Our Policies

General Principles

We follow the Code of Ethics of the National Guild of Hypnotists.

1. The physical and mental well-being of each client shall always be the prime consideration.
    
2. The rights and desires of the client shall always be respected.
    
3. Members shall avoid any conduct which could be construed as moral impropriety or sexual misconduct with a client.
    
4. Members shall use hypnosis strictly within the limits of their training and competence.
    
5. Members shall be honest and ethical in their advertising and business dealings.
    
6. Hypnosis shall be employed in accordance with established laws and regulations.
    
7. Members shall be aware of their limitations and always avoid infringement on other professionals.
    
8. Professional behavior and respect shall be extended to all fellow hypnotists.
    

Covid-19 Safety Protocol
We follow the CDC/NIH guidelines for keeping you safe, and these guidelines may change from time to time. At present, we will check your temperature upon arrival, ask several questions, and may require you to wear a mask depending upon local rate of infection. We prefer you to be fully vaccinated. The room is disinfected between clients.

Scope of Services
We are not physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, or social workers, and we do not offer psychotherapy or medical advice. If you think you need these services, we would be happy to refer you to the appropriate professionals.

Confidentiality
We will not release any information to anyone without written authorization from you, except as provided for by law. You have a right to see your file.

Change of Appointment
Please give us 48 hours notice if you need to change your appointment.

Cancellation Policy
We understand that life has a way of interrupting schedules. Should you need to reschedule an appointment, please give us as much notice as possible so that we may serve someone on the waiting list.

Professionalism
No sexual gestures will be tolerated, the appointment will be immediately terminated and 100% of the fee will be collected.

Referral From Your Physician
Sheehan & Early Hypnosis Center will not see someone under the care of a physician or mental professional without a signed and dated letter of permission specifying the permitted area to be addressed. Sheehan & Early will provide a referral / release form for your care provider if requested. The form must be dated and signed by the referring entity.

Web Site Policy
At Sheehan & Early Hypnosis Center, we respect and protect the privacy of our clients and those who use our website. The following Privacy Statement provides details about how your personal information is collected and used.

Information Collection and Use
Sheehan & Early Hypnosis Center is the sole owner of information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others unless required by law enforcement authorities, to comply with a legal process such as court order, subpoena, search warrant, or law enforcement request.

We also keep track of activity on our website via log files stored on our web servers. We collect information such as IP address, browser type and version, and pages you view. We also keep track of how you got to our site and any links you click on to leave our site. Once you leave our site, we do not track you. We use your website activity to assist us in updating our design to make navigating the site easier.

Links
Our site may provide links to third-party websites. Because Sheehan & Early Hypnosis Center does not control the information policies or practices of these third parties, you should review their privacy policies to learn more about how they collect and use personally identifiable information.

Security
We take precautions to protect the confidentiality and security of your personal information by using industry-recognized security safeguards such as firewalls, coupled with carefully developed security procedures to protect your information from loss, misuse or unauthorized alteration. Should we ever ask for sensitive information, such as credit card numbers, we will protect it through the use of encryption during transmission, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Sheehan & Early Hypnosis Center takes care to reinforce the importance of our website visitors’ security and privacy among our employees. Our employees are trained and required to safeguard your information and, using physical, electronic and procedural safeguards, we restrict access to personal information to those employees and agents for business purposes only. Additionally, we use internal and external resources to review the adequacy of our security procedures.

Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on the Sheehan & Early Hypnosis Center website, so visitors are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.