Coaching Agreement & Informed Consent
Welcome. I’m honored to be part of your journey.
This agreement is intended to create clarity about our work together, what you can expect from me as your coach, and what I ask of you as a client. Please read it carefully before beginning services with Angela Carey Coaching.
1. Nature of Coaching
Angela Carey is an Intuitive Coach. Coaching is a collaborative process designed to support personal exploration, self-awareness, growth, clarity, and greater understanding of the beliefs and patterns that may be influencing your life.
My role as your coach is not to tell you what to do or make decisions for you. I may offer questions, observations, intuitive insights, guided experiences, and other coaching tools to help you explore what feels meaningful and true for you.
You remain responsible for your own choices, decisions, and actions.
2. Coaching Is Not Therapy or Healthcare
Angela Carey is a coach, not a licensed mental health or medical provider. Coaching is different from psychotherapy, counseling, psychiatric care, or medical treatment and does not include the diagnosis or treatment of mental health or medical conditions.
Coaching, Inner Child Healing, and guided visualization are facilitated by your coach to support personal exploration, self-awareness, and growth. These services are not substitutes for medical, psychological, psychiatric, or mental health care.
If needs arise that are outside the scope of coaching, you may be encouraged to seek support from an appropriate licensed professional.
3. Inner Child Healing & Guided Experiences
Inner Child Healing and guided visualization may involve exploring memories, emotions, beliefs, patterns, imagery, or experiences from earlier periods of your life.
These practices are intended as tools for personal exploration and growth. Memories, images, impressions, emotions, or insights that arise during guided work are personal and subjective and should not necessarily be interpreted as literal or historically accurate events.
You are always free to decline an exercise, pause or stop a guided experience, ask questions, or let me know when something does not feel right for you.
4. Intuitive & Spiritual Exploration
Depending on your interests and the nature of our work together, coaching may include intuitive or spiritual perspectives and practices. These may include intuitive impressions, dream exploration, guided journeying, Tarot, astrology, or other reflective tools.
These practices are offered as opportunities for personal exploration, reflection, and insight. They are not presented as statements of objective fact, guarantees or predictions about the future, or substitutes for professional medical, mental health, legal, or financial advice.
You are encouraged to consider what arises through your own discernment and decide for yourself what feels meaningful or useful to you.
5. Confidentiality
What you share during your work with Angela Carey Coaching is treated with care and confidentiality. Personal experiences, thoughts, feelings, and information shared during coaching sessions will not be intentionally disclosed to others without your permission, except when disclosure is required by law or when there is a serious and immediate concern for your safety or the safety of another person.
Because coaching is not psychotherapy or mental health treatment, the coaching relationship may not have the same legal confidentiality protections or privileges that can apply to relationships with licensed healthcare or mental health professionals.
Information necessary for scheduling, payment, communication, and administration may be processed or stored through technology and service providers used by Angela Carey Coaching.
Additional information about the collection and handling of personal information is available in the Privacy & Confidentiality Policy on the Angela Carey Coaching website.
6. Your Role in the Coaching Process
Coaching is collaborative. You are encouraged to participate honestly, ask questions, communicate your needs and boundaries, and decide for yourself what feels appropriate and useful.
As coach and client, we agree to participate in the coaching process with openness, honesty, and a shared commitment to the work we undertake together.
You are always free to decline a question, exercise, guided visualization, intuitive perspective, or other coaching activity.
The observations, intuitive impressions, suggestions, and other information offered during coaching are intended for your personal exploration. You remain responsible for evaluating that information and for the decisions, choices, and actions you take as a result of our work together.
7. Results & Personal Responsibility
Personal growth is individual, and experiences and results will vary. Angela Carey Coaching does not guarantee any particular outcome from coaching, Inner Child Healing, guided visualization, or other coaching services.
You remain responsible for your own physical, emotional, mental, financial, and personal well-being and for seeking appropriate professional assistance when needed.
8. Communication & Professional Boundaries
Communication outside scheduled sessions may be used for scheduling, administrative questions, or brief follow-up related to our work together.
Email, text messaging, and other electronic communications are not intended for emergency or crisis support and may not be monitored continuously.
If you are experiencing an emergency or believe that you or another person is in immediate danger, please contact emergency services or an appropriate crisis resource rather than waiting for a response from Angela Carey Coaching.
9. Technology & Online Sessions
Some coaching services may be provided through video, telephone, or other electronic means. While reasonable care is taken when using technology, electronic communications and online services can be affected by technical difficulties, interruptions, or privacy and security limitations beyond the control of Angela Carey Coaching.
You are encouraged to participate in online sessions from a private location where you feel comfortable speaking openly.
10. Scheduling, Payments, Cancellations & Refunds
Scheduling, payment, cancellation, rescheduling, package, membership, expiration, and refund terms are governed by the Angela Carey Coaching Cancellation & Refund Policy, which is provided separately and acknowledged when booking services.
11. Ending the Coaching Relationship
You may choose to end the coaching relationship at any time, subject to the payment, package, membership, cancellation, and refund terms applicable to services you have purchased.
Angela Carey Coaching may also recommend pausing or ending the coaching relationship when coaching is no longer appropriate, beneficial, or within the scope of services offered.
When appropriate, you may be encouraged to seek another type of professional support.
12. QHHT Services
Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique (QHHT) is offered as a separate service and has additional procedures, disclosures, and informed-consent requirements.
Clients participating in QHHT will be provided with and asked to acknowledge the applicable QHHT Client Agreement & Informed Consent before participating in a QHHT session.
13. Acknowledgment & Informed Consent
By acknowledging this agreement, you confirm that you have read and understand this Client Agreement & Informed Consent and have had the opportunity to ask questions about it.
You understand the nature and limitations of coaching described in this agreement and acknowledge that coaching services provided by Angela Carey Coaching are not medical, psychological, psychiatric, or other licensed mental health treatment.
You understand that your participation is voluntary and that you remain responsible for your own decisions, choices, actions, and well-being.
By acknowledging this agreement, you voluntarily agree to participate in coaching services provided by Angela Carey Coaching under the terms described here.