Registered Professional Membership

Registered Professional Member (health fund listing)

A Registered Professional Member is a Professional Member who:

• holds a current First Aid Certificate
• has professional indemnity insurance
• undertakes ongoing professional development
• undertakes ongoing clinical supervision and/or peer supervision.

Professional Member

A Professional Member has completed successfully an approved course in hypnosis and its therapeutic application or has satisfied the Board of their competence in the theory and practice of hypnosis and is currently one of the following:

• Medical Practitioner
• Psychologist
• Dentist
• Chiropractor, or
• Theologically trained person

It may also be someone who has, as an Intern Professional Member, completed or has been exempted from all the educational requirements of the ASCH and has completed 20 hours of workshop participation and a minimum of 12 months clinical supervision in hypnotherapy.

Upon acceptance, a Professional Member must complete 12 hours of supervision a year by an approved clinical supervisor. A Professional Member is entitled to use the acronyms of the ASCH and such abbreviated form or emblem as may be approved from time to time by the ASCH, in addition to other benefits and entitlements pertaining to Professional Membership.