1. Therapists engaged in the practice of Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy and allied disciplines shall, at all times, conduct their professional lives with the propriety and dignity becoming a servant of the public, and pledge that they will not under any circumstances, infringe the code of morality becoming their profession, and will not commit any breach of conduct that will adversely reflect upon themselves, the NHC, or upon their fellow practitioners.
2. Therapists shall confine their services to the recognised spheres of their profession, and shall neither offer nor promise any cures for specific conditions, nor engage in any activity likely to bring the profession into disrepute.
3. Therapists are required to disclose their qualifications when requested and not to claim, or imply, qualifications that they do not have. Physical evidence of such qualifications should be made available for inspection by any legitimate enquirer.
4. Therapists are required to disclose their terms, conditions and, where appropriate, methods of practice at the outset of therapy. Failure to act thus may be seen as morally repugnant as well as counter-productive in therapeutic terms.
5. Therapists are required to preserve confidentiality and to disclose, if requested, the limits of confidentiality and circumstances under which it might be broken to specific third parties. It should be borne in mind that therapists have a responsibility to the community at large, as well as to individual clients.
6. Therapists should consider the client's best interest when making appropriate contact with the client's General Practitioner, relevant psychiatric services, or other relevant professionals with the client's knowledge. In seeking advice, as appropriate, and perhaps declining to treat and/or referring, therapists show an awareness of their own limitations whilst acting in the best interests of those seeking their help.
7. Therapists are required to maintain appropriate boundaries with their clients and to take care not to exploit their clients, current or past, in any way, financially, sexually, or emotionally.
8. Therapists are required to maintain their ability to perform competently and to take necessary steps to do so, including attendance at appropriate in-service or refresher courses and undertaking supervision as required.
9. Therapists are required to clarify with clients the nature, purpose and conditions of any research -in which the clients are te; be involved and to ensure that informed and verifiable consent is given before commencement. Such consent should allow for a "cooling off' period, and may be withdrawn at any time thereafter should any clients so choose.
10. Therapists are required to safeguard the welfare and anonymity of clients when any form of publication of clinical materials is being considered and to obtain their consent whenever possible.
11. The principles underlying the two previous paragraphs shall also be applied should therapists be engaged in the public media of whatever description.
12. A therapist who is convicted in a court of law of any notifiable criminal offence, or who is the subject of a successful civil action by a client shall immediately report the facts in writing to the Governing Council of the NHC. In any such instance, the individual concerned shall consider him/herself suspended from membership pending decision concerning such membership by the Governing Council.
13. Therapists are required to ensure that their professional work is adequately covered by appropriate indemnity insurance. All members are required, as a condition of membership, to be enrolled in the insurance cover maintained by NHC, or to provide evidence of equivalent insurance cover prior to eligibility for membership of the NHC.
14. A complaints Procedure exists, to receive any complaint against a member, to consider the therapists response and to arrive at a decision based on all the presented facts. Appeals are allowed against any decision made. The Complaints procedure is published separately.
15. Therapists are required to take appropriate action to make a complaint which will be dealt with in accordance the Complaints Procedure, with regard to the behaviour of a colleague which may be detrimental to the profession, to colleagues, or to other members.
16. Therapists shall not give any performance, lecture or display which presents hypnosis, psychotherapy, or allied disciplines as a means of entertainment.
17. The professional notices of therapists shall be kept to a dignified wording and confined to approved publications only, and/or otherwise be brought to public notice in a dignified manner. (The Governing Council may, at its discretion, declare an advertisement or publication or method of publicising services to be unacceptable.)
18. Any therapist breaking this Code of Ethics and Practice shall, at the discretion of the Governing Council, be liable to forfeiture of membership or other sanction(s) as directed by the Governing Council.
19. The Governing Council shall have the power to interpret and enforce compliance with the Code of Ethics and Practice by all members, and to impose such sanctions as it sees fit for breaches of the Code. Where dual membership exists, details of therapists who are suspended by or expelled from the NHC, are automatically deleted from any register where membership of NHC is a requisite to their being on it.

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