Ethics and Energy Work in Clinical Practice

Course overview

This training uses a Transpersonal Framework for Integrating Psychological & Spiritual Dimensions and is eligible for six hours of ethics. Clients increasingly bring spiritual language, somatic experiences, intuitive insights, and existential questions into the therapy room. While these dimensions are deeply human and clinically relevant, they also present significant ethical and boundary considerations for mental health professionals. This training provides clinicians with a clear, licensure-defensible framework for understanding and integrating energy awareness and transpersonal perspectives in psychotherapy without engaging in spiritual authority, metaphysical interpretation, or non-clinical practices. By the end of this training, participants will be able to: Define energy work and transpersonal psychology within a clinically ethical framework; Differentiate therapeutic presence from non-clinical spiritual or healing practices; Apply ethical decision-making models to spiritually-oriented clinical material; Assess client readiness for transpersonal or energy-informed interventions; Maintain clear scope of practice, informed consent, and documentation standards; Recognize risks related to suggestibility, dissociation, spiritual bypassing, and power dynamics. 8 am. Classroom opens 830am. Course begins 830am to 915am. Section 1 Ethical Foundations of Transpersonal and Energy Informed Therapy 915am to10:00am. Section 2 Professional Standards, Case Vignettes and Break-out Sessions 10am to 1015am 15 minute break 1015am to 1045am Section 3 Scope of Practice and Boundary Integrity 1045 to1145am Section 4 Informed Consent for Energy Informed Work, Case Vignettes, break-out groups pair and share Lunch 1145am to1245pm. 1245pm to 130pm. Section 5 Clinical Assessment and Readiness Ethics of integrating spiritual assessment 130pm to200pm Section 6 Risks and Ethical Pitfalls 200pm to215pm Break 215pm to 300pm Section 7 Boundaries, Therapist Self Regulation and Energetic Hygiene 300pm to 345pm Section 8 Documentation and Risk Management, Ethical Integration Model 345pm to 4pm QA, Closing wrap-up