Email/phone agreement by a Hypnotherapist

scheming_gypsy

If she claims that her emails were part of the course, she must be a rubbish hypnotist if she couldn't hypnotise you over email to keep paying!

squeaky

Hi

Problems with your "therapist" aside - there's a very helpful and supportive group on our "I wanna" board. It's a sticky, so is always at the top of the board's thread list and easy to find.

Here's the current link:- Lose Weight 34

Good luck.

Whittleme

scheming_gypsy wrote: »

If she claims that her emails were part of the course, she must be a rubbish hypnotist if she couldn't hypnotise you over email to keep paying!

Lol @ scheming_gypsy x

Well what I do know now is that she isn't the nice and caring person she came across as being!

Whittleme

squeaky wrote: »

Hi

Problems with your "therapist" aside - there's a very helpful and supportive group on our "I wanna" board. It's a sticky, so is always at the top of the board's thread list and easy to find.

Here's the current link:-
Good luck.

Thanks for the info squeaky!

Whittleme

Hello Everyone! Just to update you on how I got on today. I spoke to Citizens Advice Bureau and they put me in touch with Consumer Direct and they confirmed most of what you lovely posters had told me already.
First to write her a letter telling her to take me to court and allow the judge to decide, esp. as she will have to prove what she did for me to incur £1500 in costs. They were also astonished with her £500 an hour rate and told me when they looked it up on the web it should only be £60!
So I will construct a letter and send it to her when I deem it to cover all the bases, not on Monday the 9th though as she wanted! Then ignore her. Ooooo you guys have turned me into a rebel. Thank you all again I wouldn’t have got the courage without all your support!

peachyprice

Whittleme wrote: »

Oh no it's too late! She said that if I didn't email her to say I will phone her on Monday the 9th then everytime she chased me the bill would keep going up. So I wrote back and said I would speak with her on Monday... that's when she gets back from holiday.

I am scared if I ignore her this situation will get worse and I will owe her even more money.

I can't stop crying, what have I done?

You've done nothing wrong sweetheart, other than be taken in by a con arstist who preys on the vulnerable.

If you feel you must phone her on the 9th, because you promised, make it brief, tell her you're taking advice from trading standards and she'll be hearing from them soon, then hang up. Make no more promises to contact her and do not return or answer her calls or emails.


Edit:
Ooops, sorry I didn't realise there were 3 pages before I replied.

Power to you girl, don't let this biatch get the better of you!

Whittleme

peachyprice wrote: »

You've done nothing wrong sweetheart, other than be taken in by a con arstist who preys on the vulnerable.

If you feel you must phone her on the 9th, because you promised, make it brief, tell her you're taking advice from trading standards and she'll be hearing from them soon, then hang up. Make no more promises to contact her and do not return or answer her calls or emails.


Edit:
Ooops, sorry I didn't realise there were 3 pages before I replied.

Power to you girl, don't let this biatch get the better of you!

Thank you very much for your response peachprice. I am grateful for any advice I get. I hope this ends well for me, it would be awful if my husband did end up losing his job and I ended up having to pay her!

paddyrg

Whittleme wrote: »

Ooooo you guys have turned me into a rebel. Thank you all again I wouldn’t have got the courage without all your support!

Not a rebel so much as knowing where you stand so you can speak with authority and confidence! Good on you, and we're all right here if you need to test the water with any wordings etc. Speaking of which, plain English is best - keep words short and sentences unambiguous, don't use legal terms, etc. Be brief, blunt, factual so you don't backfire by accident. The courts will appreciate it too.

Well done you!

Whittleme

paddyrg wrote: »

Not a rebel so much as knowing where you stand so you can speak with authority and confidence! Good on you, and we're all right here if you need to test the water with any wordings etc. Speaking of which, plain English is best - keep words short and sentences unambiguous, don't use legal terms, etc. Be brief, blunt, factual so you don't backfire by accident. The courts will appreciate it too.

Well done you!

Oh my goodness you have saved me again paddyrg! There I was thinking I would arm myself with some legal terms to compose my letter so it showed I had taken advice!

I will definately take your advice... I am so clueless aren't I? No wonder she saw me coming a mile off! This has been a huge learning curve for me.

Thanks again paddrg! x

leebtyler

as a qualified hypnotherapist who does clinics on a weekend, i can honestly say im not sure where shes coming from on this one.

first off, with any treatment or "therapy" if you so wish a HUGE amount of work goes into preparing a course of treatment, for example when i take on a new client i usually have a face meeting and 2-3 phonecalls where i ask specific questions and get the client to open up and so i can understand them and figure out how they "work" mentally speaking.

with any cognative therapy a LOT of groundwork goes into making a course up, usually hours and hours and hours, this is even before you start the therapy, be it on CD / Phone or face visits, its not all watch the dangling watch you know!! some of us are professionals!!

ask her for a detailed breakdown on work "done" what materials she has used, what preperation has been done, and what has actually been produced so far, verbal contracts are pointless, and impossible to prove in court so i wouldnt worry about that! she cant charge for a service not provided.

oh and yes, the phone calls are billable! just saying.