Major sources for finding a competently trained hypnotherapist are: doctors, family and friends, ex-clients, and recognised hypnosis and hypnotherapy organisations which operate independently of any particular school or group of schools. This independence may be checked by ascertaining from the particular association’s website whether it is open to all suitably qualified therapists or only to graduates of that association’s school and affiliates – in other words, to those with obvious business interests in the association.