competition and jealousies have made us look unprofessional and disorganised.

With government agencies looking carefully at the requirement to protect the public in many areas of the health professions, the mystery and misinformation surrounding hypnotherapy has yet again come under scrutiny. This continues to be exacerbated by groups with vested interests trying to inform government inquiries in a way that would place restrictions on many practitioners.

This year, the Council of Clinical Hypnotherapists (CCH) has made significant moves to stop the fragmentation and implement the Australian National Hypnotherapy Register in a carefully thought through strategy to provide public assurance that its registered members have been properly trained and conform to a Code of Conduct. It also provides a complaint mechanism for the public as part of a need demanded by government.

As part of the process CCH continues to make submissions to government inquiries and promote clinical hypnotherapy as a professional and powerful health modality in its own right.

These moves have received overwhelming support from the profession, from allied professions and from government contacts. Please find below responses to some FAQs which are intended to provide clarity pertaining to the recent launch of the Australian National Hypnotherapy Register and to the role of the Council of Clinical Hypnotherapists (CCH) in the administration and representation of the clinical hypnotherapy profession in Australia.

If you are concerned about the service that has been provided by a clinical hypnotherapist listed on the Australian National Hypnotherapy Register (ANHR) , to you or your next of kin, please talk to the practitioner immediately. In most cases, the practitioner will try to resolve the issue. If you are not satisfied with the practitioner’s response, please contact the practitioner’s professional association for a confidential discussion.

The CCH may become involved in a complaints procedure under the following conditions:

(1) at the request of a Member Association of the CCH and

(2) at the request of a member of the public and/or other relevant party.