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 designed 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 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: While Midge no longer practices law, she does provide risk management tools and training to assist practitioners of energy techniques
in reducing their exposure to ethical, regulatory, and legal vulnerabilities in their practices. Specifically Midge can provide the following services:
• A risk management audit of a
practitioner’s practice.
• A review of all marketing materials, including websites
• Help with practice management forms and policies.
• Training on legal, ethical, and regulatory issues impacting a practitioner’s practice.
• Training 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 business structure for organizations offering classes and certification programs.
• Training on how to protect intellectual property, including trademarks and copyrights.
• Development of
standards of practice, disciplinary processes, and codes of ethics
• Help with training program documents.
• 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, Integrative Physicians, Shamanic Practitioners,
Herbalists, Reiki Practitioners, Medical Intuitives, Naturopaths, Therapeutic Touch Practitioners, Massage Therapists and
Body Workers, 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.