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OREGON HEALING PRACTITIONERS LICENSING
anuary 2022 Oregon will most likely pass a Licensing requirement for all healers who are not currently covered under other licensure. HB2493 started with a voluntary registry for alternative therapists that they could choose to join. It may be more enforced as time goes on as California suddenly decided to require Massage Therapy Licensing for ALL healers, even Art Therapists, that seems excessive. Once registered, an alternative therapy member may be subject to ethics coursework and other certification requirements. The benefits of joining include being covered by health insurances. This bill was created for both consumer protection but also practitioner protections against
liability or malpractice suits. It is controversial, some say it is taking away medical freedoms, others complain the state is trying to make money off healers. As a LMT of 23 years, I've always been licensed,
taken ethics coursework, bought liability insurance through AMTA. It seems unfair that anyone can just put a shingle up & offer healing services without any training or certification. Many of my clients
have said they would never go to an unlicensed healer, so it may benefit healers to have legitimacy. Sometimes unlicensed healers will dabble in modalities such as tuning forks by purchasing them online with no proper training. As someone who trained with Acutonics for 3 years at Bastyr University, we might all benefit with certification requirements in more alternative therapies. I spoke with 2 experts Gail Jett of Advanced Healing Energetics, Licensed Nurse & LMT, Dr. Melinda Connor & Katelyn Connor who sat on the board for HB2493, you can watch their video on our BHG YOUTUBE Channel & got to bendhealthguide.com for a link to read the whole bill.
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