IHF PRACTITIONER GUIDELINES

These business practices will serve you well:

1. Keep Good Records

It is recommended that IHF practitioner members have each client complete a “Complementary Provider Disclosure Form” at their initial visit. This form is then kept on file for no less than three years.

2. Enjoy Positive Interactions With Other Professionals

IHF members agree to work together with all healing arts professionals both licensed and unlicensed. Licensed practitioners refer to alternative practitioners and vice versa. Those needing  “medical intervention” are referred to appropriate licensed practitioners. Those needing “alternative intervention” are referred to appropriate alternative practitioners.

Alternative/complementary health providers do not require a doctor’s note (unless you are in one of a few state law says otherwise). It is a good business practice to inform your client’s other helpers about the good work you do. This lets you work together for the good of the client and invites referrals. A letter to a licensed medical helper remains in their patient’s file and is reviewed whenever the person visits.

3. Alternative Practitioners Avoid Medical Vernacular

Alternative Practitioners avoid license lingo; your clients are “clients;” not “patients.” You don’t “diagnose,” “label,” “prescribe,” or “treat;” you “co-create proactive solutions.” Clients have “challenges” not “disorders.” Rather than a “nervous breakdown” one may experience a “profound break-open for transformation.” A person is not “depressed” they “let go of negativity to be optimistic.”

Certified practitioners do not offer prescribed medication. Drugs are only available from members who have appropriate licensure to do disperse them.

Alternative practitioners honor and teach the law of attraction, how to think and grow rich, how to win friends and influence people, and how to manage life, attitudes and behavior. Hypnotists, Hypnotherapists and Hypnocounselors, couches and spiritual counselors use and teach hypnosis and mind altering techniques for better grades, self-improvement, up-liftment, sports enhancement, stress reduction, pain management, and the like.