Practitioner: Shveta Aneja
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Welcome! This page contains important information about my professional services and business policies. It covers a wide range of possible situations, many of which will not apply to you. Please read it carefully and note any questions you have so that we can discuss them. If you sign this document, it will represent an agreement between us.
What is Energy Medicine?
I am a certified practitioner of Eden Energy Medicine. Energy Medicine is an approach that involves balancing and restoring your body’s natural energies for the purposes of increasing your vitality, strengthening your mental capacities, and optimizing your health. The form I use was developed by Donna Eden and is described in her book, Energy Medicine.
Roots. The techniques you will be experiencing and learning trace back to ancient healing and spiritual traditions such as yoga, tai chi, and acupuncture. The modern form I use and teach does not require adherence to any particular set of beliefs or practices. The core concept is that your personal well-being and effectiveness are directly related to the state of your body’s energies.
Your Body’s Energies. Einstein’s famous formula, E=mc2, changed the course of physics and of history by showing that matter is a form of energy. Our bodies are comprised of molecules that are in constant motion and that are continually being influenced by outside forces. The medical profession measures electromagnetic fields using devices such as EKGs, EEGs, and MRIs. The vital role these energies play in our everyday health and well-being is well established. Scientists from a range of disciplines are now introducing concepts such as “force fields” and “subtle energies” to explain what they are observing. Subtle energies are called “subtle” because they are not easily detectable and scientists have not been able to develop instruments to reliably measure them. Nonetheless, people throughout history and across cultures have described seeing or feeling subtle energies.
Enhancing Your Body’s Energies. You may have heard of subtle energy through terms such as the “life force,” “chi,” “meridians,” “chakras,” “biofields,” or “auras.” In many healing traditions, the “life force,” the animating force that distinguishes life from death, is understood as a form subtle energy. Eastern cultures in particular have studied such energies for millennia and have successfully applied their understanding for enhancing both physical and emotional health. Systems designed to influence the body’s subtle energies include yoga, Reiki, acupuncture, acupressure, tai chi, Therapeutic Touch, and energy medicine, just to name just a few. Many hospitals in the United States now include such methods to help with the healing of a variety of conditions.
The techniques I will be using and teaching you are based on the premise that by promoting balance and flow in the body’s electromagnetic and subtle energies, health and well-being are enhanced. They may involve the use of certain postures or movements or touching, holding, pressing upon, tracing, or circling over specified areas of the skin. They move, balance, enhance, and restore the body’s energies.
I may also employ a procedure called “energy testing” where I apply light pressure to your outstretched arm, sometimes while you or I touch another area of your body. This is a way of assessing how your energies are flowing through specific areas of your body and may help us identify the techniques that will be most beneficial for you. The methods we will be using lend themselves to highly individualized applications in the office as well as to back-home self-care.
Limitations of my Energy Medicine practice
Although Energy Medicine uses the term “medicine,” it does not imply that Energy Medicine practitioners are practicing medicine. This is a commonly used term by many training programs that teach people how to assess and correct for energy imbalances in the body. Energy Medicine is not a substitute for the diagnosis and/ or treatment of medical or mental health conditions by a licensed health care professional. If you have a disorder that has been diagnosed by a licensed medical or mental health professional or a condition that should be evaluated by a licensed health professional, my services should be used only in conjunction with your obtaining that care. I do not diagnose or treat medical or mental health disorders, nor am I trained or licensed to do so.
Energy Medicine attempts to optimize the body’s overall health and vitality, but it is not to be used instead of appropriate care from a licensed professional.
The effectiveness of energy work is maximized with your active involvement between sessions. I will show you how to establish energy patterns that optimize body, mind, and spirit. Reinforcing these new patterns through the regular practice of energy exercises is recommended.
Energy Medicine techniques bring disturbed energies back to a state of balance and harmony. These corrections will generally consist of various forms of light or deeper touch and of movement of my hands within your body’s energy field. If you are uncomfortable with being touched or with any of the procedures being used, please tell me and I will immediately stop.
While the methods I use and teach are gentle and considered non-invasive, it is possible that physical or emotional after-effects may occur after your energies have been stimulated and adjusted. In some instances, deeper pressure is used to move energies that may be blocked or congested in a particular area of the body, and this may cause some pain or discomfort. Dizziness, nausea, or anxiety are relatively unusual but not unheard of side-effects to energy work. If any procedure is uncomfortable or leads to discomfort, please tell me at once. I will immediately stop if you request me to do so and can often provide a technique to rebalance energies whose stimulation is causing discomfort.
My background and training
I am a Clinical Practitioner in Eden Energy Medicine (EEM) after training for three years with EEM (2021-2024)
Professional Records
I keep brief records of each session, primarily noting the date of the session, the energy interventions used, and progress or obstacles observed as they relate to your goals in working with me. You are welcome to request, in writing, that I make a copy of your file available to other health care providers. I maintain your records in a secure location that cannot be accessed by anyone else. I will maintain your records for at least five years after our last contact, after which time I may securely dispose of them.
Confidentiality
Except for special situations described below, I will keep our work together confidential. I cannot and will not tell anyone else what you have told me, or even that you are using my services without your prior permission. You may direct me to share information with whomever you chose, and you can change your mind and revoke that permission at any time. You may request anyone you wish to attend a session with you.
If you elect to communicate with me by email at some point in our work together, please be aware that email is not completely confidential. All emails are retained in the logs of your or my internet service provider. While under normal circumstances no one looks at these logs, they are, in theory, available to be read by the system administrators of the internet service provider. Any email I receive from you, and any responses that I send to you, will be kept as a part of your treatment record.
Following are nine exceptions to confidentiality:
I am legally obligated to take action to protect others from harm, even if I have to reveal some information about a client’s treatment. For example, if I believe that a child, an elderly person, or a disabled person is being abused, I must file a report with the appropriate state or local agency.
If I believe that a client is threatening serious bodily harm to another, I am required to take protective actions. These actions may include notifying the potential victim or contacting the police.
If I believe that you are in imminent danger of harming yourself, I may legally break confidentiality and contact the police, a local crisis team, or a family member or other intimates.
If you disclose that a licensed health or mental health care provider has engaged in (1) sexual contact with a patient, including yourself, or (2) is impaired in their ability to practice due to cognitive, emotional, behavioral, or health problems, I may be required to report this to the appropriate state licensing board. I will inform you before making such a report, unless legal restrictions prevent me from doing so. However, if you are a licensed health care provider and my client, your confidentiality remains protected under California law in this context, and I am not required to report you.
In certain legal proceedings—such as child custody cases or situations where your emotional condition or treatment is a key issue—a judge may order my testimony. In such cases, confidentiality may not be protected. Additionally, there are other legal circumstances where confidentiality may be waived by law. If you are involved in a legal matter where confidentiality could be at risk, I recommend consulting an attorney for guidance.
If am consulted by your spouse, partner, or another member of your family , we will establish the limits of confidentiality in advance. My policy in most circumstances is that what you say and what we do can be shared with other family members. If this is what we establish, do not tell me anything you wish to keep secret from other intimates I am working with. If confidential information is a concern, it is better for each family member to work with a different practitioner.
I may occasionally find it helpful to consult other professionals about a client. During a consultation, I make every effort to avoid revealing the identity of the client. The consultant is also bound to keep the information confidential. In my own ongoing professional training, I may share details of your energy sessions without revealing your identity . I would not normally mention this unless I feel it is important to our work together.
Should I suddenly become unable to continue to provide my professional services, I have pre-authorized another health care professional to review my case notes and to contact my clients for the purpose of discussing next steps in the energy healing work they were doing with me.
Minors
If you are under eighteen years of age, I am required to involve a parent or guardian and let them examine my records of our work together. It is my policy to request a written agreement from parents to waive their right to access your records. If they agree, I will provide them only with general information about our work together unless I feel there is a high risk that you will seriously harm yourself or someone else. In this case, I will notify them of my concern. Before giving them any information, I will endeavor to discuss the matter with you and handle any objections you may have with what I am prepared to discuss.
Contacting me
The best way to contact me is at hello@ishkaflow.com.
Other aspects of our relationship
I welcome your questions. Please ask me questions about anything that happens in our work together. I'm always willing to discuss how and why I’m doing what I'm doing.
I never engage in sexual intimacies with clients or former clients and generally avoid social and business relationships. Beyond the legal and ethical considerations, our work together will be most effective when kept free from possible outside entanglements.
Touch
Physical contact, even in a healing relationship, can be a sensitive matter because touch can be easily misinterpreted and feel too intimate, uncomfortable, or sexual in nature. Touching in a sexual manner is unethical within a professional healing relationship and will never be a part of our work together. Many of the methods I will use, however, are likely to involve touch. The theory behind such methods is that touching or holding points can assist me and you in identifying and shifting imbalances in your energies. At such times, you would remain fully clothed, with perhaps the exception of your shoes. I would always explain ahead of time where I would touch, and you can let me know if you are comfortable with it or not. I will always honor any requests not to touch.
Touch can also be a potential problem in a healing relationship if you have had a history of paranoia, have been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, have been sexually or physically abused, have suffered from other types of trauma, or if you tend to dissociate or detach from your sense of self. Please let me know if you fall into any of these categories prior to our starting our work together. We can discuss any emotional risks associated with touch that may be of concern to you. Furthermore, if you have any misgivings, doubts, or any negative reactions to any physical contact, it is very important that you let me know as soon as possible so that we can discuss your concerns. If you are uncomfortable talking to me, I encourage you to talk through such concerns with another professional. If you wish, I can make a referral for you.
You normally will be the one who decides the service will end, but there are three exceptions to this. If I determine that I am unable, for any reason, to provide you with the services you are requesting at a high professional standard, I will inform you of this decision and refer you to another practitioner who may better meet your needs. Second, if you verbally or physically threaten or harass me, or my family, I reserve the right to terminate you from treatment immediately and unilaterally. Third, I reserve the right to refuse or terminate a session if you or anyone in the session is suspected of being under the influence of a mood-altering substance.
Trauma
If you are involved in legal proceedings related to past trauma, please be aware that our work together may reduce the emotional intensity of traumatic memories. This could adversely affect your ability to provide legal testimony that carries the same impact as prior to treatment.
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