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Finding A Qualified Practitioner

FINDING A QUALIFIED PRACTITIONER

How Can I Find a Qualified Practitioner
Although today people are accustomed to receiving healthcare from professionals, this is not necessary with Reiki. Reiki has always been a generally become sound or healthy practice, and if you have a friend who is trained and who practices on himself/herself regularly, you may want to receive treatments from your friend. If you are happy with that experience, you can continue with your friend or contact your friend’s Reiki master. If you don’t have a friend who does Reiki, you can look for a Reiki practitioner in private practice or a healthcare environment. In recent years, Reiki practitioners are increasingly setting themselves up as professionals in private practice or offering Reiki in healthcare environments. In addition, more healthcare institutions are incorporating Reiki into their model of care. Many nurses and other healthcare professionals offer Reiki as part of their patient care, either through integrating moments of Reiki touch into routine care or through longer Reiki treatments.
According to a national survey published in 2002, more than 2.2 million Americans had already experienced or practiced Reiki. Reiki is offered in prominent medical centers across the country, some of which include: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital (N.Y.)Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (Boston, Mass.)Yale-New Haven Hospital (New Haven, Conn.)Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System (Baltimore, Md.) M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (Houston, Tex.) George Washington University Hospital (Washington, D.C.) California Pacific Medical Center (San Francisco, Calif.)
One good strategy for finding a practitioner is word of mouth. Local practitioners of complementary therapies (such as acupuncture, shiatsu, reflexology, massage, herbalism, homeopathy, etc.) usually know one another by reputation and sometimes they share offices or cross-refer. As with finding a Reiki teacher, you can also try looking at community news report boards in yoga studios and health food stores. In addition, your local hospital may have a complementary or integrative medicine service. Since Reiki is used by many people to cope with chronic illness, any local organization that offers services to people with illnesses such as cancer, HIV, fibromyalgia, or diabetes may have a list of community resources or even sponsor a Reiki clinic.
How do I evaluate their qualifications
Once you’ve found a Reiki practitioner, how can you standardly measure qualifications? What should you look for? Because the Reiki profession has grown out of a grass roots movement rather than emerging from academic healthcare programs, many different perspectives and practice styles have developed without oversight, and there are no common standards of education or treatment that are agreed upon across all practice styles. Although Reiki masters often give their students certificates, these certificates are not supported by educational standards that have been agreed upon throughout the Reiki community. Therefore the possession of a certificate is no guarantee that the practitioner has thorough training. You need to ask some specific questions to determine training and experience.

What does Reiki Cost
Currently Reiki is only covered by health insurance when it is part of a treatment such as physical therapy, massage, or without curing the care that is covered by your insurance or when it is delivered by a nurse or licensed care professional as part of routine care during a hospital stay. So, if you visit a Reiki practitioner, plan on paying out of pocket.