Midge Murphy, JD, Ph.D. Consultant
Ethics and Legal Issues in Energy Therapies
Energy therapies are at the leading edge of treatments to reduce human suffering
and promote peak functioning. Because of this innovative nature, energy therapists
face ethical, legal, and regulatory challenges that include and go beyond
the concerns of more traditional practitioners of the healing arts. Energy
therapies are multidisciplinary, comprised of many different types of helping
professionals, both licensed and non-licensed. Each group has specific requirements
and concerns in conducting their practices. As energy therapies have been
introduced and integrated into the health care field, schools and other training
organizations have developed programs to teach and train individuals in specific
energy modalities: many of them offering certification.
Practitioners: Midge provides risk management tools and training to assist practitioners of energy therapies in reducing their exposure to ethical, regulatory, and legal vulnerabilities in their practices. She advises her clients on how to have a legally sound and ethical practice.
Specifically Midge can provide the following services:
• A risk management audit of a practitioner’s practice.
• A review of all marketing materials, including websites
• Drafting agreements, disclaimers, releases, informed consent, and other practice management forms.
• Advice on legal, ethical, and regulatory issues impacting a practitioner’s practice.
Organizations: Midge has worked with a number of organizations that offer classes and certification programs in specific energy modalities. She provides an online course on ethics and legal issues in energy therapies as a part of the core curriculum for certification programs, an essential risk management tool for any organizations offering certification. Specifically Midge can provide the following services:
• Assistance with creating a legal and business structure for organizations offering classes and certification programs.
• Advice on how to protect intellectual property, including trademarks and copyrights
• Development of standards of practice, disciplinary processes, and codes of ethics
• Drafting agreements and other documentation
• Providing an ethics and legal module as part of the core curriculum for certification programs
Midge’s consulting services and online courses are designed for:
Energy Psychologists Acupuncturists Mental Health PractitionersShamanic Practitioners Herbalists Reiki Practitioners
Medical Intuitives Naturopaths Therapeutic Touch Practitioners
Massage Therapists and Body Workers Mind/Body Therapists
Anyone practicing energy medicine or an energy-based healing modality
Organizations offering classes, training, and/or certification in an energy modality
It has been an incredible support to have Midge Murphy consulting for me. Having an experienced attorney who knows the ropes and also is an energy healing practitioner couldn’t be better for someone in our field: it’s a match made in heaven. Besides, Midge is fun to work with and responds to all my legal concerns quickly and thoroughly. I have the confidence to move ahead with my business in the world now that I have Midge in my corner and if you need help, call Midge….she answers her own phone!
Tapas Fleming
Creator of Tapas Acupressure Technique®, Founder of TATLife™
About Midge
Midge Murphy, JD, Ph.D. is the first attorney to receive her Ph.D. in energy medicine from Holos University, working under the auspices of Norm Shealy, MD, Ph.D. and Caroline Myss. With her unique experiences in both law and energy medicine, Midge offers consulting services to practitioners of energy-based therapies, institutions granting certifications and academic degrees in energy therapies, and national complementary and alternative medicine organizations.
Midge is the creator of cutting edge continuing education and academic courses on the legal, regulatory, and ethical issues in energy medicine and energy-based therapies. She is a professor at Energy Medicine University and offers her continuing education courses live and online on her website. Midge is a sought after speaker at national conferences. She is the co-author of Creating Right Relationships: a Practical Guide to Ethics in Energy Therapies with Dorothea Hover-Kramer.
Midge has been a student of shamanism for over 10 years and is a Therapeutic Touch practitioner.
Midge Murphy, JD, Ph.D.
82985 Territorial Road, Eugene, OR 97405
541 344-4743
Midge@midgemurphy.com
www.MidgeMurphy.com
Midge also offers online courses with continuing education certificates.
