Alexandra Janelli

And I think that's sort of where my thinking comes down to of where, where is that?

I know the school I went to, which was Hypnosis Motivational Institute, they do have an accredited board that did the programming.

And it's not to say, you know, they do a lot of work to keep

hypnosis out from being regulated under licensing, because there is a box, an area where we are allowed to work, and then there's where we're not allowed to work.

And I think that's more of the defining portion where the certification, I'd love to see standardization, but it's also knowing that

You know, we are not trauma certified.

We are not dealing with heavy trauma and past and nor should we be because I do think there is specialized training for that.

I can tell you I worked with a client in New York City who had a fear of fire.

And she, I did get a referral from her licensed practitioner and I knew very clearly to tread carefully.

And this was not just a fear, like a phobia.

This was a full-blown fear because she had been in a fire where a piece of paper had been left in a lamp.

But it was to the point where it became neurotic.

And she kept calling me over and over to make sure there was no paper in the lamps in my office.

And so, again, there's very good reason to work within your scope, right?

It's like we're advocational self-improvement.

And that doesn't mean that trauma is not going to come up in our office, right?

Like it's part of our story, right?

But we're not there to work on the trauma.

We're there to help people move forward from it with new perspective tools and shifts, not to necessarily dig it up and re-traumatize.

And, you know, I think those are the boundaries and the ethical things that I would love to see standardized and taught within new certifications.