I just want to make everyone aware that Dialogue Ireland have recently completed an investigation into the educational qualifications of “Dr” Sean Collins. Their investigations have revealed that Sean Collins’s qualfications are unaccredited. In fact, in most USA states, Sean Collins would be commiting a CRIMINAL OFFENCE if he were to use the title “Doctor”.

In light of this, Dialogue Ireland have posted a clarification statement on their website. Please click on the link below for full details of the statement.
http://dialogueireland.org/dicontent/resources/conferences/2001conference.html

“Dr Sean Collins, one of Ireland's pre-eminent practitioners in hypnotherapy and neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), founded the IICH in 1991 to fill the need as he saw it for an organization to establish an ETHICAL blueprint for the profession in Ireland.”

So what Sean Collins is doing is described as ethical! So it’s ethical to call him a doctor even though ALL his claimed qualifications are unaccredited? In nearly all US States it is a CRIMINAL OFFENCE to use the title “Doctor” if it is received from an unaccredited institute. Please also note that Sean Collins uses “dr” in his email address (drseancollins2@gmail.com) on his OWN website http://www.healthrestoration.ie/

This is disgraceful and very disturbing. How can this be stopped? PLEASE can anyone advise on how we can help protect vulnerable people from these types of organisations?

Feel free to contact me directly here if you wish: bock@bocktherobber.com

I find this very misleading and distrubing because Harry McGee (now political journalist with the Irish Times) and Richard Oakley did an investigative report. about unaccredited degrees. Their report stated that Mr Collins does have a Doctorate in Clinical Hypnotherapy (DCH) which was conferred on him by the American Institute of Hypnotherapy (AIH) in 1990. However, the AIH is an unaccredited USA institution (Sunday Tribune investigative report by Harry McGee, 25 February 2001). Link to Sunday Tribune report is http://www.tribune.ie/archive/article/2001/feb/25/tony-quinn-medicine-man-1-of-2/

In most USA states, it is a criminal offence to use the title “Dr” if the doctorate is received from an unaccredited institution. Mr. Sean Collins uses the title “Dr” in his ‘Key Model’ book and on the his website http://www.iol.ie/~therapy/

On the Yoga Ireland website, he is listed as “Dr. Sean Collins, Clinical Psychologist” http://www.yogatherapyireland.com/about_us.html
Mr Collins does not appear to be a member of any professional counselling or psychological association in Ireland . Mr Collins’s only "accredited" membership was of the Irish Institute of Counselling and Hypnotherapy (IICH) which he founded himself in 1991. However, he has recently changed the name of the IICH to Irish Institute of Cognitive & Humanistic Psychotherapy (IICHP) http://www.iichp.org . The IICHP is not accredited in Ireland.
On page 220 of his self-published book “The Key Model” Mr Collins states he was “Educated in Scoil Mhuire (CBS), Marino, Belvedere College (SJ) and University College , Dublin , he holds bachelor degrees in both psychology and clinical hypnotherapy and, in 1990, earned his doctorate in Clinical Hypnotherapy.” The way that the above sentence is phrased could imply that he attended UCD and completed 2 degrees and a doctorate there. However, when I contacted UCD (Professor Ciarán Benson, former chair of UCD School of Psychology) they had no record of him completing any of the above courses or passing any examinations.
It is very unclear to me where he received the B.A in psychology that he claims to have. His website now seems to suggest that it was a "modular" degree in the USA. What does he mean by "modular"?
I find it shocking and disturbing that there is currently no law in Ireland to prevent a person using the title “Doctor” or “Clinical Psychologist” from an unaccredited institute, especially when the focus of attention of that person are cancer victims, and due to the nature of this condition, many of these are vulnerable people desperately seeking an answer to their predicament.
May I respectfully request that you inform relevant people of the facts of this matter in order to help protect vulnerable people in Ireland , in particular those who could easily be confused or misled

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8303126.stm

It appears that felines are more intuitive than I had previously believed.

http://knol.google.com/k/joe-greenfield/neurolinguistic-programming/2j6nlcky7q5vo/2#

The Norcross study is very solid

The research says that it is especially discredited for the purpose of overcoming such habits and substance abuse

Simon

"Alternative practitioner refuses to accept alternative form of payment"

Sums it all up really.