Guarantee Ontario residents free choice by protecting Holistic/Alternative Practitioners!

Ontario residents’ choices in therapies will end in the fall of 2014 by legislation put in place by psychotherapists to severely restrict the assessment and treatment of human disturbances by alternative and holistic practitioners.  Ultimately, all holistic, spiritual, clergy and energy treatments the public have come to prefer will be forced out of business unless these practitioners are willing to abandon their training, titles and time-tested and proven treatments to become ‘registered psychotherapists’.

Unlike their Western counterparts, many alternative therapies are rooted in safe and effective Eastern healing philosophies practiced by billions of the world’s population for centuries. 

The vaguely-worded Registered Health Profession Act amending legislation can facilitate much future abuse, since it uses undefined terms, such as “psychotherapeutic techniques”, ‘serious’, ‘impairment’ and “emotional disturbances”.   Practically any natural human reaction to life’s bumps and bruises is now in danger of coming under this umbrella and its assessment and treatment becoming a ‘controlled act of psychotherapy’ as prescribed by the College of Psychotherapy.  This leaves the College in a position to later claim any technique as their own to regulate at their sole discretion.

This will increasingly and severely restrict every Ontario resident’s choice in health care in the future, as the witch hunts that are sure to result will financially and emotionally exhaust holistic healers. In fact, even spiritual counseling and energy healers are now reduced to administrative tasks only.

To deny anyone the ability to heal holistically violates their religious and spiritual freedom, as well as their Constitutional right to choose their own treatments. 

The public deserves a choice.  Removing safe, effective, dignified, empathic holistic therapies from the pallet of health care choices for the troubled client is seriously unwise and unjust.  It is patently unjust because there is no scientific evidence that shows psychotherapy to be more effective than holistic healing.  There must be options readily available when the conventional treatment is not effective or safe. 

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