Client Waiver & INFORMED CONSENT

By booking and attending, you confirm:

1. Voluntary Participation

You're here by choice. Self-led, aware, and deciding for yourself. No coercion, no convincing needed.

2. Health Screening Confirmation

You've confirmed NONE of these apply to you:

For Spinal Energetics Sessions:

Medical Contraindications:
▸ Heart conditions, cardiovascular disease, blood pressure issues
▸ Blood clotting disorders (excessive bleeding or clotting)
▸ Recent stroke, aneurysm, brain injury, or seizure disorders
▸ Severe asthma or breathing difficulties
▸ Active infections (bone, joint, systemic)
▸ Recent surgeries or fractures without medical clearance
▸ Severe osteoporosis or bone fragility conditions

Spinal/Neurological:
▸ Spinal fusion, cord compression, tumours, or severe disc issues
▸ Cauda Equina Syndrome or similar urgent conditions
▸ Neurological symptoms (weakness, numbness, severe pain)

For Spinal Energetics & Any Coaching Sessions:

Mental Health:
▸ Severe PTSD with active episodes or flashbacks
▸ Severe dissociative disorders or disconnection from body
▸ Current mental health crisis or recent major trauma
▸ Heavy psychiatric medication combinations affecting cognition

If you are in immediate crisis or experiencing suicidal thoughts, this work is not appropriate. Contact emergency services or a licensed mental health professional.

Current Circumstances:
▸ Active substance abuse or currently under influence
▸ Pregnancy (first or late third trimester)
▸ Under 12 or over 75 years old
▸ Unsafe living situation or lack of basic support system

3. Medication & Substances

You're not under the influence of alcohol, recreational drugs, or anything affecting awareness. You've disclosed any prescription medications that may be relevant.

3A. Online Sessions & Technology
▸ For online sessions, you are responsible for ensuring a stable internet connection and a safe, private environment.
▸ If technical issues occur on your end and prevent the session from proceeding, it will be treated as a missed session.
▸ If technical issues occur on Hollie’s end, the session will be rescheduled at no cost.

4. Understanding the Work

For Spinal Energetics
▸ Sessions involve lying down while I track your system’s responses (in-person or online).
▸ Your nervous system leads; I follow and facilitate.
▸ No specific outcomes are guaranteed.

For Coaching
▸ Sessions are conversational, exploratory, and shadow-work focused.
▸ Coaching is not medical treatment, psychological therapy, lifestyle consulting, or business frameworks coaching.
▸ Coaching may explore goals, patterns, and accountability, but always through a shadow-work lens (not schedules or frameworks).
▸ No specific outcomes are guaranteed.

Where both modalities are used, you understand these are separate but complementary approaches. Coaching is conversational. Spinal Energetics is somatic. Neither replaces medical or psychological treatment.

5. Possible Responses

For Spinal Energetics:
▸ Physical: movement, shaking, heat, tingling, stillness, tears, laughter
▸ Emotional: various feelings arising and moving through
▸ Energetic: sensations of energy moving in your body
▸ Nothing obvious: stillness can be profound too

Post-session (normal responses):
▸ Fatigue, soreness, or feeling energised
▸ Emotional waves or clarity
▸ Vivid dreams or improved sleep
▸ Temporary increase in symptoms before improvement
▸ Digestive changes or body temperature shifts

▸ Temporary dissociation or feeling “out of body” as old protective patterns surface, this is part of the integration process

For Coaching:
▸ Emotional discomfort, confronting insights, or perspective shifts may occur.
▸ These are a natural part of shadow work and personal development.

6. Communication Agreement

You'll speak up immediately if anything feels uncomfortable, unsafe, or too intense. This work respects your boundaries completely.

7. Information Sharing

You've shared any health conditions, medications, injuries, or circumstances I need to know to work safely with you.

8. No Medical Claims

You understand this work:
▸ Doesn't diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent medical conditions
▸ Isn't a substitute for medical or psychological care
▸ Coaching is not therapy, counselling, or regulated mental health treatment
▸ Works with your nervous system's natural intelligence
▸ Supports your system's own recalibration capacity
▸ Coaching is designed for emotionally intelligent, self-led adults who can self-regulate and make their own decisions

9. Personal Responsibility

You agree to:
▸ Take full responsibility for your experience and choices
▸ Not hold me, my business, or associates legally/financially liable
▸ Seek appropriate medical care if health concerns arise
▸ Use your own judgment about continuing sessions

▸ You are responsible for your own integration and application of insights between sessions. Hollie provides guidance and feedback, not 24/7 crisis support.

For Coaching Clients:
▸ You are responsible for your own actions, decisions, and integration outside sessions.
▸ Coaching is exploratory and reflective, not prescriptive advice.
▸ Breakthroughs depend on your willingness to self-reflect and take responsibility for implementing insights.

10. Privacy & Confidentiality

Your information stays confidential except where legally required.

11. WhatsApp Support (Coaching Packages Only)

▸ WhatsApp is for coaching-related insights, reflections, and questions. It is not a space for casual conversation.
▸ Responses will be Monday–Thursday during Hollie’s local business hours.
▸ Messages will be responded to within 24 hours on business days.
▸ No responses are provided outside those times (including weekends and overnight).

12. Coachability & Shadow Work Agreement

▸ You understand that shadow work can reveal patterns, behaviours, and truths that may feel confronting or uncomfortable.
▸ You agree to show up with openness and coachability, even when feedback challenges your current perspective.
▸ Directness is part of this work. I will name patterns plainly, not sugarcoat. This is never judgment or attack; it’s the highest form of honesty in service of your growth.
▸ You accept responsibility for your own responses and agree not to project blame onto Hollie if discomfort arises.
▸ You understand that defensiveness, resistance, or making the coach “the enemy” is itself part of the shadow process, and your transformation depends on engaging with it honestly.

RELEASE OF LIABILITY

By participating, you:
▸ Accept full responsibility for your wellbeing during and after sessions
▸ Release me from liability for any physical, emotional, or energetic experiences
▸ Understand the risks and choose to proceed voluntarily
▸ Waive claims against me, my business, and associates
▸ Seek medical advice for health concerns as needed

FINAL CONFIRMATION

Signing/booking confirms:
▸ You've read and understood everything above
▸ You meet the health and safety requirements
▸ You're participating willingly and responsibly
▸ You accept all terms as part of this work

▸ You understand coaching sessions may be challenging, direct, and emotionally confronting at times, and you consent to this as part of the process.

This agreement is governed by Australian law.

If anything's unclear, ask before booking. Clear communication keeps everyone safe.