3. Healers model healthy behavior and engage in practices that nurture self-wholeness and well-being, teaching by example.
4. Healers recognize that every person has healing capacities that can be enhanced and supported through self-care practices.

D. Validation:
1. Healers acknowledge the sources of their teachings as either traditional, derived through personal intuition or based upon research.

IV Professional Behavior

A. Guiding Principles:
1. Healers embrace the following principals in their professional behavior: reverence, respect, trust, honesty, integrity, equality, competence, generosity, courage, humility and confidentiality.
2. Healers maintain a compassionate regard for the client by demonstrating a way of being that is courteous, tactful, sensitive, accepting, empathetic and non-judgmental.

B. Communication & Confidentiality:
1. Healers maintain clear and honest communication with their clients and keep all information, whether medical or personal, strictly confidential. A healer may not reveal the confidences entrusted in the course of the professional relationship, or the peculiarities he or she may observe in the character of clients, unless required to do so by law or to prevent harm to client or other persons.
2. Healers cooperate with other healing professionals, including physicians, nurses, other complementary/ alternative therapists, psychologists, counselors, scientists and religious personnel and other professional caregivers in the exploration and provision of healing modalities.

C. Availability and Accessibility:
1. Healers shall make known their availability and accessibility to clients in need of their professional services.
2. Having undertaken care of the client, healers may not neglect the client.
3. Should healers become unavailable, they should make appropriate referrals to other therapists
4. Healers may discontinue services only after adequate notice.

D. Maintaining Appropriate Boundaries and Parameters of Practice:
1. Healers maintain appropriate boundaries for self and client and do not enter into inappropriate relationships with clients or take physical, emotional, sexual, psychological or financial advantage of clients.
2. Healers do not make medical diagnoses or prescribe medications without appropriate training and licensure.
3. Healers do not recommend nutritional supplements without appropriate knowledge.
4. Healers associated with the development or promotion of products should disclose any vested interest and ensure that such products are presented in a factual and professional way.

E. Relationships with Colleagues:
1. Healers must know the lim its of their professional competence.
2. Healers know that a patient’s health and safety may depend on receiving appropriate services from members of other professional disciplines. Healers are responsible for maintaining knowledge of, and appropriately utilizing the expertise of such professionals on the patient’s behalf.
3. In referring patients to allied professionals, healers ensure that those to whom they refer patients are recognized members of their own disciplines and are competent to carry out the professional services required.
4. If Healers’ services are sought by individuals who are already receiving similar services from another professional, consideration for the patients’ welfare shall be paramount. It requires healers to proceed with great caution, carefully considering both the existing professional relationship and the spiritual/therapeutic issues involved.

V Conduct in a Professional Session

A. Creating a Healing Environment:
1. Healers provide a safe, welcoming, supportive and comfortable environment that is conducive to healing.
2. Healers maintain a clean practice environment and professional personal appearance.
3. Healers display certification, training and educational certificates and diplomas in public view.
4. Healers honor the privacy of their clients and do not allow others in the treatment room without consent.

B. Disclosing Professional Information and Practices:
1. Healers provide clients with information regarding their healing philosophy and modality or modalities and what to expect during a healing session.
2. Healers inform the client of possible outcomes and side effects.
3. Healers share with clients prior to their sessions logistical considerations such as: length of session, punctuality and lateness policy, cancellation policy, and fees.

C. Recording, Securing and Releasing Records:
1. Healers record accurate client records.
2. Healers store records in a secure and safe place.
3. All information contained in the clients’ record is confidential.
4. Healers share information with other parties only with the written consent of the client, in accordance with guidelines and regulations of their professional organization and of U.K. law.

D. Client Education:
1. Healers understand that a person’s ability to retain information is limited and therefore provide written information about the session.
2. Healers provide client s with appropriate educational materials that will aid in the process of self-care for clients after the healing session. Educational materials might include but are not limited to: written instructions regarding specific practices or exercises to enhance well-being; dietary suggestions; visualization or meditative practices; breathing exercises; affirmations; suggestions for journaling and other educational guides specific to individual healing practices.

Source: http://councilforhealing.org/