Code of Ethics

As a graduate of the Intuitive Healer Training Program (IHTP) at the School of Intuitive Studies, a practitioner must recognize first and foremost one’s responsibility to clients, then to other health professionals, and to oneself. The principles adopted by the School of Intuitive Studies are not laws, but instead, they are standards of conduct defining what is honorable behavior for our practitioners.

  1. Consideration for Others: IHTP Practitioners hold as the highest priority for our professional activities the health and welfare of our clients, students, and others with whom we become professionally involved. All other statements in this document are elaborations upon this principle.
  2. Personal Development: IHTP Practitioners are committed to a lifelong process of personal development in body, mind, and spirit. Personal development will spill over to our clients. For example, we provide relevant information available to clients, colleagues, and the public on an as needed basis.
  3. Professionalism: As Practitioners, we also uphold professional standards of conduct and accept appropriate responsibility for our own behavior. Part of this professionalism is respecting the rights of clients, other IHTP members, and other health professionals. Another part is in the provision of an appropriate setting for clinical work with a client, both for the protection of ourselves and our clients.
  4. Sound Moral Values: Practitioners promote accuracy, honesty, and truthfulness in communications and in the practice, teaching, science, and art of energy healing. Any form of romantic involvement or sexual activity with a client is unethical according to IHTP standards.
  5. Commitments: IHTP Practitioners keep agreements and avoid unrealistic or unclear commitments.
  6. Reasonable Precautions: Practitioners take reasonable precautions to ensure personal biases, the boundaries of competence, impairments to health and well-being, and the limitations of expertise do not negatively impact the services we provide to clients.
  7. Confidentiality: Practitioners respect the dignity, worth, and uniqueness of all people, and the rights of individuals to privacy, confidentiality, and self-determination. IHTP practitioners shall safeguard the confidence of patients and their privacy and follow all applicable laws.
  8. Respect for Individuals: Practitioners are committed to give all persons access to and benefit from the contributions of energy healing, while retaining the right to maintain their integrity, best judgment, and personal safety at all times.
  9. No Discrimination: Practitioners are aware of, respect, and accommodate individual, cultural, and role differences, including those based on age, gender, gender identity, race, ethnicity, culture, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, language, representational system, and socioeconomic status.
  10. Conflicts of Interest: Personal obligation, gain, or other conflicts of interest are not a part of the IHTP practitioner’s professional relationship with a client, but rather respect for each client and seeing the client only through the eyes of service is our standard.
  11. Public Statements: Practitioners shall understand it is our responsibility to contribute to the betterment of the community with our knowledge and skills. When an IHTP practitioner is called upon to interpret, explain, or demonstrate knowledge of specific IHTP procedures or their application, he/she does it objectively and fairly and within the limits of personal competence. Any public statement made must be formulated with consideration of the impact on the Intuitive Healer Training program and the School of Intuitive Studies.
  12. Competent Care: IHTP Practitioners shall be dedicated to providing competent care with compassion. Practitioners shall recognize the limitations of competence and refer a patient to another appropriate health professional when the situation arises and it is obvious further care is necessary or deemed critical to a patient’s wellness or health.
  13. Advertising: All advertisements, press releases, or announcements of services offered must conform to professional standards and avoid the inclusion of statements or promises, which are inaccurate, incomplete or misleading.
  14. Personal Commitment: Practitioners demonstrate a personal commitment to acting ethically, modeling ethical behavior, and encouraging ethical behavior by students, supervisees, employees, and colleagues, as well as consulting with others concerning ethical problems.