Before going into how energy healers can work with medical professionals, it makes sense to comment on the shared goals that join traditional and alternative medicine practices. While modern medicine focuses on the cause of an illness or disease and treats symptoms, holistic healing considers the whole patient. Even so, at the heart of both, the concepts of wellness, health prevention, and healing are shared, just approached differently.

Combining modalities such as medicine, patient care and integrative practices serves to complement the benefits of traditional medicine. For example, a fully integrated treatment plan can help to:

For instance, a trauma can impair physical healing as well as psychosocial health and induce emotional distress over a dramatic event. As an example, a car accident victim might likely experience trauma about the incident itself. An energy healer could supplement the physical care by evaluating the whole person and considering the patient’s well–being and innate healing abilities.

Just like traditional practitioners, energy healers seek to learn the many ways the body heals, and they build upon that knowledge. It is worth noting that energy healing existed long before traditional medicine which serves as a testament to its power as a treatment approach.

There are numerous holistic healing practices that could be combined with traditional medicine. Types of holistic treatments for medical patients may include the following:

As an example, these modalities have been successful with treating specific conditions:

There are numerous ways an energy healer can supplement traditional medicine.

While energy healers and even some traditional practitioners recognize the contribution energy medicine brings to patient care, the use of alternative practices in a medical setting remains underutilized. Some effort is required by healers in reaching out to their clinical counterparts. Opportunities to bring energy modalities into a traditional medical setting need to be created and developed by nurturing relationships with medical practices and institutions. And this is achieved through basic marketing techniques. It is all about educating a prospective medical partner on the benefits of adding your services. Many doctors might see adding these services as a complete holistic package for their patients. This could add revenue for the doctors to offer this additional service. By listing numerous energy medicine modalities, medical professionals would also be showing the mainstream popularity of alternative care medicine.

While considering marketing approaches for relationship development with medical practitioners, energy healers need to assess their liability exposure before partnering with the clinical side. If you have your own practice and expand your services outreach by working with clinical health practitioners, you should have your own liability insurance that protects you. Professional insurance such as that provided by the Energy Management Professional Association would cover your liability needs provided your services fall within your scope of practice.
Additionally, you would want to take all the necessary steps of managing your liability exposure by having informed consent forms from patients you treat at a doctor’s office or medical institution. You also want to consider expanding to requesting consent forms from any doctors and hospital department heads. This way, all parties are informed about the services you provide.

Liability management is approached a little differently if you work in a doctor’s office or medical institution. While you likely are an employee for them (versus contractor), your employment contract probably does not include your role as an energy practitioner, but instead, a healthcare provider. Since as an energy healer your services would be separate from those under your employer, liability for your energy work would need its own insurance. This requires you to obtain your own liability coverage. Having separate insurance will provide you the protection and peace of mind for you, the doctors, and the patient. You can offer your unique services without worry, and the referrals you get through the doctor’s office or hospital would also mean patients are dealing with a professional.

Collaboration between energy healers and medicine should be encouraged and supported given the shared goal of quality care. However, this means a shift from an impersonal protocol in medicine to one that emphasizes personalized care. Energy healers can help increase their opportunity of supplementing traditional medicine by honing their medical knowledge about diseases and the emotional and physical effects of illness. As holistic care becomes more common in healthcare settings, healers will have an opportunity to combine alternative methods with traditional approaches to enhance patient care. Getting there will require healers to take initiative by reaching out to their medical counterparts and showing them the value added they bring to patient care.