Code of Ethics

The commitments I hold myself to in my work with you.

I. Who I Am

I am a hypnotherapist certified through ARCH Canada, operating as a sole practitioner. My practice integrates hypnotherapy, guided self-inquiry, inner depth work, and practices drawn from magical and wisdom traditions.

I am not a licensed psychologist, psychiatrist, medical doctor, or counsellor, and I will name this clearly before we begin working together. My practice operates with reflective guidance and consultation from a registered PhD counsellor.

My authority is the authority of lived practice and deep engagement with wisdom traditions. I do not borrow legitimacy I have not earned.

II. Scope of Practice

The work I offer is not a substitute for medical treatment, psychiatric care, or licensed psychological therapy. You remain responsible for your own medical and mental health care, and I will encourage you to maintain any existing treatment relationships.

I do not diagnose.

If your presentation suggests that the work would be better supported by a different professional, I will tell you directly and offer appropriate referrals. Knowing when to refer is part of my responsibility to you.

I am not a crisis service and do not provide 24/7 availability. Crisis line resources are always available alongside my care, and you are encouraged to use them whenever you need to, without waiting for my response.

III. Truth and Non-Performance

I live in truth. I do not perform virtue, expertise, or compassion. Performance is its own form of untruth.

What I say to you is what I mean. I do not soften the truth into something more palatable than it is. I do not flatter, coddle, or flinch from what is difficult to witness.

I work within my actual competence, not borrowed authority. I do not claim outcomes I cannot guarantee.

IV. Trauma-Informed Care

I read the nervous system continuously and adjust depth and pace accordingly. I do not move faster than your nervous system can sustain. I do not press for detail before you are ready. I do not leave activated material incomplete at the end of a session.

The principles I hold throughout the work:

Safety as you define it, not as I define it for you.

Transparency in everything I do and why.

Choice, your pace, your language, your consent before every exercise.

Cultural, historical, and gender awareness, I do not project identity categories onto you, and I do not pathologise reasonable responses to unreasonable conditions.

V. Consent

Consent is continuous, not signed once and assumed. I will ask before every exercise. I will ask again at the threshold of every deepening. You can stop at any time, and I will tell you this often enough that you remember it under pressure.

The techniques I use, including indirect suggestion, metaphor, and hypnotic language, are powerful precisely because they can bypass conscious resistance. I will never use them to override a stated boundary. The distinction between supporting autonomy and overriding it is one I take seriously, and one I work continuously to refine in myself.

VI. Confidentiality

I hold everything you share with me in strict confidence. This includes session content, personal disclosures, and all associated records.

I will disclose information only where:

Required by law or court order

There is an imminent risk of harm to you or to another person

There is a disclosure that triggers mandatory reporting obligations under Canadian law (child abuse, sexual assault of a minor, or imminent harm to a third party)

I may discuss your work in anonymised form with my supervising therapist for the purpose of reflective guidance and clinical consultation. No identifying information will be shared without your written consent. This is part of how I maintain the quality of care I offer you.

VII. Crisis

I do not treat thoughts of death or suicide as emergencies to be silenced. I treat them as important information about what a part of you is carrying and what kind of relief you are reaching for. I will meet them with the same quality of unhurried presence I bring to everything else.

I also maintain awareness of real risk. When there is immediate danger to your body or someone else's, the work shifts and I will be direct, and will prioritise safety over inquiry.

VIII. The Boundary Between the Magical and the Therapeutic

My practice draws from wisdom traditions, but I do not impose my cosmology, framework, or spiritual reading onto you. If you do not bring magical or ceremonial language into the room, I will not bring it either.

The frameworks I have studied are tools, not credentials. I do not perform esoteric authority. Where the magical and the therapeutic meet, I hold both with clear distinction. Neither collapses into the other.

IX. The Limits of This Work

I exercise professional care, but I cannot guarantee specific outcomes. Therapeutic and inner work involves engagement with difficult emotional, psychological, and spiritual material. You engage in this work voluntarily and it is important you cultivate a personal practice outside of our sessions.

Either of us may end the working relationship at any time, for any reason, by communicating this in writing. I will not extend the relationship past its usefulness to you.

X. My Own Practice

I do this work because I do this work on myself. I maintain my own ongoing inner practice, my own reflective guidance, and my own discipline of return. The vessel must be tended before it can hold.

This code is a living document. I review it regularly and adjust it as my practice deepens.