Congratulations to Cheryl Devall who completed my Professional Practitioner Course last year and is now a Verified Practitioner and on the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council Reiki register!
She went through the verification process as an individual, which many people find challenging due to the paperwork and case studies required. Many practitioners have not followed a course that prepares them for the
standards required, so struggle to answer some of the questions. As a verifier for The Reiki Association I have frequently seen questionnaires that demonstrate a lack of understanding of the role of professional practitioner.
Now that my Professional Reiki Practitioner Course is verified by Reiki Council it means that I can support people through this process. Students on my course will have my support and guidance in completing the verification process: I will be providing the required questionnaires and ensuring the case studies are completed adequately. This means that at the end of the course, for those who complete everything successfully, verification will be quick and easy and they will then be fast-tracked for CNHC registration.
So why join the CNHC Reiki register? Firstly it is public recognition of your role as a professional practitioner, ready to support the public towards better health. As CNHC themselves say: “A joint report from the Royal Society for Public Health and the Professional Standards Authority, Untapped Resources: Accredited Registers in the Wider Workforce, highlighted that “Practitioners registered with CNHC support public health by encouraging their clients to make a range of lifestyle changes. These include improvements to diet and nutrition, support with giving up smoking and losing weight, support with reducing stress, improving sleep, managing pain and other symptoms, as well as overall enhancements to wellbeing. All CNHC registrants are committed to enhancing the UK public’s health and wellbeing.””
As a CNHC registrant you are able to use a logo that identifies you as a professional practitioner who cares about the public receiving a high standard of care. As CNHC is an Accredited Register approved by the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care, a body that is accountable to parliament, this means that anyone registered with CNHC is recognised as meeting UK-wide standards of quality of service and safety.
Another benefit is that some Private Healthcare Plans will cover complementary therapies if the practitioner is CNHC registered, meaning that the client can claim back the cost if they have such a healthcare plan.
When I began giving Reiki treatments no such recognition was available. It has been amazing to see Reiki receive the trust to be included by CNHC as a reputable treatment option. It creates the potential for Reiki to be more available and accepted alongside mainstream medicine, offering the comfort and support of human touch at difficult times, in a way that conventional medicine is struggling to do in many places.
What is needed for this to happen, however, is more people like Cheryl who would like to commit their life to working as Reiki practitioners, to meeting the standards expected of us in a professional role and to take Reiki into places it is only just beginning to reach in a solid and trustworthy way, so that more people can benefit from what we know can be so helpful at times of distress and pain.
She went through the verification process as an individual, which many people find challenging due to the paperwork and case studies required. Many practitioners have not followed a course that prepares them for the
standards required, so struggle to answer some of the questions. As a verifier for The Reiki Association I have frequently seen questionnaires that demonstrate a lack of understanding of the role of professional practitioner.Now that my Professional Reiki Practitioner Course is verified by Reiki Council it means that I can support people through this process. Students on my course will have my support and guidance in completing the verification process: I will be providing the required questionnaires and ensuring the case studies are completed adequately. This means that at the end of the course, for those who complete everything successfully, verification will be quick and easy and they will then be fast-tracked for CNHC registration.
So why join the CNHC Reiki register? Firstly it is public recognition of your role as a professional practitioner, ready to support the public towards better health. As CNHC themselves say: “A joint report from the Royal Society for Public Health and the Professional Standards Authority, Untapped Resources: Accredited Registers in the Wider Workforce, highlighted that “Practitioners registered with CNHC support public health by encouraging their clients to make a range of lifestyle changes. These include improvements to diet and nutrition, support with giving up smoking and losing weight, support with reducing stress, improving sleep, managing pain and other symptoms, as well as overall enhancements to wellbeing. All CNHC registrants are committed to enhancing the UK public’s health and wellbeing.””
As a CNHC registrant you are able to use a logo that identifies you as a professional practitioner who cares about the public receiving a high standard of care. As CNHC is an Accredited Register approved by the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care, a body that is accountable to parliament, this means that anyone registered with CNHC is recognised as meeting UK-wide standards of quality of service and safety.
Another benefit is that some Private Healthcare Plans will cover complementary therapies if the practitioner is CNHC registered, meaning that the client can claim back the cost if they have such a healthcare plan.
When I began giving Reiki treatments no such recognition was available. It has been amazing to see Reiki receive the trust to be included by CNHC as a reputable treatment option. It creates the potential for Reiki to be more available and accepted alongside mainstream medicine, offering the comfort and support of human touch at difficult times, in a way that conventional medicine is struggling to do in many places.
What is needed for this to happen, however, is more people like Cheryl who would like to commit their life to working as Reiki practitioners, to meeting the standards expected of us in a professional role and to take Reiki into places it is only just beginning to reach in a solid and trustworthy way, so that more people can benefit from what we know can be so helpful at times of distress and pain.
