ACEP is recognized as the largest international organization that promotes the research and professional application of energy psychology approaches.
Formed as a non-profit in 1999, ACEP has a global membership of over 1,400 licensed mental health professionals and allied health practitioners. Our goal is to resolve the effects of stress and trauma and optimize well-being by integrating energy psychology and energy practices throughout community and healthcare systems.
ACEP works on behalf of its members to establish the credibility and efficacy of energy psychology methods through its programs of education, certification, ethics, humanitarian aid and research.
By upholding standards of practice and a code of ethics for energy psychology practitioners, ACEP raises the bar of professionalism for this emerging field. ACEP also has ongoing initiatives to increase public awareness of the effectiveness and cost efficiency of these methods.
Within the ACEP organization is a family of integrative disciplines that apply energy-related concepts and models across multiple areas. ACEP members integrate mind-body-energy approaches into psychotherapy, healthcare, and coaching for the treatment and enhancement of emotional and physical health, and performance conditions.
ACEP has trained over 16,000 professionals. ACEP is an approved provider of continuing education for psychologists, social workers, professional counselors, nurses, marriage and family therapists, drug and alcohol counselors and acupuncturists. ACEP maintains responsibility for its programs and its content. www.energypsych.org
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ABOUT ENERGY PSYCHOLOGY
Energy psychology (EP) is a collection of mind-body approaches to understanding and improving human functioning. EP focuses on the relationship between thoughts, emotions, sensations, and behaviors, and known bioenergy systems (such as meridians and the biofield). These systems and processes exist, and interact, within individuals and between people. They are also influenced by cultural and environmental factors.
Within an EP framework, emotional and physical issues are seen, and treated, as bio-energetic patterns within a mind-body-energy system. The mind and body are thought to be interwoven and interactive within this mind-body-energy system, which involves complex communication involving neurobiological processes, innate electrophysiology, psychoneuroimmunology (PNI), consciousness, and cognitive-behavioral-emotional patterns.
The use of EP has resulted in the development of associated methods and models to treat psychological and emotional problems, facilitate health and wellbeing, and improve human performance. These models and methods are usually used within an integrative or holistic approach to practices such as psychotherapy, counseling, coaching, integrative medicine, and other healing modalities.
Applications of Energy Psychology
EP applications incorporate natural energetic components into the treatment process that include, but are not limited to, meridians, chakras, biofields, and bio-electrical and electromagnetic activity of the body, the nervous system and the heart. EP practitioners often combine cognitive and physical interventions with activation of one or more of the human bio-energy systems. Some practitioners focus on the way in which thought and intention are expressed in the bioenergy system, and explore the therapeutic value of precise use of language and congruent intention. EP approaches adapt and integrate easily into most psychotherapy models, healthcare orientations, and models of performance enhancement. EP approaches are often exceedingly rapid, have little to no adverse effects, are usually experienced as self-empowering by clients and patients, and are easily amenable to self-help protocols.
In the clinical world, EP models have been beneficially applied to assessment and treatment of trauma, anxiety, depression, pain, stress, psychophysiological issues, and self-sabotaging behaviors by a broad range of healthcare providers, to regulate affect and promote emotional and physical health. Treatment results have been shown to be enduring and relatively rapid.
There are currently over 176 research studies, including 88+ randomized controlled trials, published in English speaking, professional and refereed journals, confirming the treatment value of EP. In addition, 100+ research studies have been published in non-English journals. These modalities have been researched by more than 200 investigators in over 12 countries. Taken as a body of knowledge, these findings suggest that EP meets the criteria for evidence-based treatment.
Here's some exciting developments that indicate a wider use of energy psychology.
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2017 - EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) approved as "generally safe" by US Veterans Administration.
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2018 - UK healthcare system acknowledged the body of energy psychology research and deemed it worthy of government research funding.
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2019 - EFT approved for use within South Korean medical system.
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2020 - Australia approved EFT as therapy under its National Insurance Disability Scheme.
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2022 - Energy psychology part of curriculum of major French medical school, University of Medicine, Lyon.
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2022 - UK healthcare system recommends tapping as one way to alieve anxiety.
In the coaching and performance world, EP models have been beneficially applied in many areas of performance enhancement including sports, education, business, and lifestyle issues related to weight management, relationships, and finance.
The Growth of Energy Psychology
Historically, EP methods integrate concepts and techniques from related fields, including acupuncture meridian theory, neuroscience, physics/quantum mechanics, biology, medicine, chiropractic, and psychology to facilitate change. Since the 1970s, these methods have been further developed, refined, and supported via clinical experience and research across multiple areas of application. For example, EP methods have been beneficially integrated into the psychotherapy process, nursing, medicine, coaching, athletics, and education.