The Alexander Technique is a method that works to change everyday movement habits : sitting, lying down, standing, walking, lifting and other daily activities. It is a simple and practical method for improving ease and freedom of movement, finding new balance, support and coordination and releasing unnecessary tension. The technique teaches the use of the appropriate amount of effort for a particular activity, giving the client more energy for all their activities. It is not a series of treatments or exercises, but rather a reeducation of the mind and body.

ABA (Applied Behaviour Analysis) is an evidence-based therapy that helps improve challenging behaviours. Involves identifying the antecedent (causes) and resulting behaviour, helping with the development of skills and using positive reinforcement and conditioning to improve responses. It is used to treat and assist those experiencing issues with communication and language, motor skills, self-care (such as showering, and toileting), play and leisure, learning and academic skills.

Conditions:

• Written parental consent must be obtained for any services performed on/with/for minors

Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is a specific approach to organisational development equipping people and systems with a greater capacity for change, renewal and focused performance.

Conditions:

• Cover is conditional and dependant upon there being no guarantees as to the effectiveness or results of the procedure.

Aquaphobia Therapy for 1-1 or small group sessions. The practitioner partners with the client(s) to reduce their fear, enabling them to float and make progress in learning to swim. This takes place in strictly chest-height water until after the 12-stage program is completed, This exposure therapy uses a range of processes from somatic to positive psychology goal setting and using the fear curve. Also using flotation aids to support the client.

Conditions:

• Robust Health & Safety and wet floor exposure protocols must be in place

Auditory Integration Training (AIT) is a powerful music programme to help people with ADHD, ADD, dyslexia, hearing sensitivities, autism, developmental delays, poor concentration, and a variety of other special needs. The programme provides stimulation to the hearing mechanism, which produces more normal hearing following treatment. Hearing anomalies can affect many aspects of normal everyday life, especially behaviour, sensitivity to noises in the home, social interaction, speech and language development and learning. Professionals who seek to remediate speech/language and learning delays in their patients also implement it.

Aurora Therapies involve colour readings using a set of bottles, linked to astrology, numerology and tarot. This is a type of counselling or lifecoaching for the client to establish how they are feeling emotionally and physically.

Autogenic Therapy (Training) is a desensitization-relaxation technique developed by the German psychiatrist Johannes Heinrich Schultz. It utilizes the body's natural relaxation response to reduce unwanted mental and physical symptoms. It uses breathing techniques, verbal stimuli, mindful meditation, to help people reduce stress and achieve relaxation of the body and mind.

Conditions:

• Practitioner must be qualified in this technique.

Behavior therapy identifies the variables in the environment maintaining problem behavior and systematically making changes to the environment to reduce problem behavior and increase functional skills.

Behavior Therapy, using the principals of Applied Behavior Analysis, involves hands on application of interventions with the client, this may involve teaching the client to communicate with others, complete academic tasks, conduct self help skills and develop social skills.

To teach these skills physical prompts may be used until the target skill becomes independent (e.g guiding the hand to make a sign, prompting the mouth to make a speech sound, guiding the hand to prepare meals).

Behavior therapy also involves increasing motivation through play, interaction and delivery of reinforcers. It can also involve teaching others to implement the intervention, and providing supervision and training.

Precision teaching is just one area in which the principals of Behaviour Analysis are applied other areas include EIBI (Early Intensive Behavioral Interventions, Verbal Behavior programs, Self Management programs etc). The principals of Behavior Analysis can be applied to new and unique situations specific to the needs of individuals to make a difference to behaviors of social significance.

Cover extends to training others (family members, teacher, support staff) to implement behavioral interventions, cover for working in schools and family homes, giving expert witness and supervising others.

Bio-emotional decoding is a complementary supportive emotional therapythat involves identifying and interpreting the emotional and biological roots of physical or psychological symptoms, based on the idea that unresolved emotional conflicts are stored in the body and can manifest as illness or behavioural patterns. By decoding these subconscious emotional imprints, practitioners aim to uncover the underlying causes of distress and promote healing through emotional awareness and release. This therapy may be known under different brand names such as but not limited to Bioneural Decoding, Biodecoding etc.

Conditions:

• Condition:Should not be used as a substitute for medical or psychological treatment. ExclusionShould not be applied to patients with heart conditions, people diagnosed with mental illnesses as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, psychosis, clinical depression, medicated generalised anxiety disorder, or people who is taking psychiatric medication. Should not be applied to patients who have had cerebrovascular accidents or suicide attempts.

Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst (BCaBA) The BCaBA conducts descriptive behavioral assessments and is able to interpret the results and design ethical and effective behavior analytic interventions for clients. The BCaBA designs and oversees interventions in familiar cases (e.g., similar to those encountered during their training) that are consistent with the dimensions of applied behavior analysis. The BCaBA obtains technical direction from a BCBA for unfamiliar situations. The BCaBA is able to teach others to carry out interventions once the BCaBA has demonstrated competency with the procedures involved under the direct supervision of a BCBA. The BCaBA may assist a BCBA with the design and delivery of introductory level instruction in behavior analysis. It is mandatory that each BCaBA practice under the supervision of a BCBA. Governmental entities, third-party insurance plans and others utilizing BCaBAs must require this supervision.

Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA, BCBA-D)

The BCBA and BCBA-D are independent practitioners who also may work as employees or independent contractors for an organization. The BCBA conducts descriptive and systematic behavioral assessments, including functional analyses, and provides behavior analytic interpretations of the results. The BCBA designs and supervises behavior analytic interventions. The BCBA is able to effectively develop and implement appropriate assessment and intervention methods for use in unfamiliar situations and for a range of cases. The BCBA seeks the consultation of more experienced practitioners when necessary. The BCBA teaches others to carry out ethical and effective behavior analytic interventions based on published research and designs and delivers instruction in behavior analysis. BCBAs supervise the work of Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analysts and others who implement behavior analytic interventions.

BWRT stands for BrainWorking Recursive Therapy, a modern model of psychology and psychotherapy created by UK professional therapist, Terence Watts, MCGI. It uses a totally logical, practical and down-to-earth working method in which its not necessary for you to talk about anything you would rather not discuss. The practitioner only needs to know how you feel and how you would prefer to feel instead. BWRT is unlike other therapies, using the latest discoveries in neuroscience coupled with your own unique brain processes to help you get better

The role of the Business Coach is to coach business owners to improve their business through guidance, support and encouragement. They help the owners of small and medium sized businesses with their sales, marketing, management, team building and so much more. Just like a sporting coach, your Business Coach will make you focus on the game.

Career Coaching deals with the issues that surround an individual's career. This includes assessment of client values, skills, careers and personality for the purpose of designing ideal work/job profile.

Designing and creating with the client an ideal work profile which includes outlining type of work to be performed, work environment, personality traits, etc. Assisting with resume and CV editing and revision, interview preparation and practice, networking preparation and practice.

Change Management is the practice of applying a structured approach to transition an organization from a current state or operational culture to a future state to achieve specific expected benefits. Change Management provides approaches, tools, and techniques that empower an organization to successfully achieve these desired results. Change Management provides value by enabling people to adopt the change and operate in a new future organizational structure. The more seamless the transition is for an organizations people, the more effectively and efficiently the organization will be in achieving the benefits of the desired future state.

Conditions:

• Excludes financial, legal and investment advice

Supporting and supervising the development of new and experienced Coaches. Coaching is generally described as: A personal service to an individual or group that is non-judgemental and non-directional but will challenge, stimulate and guide the person being coached towards their stated aims and goals.

Acting as a teacher or individual tutor to train Coaching but excluding any liability arising from the management and control of a Training Establishment, Clinic or College.

Coaching is defined as a personal service to an individual or group that is non-judgemental, non-directional and does not provide advice or direction, but will assist to perform, challenge, stimulate and guide.

Conditions:

• Excluding Sport Coaching and Financial Coaching.

A personal service to an individual or group that is non-judgemental, non-directional and does not provide advice or direction, but will assist to perform, challenge, stimulate and guide.

Conditions:

• Excluding Sport Coaching or Financial Coaching

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a structured, evidence-based psychotherapy that helps individuals identify and change negative thought patterns and behaviours. It is commonly used to treat anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD, drug misuse, grief and other stress-related issues. Through techniques such as cognitive restructuring to challenge and reframe negative thoughts, behavioural activation to encourage positive activities, exposure therapy to gradually reduce fear, problem-solving to develop effective coping strategies, and mindfulness or relaxation techniques to manage stress, CBT empowers individuals to build healthier thinking and behavioural patterns for long-term emotional well-being. Many brand and/or course names are based on CBT including but not limited to Edu-Therapy TM.

Compassionate inquiry is a powerful tool that can bring the clients awareness to events that occurred in childhood that were painful and difficult to bear, and that the client has protected themselves from experiencing. For healing to occur, the therapist needs to maintain a safe relational container with the client, so that the original painful feelings can be held, experienced and expressed.

Conditions:

• Excluding past life regression therapies.

Counselling is a professional relationship that helps individuals, families and groups in dealing with their personal and interpersonal conflicts. It allows an individual to have an opportunity to improve upon their understanding of themselves, including their pattern of thoughts, behaviours, feelings and the ways in which these may have been problematic in their lives. It also helps to examine how to tap into existing resources or develop new ones that enhance their lives and relationships. Counsellors have a broad range of experience in developing "helping relationships" and working with many different situations. Most common types of counselling include (but are not limited to) marriage/relationship, mental health, stress, bereavement and grief, addiction, rehabilitation, education and career goals.

The goal is to assist, prepare and provide support to clients in a court, tribunal hearing or at conferences to prepare for a hearing. The services may range from helping clients to feel at ease, cope with pressure and understand the questions and process, to providing impartial recommendations to HMCTS about the persons specific communication needs.

Conditions:

• Excludes financial, legal and investment advice
• Provided always that what the client says in court/hearing is directed / managed by a legally qualified third party.

This service is designed to assist individuals in completing their daily tasks. This includes, but is not limited to, cleaning, cooking, helping around the home, helping them leave their home, accompanying them to shops or on walks, taking them to medical appointments, the bank, and other general everyday activities.

Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) is a type of cognitive-behavioural therapy. Its main goals are to teach people how to live in the moment, develop healthy ways to cope with stress, regulate their emotions, and improve their relationships with others.

Support, coaching, information and guidance through the legal process with individuals and with couples. Occasional attendance at court as McKenzie Friend. Cheaper (both financially and emotionally) ways through divorce.

Analyse people's dreams to help them understand issues within the waking world that need resolving.

Acting as a Supply Teacher and/or providing additional teaching facilities such as lectures, tutorials and examination materials and marking on formal subjects.

Conditions:

• Up to, but not beyond, the formal qualification held by the teacher.

EFT is a non-invasive meridian energy therapy - a form of counseling intervention that stimulates acupressure points by pressuring, tapping, or rubbing these points while focusing on situations that represent personal fear or trauma. The stimulation of these energy points on the body releases blockages and allows the problem feelings to be released and move through the body.

A typically unstructured psychotherapy group in which the participants seek to increase their sensitivity, responsiveness and emotional expressiveness, as by freely verbalizing and responding to emotions.

Supporting and coaching individuals coming to the end of their life and comforting their loved ones.

EMDR seems to directly influence the way that the brain functions. It helps to restore normal ways of dealing with problems (ie information processing). Following successful EMDR treatment, memories of the event are no longer painful when brought to mind. What happened can still be recalled, but it is less upsetting. EMDR appears to mimic what the brain does naturally on a daily basis during dreaming or REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep. EMDR can be thought of as an inherently natural therapy which assists the brain in working through distressing material.

Family and Systemic Constellations is a therapeutic method which draws on elements of family systems therapy to reveal a previously unrecognised systemic dynamic that spans multiple generations in a given family and to resolve the challenging effects of that dynamic by encouraging the subject to accept the factual reality of the past.

Conditions:

• If there is any involvement with children it is a condition of cover that the Therapist must be DBS certified to enhanced level, and the insurers will not be liable for any liability caused by or arising from any actual or alleged physical mental or sexual abuse.

Family history/genealogy researching is the process of investigating, documenting, and preserving the history of a family or lineage. This involves tracing ancestry, relationships, and significant events that shaped the familys past. Researchers collect historical records, conduct interviews with relatives, and use genealogical tools like census records, birth certificates, various databases and historical newspapers to create a detailed record, narrative or family tree of the familys history.

Conditions:

• Excludes financial, legal and investment advice

Focusing is direct access to a bodily knowing. When the individual is quiet and thinks in a structured manner - the structured manner as taught by focusing practitioners.

Coaches, focusing on physical activity and healthy eating principles for optimal health outcomes. Combining theory from Coaching Psychology, Behaviour Change and Positive Psychology, coaches can assist clients in overcoming resistance to change by using a step by step, structured approach. Wellness Coaches support clients in working out what they want, why they want it, whats stopping them and only then together create a plan for action. Through this supportive relationship, Wellness Coaches empower their clients with a focus on facilitation, rather than prescription. The client then takes responsibility and feels more confident as they experience small successes and ultimately achieve more significant change than they would on their own.

Gestalt Therapy uses our individual awareness to encourage personal growth and develop our potential, to become whole. We do this by noticing how we are living now and exploring how we may create any fixed patterns of behaviour that leave us feeling dissatisfied, uncomfortable or ill at ease. Gestalt encourages a non judgemental awareness of our present experience from moment to moment. Noticing what we experience (perceptions, sensations, feelings) and how we behave (express & communicate) in the present creates an opportunity to explore changes in our behaviour and attitudes now. This may enable us to complete previously unresolved experiences and to develop more satisfying ways of expressing ourselves.

HYL uses various techniques such as affirmations and meditation, and other tasks getting the person to confront and overcome emotional barriers, resulting in an emotionally beneficial response.

Coaching individuals or groups to assist them in achieving their personal health goals. This could be losing weight, gaining more energy, dealing with IBS, menopause or fertility issues, helping with the recovery from an illness, pain management coaching etc.

Hearing coaching is a model of coaching that is being developed to support deaf and hard of hearing people. The model is being developed and endorsed with input from a leading acquired deafness charity, ENT surgeons, GP and experts in the coaching field.

Identity-oriented Psychotrauma Therapy (IoPT) is founded on the theories and practice developed by Professor Franz Ruppert. It is a form of therapy that supports people to heal the psychological splits and loss of identity that occurs as a result of traumatic life experiences.

IFS posits that the mind is made up of multiple parts and underlying them is a person's core or true Self. Each part has its own perspective, interests, memories, and viewpoint. A core tenet of IFS is that every part has a positive intent, even if its actions are counterproductive and/or cause dysfunction. The IFS method promotes internal connection and harmony to bring the mind back into balance. IFS therapy can help with general life stressors like grief, relationship, and career issues, and improve resilience and self-esteem. Though it is non-pathologizing (does not reduce a client to their diagnosis), it may treat several mental health issues and conditions.

Listening to a client, asking questions in a manner which has them having to think and feel why they really feel the way that they do. The client is never led. They come to their realisations themselves.

A life coach is a type of professional who helps people make progress in their lives in order to attain greater fulfilment. Their service is non-judgmental, non-directional and does not provide advice or direction. Life Coaches aid their clients by assisting them to identify their goals, providing encouragement, and stimulating and guiding them to become a better version of themselves. A life coach may work in various areas of life including but not limited to general life, relationships, skill improvement, confidence, productivity, spirituality, stress, transformation, divorce, menopause, fertility, emotional intelligence, grief, bereavement etc. Life coaching may be known under different names such as but not limited to Spiritual Coaching, Soul Coaching, Jungian Coaching, In-depth Coaching, Mindset Coaching etc.

Conditions:

• Excludes sports and financial coaching

It is a complete therapy, where the founder Paula Tooths - collated useful skills of meditation, naturopathy, coaching and mandala reading; it is intended to achieve a balanced being and an understanding of the self.

The teaching of or guidance in meditation which is described as a state of concentrated attention on some object of thought or awareness.

It usually involves turning the attention inward to the mind itself. Meditation is often recognized as a component of Eastern religions, having originated in Vedic Hinduism. It has also become mainstream in Western culture.

It encompasses any of a wide variety of spiritual practices which emphasize mental activity or quiescence. Meditation can be used for personal development, or to focus the mind on God (or the gods). Many practice meditation in order to achieve peace, while others practice certain physical yogas in order to become healthier.

Membership Association Services refers to the range of support and benefits provided by membership bodies to their members. These services can include professional development, networking opportunities, advocacy, access to resources, and setting industry standards. They are designed to support the interests and needs of members within a specific profession or interest group.

Conditions:

• Excludes financial, legal and investment advice

To train participants in being able to: - recognise the signs and symptoms of someone in emotional or psychological distress, including but not limited to a psychotic episode or suicidal thoughts, - know how to safeguard someone experiencing a mental health crisis until they can be referred for qualified help, - understand where appropriately qualified help can be found and how to access it, - appreciate the effect this can have on the helper, and know how to implement self-care. Subject to being fully qualified and have experience in dealing with individuals with mental health issues. Any third party content used for training, please ensure you have obtained permission rights to use such material.

Conditions:

• Excludes training therapy for suicidality unless other, specific qualifications are held that cover this service.

The Practitioner can: - recognise the signs and symptoms of someone in emotional or psychological distress, including but not limited to a psychotic episode or suicidal thoughts, - know how to safeguard someone experiencing a mental health crisis until they can be referred for qualified help, - understand where appropriately qualified help can be found and how to access it, - appreciate the effect this can have on the helper, and know how to implement self-care.

Conditions:

• Excluding offering therapy for suicidality unless other, specific qualifications are held that cover this service.

NLP is the acronym for Neuro Lingusitic Programming.The goal-oriented approach to problem-solving and modelling success developed by Richard Bandler and John Grinder, characterised by a focus on structure and process rather than content.

Acting as a teacher or individual tutor to train NLP but excluding any liability arising from the management and control of a Training Establishment, Clinic or College.

NLP is the acronym for Neuro Linguisitic Programming, the goal-oriented approach to problem-solving and modelling success developed by Richard Bandler and John Grinder, characterised by a focus on structure and process rather than content.

Neuroplasticity refers to the brains ability to adapt. It refers to the physiological changes in the brain that happen as the result of our interactions with our environment. When we learn something new, we create new connections between our neurons. This happens on a daily basis, but its also something that we can encourage and stimulate. It can be achieved by learning a new skill, new language, listen different music, practice mindfulness, use alternate hands for daily routines, brain games, etc.

Approved Practitioners:

• Subject to individuals being fully trained and qualified in the techniques offered.