Quantum-Touch

Domain XII · Complementary, energy & biofield · Richard Gordon · 1978

What it is

Training route (as Quantum-Touch, Inc. publishes it)

Format

• Session format as published. Client on a table or in a chair, fully clothed; no special preparation beyond asking what the issue is; sessions of roughly 10 to 75 minutes; can be combined with any other modality.
• Assessment and suitability (session 1–2 of the contract). Ask what the client hopes for, check the medical picture, trauma history, dissociation, touch history and beliefs. Move on only if the client initiates or clearly welcomes the idea and there are no exclusions (Section 5).

Who practises it, and how they are trained or regulated

• Training route (as Quantum-Touch, Inc. publishes it)
• Certification (who certifies: Quantum-Touch, Inc.). Level 1 taken twice, plus one of Levels 2–5; at least 90 hours of individually documented sessions using Level 1–5 techniques (all may be distance sessions; no more than 30 hours on self, plants or animals; each workshop counts as 4 hours; Becoming Whole sessions do not count); five written "creative insights" from Quantum-Touch experience; an application fee;…
• Professional-body positions. No psychotherapy body is known to have published a position on Quantum-Touch specifically. BACP treats touch as dependent on the therapy model and on client agreement, requires discussing touch, its purpose and meaning, and asking permission, and directs boundary issues to supervision. Check your own licensing board and insurer before adding any touch or energy method to your practice.

Evidence status, as the guide reports it

• Informed consent and contracting. Written consent covering: complementary method; what it involves (breathing, attention, optional light touch over clothing or hands-off, optional distant work); one-line evidence status; no diagnosis and no replacement of medical care; right to stop at any moment;…

Questions to explore with your client

• What drew you to it, and what are you hoping it will change?
• Is there physical contact? Was it explained beforehand, and do you feel free to say no or stop at any point?
• Does it involve intense or unusual breathing? Have you been told about the medical conditions for which that is not advised?
• Is it a group, retreat or community? How do they respond if someone wants to leave or raises a concern?
• How do you and the practitioner understand what is happening, in spiritual or cultural terms? Is that a source of comfort, worry, or both?
• Who runs it, and what training or registration do they hold?
• What actually happens in a session or meeting, and how often?
• What does it cost, and is there pressure to commit to more?
• How do you feel afterwards, in the hours and days that follow?
• Does it fit with, or clash with, the work we do here?

What practitioners of it watch for

• As in 4.2.
• As in 4.4.
• As in 4.4; self-touch can also be a useful no-contact alternative to offer.
• Boundary drift, dependency, magical thinking about outcomes for seriously ill people.
• Prosperity framings ("charging wallets") that may play into financial pressure or magical thinking.

When to involve someone else

• New or worsening physical symptoms, or advice to stop or change prescribed medication: involve the client's doctor or prescriber.
• Signs of coercion, isolation from family and friends, escalating costs or secrecy: discuss openly and consider safeguarding.
• A crisis or thoughts of suicide: follow your crisis protocol. In the US, call or text 988; in the UK and Ireland, Samaritans on 116 123.

Drawn automatically from the guide's own sections. Stay curious: neither endorse nor dismiss what the client values, and check anything that matters against the full guide and its sources. Not medical advice.