Empower & Protect Your Practice

This is the first book ever written that addresses ethics, legal issues, and risk management strategies in the practice of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT). Since EFT is an energy-based psychotherapy, coaching, and self-help technique based on the new emerging field of energy psychology, it is considered experimental by the mainstream health care industry, the legal system, licensing boards, and regulatory agencies. Consequently, all practitioners who use EFT whether licensed or non-licensed face significant legal risks. Therefore, this book also provides the reader with essential risk management strategies that can help protect an EFT practitioner from the potential legal liabilities inherent in offering an innovative approach like EFT. Topics covered include, how EFT fits within the current legal and regulatory system that governs helping professionals, key ethical and legal principles, scope of practice with scenarios, informed consent, client agreements, legalities of marketing an EFT practice – websites, the sacred contract between practitioner and client, and archetypes as the guardians of the therapeutic relationship.

This is the first book ever written that addresses ethics, legal issues, and risk management strategies in the practice of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT). Since EFT is an energy-based psychotherapy, coaching, and self-help technique based on the new emerging field of energy psychology, it is considered experimental by the mainstream health care industry, the legal system, licensing boards, and regulatory agencies. Consequently, all practitioners who use EFT whether licensed or non-licensed face significant legal risks. Therefore, this book also provides the reader with essential risk management strategies that can help protect an EFT practitioner from the potential legal liabilities inherent in offering an innovative approach like EFT. Topics covered include, how EFT fits within the current legal and regulatory system that governs helping professionals, key ethical and legal principles, scope of practice with scenarios, informed consent, client agreements, legalities of marketing an EFT practice – websites, the sacred contract between practitioner and client, and archetypes as the guardians of the therapeutic relationship.

Midge Murphy is the first attorney to receive her PhD in energy medicine studying under the auspices of Caroline Myss and Norm Shealy, MD, PhD. She understands both the law and the healing arts which allow her to lend her expertise as a bridge between the two worlds. Midge is recognized as a dynamic presenter, teacher, and leading expert on ethics, legal principles, and risk management strategies in the practice of energy healing methods. While Midge no longer practices law, she does offer professional liability risk management consulting services. For over a decade Midge has been empowering energy healing practitioners and helping clients such as the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology (ACEP), Tapas Fleming (TAT), Gary Craig (EFT), David Feinstein and Donna Eden (Eden Energy Medicine), and Matrix Energetics International, Inc. minimize the risks inherent in offering innovative energy-oriented methods to the public. Midge is the creator of leading edge online certificate courses in the field of energy psychology and energy medicine. She has also created customized online ethics and legal courses for various organizations offering certification and training programs such as Matrix Energetics, Havening Techniques, Splankna Therapy, the Soul Detective Method, and ACEP. Midge is a professor at Energy Medicine University and on the faculty at the Academy of Intuition Medicine®. Midge also has an energy healing practice for animals and humans. She was first trained in Therapeutic Touch as a hospice volunteer in 1996. In 2007 Midge was initiated as a Reiki Master and in 2010 became a Certified Matrix Energetics® Practitioner. She has studied shamanism for over 20 years and also uses shamanic processes in her healing work. Midge lives on 50 beautiful acres south of Eugene, Oregon where she is surrounded by vineyards and forests. Midge is an avid tennis player and loves to hike on her land with Bear, her Bernese mountain dog.