Books by Dorothea Hover-Kramer

Creating Healing Relationships coverThis book has been voted award-winning finalist in the "Health: Alternative Medicine" category of the USA Best book 2011 awards sponsored by USA Book News.
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Creating Healing Relationships:
Professional Standards for Energy Therapy Practitioners

By Dorothea Hover-Kramer, Ed.D. RN, D.CEP
Santa Rosa, CA: Energy Psychology Press, June, 2011

“This book is amazing, insightful and necessary!”
from the foreword by bestselling author Cyndi Dale

Endorsed by leaders in the modalities known as Energy Psychology, EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), Healing Touch, and Energy Medicine, this book offers a comprehensive overview of ethical and practical concerns that must be addressed when using energy therapy methods in the form of accepted and professional standards of care.

The book specifically offers the following:

  • the place of energy therapies within the wide-rage of complementary healing modalities
  • the components of informed consent and formation of the client pracititioner healing relationship
  • possible ethical violations in connection with chakra-related dynamics
  • archetypes within the sacred therapeutic contract and their impact on the healing relationship
  • ways to identify and handle the presence of nonordinary states of consciousness
  • the use of intuited material without client invasion
  • integration of spiritual components encountered in energetic interventions
  • case examples of over twenty ethical dilemmas
  • resolution of dilemmas through consultation and by attending to practice standards and personal strategies
  • personal energy management as a central ethic for practitioners
  • extensive reference and resource listings
  • specific risk management practices to decrease practitioner vulnerability to possible legal repercussions and relational liabilities.

This updated and enlarged book replaces the previous book by Dorothea Hover-Kramer written with attorney Midge Murphy, entitled Creating Right Relationships (2005-2010), and can be ordered here with a click or online through amazon.com.

Creating Healing Relationships: Professional Standards for Energy Therapy Practitioners
by Dorothea Hover-Kramer, Ed.D. RN, D.CEP

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