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I have finally completed my studies to become a nutritional Therapist and now have my diploma in my hot little hands!

Unfortunately my joy at this has been somewhat dulled by all the different information being thrown at new practitioners about regulation and representation.  If you are a nutritional therapist then you will be familiar with the Nutritional Therapy Council.  They are a regulatory body set up in order to regulate Nutritional therapists and answer claims by the media and concerns of the public that Nutritional therapists are unqualified or even ‘charlatans’.  In order to register with the NTC one must go through a rigourous and expensive process in order to prove the quality of one’s training, character and experience.  Once on this register the public can be assured that any practitioner they choose from it will be well qualified and insured.

The NTC is about to handover to the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC), a similar register that has just been set to include other disciplines in the field of complementary medicine.

Whilst I agree that regulation is important, I feel sorry for myself and other Nutritional Therapists trying to work out who we need to register with and why.  There is so much contradictory information out there, and nobody can speak to an actual human at the NTC.  We are also lead to believe that we have to become members of the British Association of Nutritional Therapists (BANT).   Sometimes it seems that they all just want our money (as to register with all these assocations will cost hundreds).

At the moment I am a member of the Federation of Holistic Therapists (FHT), and at present I am still trying to work out who else I need to register with.  Having just spent thousands on fees, I would like to save myself some money and not register with everyone if I don’t have to.

If you are a therapist and have any comments I would be very interested to hear from you!

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Posted on August 17th, 2009 under Nutrition. Tags: BANT, CNHC, NTC, nutritional therapist regulation, regulation. RSS 2.0 feed. Leave a response, or trackback.