Скачать или смотреть Episode 228: Spiritual and Energy Practices in Therapy: Law and Ethics [featuring Tina Vitolo]

In this episode, Patrick Casale and Dr. Tina Vitolo, founder of The Black Sheep Therapist® movement, talk about bringing non-traditional modalities and spiritual practices into clinical therapy settings and the service side of therapy. This conversation tackles the gray areas, legal myths, and shame therapists face when paving their own path to offer services like tarot card readings, crystal work, and past-life regression.

𝟯 𝗸𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀:
You Can Integrate Spiritual/Energy Practices Ethically: Dr. Vitolo shares her nationwide research into actual state laws and ethics codes—there is rarely black-and-white language forbidding innovative approaches. If you use clinical competence, appropriate training, and client consent, your practice can be both ethical and innovative.
2. Stop Letting Shame and Fear Lead Your Decisions: Therapists often get shamed online for using things like tarot or other unconventional methods. "Shame doesn’t create change." If you’re transparent, informed, and focused on client values, there’s room to break the mold.
3. Your Authenticity is Your Niche: Our niches are often versions of ourselves. By owning your background and therapeutic style—even if it’s unconventional—you’ll attract the clients who truly need you.

𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐓𝐢𝐧𝐚:

Dr. Tina Vitolo is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, published researcher, and founder of The Black Sheep Therapist® movement—an online community of over 5,000 therapists redefining what ethical and innovative clinical practice looks like. Holding a Doctorate in Social Work from Florida Atlantic University and a Master’s from NYU, Dr. Vitolo is recognized as one of the only thought leaders in the mental health field, developing tangible, legally grounded frameworks for integrating spiritual, energy-based, and unconventional practices into therapy.

Through her Black Sheep Therapist Academy, Tina provides nontraditional, CEU-approved trainings that translate complementary and alternative interventions into clinically compliant, theory-aligned practice. Dr. Vitolo’s work is built on the foundation of her doctoral research on the intersection of innovation, regulation, and ethical practice. She is the only clinician to have developed a comprehensive framework for ethical integration—rooted in a deep reading of state regulations, ethical codes, and informed consent standards—to support therapists in incorporating any and all nontraditional modalities into legitimate clinical work.

Check out The Innovative Practitioner Accelerator®: This program helps therapists merge traditional clinical practice with their spiritual, intuitive, or energy-based approaches—without fear of crossing ethical or legal lines. It includes personalized guidance, templates for informed consent and clinical documentation, and training on how to articulate your theoretical alignment so your work is both compliant and authentic. Visit: https://theblacksheepguide.com
IG: @the_blacksheep_therapist
TikTok: @theblacksheeptherapist
FB: facebook.com/groups/blacksheepguide

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