Why should I join the Union?By joining the Hypnotherapist's Union Local 472 you open the door to becoming an active participant in protecting your right to practice hypnosis and hypnotherapy in your State or region. Your affiliation with the AFL-CIO and OPEIU gives your voice concerning your right to practice much greater strength than any one of us would have on our own.
In addition, the Hypnotherapist's Union Local 472 has the highest requirements for classroom hours and supervised experience for any hypnotherapy certification agency in the United States or Canada. So by joining the Hypnotherapist's Union, you are affiliating yourself with professional quality and integrity.
Unlike most certification agencies, no one individual or corporation becomes enriched from your fees. In fact, only a small fraction of your fees cover administrative expenses. The vast majority of your membership fees and annual dues are used to maintain our affiliation with the international AFL-CIO and the OPEIU.
Recently, with AFL-CIO and OPEIU assistance, we helped defeat legislation attempting to ban lay hypnotherapy in Hawaii. In prior years the Hypnotherapist's Union defeated legislation in California that attempted to restrict hypnosis for smoking and weight loss to medical doctors. The advantage of using our fees to affiliate with the AFL-CIO and OPEIU is to gain access to their lobbyists, legislative consultants and the use of their name when advocating our right to practice.
Certification as a Union Hypnotherapist promotes your credibility as a professional. Utilizing the global awareness of the AFL-CIO name and logo in your promotional materials is also an important marketing tool. It helps to instill needed confidence in your abilities in new and potential clients, a vital foundation for success in practice.
Your membership entitles you access to the Hypnotherapist's Union website and information about State and Regional laws in the United States and Canada. Your membership with the Hypnotherapist's Union connects you to other Union members and allows you to share information and work as a united group for a common cause.
In addition, your membership with the Hypnotherapist's Union will guide you on how to be an activist to protect your rights to practice and give you a power to make a call to action to protect that right in your State or Region. The Hypnotherapist's Union, connects it members directly with the Legislators that make the decision that will affect your right to practice and impress them with numbers and Union affiliation that tends influence political decisions.
The Hypnotherapist's Union Local 472 is known for seeking quality before quantity in its membership. It has three distinct membership classifications based on the Hypnotist's schooling and experience in the field. This gives the member the confidence of being able to verify to the client they have earned their classification title, and will give added assurance to the client that they are seeing a professional and not just a self-proclaimed Hypnotherapist. The Hypnotherapist's Union offers three levels of certification...
HMI students are eligible for the first level of certification, "Hypnotist" upon completion of a basic course in professional hypnotism provided by a vocational school of hypnosis that is either Nationally Accredited by an accreditation agency authorized by the U.S. Department of Education or is approved to operate in the State or region that it resides in.
Members are eligible for "Master Hypnotist" upon completion of 100 hours of classroom instruction Hypnotherapist provided by a vocational school of hypnosis that is either Nationally Accredited by an accreditation agency authorized by the U.S. Department of Education or is approved to operate in the State or region that it resides in.
Level 3 - Certified HypnotherapistMembers are eligible for this highest level of certification once they have completed the requirements for "Master Hypnotist" and completed an additional 200 hours of supervised practical experience. This can be completed in school or by seeing clients and working with another Union Certified Hypnotherapist as a clinical supervisor. These supervision relationships can be conducted in person or through teleconference. Each hour spent with clients as well as each hour spent in discussion with a supervisor counts towards the 200 hour requirement.
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