See an awesome discussion of what the NGH (National Guild of Hypnotists) has said and not said about the attempt of Psychotherapy to control all treatments, despite the fact that the legislation does not mention the NGH and to our knowledge the American company, NGH , holds no sway in government affairs, courts or legislation anywhere in Canada.
It shows that the NGH does not even acknowledge that we all have a constitutional right to call ourselves whatever we want and to offer whatever services we want to (if a controlled act, then offered within the regulations of that controlled act) AND DO SO WITHOUT HAVING TO BE CONTROLLED BY A COMPETITOR WHICH HAS DECIDED TO DEFINE ALL THERAPY as PSYCHOTHERAPY. The NGH in fact, seems to support the College’s attempts to undermine our constitutional rights by suggesting we don’t have any and that this legislation is constitutionally legitimate. It is not.
In fact, this discussion illustrates how people are unwittingly led to believe that they don’t have a constitutional right to openly practice their trade/treatment in Canada It shows how people are unwittingly led to believe by an American company, NGH, that they should sneak around using a suggested new title to be able to do what they have a constitutional right to do openly and freely, and we might add, proudly. https://plus.google.com/u/0/+GraceJoubarneHypnotherapy/posts/L9k3oVsnDt8?cfem=1
What alternative practitioners of all sorts do is NOT PSYCHOTHERAPY by another name. And we should not be pulled into their scheme by creative wording in a legislation that violates our right to NOT BE PSYCHOTHERAPISTS. Nor should we stand for being deemed ‘of an increased risk of harm to the client’, which is what ‘a controlled act’ refers to.
PSYCHOTHERAPY may pose an increased risk of harm to clients, but what we do is not Psychotherapy and is not remotely harmful. WHAT WE DO IS HUMANE, DIGNIFIED, LOVING AND EFFECTIVE.
LET’S MOBILIZE AND FIGHT TO PROTECT OUR CONSTITUTIONALLY ENSHRINED RIGHTS NOW. Let us not let American companies such as the NGH and licensed professionals who seek to monopolize health care services divide us. Because if we are divided, we are conquered by tyrannical forces. All alternative practitioners must stick together and fight for our freedom to practice. Please donate as much as possible…see all the ways you can donate on the Home page.
In solidarity, we can remain free!
Is there a list that shows the types of alternative practices that would be affected by this legislation. I’m a director of a spiritual centre and we have a grief counselling group?
Most especially grief counsellors, spiritual counselors are scheduled for elimination if they have not agreed to become psychotherapists registered with the College as ‘Spiritual Psychotherapists…yes, it is a newly manufactured ‘profession’ designed to make all spiritual counselling come under the dictates of the College. Soon, the only spiritual counseling one will have access to is one decided on by psychologists who man the College of Psychotherapy.
Last week I was speaking with Robert Bond, an Ontario Reverend. He said he was in on the early discussions of this legislation and fully endorses the College of Psychotherapy taking over spiritual counselling. He has already joined and claims that anyone ‘ordained’ should be registered as a psychotherapist. I asked him what psychotherapy has to do with spiritual counselling, since conventional medicine has always downplayed and outright ridiculed all references to ‘spirit’. He said it was not debatable. I asked him if he was not concerned (being a spiritual person and all), that hundreds of effective spiritual and grief counsellors who either did not have the Master’s degree needed to register or who did not want to be associated with psychotherapy would be put out of business. Again, he said it was not ‘debatable’. I tried to ask him how a Masters degree has anything to do with any healing and he would not respond. I said that even Mother Theresa would not be permitted her approaches…again, it’s not debatable.
So it seems that some people are willing to bend with the way the wind blows to protect their own practices and close the door on their many wonderfully effective colleagues who neither need nor want to undergo studies for a Master’s degree or succumb to a lobby groups idea of ‘spiritual’ counseling. I guess this may be one way to elevate oneself in one’s profession and eliminate choice for the public…just join a lobby group seeking to tell the entire public who they should be treated by.
We have heard of this happening with the Family Therapists…those with Masters are told by their association to just registered as psychotherapists, those without Masters degrees who may well be far more effective then those with Masters degrees are out of business. This go-along to get-along will soon put everyone out of business and certainly, even if one registers with the College, all traditional approaches will be forced to comply with the dictates of the College. Many family therapists are railing against the position taken by their board to go along with undemocratic behavior.
Back to your question: There is no list because there are over 500 groups, therapies, treatments and so on that the College wanted to regulate…but the list was so long they decided on an all encompassing definition of a controlled act of psychotherapy instead. If you treat, by verbal or non verbal means ANY emotional, cognitive, thinking, reasoning, social functioning, communication or mental issue, you are engaged in the CONTROLLED act of psychotherapy that only registered psychotherapists are permitted to engage in. It does not matter what you call yourself or what you call what you do. If it is treatment, you are in violation of the law.
So, grief and spiritual crises are easily categorized as emotional and/or mental and if you are treating grief, sadness, and so on, you are in violation of a controlled act. Definitely, if you are a spiritual counselor and not registered with the College as a Spiritual Psychotherapist (now there’s an oxymoronic term if ever there was one), you are in violation of the law. That a College of Psychotherapy be put in a position of telling the public who they can and cannot seek counseling from by eliminating the spiritual counselors they prefer is hugely undemocratic and arrogant.
Last week I was advised by colleagues that a bereavement counselor told them that ‘someone in the know’ told her that the College had no intention of impacting their work. So she and the others she has influenced in the bereavement world are sitting back thinking that an armchair lawyer knows how to interpret the law. However, bereavement is an emotional issue, at minimum, and she is ‘treating’. Therefore she is automatically engaged in a controlled act.
What may be confusing people is the use of terms such as ‘psychotherapeutic means, psychotherapy, serious condition’ and so on. The College refuses to define those terms, therefore anything you do can and will become deemed a psychotherapeutic technique eventually, just as what spiritual counselors now do are deemed illegal unless they become ‘spiritual psychotherapists’. I’m sure many people will be delighted to learn that they are being counselled by a psychotherapist when in fact they were hoping for a real spiritual counsellor.
I just heard about this tonight and I am not sure from a patient’s perspective ,is this suppose to help patients or make it harder for them to seek the natural paths of healing . Who is this suppose to help? Because as a middle age person I would rather participate in the natural paths of healing rather than all the medications I have to take from my body breaking down. Why is it whenever people or therapist have found a way, not necessary a cure, to make people feel better the government or medical field have to ruin it for the patients. Does it have something to do with greed,money,power? Maybe all the above. How do we as patients , stop this from happening to these small time therapist who enjoy what they do, and also make a difference in the lives of the people.
Always there will be those who feel superior to others, who suck the life out of others and out of their nation because of their insatiable need for power and control. Always there will be bureaucrats and lawyers who are only too happy to collect their salaries by writing legislation that dismantles our freedoms.
Power and control is all about money. Such people feel that their ‘degrees’ entitle them to their entitlements. And those entitlements involve telling the rest of us what is normal, what is right, wrong and what we must accept for ourselves. Put simply, they are so arrogant they believe we are all too stupid to live our lives without their approval and micro-management. Further, these psychologists believe we are all too stupid to notice that we are being dictated to.
The statistics are increasingly showing how conventional approaches to mental and spiritual wellness are worse than a dismal failure and that Canadians by the millions are seeking natural paths and humane approaches to dealing with life’s inevitable crises. Statistics show that in 2005-2006 alone, over $7 Billion dollars was spent by Canadians on alternative treatments. Canadians used their freedom of choice to find what works for them and they have been expressing their choice with their dollars.
With the numbers of people using alternatives doubling every ten years so far, it is clear that conventional treatments and especially psychiatric drug treatments and electroshock are on their way out. Few people want life-long mental illness diagnoses which are merely the opinion of those who believe they can make a moral judgment on the rest of us. People realize that diagnoses and ‘degrees’ have failed to heal anyone and in fact, have made conditions worse for the patient. There is no scientific support for any mental illness diagnosis in the first place, but this has not stopped psychotherapists, psychologists and psychiatrists from expanding the list of normal human reactions into ‘flaws’ and ‘illnesses’.
We have a freedom of choice and of association in democratic Canada. Freedom however, is not free and we must be on guard at all times that evil money-hungry tyrants are not going to steal away in the night with a single freedom that our forefathers gave their lives to protect.
What to do? Contact your MPP and let him/her know that this is unacceptable. Contact the Minister of Health and let him know you are Canadian and you will not be told who you can talk to, nor about what. Most especially, contribute as much as possible to the legal action underway to stop this. We have rights, but we must band together, stand shoulder-to-shoulder and absolutely refuse to accept these absurdities. We must always remember that accepting absurdities leads to accepting atrocities. Please be sure to sign the Change.org petition at http://tinyurl.com/qxwczo2 And please share widely, talk with family and friends. Talk with your practitioner and encourage them to support the fight…many practitioners can’t believe our government would allow this, so some are apathetic.
These evil doers know that if they suddenly told Ontarians that they could no longer have the treatments of their choice from the practitioner of their choice, we would be up in arms over night. So they eliminate the very people we choose instead. If the public has no one but conventional types to talk with, then the dastardly deed has bee accomplished. It is easier to eliminate some 10,000 alternative practitioners, most of whom are women, then to tell millions they cannot speak to the practitioner they prefer.
As spirit we incarnate and pick up a body and an ego. The ego has three emotions, fight, flight and needing to be loved. Fight and flight are pretty simple to understand, the needing to be loved part needs more explanation. If we did not have this aspect of ego, we would never get married and procreate, each of us would just go our own way and life would not be as we know it. This needing to be loved has many aspects to it. I will explain later.
Many people are unaware that we have Chakras and that they are in the front and back of our bodies. These Chakras can be open or closed. An example would be if your solar plexus Chakra, right where your stomach is located has closed, you get that tight pit in the stomach feeling.
The Key to Lifelong Happiness is the rear heart Chakra. If it is closed or solidly blocked then the ego is fully in charge. This is when we are not loving ourselves. We have grown up in families that did not love themselves. We had a tough childhood, sometimes with abuse, feeling unloved or abandonment. When the ego is fully in charge our spirit sits back and watches. It is not really involved with our existence. The ego is constantly seeking to be loved and is always looking for something outside of itself to make it happy, material items, cars, homes, clothes, purses, drugs, cigarettes, alcohol, sex, something that will make it happy. These are ephemeral at best. The ego gets something then moves on to something else. It is never happy, always searching. If the ego is in charge, you can have bulimia, anorexia, eating disorders, work far too hard, or go to the gym to make yourself perfect. There are perfectionist issues, control issues and needing to blame others for our circumstances.
All of this can be changed when we open the rear heart chakra and send love to the ego, it is then getting exactly what it is wanting….love. Love from self. The ego is always seeking love. If you give it love, constantly, then love from self never goes away, unless you allow it.
When your rear heart Chakra is open, a feeling of calmness comes over you. The spirit and ego now walk hand in hand, both creating from a place of love. When the ego is fully in charge, we constantly come from fear. When the spirit and ego are working together, we come from love.
I created the Rose Exercise to help people recognize their rear heart Chakra and open it up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK68Dxw57d4
It is necessary to keep aware of the emotions that come up which can close your rear heart Chakra. Circumstances or other people can cause it to close. Our ego gets in charge and we start running fight, flight or needing to be loved again. Take time to close your eyes, do the Rose Exercise and send love to yourself. Say “Ego I Love You”, put your hand over your heart. Say your name to yourself and “I Love You”. It may be difficult at first, particularly if the circumstances you are dealing with are onerous. Keep at it, you are worth it! It will become much easier the more you practice. Do the Rose Exercise before you go to bed at night, it will help you sleep better.
There are the two basic emotions we all come from; love or fear. Which would you prefer to come from? If you are coming from fear, have addictive behaviors, relationship problems, control issues, perfectionist issues, anorexia, bulimia, depression or anxiety, your heart Chakra is closed in the back. It is time to create a different way of being for yourself, it is the MOST IMPORTANT thing you will ever do for yourself. Be happy.