NOMI Code of Ethics
NOMI believes that professional Medical Intuitive practitioners should uphold high ethical standards with the benefit of the client as their primary goal. Professional Medical Intuitive practitioners should not only possess knowledge, skill, and technical competence, but also the qualities of honesty, compassion, kindness, integrity, and fairness. These traits are part of the ethical practice of Medical Intuition and help to define a true professional.
A Professional Medical Intuitive Practitioner:
Follows high ethical standards with the primary tenet to do no harm.
Works within their legally defined scope of practice and adheres to the principles of their professional licensures and certifications.
Abides by the applicable local, state, and national laws, regulations, and rules that govern the delivery of their services to the public.
Does not discriminate based on religion, race, sexual orientation, age, disability or health.
Does not diagnose, prescribe or provide a prognosis unless within their scope of practice and professional licensure under applicable laws.
Does not interfere with the clients’ and patients’ medical advice or treatment plans provided by their licensed healthcare providers.
Does not offer assurances of clinical improvement, cure or recovery.
Does not make misleading, false, deceptive or fraudulent statements when advertising their services to the public.
Does not foster or encourage undue financial, emotional or other dependency with clients or patients.
Respects the fundamental dignity, worth, personal journey and values of all clients and patients.
Strives to keep current with competency and skills in Medical Intuition.
Represents their practice fairly, ethically and accurately, including obtaining informed consent from clients and patients, providing clear and accurate information to prospective clients and patients, and maintaining appropriate insurance, record keeping, and policies.
Maintains clear boundaries and avoids inappropriate relationships with clients and patients.
Maintains client and patient confidentiality.
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ethics for the intuitive practitioner
Wendie Colter, MCWC, CMIP
For more than a decade, Midge Murphy, JD, PhD (Energy Medicine) has been a tireless advocate for bringing ethics, legal issues, and risk management strategies into energy-based practices and in the training of alternative healing arts practitioners. Her groundbreaking book, Practice Energy Healing in Integrity: The Joy of Offering Your Gifts Legally & Ethically (2015-2020), along with the accompanying exam and certificate, is considered the gold standard in ethics, legal issues, and risk management strategies in the practice of intuitive and energy healing methods.
Murphy is the first attorney to receive her PhD in energy medicine and as an energy healing practitioner herself, she understands both the law and the alternative healing arts. This allows her to lend her expertise as a bridge between the two worlds and to provide a well-balanced and needed perspective as the use of complementary and alternative methods by the public continues to grow.
“Whether an intuitive practitioner, such as a medical intuitive, or an energy healing practitioner, such as a Reiki master, has a stand-alone practice or is working as a team member in an integrative practice, they must understand all of the legal risks,” Murphy states. She points out that licensed health care providers, that incorporate intuitive or energy healing methods into their practices, can be subject to professional discipline from their licensing boards for practicing below the standards of care or outside their legally defined scope of practice. Non-licensed practitioners who may hold a certification in their energy-based modality, must be careful not to be perceived as practicing medicine or another licensed health care practice without a license. Consequently, both licensed and non-licensed practitioners must operate within the current legal and regulatory framework that governs helping professionals.
Murphy’s orientation of ethics includes foundational ethical standards such as being client-centered, maintaining the fiduciary relationship and client confidentiality, developing a professional environment for structure and safety, obtaining informed consent, disclosing risks and benefits, and only practicing within your legally defined scope of practice.
However, it also includes recognizing the sacred or special relationship between practitioner and client. “When we frame our relationship with our clients as a sacred contract, we lay the foundation for ethical behavior. By incorporating the sacred into our practice, we embrace the expanded definition of ethics to include reverence for all life, which underlies all healing systems,” Murphy says. Because energy-based practices access deeper levels of consciousness, she advises that practitioners should be mindful of their sacred contract with their clients and take care not to blur ethical lines. “We have a primary responsibility to not only being committed to ethical behavior but also to working with clients within the field of the heart and creating multi-levels of awareness with them,” she says.
This responsibility extends to what is said, and how it is communicated. “The actual words the practitioner chooses is very important, not only for legal reasons, but also to become aware of the power differential between the practitioner and the client,” Murphy says. This differential refers to a practitioner’s knowledge and expertise, which inherently puts the client into the more vulnerable position. But the dynamic can be amplified when using energy-based practices. She explains that an ethical practitioner should be careful to not project their own beliefs or biases, but to, “Offer a client the opportunity to further his or her own choices about healthcare.”
She emphasizes that an energy-based practitioner’s commitment and obligation to their own personal and professional development is imperative. “One of the most ethical principles a practitioner can have is to continue their own personal growth and self-healing, and to reach out to those resources that could help them. To me, that is the behavior and demeanor that is conducive to being an ethical practitioner.”
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