Legal and Ethical issues in Holistic Therapy

How can you be true to yourself as a holistic therapist while providing ethical service to your clients? What is the difference between the scope of practice and the scope of competence? Are there ways you can set up your business to provide two different streams of service? IN THIS PODCAST:How to protect yourself against liability as a holistic therapist Scope of practice vs scope of competence? How can you expand your scope of competence? How can you expand your therapy practice, ethically? HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF AGAINST LIABILITY AS A HOLISTIC THERAPISTI found the American Counseling Association Code of Ethics where it discusses treatment modalities and thought this was a good place to start. When providing services, counselors use techniques, procedures, modalities that are grounded in theory and/or have empirical and scientific foundation. Any kind of innovative techniques or procedures, modalities explaining the potential risks, benefits and potential ethical considerations of using these … you work to minimize any potential risk or harm when using these techniques as well as discussing the benefits.What does this mean for holistic therapy and therapists? The important thing that you have to do is if there is something you want to get into you, have to do your own research to really see what is out there. I found a lot of research around reiki, essential oils, and yoga and their potential benefits. Although it is also as important to research any potential risks that you need to be aware of when working with your clients. For example, if you work with yoga you have to get a separate liability, even if your yoga practice is incredibly gentle, just in case. sCOPE OF PRACTICE VS. SCOPE OF COMPETENCE Scope of Practice Scope of practice is essentially the explanation of what a practice does as a whole and places limits upon what can or can not be done in that profession. My board, which is the Licensed Clinical Mental Health Board, states that: It defines that we can provide assessments, dia