How to Practice Energy Healing Ethically & Legally with Midge Murphy

Energy Healing, Ethics & The Law — How to Practise Safely, Clearly & in Integrity with Midge Murphy, JD, PhD

What does it really mean to practise energy healing ethically and legally? In this essential conversation, Midge Murphy, JD, PhD—the first attorney to earn a doctorate in energy medicine and the leading expert on legal and ethical standards in the CAM (Complementary and Alternative Medicine) field—offers clarity, confidence, and grounded guidance for practitioners navigating today’s evolving landscape.

Midge shares her journey from practising entertainment law for major studios like Disney and 20th Century Fox to becoming an energy medicine practitioner herself. Through this transition, she discovered a major gap: most energy healers, both licensed and non-licensed, were working without the ethical, legal, or risk-management frameworks needed to protect themselves or their clients.

In this episode, we explore how energy healing fits within wider medical and regulatory systems, what practitioners can and cannot claim about their work, and why informed consent, confidentiality, and scope of practice are essential foundations. Midge also offers crucial insights into telehealth considerations, working across state lines, avoiding misleading marketing language, and identifying credible, ethical training organisations.

This conversation provides a vital foundation for anyone offering energy healing professionally, ensuring your practice is safe, sustainable, and deeply aligned with integrity.

Key Highlights

• The evolution of Midge’s work at the intersection of law, ethics and energy medicine
• The major legal risks energy healers face today and how to avoid them
• What CAM is and how it fits within the Western medical paradigm
• Informed consent, confidentiality and professional boundaries in energy work
• How to avoid making medical claims or misleading statements
• Scope of practice guidelines for ethical, safe healing
• Working with clients online or across state lines
• What defines a credible, ethical training organisation
• The future of integrative medicine and the essential role of energy

Learn more: www.midgemurphy.com