Canadian Hypnotherapy Association - CHA, President Detlef Joe Friede

Canadian Hypnotherapy Association
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The Origins of CHA
This Association was founded in 1977, to establish hypnosis as a functional therapeutic tool for the promotion of health, both emotional and physical. Members maintain an ongoing commitment to the profession and science of hypnosis. To increase awareness and understanding of the therapeutic value of hypnosis and to encourage and maintain high standards of professional practice in the field of hypnotherapy.

Hypnosis, when used in the therapeutic context, is a comfortable state of mind which permits one to focus attention on the healing of body and/or mind.

Hypnosis can assist the individual to create change through increased self-awareness. Hypnosis promotes self-healing and empowerment.

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:

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

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.

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

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.