"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 risk management 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® Professional Liability Risk Management Consultant Ethics and Legal Principles in the Practice of Energy Therapies • Are you a licensed or non-licensed practitioner of the healing arts? • Are you a coach or provide personal development services? • Do you incorporate energy therapies or techniques in your practice? • Do you train or teach others any energy based therapy or technique? • Do you offer certification in any energy based therapy or technique? If so, you face serious potential legal risks and significant ethical and regulatory challenges. A risk management audit of your practice or training program is the answer to help reduce your exposure to potential legal, ethical, and regulatory vulnerabilities. In addition to offering her services on an hourly basis, Midge has created discounted packages to provide the basic risk management tools all practitioners need.  Each package is desdigned to include consulting services from a basic website audit to covering practitioners that conduct public workshops and those that train others.  Midge also has a Package for training organizations. Energy therapies are at the leading edge of treatments to reduce human suffering and promote peak functioning and are becoming more widely used in the personal development, coaching, and health care fields. Because of this innovative nature, energy practitioners face significant 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 legal requirements and ethical concerns in conducting their practices. As energy techniques have been introduced and integrated into the personal development, coaching, and health care fields, schools and other training organizations have developed programs to teach and train individuals in energy techniques…..many of them offering certification. Midge is dedicated to empowering her clients to do their healing work in the world whether they work with clients or teach others. Practitioners: Midge provides risk management tools and training to assist practitioners of energy techniques 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 disclosure documents, and other practice management forms. • Advice on legal, ethical, and regulatory issues impacting a practitioner’s practice. • Advice on how to protect intellectual property, including trademarks and copyrights Organizations: Midge has worked with numerous organizations that offer classes and/or certification programs in energy based 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 organization offering training and/or 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 Practitioners, Shamanic Practitioners, Herbalists, Reiki Practitioners, Medical Intuitives, Naturopaths, Therapeutic Touch Practitioners, Massage Therapists and Body Worksers, Mind/Body Therapists, Personal Development Counselors, Coaches, Anyone using energy medicine techniques with clients, Organizations offering classes, training, and/or certification in an energy modality. "Midge has always given our organization topnotch, straight forward information. When we have any shady areas of ethical concerns, I always communicate with her to align things properly. She has been an invaluable resource for CSTA.NA"  -Craniosacral Association of North America .