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BreathFinder is an independent verification and discovery platform. This page sets out exactly what we check before a professional or organisation appears on BreathFinder, what our verification does and doesn’t mean, and how we keep it current.
It’s built around three principles, and everything below follows from them.
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A verified profile on BreathFinder means we’ve checked the things set out below, against the evidence the professional supplied, on the date shown. It does not mean that we endorse them or think they’re good at their work — we’ve never watched them work; that we recommend them over anyone else; that we guarantee anything about the outcome of working with them; or that we’ve audited their business as a legal entity. Verification is a check, shown plainly, kept current. Nothing more, and nothing we can’t stand behind.
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Before any claims go near the five stages, we confirm one thing — that there is a real, identified person behind the application. For an individual professional, that’s you. For a training provider, that’s the principal or named responsible person for the organisation.
We confirm the applicant is a real, identified person — for an individual, you; for an organisation, the principal or named responsible person accountable for it. Identity is checked through an independent, regulated identity-verification provider, to the same standard in both cases. It’s a one-time check — identity doesn’t change, so it isn’t repeated at annual re-verification. It confirms only who someone is: it is not a criminal-record, character or competence check, and for an organisation’s responsible person it is not a check that they personally hold a breathwork qualification. Where a professional works with children or vulnerable people, a separate background clearance is required — see Experience & Scope below.
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Once your identity is confirmed and your documents are in, our team reviews them against the five stages set out below. Every professional goes through the same five stages. Within each stage, some checks apply to everyone, and others apply as conditions — triggered by what someone offers, who they work with, and the risk involved. A well-established facilitator and a coach just starting out go through the same five stages; the conditions that apply to each may differ.
We don’t operate a minimum-experience gate, and we won’t turn you away for being early in your practice. Instead we show experience honestly on the profile and, where a modality carries real risk, we check that your training and hands-on experience support what you’re offering.
For individual breathwork professionals — practitioners, facilitators, instructors and breath coaches.
We check a copy of your certification, or proof of registration with a relevant professional body. We confirm it’s genuine, that it came from the organisation you say it did, and that what you offer sits within what you were trained to offer. We show your training and qualifications on your profile.
Membership of a recognised breathwork body is encouraged but never required. Where you hold it, we check it and display it, and it can streamline your verification. It doesn’t replace any stage — everyone goes through the same five — but it adds weight a seeker can see.
If you hold professional insurance, send us the certificate and we read it properly — not just that a policy exists, but that it’s current and that breathwork is actually covered under it. We record what your policy covers and show it on your profile, with the date we checked.
Insurance isn’t a gate. You can apply, be verified and go live without it — your profile will simply say so. We’re not here to decide who’s allowed to practise; we’re here to make sure nobody has to guess.
We record your experience and the scope of what you offer, and show it honestly on your profile. Experience level isn’t a gate — we show it plainly, so a seeker can see where you are and decide for themselves.
Our verification covers your breathwork — that’s what “Verified breathwork professional” means. You’re welcome to list other qualifications and services (such as coaching, bodywork or nutrition), and we’ll show them where you provide the certificate — but clearly marked as outside what BreathFinder verified. We confirm those documents are genuine; we don’t assess or endorse practice outside breathwork, because that isn’t our field. This way a seeker can always tell what carries our check and what doesn’t.
Where you work with children or vulnerable people, we check that you hold a current Working With Children Check (WWCC) — or the equivalent background clearance for your region, such as a DBS check in the UK or a Criminal Record Check elsewhere. A WWCC is a formal screening that confirms a person is cleared to work with minors. This condition triggers wherever it’s relevant, and we don’t waive it.
Where you advertise or offer trauma-informed or trauma-aware breathwork — or breathwork that works directly with trauma — we check that your training supports the specific claim you make. Trauma-informed and trauma-aware are not the same thing, and we don’t let them share a tag: each appears on your profile only where the training behind it is evidenced. Where it isn’t, that claim doesn’t go live, though you remain verified for the rest of your practice. It’s the one condition we don’t waive.
You agree to the BreathFinder Code of Ethics.
We check that you have a client consent process and an intake or screening process — contraindications for breathwork are real, and we want to see that you screen people before you work with them.
Where your training or modality warrants it, we check that your training included ethics content — professional conduct, boundaries, informed consent and confidentiality — evidenced from your curriculum.
Before your profile goes live, we check that it matches the evidence you supplied. If you say you work with trauma, we want to see the training that supports it. Where something doesn’t line up, we come back to you, and you’re welcome to resubmit.
Where a specific claim needs supporting, we may ask for corroborating evidence — for example a testimonial with original proof of source. This is requested where needed, not required of everyone.
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For organisations that train breathwork professionals — schools, academies and training organisations. Before the five stages, we confirm the identity of the principal or named responsible person (the same entry check individuals go through) and that the organisation is a real, identified entity. Training providers then go through the same five stages, adapted to an organisation rather than an individual. The principle is the same: we check what can be evidenced, we show what we found, and we don’t claim more than that.
We check that the organisation operates as it describes, and we review the training it delivers — the syllabus and curriculum, the techniques taught, how students are assessed, and what a graduate is certified to do. The organisation appears on its verified provider profile; once it’s verified, we add each reviewed course as its own course listing, showing what it covers and what a graduate is certified as.
We check that the school has a qualified lead trainer — a named person who holds a genuine breathwork qualification and is accountable for the training delivered. Usually this is the owner; where the owner isn’t a qualified breathwork practitioner, the school names its senior trainer instead, and we verify that person’s credentials. We don’t individually vet every instructor — the school is responsible for its wider teaching team meeting the standard its lead trainer sets.
Where your programme includes supervised practice, we check how much, how it’s supervised and how it’s evaluated.
We confirm the organisation exists and is registered as it claims to be. Where it’s a registered business, we check its registration against the relevant public register; where it operates as a sole trader or unincorporated body, we confirm the responsible person behind it (whose identity we verify at the entry check above). This confirms the entity is real and identified — it isn’t a financial, governance or operational audit.
Where the organisation holds insurance relevant to its training activity, we check the certificate — not just that a policy exists, but that it’s current and that the training activity is actually covered under it. We record what it covers and show it on the organisation’s profile, with the date we checked.
The organisation agrees to the BreathFinder Code of Ethics. We also review the programme’s safety protocols and trauma-informed practices — how it protects the physical, emotional and psychological safety of participants.
Where the organisation trains people to work in higher-risk settings — trauma, clinical or mental-health contexts — we check that its ethical and safety guidance specifically covers that work.
We check that the organisation has appropriate consent, duty-of-care and student-care processes — including a refund policy and a grievance procedure for handling complaints, with provision for an external mediator where needed.
Where the organisation trains people to work with children or vulnerable groups, we check two things: that its curriculum covers the relevant safeguarding requirements, and that the staff who deliver that training hold a current Working With Children Check (WWCC) — or the equivalent for their region, such as a DBS check in the UK. A WWCC is a formal screening confirming a person is cleared to work with minors. This condition triggers wherever it’s relevant, and we don’t waive it.
We review a sample of the certificate you issue to graduates — what it names, what it certifies, and the hours behind it — and we check that the organisation’s profile matches the evidence supplied. What it claims to teach, certify and represent is backed by what we were shown. Where something doesn’t line up, we come back to the organisation before anything goes live.
Where testimonials support a claim, we may ask for evidence from students, clients or peers, with original proof of source — requested where it helps corroborate, not from everyone.
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Verification isn’t a one-time event. Once a year we email every verified professional and organisation to confirm they’re still practising, still insured where applicable, and that their details are still current — and to declare any new legal action, active claims, complaints or material changes since we last checked. It’s a quick check-in, it’s free, and it takes a couple of minutes. Disclosing honestly is part of staying verified; concealing something we would have wanted to know is a breach, and grounds to unpublish. (Your identity isn’t re-checked — it’s confirmed once, at the start, and it doesn’t change.)
If we don’t hear back, the profile is unpublished until the check-in is completed. This isn’t a penalty — it’s the only way “verified” can mean verified now rather than verified once, some time ago. Anyone can return at any time. And where you tell us of a material change — a new qualification, a lapsed policy, a new modality — we re-check the affected items before they appear on your profile.
The documents you send us are used to carry out your verification and for nothing else. They’re seen only by our verification team. They’re never published, never shared outside BreathFinder, and never sold. Your certificates and insurance documents themselves aren’t shown publicly — what appears on your profile is what we found, not the paperwork.
Your identity is confirmed by an independent, regulated identity-verification provider. BreathFinder does not hold your identity document itself — the provider carries out the check and we receive the confirmation, not the passport or ID.
We keep your verification documents for as long as your profile is live, so that at each annual check-in we can see what was verified last time. You can ask us to delete them at any time, and we remove them when your profile is permanently unpublished. Requests can be made through our Legal Hub.
BreathFinder Ltd is based in Jersey, Channel Islands, and handles your data under the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018, alongside the UK/EU GDPR where it applies to you. Full details of how we store and handle your data — including our identity-verification provider — are set out in our Privacy Policy.
BreathFinder sells some forms of promotion — sponsored articles, and priority or featured placement. These are always labelled, so anyone can tell what’s been paid for and what’s been earned. Paid promotion changes where something appears. It never changes what was checked: no fee gets anyone verified, gets anyone a badge they haven’t earned, or puts a claim on a profile the evidence doesn’t support. Appearing on a country or regional page isn’t paid placement — every verified professional appears on their relevant pages as a matter of course, because being findable is the baseline of being verified, not an extra.
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Yes — before anything else, we confirm you’re a real, identified person. That check is carried out by an independent, regulated identity-verification provider, not by BreathFinder. We don’t inspect your passport or ID ourselves, and we don’t hold it — the provider does the check and we receive the confirmation, not the document.
It’s a one-time check — your identity doesn’t change, so it isn’t repeated at your annual re-verification. And it confirms only who you are: it isn’t a character, background or competence check. Full detail of how your data is handled, including our identity-verification provider, is in our Privacy Policy.
Yes. Your profile is unpublished if you don’t complete your annual check-in, and it stays down until you do. That’s the ordinary case, and it’s not a penalty — it’s how “verified” stays true.
We’ll also unpublish a profile if something we verified turns out not to hold — a qualification we can no longer confirm, an insurance policy that’s lapsed and isn’t replaced, or a claim the evidence no longer supports — or if we find you concealed something you were required to disclose. We’d rather take a profile down than leave a badge on one we can’t stand behind. You’re always welcome to put it right and come back.
Tell us. A new qualification, a new insurance policy, a new modality you want to offer — send us the evidence and we’ll check it before it goes on your profile. Anything we didn’t verify — your bio, your availability, your links — you can change any time, no re-check needed. It’s only the verified items we look at again, because those are the ones the badge stands behind.
That works both ways. If something changes that affects what we verified — an insurance policy that’s lapsed, a new legal claim, a qualification that’s been withdrawn — you’re expected to tell us, and not wait for the annual check-in. Disclosing honestly is part of staying verified.
No. Verified means we’ve checked your claims against the evidence and shown what we found — not that we endorse you, recommend you over anyone else, or think you’re good at your work. We’ve never watched you work. What we do is make sure that when someone reads your profile, they don’t have to wonder whether the claims on it have been checked. The choosing is theirs.
They’re two different things, and you can have both. Professional verification checks you — your qualifications, your insurance, your practice. Training-provider verification checks your organisation — what it teaches, how it assesses, how it keeps students safe.
If you both practise and train, verifying yourself as a professional and your school as a training provider are separate checks with separate profiles. One is about the person; the other is about the organisation. Keeping them distinct is what stops anyone confusing what — and who — has been verified.
Yes. We verify what can be evidenced now — your qualification in what you teach, your syllabus, how you assess, your safety and consent processes, the certificate you’ll issue. A track record helps, and where you have it we check it, but not having graduated a cohort yet isn’t a barrier. Your profile shows what’s there and what isn’t, honestly, and it grows as you do.
Not separately — verifying your organisation is its own process. As part of it, where others deliver your course, we check their certifications and qualifications so the whole teaching team is accounted for. That’s different from each instructor holding their own professional profile, which any of them can do individually if they also practise. The organisation’s verification covers the training; a professional profile covers the person.
No. We’re not an accrediting body, and being verified on BreathFinder isn’t accreditation. We don’t approve your curriculum, rank it against other schools, or certify that your training meets an external standard.
What we do is check what you’ve told us against the evidence — your syllabus, your assessment methods, your safety protocols, what your certificate says a graduate can do — and show what we found. Whether the course is right for them is the student’s judgement to make; our job is to make sure they’re not left guessing about what has, and hasn’t, been checked.
What you teach, how it’s structured, what a graduate is certified to do, and what we checked and when. Someone deciding where to train can see the substance behind your course — the curriculum, the assessment, the safety standards — rather than taking a landing page’s word for it. That’s the point: a prospective student shouldn’t have to guess whether what a school claims about its training has been checked.
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Ⓒ Copyright 2026 | BreathFinder Ltd Reg No: 135013 | All Rights Reserved | Made with ♥ in Jersey, Channel Islands.
