Innersource Energy Psychology Courses

David Feinstein, Ph, D. David Feinstein, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist who has done pioneering work in the areas of personal mythology and energy psychology. Author of 7 books and over 50 professional papers, he has taught at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Antioch College. His multi-media Energy Psychology Interactive self-study training program was a recipient of the Outstanding Contribution Award from the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology. He is a member of the American Psychological Association, and the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology.

Brief Overview of Energy Psychology

Credit Hour: 1

Course Description:

Energy Psychology and the Instant Phobia Cure: New Paradigm or the Old Razzle Dazzle is an expanded version of an article published in the January 2005 issue of Psychotherapy Networker. The article is designed to introduce psychotherapists and other health care professionals who work with psychological issues to the new field of Energy Psychology. The article introduces both the basic concepts and the standard energy psychology procedure, and provides 4 case examples illustrating the most important common elements used in energy interventions for psychological treatment. It also discusses research findings in related fields, possible neurological mechanisms, and potential clinical applications.

Introduction to Energy Psychology

Credit Hours: 8

Course Description:

The Introduction to Energy Psychology course provides a brief introduction to the field of energy psychology. It describes the field’s history, essential principles, theoretical underpinnings, efficacy research, and indications and contraindications. It explores the body’s energy systems, including the meridians and radiant energies It is also a practical course, teaching participants how to apply a basic energy psychology protocol for overcoming emotional problems, achieving psychological goals, and maximizing inner well-being. This course is based on the Introduction to Energy Psychology DVD set and the Energy Psychology Interactive, Self-Help Guide.

The Promise of Energy Psychology

Credit Hours: 10

Course Description:

The Promise of Energy Psychology introduces the basic concepts and practices of this important new clinical development. By working with the body’s energies, it is possible to rapidly and non-invasively shift neurology, to literally change the patterns in the brain that maintain unwanted habits, maladaptive emotions, and self-limiting ways of thinking. Promise addresses a wide range of topics, from the treatment of emotional problems (anxiety, irrational fear, trauma reactions, depression, and addictions are all addressed) to cultivating potentials and peak performance to increasing "emotional intelligence." The reader comes to understand the body’s energy systems and learns ways of working with them to bring harmony and balance to emotions, thoughts, and behavior and literally reprogram the body’s response to stress.

Energy Psychology Interactive: Basic Principles and Procedures

Credit Hours: 18

Course Description:

Energy Psychology Interactive is designed to bring psychotherapists and other health care professionals who work with psychological issues the basic concepts and skills needed to begin to introduce energy psychology interventions into their practices. It was developed in collaboration with a 24-member Advisory Board that includes many of the recognized leaders and innovators within the field.

This course, based on the Energy Psychology Interactive CD-Rom and Energy Psychology Interactive Companion Book, introduces basic concepts and procedures, including an overview of the field, research findings, possible neurological mechanisms, the use of energy interventions in psychological treatment, assessing the body’s energy systems, working with neurological disorganization and psychological reversals, assessing and correcting the energy imbalances that are associated with dysfunctional emotional reactions, and techniques for translating improvements from the office to the client’s back-home setting.

Energy Pyschology Interactive: Advanced Topics

Credit Hours: 18

Course Description: Energy Psychology Interactive: Advanced Topics is designed to expand the skills and knowledge of psychotherapists and other health care professionals who work with psychological issues and who have completed the Energy Psychology Interactive: Basic Principles and Procedures course. It was developed in collaboration with a 24-member Advisory Board that includes many of the recognized leaders and innovators within the field.

This course, based on the Energy Psychology Interactive CD-Rom and Energy Psychology Interactive Companion book addresses more topics such as basing the treatment on an assessment of specific meridian imbalances, working with core beliefs, introducing shortcuts and specific treatment protocols, formulating energy interventions using the chakras and the radiant circuits, surveying a range of energy approaches, integrating energy interventions with other forms of psychotherapy, reviewing the principles of energy medicine, trauma and other clinical applications, and surveying controversies and issues in the field.

A Review of Preliminary Evidence

Credit Hours: 2

Course Description:

This paper, Energy Psychology: A Review of the Preliminary Evidence, is a free download that provides an overview of the preliminary evidence in the emerging field of energy psychology and surveys a range of studies in energy psychology and related fields, considering efficacy, procedures, mechanisms, plus indications and contraindications for an energy approach to psychological issues. It also describes basic concepts underlying energy psychology protocols, plus summarizes 8 anecdotal reports, systematic observations, and case studies of EP, uncontrolled outcome studies, and details 7 controlled trials testing energy psychology (EP) methods. It is scheduled for publication in Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training.

Energy Psychology in Disaster Relief

Credit Hours: 2

Course Description:

Two papers available as free downloads, Energy Psychology in Disaster Relief and Energy Psychology in Disaster Relief: Additional Cases, provide a brief overview of how the emerging field of Energy Psychology is being applied in the aftermath of natural and human-made disasters.