Legal background of my practice

Healing practitioners: Laws on the professional practice of medicine without being certified as a doctor (Feb. 17, 1939 - Heilpraktikergesetz).

• §1.1 Anyone who wants to practice medicine without being appointed as a doctor requires permission.
• §1.2 The practice of medicine within the meaning of the law is any professional or commercial activity for the diagnosis, healing, or alleviation of diseases, suffering or bodily injury in humans, even if they are exercised in the service of others.
• §1.3 Whoever wants to practice medicine and receives permission in accordance with the implementing regulations must use the designation "Heilpraktiker."
• §2.1 Anyone who wants to practice medicine without being certified as a doctor can obtain permission according to §1 in the future. Anyone who has not yet practiced medicine professionally without being certified as a doctor may in future obtain a permission in accordance with §1 in accordance with the legal and administrative provisions issued pursuant to §7, which are to contain in particular requirements with regard to knowledge and skills* as part of the decision on the granting of the permission.

*An application for permission (with proof of activities and training in the field of psychotherapy), the examination (written test and individual oral examination) should ensure that the candidate has sufficient knowledge in psychopathology, diagnosis and treatment options of mental illnesses as well as appropriate skills in psychotherapeutic treatment.

Healing practitioners for psychotherapy: Since 1993, supervisory and health authorities (supervised by the Ministry of Health) have been able to grant a permit for the professional practice of medicine, limited to the field of psychotherapy, according to the healing practitioner's law.

Duties and prohibitions of psychological healing practioners

From these laws - (Heilpraktikergesetz (HPG), die Berufsordnung für Heilpraktiker (BOH), das Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (BGB), das Patientenrechtgesetz (2013), das Heilmittelwerbegesetz (1994), Betäubungsmittelgesetz (BtmG), Psychotherapeutengesetz (1999), das Strafgesetzbuch (StGB), die Datenschutz-Grundverordnung (DSGVO) and das Bundesdatenschutzgesetz (BDSG), various duties and prohibitions of healing practitioners have been summarized and must be respected.

Duties of healing practitioners for psychotherapy:

• Preparation of treatment contract
• Consent of the patient to data collection - Professional confidentiality
• Duty to provide information
• Documentation obligation
• Due diligence
• Training and continuing education
• Obligation to pay damages

Prohibited activities

• Taking on activities for which sufficient knowledge and skills are not available.
• Misleading advertising, unfair advertising, promises of cure, health-related advertising with food and consumer goods. Non-medical practitioners may practice psychotherapy but may not call themselves "psychotherapists".
• Practicing medicine while wandering. It follows that the practitioner must declare an office. Remote psychotherapeutic treatments are not allowed.
• Cooperation with doctors in the same practice rooms and treatment/performance according to rehabilitation services.
• Write prescriptions.
• Mixing, dispensing or selling drugs and narcotics.
• Billing of health insurance.
• Issuing medical death certificates.
• Treatment of sexually transmitted diseases.
• Treatment of infectious diseases.
• Dental treatments.
• Vaccinations.
• Obstetrics.
• Treatment in case of suspicion of criminal acts.
• Sexual acts with patients in the context of psychotherapy. The attempt is punishable.