Association with the  Canadian Federation of Clinical Hypnosis - Alberta Society (CFCH-AS) is acquired by becoming a full member. The CFCH-AS is a professional society and all full members are required to be licensed health care providers.

Issues & Complaints

 Canadian Federation of Clinical Hypnosis - Alberta Society (CFCH-AS) is a professional society, which means that all full members are licensed health care providers. We are NOT a regulatory or disciplinary body. Complaints, if and when they occur, are to be handled by the appropriate regulatory college, which is mandated to deal with such problems. We are an advisory and educational organization.

Worth Considering

We think it is important to clearly state our core beliefs so that readers can decide if they have merit and wish to pursue an association with us.

• We believe hypnosis is a real phenomenon that may be applied in many situations with good results.
• We believe there are health care situations in which hypnosis is the preferred primary treatment and other situations in which hypnosis should not be used as the primary treatment choice.
• We believe these choices should be made in consultation with a health care professional because we believe that health care professionals are trained to deal with health care concerns.
• We believe that each member of the public deserves to be treated by a hypnotherapist, who is already a qualified health care professional and who is licensed by his or her province, a member of a college or association with both the responsibility of policing the practice of its members and with well-developed procedures for investigating concerns registered by the public, has taken specialized training in hypnosis and hypnotherapy in a professionally-recognized and accepted training program that includes personal supervision and an ethics component.
• We believe we have a responsibility to our members to offer support and opportunities for professional growth.
• We believe that we have a responsibility to the field of hypnotherapy to promote and disseminate research and inform others of its usefulness.
• We believe that Canada is a distinct geopolitical entity requiring an organization devoted to its needs and the best interests of Canadian hypnotherapists.
• Also, we believe that hypnosis should be used by trained health-care professionals to achieve health goals identified by their patients or clients. Because hypnosis is a powerful technique for at least some people, it has the capacity for deliberate or inadvertent misuse by those who are inadequately trained, or who are practicing outside the scope of their practice and experience. For this reason, a part of our work is to advocate and lobby governments to take measures to protect the public and promote the responsible use of hypnosis.