Disclaimer

All coaching services and communication emails, texts, or otherwise, delivered by Dr. Arayeh are meant to help you identify the areas in your life and in your thinking that may be standing in your way. However, coaching is not professional mental health care or medical care. If you feel psychologically stressed to the point that it is interfering with your ability to function, please have the courage to seek the help you need in the form of a professional counsellor.

In that spirit, by purchasing coaching services, you confirm that you have read and agreed to each statement and that you wish to proceed:

• I understand that the coaching services I will be receiving from Dr. Arayeh are not offered as a substitute for professional mental health care or medical care and are not intended to diagnose, treat or cure any mental health or medical conditions including: clinical depression and its subsets, clinical anxiety and its subsets, clinical psychosis and its subsets, substance addictions and its subsets, suicidal ideation or suicidal behaviors, domestic abuse, sexual or physical abuse, self or other harm. I also understand that Dr. Arayeh is not acting as a mental health counsellor or a medical professional.

• I understand that coaching is, at present, an unregulated industry. I also understand that for all legal purposes, the services provided by Dr. Arayeh will be provided from any remote location worldwide.

• I understand and agree that I am fully responsible for my well-being during my coaching sessions, and subsequently, including my choices and decisions.

• I understand that coaching is not a substitute for counselling, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, mental health care or substance abuse treatment, and I will not use it in place of any form of therapy.

• I understand that all comments and ideas offered by Dr. Arayeh are solely for the purpose of aiding me in achieving my defined goals. I have the ability to give my informed consent, and hereby give such consent to Dr. Arayeh to assist me in achieving such goals and aims.

• I understand that coaching is partnership (defined as an alliance, not a legal business partnership) between the coach and the client in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires the client to maximize personal and professional potential. It is designed to facilitate the creation/development of personal, professional, relational, parental, or business goals and to develop and carry out a strategy/plan for achieving those goals. I understand coaching is not therapy and does not substitute for therapy if needed, and does not prevent, cure, or treat any mental disorder or medical disease.

• I understand that Dr. Arayeh will protect my information as confidential unless I state otherwise in writing. If I report child, elder abuse or neglect or threaten to harm myself or someone else, I understand that necessary actions will be taken, and my confidentiality agreement limited in this capacity. Furthermore, if Dr. Arayeh is ordered by a court to provide information or to testify, they will do so to the extent of that the law requires.

• I understand that the use of technology is not always secure, and I accept the risks of confidentiality in the use of email, text, phone, Zoom, WhatsApp, and other technology.

• I hereby release, waive, acquit, and forever discharge my coach, any agents, successors, assigns, personal representatives, executors, heirs and employees from every claim, suit action, demand or right to compensation for damages I may claim to have or that I may have arising out of acts or omissions by myself or by Dr. Arayeh as a result of the advice given by Dr. Arayeh or otherwise resulting from the coaching relationship contemplated by this agreement.