Member's Section
AACHP information is confidential, must be treated confidentially and must not be uploaded into any AI system unless it has been explicitly approved by the AACHP Committee in writing.
AACHP Online Meetings
The AACHP holds monthly meetings on the fourth Tuesday of the month from 7.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. These meetings alternate between CPE Evenings with guest presentations on a range of themes relating to clinical hypnotherapy and psychotherapy and Group Supervision which focuses on issues arising from case histories. All AACHP meetings are publicised well in advance and the details are also communicated by the Secretary via email. Details of CPE Evenings are additionally listed on the Events Page of our website.
Committee Meetings are usually held monthly and the minutes are circulated to members.
AACHP Forms and Guideline Documents
AACHP CPE Guideline & Log Sheet
The AACHP CPE Guidelines provide considerable flexibility for members. Please click on the link below to ensure that you are following these guidelines to complete the annual CPE requirement as this is essential for maintaining your practising membership.
As part of the renewal process each year you will be asked to sign a declaration that you have completed adequate CPE as per the AACHP Guidelines. Random audits are conducted whereby we are required to provide the log of your CPE Activities using the CPE information/log sheet. It is essential that you retain evidence of your CPE activities in the event that you are required to substantiate your log entries. CPE Guidelines with CPE Record Sheet
AACHP Supervision Guideline & Log Sheet
A revision to the 2011 supervision requirements for practising members came into effect from the beginning of the 2013-14 membership year.
Supervision Guidelines & Supervision Record Sheet
Supervisors Handbook
AACHP Application to Upgrade to Professional Clinical Membership
If you are currently a Certified Member and:
- Meet all the criteria for Certified Membership of the AACHP,
- Have been in practice as a Clinical Hypnotherapist for a minimum of 12 months post qualification,
- Have completed a minimum of 200 Clinical hours,
- Have completed a minimum of 12 hours of Supervision verified by a qualified Clinical Supervisor (at least 5 of the 12 sessions must have been one-on-one supervision),
you may apply for the free upgrade to Professional Clinical Membership.
It is expected that you have maintained a continuous supervision relationship with your Supervisor as your Application for Professional Clinical Membership will need to completed in conjunction with your Supervisor. All AACHP Supervisors are familiar with this process and will be able to assist you.
Application for Professional Clinical Membership
AACHP Application for Accreditation as a Clinical Supervisor
If you hold a recognised Supervisor qualification and have been in practice for a minimum of 5 years and would like to become accredited as an AACHP Supervisor
Application for Accreditation as a Clinical Supervisor
Teletherapy Consent Form
It is essential that, in addition to your standard informed consent form, your clients also complete and sign a Teletherapy consent form if you are working online with them.
Customisable Teletherapy Consent Form
Customisable Referral Form to General Practitioner/s
Fill in the customisable referral form with your details, then print out or email the form to the General Practitioner/s from whom you are seeking a referral.
Should you choose to use the AACHP referral form, it can assist in streamlining the referral process by reducing the administrative workload for GPs and therapists. It also supports compliance with healthcare documentation standards and privacy requirements, improves accuracy and consistency of information and enhances professional communication between therapists, clients, and GPs.
Mandatory Reporting Guidelines: Mandatory Reporting Guidelines.pdf
AI usage Guidelines for AACHP Members: Artificial Intelligence in Private Practice as a Member of the AACHP
Professional & Ethical Conduct
The declaration that you signed on your application/renewal form means that, as an AACHP member, you have agreed to abide by the AACHP Code of Conduct. Furthermore, all members are expected to adhere to the AACHP Marketing and Media Guidelines AACHP CODE OF CONDUCT Rev 2025.pdf
AACHP Marketing & Media Guidlines.pdf
Disciplinary Procedure
Should we receive a complaint about your conduct, the complainant will receive the following document from the AACHP:
AACHP_Complaints_Procedure_Information_for_Complainants.pdf
In the event that the complainant formalises the complaint in a statutory declaration, the following procedure will be followed:
AACHP Complaints and Disciplinary Procedure.pdf
Health Fund Provider Numbers (Professional Clinical Members only)
Professional Clinical Members of the AACHP are eligible for provider status with a number of Private Health Funds so that clients who have the appropriate level of cover with these Health Funds may claim benefits for hypnotherapy services received from AACHP members.
Given the differences in the ways each of these health insurance companies operates, it is suggested that you adopt a one-size-fits-all approach to your invoicing so that your invoices include the following elements, noting that hand written invoices/receipts are not accepted by the health funds :
- Your AACHP Membership Level (i.e. Professional Clinical member)
- Your AACHP Membership Number
- Specify the name and address of the health care provider who provided the treatment
- Specify the IPNs (Individual Provider Numbers) of all the health funds that require and issue an IPN
- Specify the date of treatment
- Specify the person to whom treatment was provided
- Specify the amount that was charged for the service
- Specify the type of treatment provided (eg: Hypnotherapy)
Change of Details
You must be sure to notify the Registrar of any changes to your details as soon as possible to ensure your information is kept current. If there is any discrepancy between the information provided by the Registrar to Health Fund/s and the information provided by you on your invoices/receipts, presented by your clients to the Health Funds, the rebate will not be payable to the client and your name will be removed from the Provider list until such a time as your details are accurate and the Health Fund agrees that your IPN will be reinstated.
To remain on the Professional Clinical Member list, please ensure that your membership fees and CPE and Supervision requirements are met and that you have a current first aid certificate and insurance. If your insurance or first aid expire you will be removed from the list until the new information is received.
Please see below for the specific requirements of each of the health funds.
Medibank Private
The list of “Qualifying members” (Professional Clinical Members) is sent monthly to Medibank Private and rebates may only be offered for Hypnotherapy.
AACHP Professional Clinical Members will receive, by email from Medibank Private via the Registrar, an Individual Provider Number (IPN) and instructions on its use, once it is received, and you should ensure that you have read/downloaded the Medibank additional documents below.
Please do not contact Medibank Private to request your IPN:
1. Unless you are absolutely certain that you have forwarded all documents to the Registrar pertaining to your Professional Clinical Membership (a propos, it is the responsibility of each individual member to keep a record of all documents forwarded to the AACHP and also to be proactive in maintaining currency of insurance and first aid requirements)
2. Unless you have first checked with the Registrar that you are on the list of members eligible to receive an IPN (i.e. that you currently comply with all the requirements of Professional Clinical Membership)
If you have any questions or queries, please re-read this information first and if you have any questions regarding your membership status, please contact the Registrar at registrar@aachp.com
At this point in time, Hypnotherapy services are only claimable by Medibank members who have Package Bonus on their policy.
Medibank Patient Record Standards
Medibank Ancillary Billing Standards
Medibank Recognition Criteria FAQ
Medibank Recognition Criteria for other ancillary health care providers
Grand United Health
AACHP is recognised by Grand United Health as an approved association whose practitioners may apply individually for provider numbers.
Australian Unity
AACHP provides monthly reports to Australian Unity of our eligible Practitioners who meet their requirements. Once we receive their return report, we update new provider numbers in the database and notify the individual practitioners of their new provider number/s via email. Australian Unity only accepts new practitioners who have an RTO Diploma level qualification in hypnotherapy or those practitioners who were grandfathered prior to this requirement.
CBHS Health Fund
AACHP Professional Clinical Members may call the Member Care Centre on 1300 654 123. They will verify that you are on our list and issue a provider number over the phone.
Please be aware also that these health funds require us to confirm our Professional Clinical Membership listing every month so all members need to ensure that they are up-to-date with their membership requirements and fees on an on-going basis.
Navy Health
Offers rebates for Hypnotherapy. Your AACHP membership is used by Navy Health to verify your status as a provider with them via correlation with the monthly list of all fully compliant professional clinical members provided to Navy Health by the AACHP.
Health Partners
AACHP members will be added/removed from the Health Partners database as hypnotherapy providers on the basis of a current monthly list of AACHP Professional Clinical Members. The onus is on the practitioner to ensure currency of membership i.e. if a practitioner is not on the AACHP list (and therefore not on the Health Partners database), the client will not receive a rebate.
Teachers Health Fund
Teachers Health Fund does not pay any benefits towards Psychotherapy or Counselling at all, only Hypnotherapy.
The correct services must be itemised on the receipt the member presents for their benefit. In order for your clients to claim benefits promptly and correctly, all accounts and receipts must:
- show the name of the patient, date, type and cost of each individual service performed.
- contain the provider number and/or registration number printed on official letterhead; OR
- contain an invoice with a stamped name and address and contact details of the of the provider; AND
- be fully itemised.
Providers are required to keep fully comprehensive treatment records which may be called by the Health Fund for routine audit purposes. If providers do not comply with the requirements, they will be de-recognised as per the de-recognition policy of Teachers Health Fund.
Hunter Health
Your invoice with your member number and Association on it needs to be submitted by the client to Hunter Health. They will then contact the Association to confirm your membership details before putting you on their system.
Insurance
It is a requirement of all practising members of the AACHP that their insurance be current at all times. Whilst there are a number of insurance companies that will cover hypnotherapy, please be aware of the "fine print" and make sure that you are adequately covered for all your professional activities.
The AACHP recommends the policy negotiated by the CCH with Insurance Made Easy specifically for hypnotherapists because this policy does include cover for Past Life Regression which has become an exclusion for many other insurance companies.
Insurance Made Easy can also add Supervision and Training to your policy if you are engaged in these activities and are open to the inclusion of additional modalities that are not already listed.
Please contact Insurance Made Easy directly on 1800 641 260 to obtain more information.
Your Administrative Responsibility as an AACHP Member
When should you contact the AACHP?
- If you've changed your email address
- If you've changed your address(s)
- If you’ve changed your telephone number(s)
- If you've renewed your insurance, First Aid or Working with Children check.
- If you are no longer practising.
All requirements for practising membership have a paperwork component which needs to be supplied with your Application/Renewal:
- A copy of your Police Check: The onus is upon the member to provide a copy.
- Certificate of Currency of Insurance or Certificate of Insurance: (Minimum $2m Professional Indemnity/Medical Malpractice with a Minimum of $10m Public Liability) If you do not receive this document when you renew your insurance, you may request it from your insurance company (by telephone) which they will happily email to you.
- Current First Aid Level 2 (HTLAID011 or greater)
- Log of CPE for the last financial year: All practising members are required to maintain a minimum of 20 CPE points per financial year to retain practising membership status. Please note that in the event of an audit you may be required to provide proof of CPE points accrued and this evidence should be retained by you.
- Log of Supervision for the last financial year: Please note in the event of an audit you maybe required to provide Proof of Supervision which should be retained by you.
- Your Diploma/s or Certifications: It is a requirement for all new practising members to provide us with a copy of their original Diploma/s (and transcripts, if available) for us to retain on file.
- Your Working with Children Check: If you work with, or intend to work with, children under the age of 18 years. It is a requirement of membership that all practitioners working with children under the age of 18 years provide us with a copy of your current Working with Children Check. The Working with Children Check is not the same as a Police Check.
These requirements are put in place to benefit members. By maintaining these requirements, your association with the AACHP provides you with credible professional worthiness, inclusion on the website as a practising member, and for our Professional Clinical members, the ability to obtain provider numbers from our negotiated Private Health Insurance companies including Medibank Private, which in turn, enables you to provide private health insurance incentives to your clients.
Logos and Brochures
AACHP Logo
Practising members may make use of the AACHP logo in their marketing provided that all such marketing complies with the AACHP Marketing and Media Guidelines. Please hyperlink the AACHP logo back to our website.
HCA Registered Hypnotherapist Logo
All practising members of the AACHP listed on the HCA National Register are entitled (and encouraged!) to use the HCA logo in their marketing material and hyperlink it back to the HCA website.
HCA Logo (png)
AACHP Brochures
AACHP Brochure for Practitioners
AACHP Newsletters
The AACHP Newsletter is emailed to members each quarter. Please contact the AACHP if you wish to receive the latest edition.
AACHP Rules of Association
In early 2013, the AACHP was advised by Consumer Affairs Victoria that unless the AACHP Inc. adopted its own set of Rules of Association prior to the 26th November, 2013 it would automatically come under the Model Rules as prescribed in Schedule 4 in the Associations Incorporation Reform Regulations 2012.
During consultations with Consumer Affairs Victoria, we were strongly advised to modify the new Model Rules to suit the Association prior to the 26th November, 2013. As a result, the Committee spent several months in consultation, drafting rule changes and obtaining advice and assistance to meet this need.
The new "Rules of Association" were submitted to Consumer Affairs Victoria for approval and registration and were subsequently accepted by same without modification:
These new Rules of Association:
- Ensure the Association meets the criteria as described in the PHI (Accreditation) Rules legislation 2008
- Ensure the Association meets the criteria as set down by the Private Health Insurers.
- Provide Associate members with the right to vote on matters of the Association.
Rules of Association Approved by CAV
