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Guide XII-075

Radionics and TimeWaver

Albert Abrams, Marcus Schmieke1920San Francisco
A 27 · L 65 · M 813 interventions in the Trinity explorer
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[source: …] where a claim comes from[uncertain] not confirmed in a primary source[synthesis] the writer's reconstruction

1. Introduction

Version followed: radionics as the UK Radionic Association publishes it today (dowsing-based distant healing using a hair "witness"), with its historical origin in Albert Abrams' Electronic Reactions of Abrams (ERA); and TimeWaver as TimeWaver International describes its "Information Field" systems. The psychotherapist works alongside this method and does not perform, sell, prescribe or recommend radionics or TimeWaver. Sections 1–3 describe the methods as their own organisations publish them; section 4 is the therapist's own work when a client uses or is considering them.

Radionics, as its organisation describes it. The Radionic Association calls radionics "a method of energy based distant healing". Practitioners hold that "all life is made up of vital and subtle energies" that can be disturbed by trauma, shock and environmental or emotional stress, and they aim, using dowsing and analysis, to restore balance "through the chakras and subtle bodies" [source: Radionic Association home page]. An Association paper presents radionics as a form of mental healing: the instrument is an extension of the practitioner's mind, the witness is a focus for attention, and in one view cited there "the analysis is the treatment" [source: Radionic Association, Mind in Radionics]. These are the method's own concepts, stated here as the practitioners hold them.

Origins. The Association traces radionics to Albert Abrams, a San Francisco physician (given as 1863–1924), who proposed that diseased tissue emits "radiation", assigned diseases a "rate" read from a resistance box, and built a treatment device, the Oscilloclast [source: Radionic Association, Origins of Radionics]. His diagnostic set-up (the dynamizer) placed a blood specimen in a circuit connected to a healthy "reagent" person whose abdomen was percussed; he leased rather than sold the machines, and lessees agreed not to open them [source: NZ Skeptics, From ERA to EAV; Skeptic's Dictionary]. Abrams' birth and death years differ between sources (1863 or 1864; 1924 or 1925) [uncertain]. The term "radionic" was coined by users of a later instrument in the late 1920s; successors named by the Association include W. E. Boyd, Ruth Drown, George de la Warr, Malcolm Rae, Bruce Copen and David Tansley, with pendulum dowsing replacing the human test subject over time [source: Radionic Association, Origins; Mind in Radionics]. The "Delawarr" instruments and laboratory named in some histories are [uncertain: not verified].

TimeWaver, as its maker describes it. TimeWaver was founded in 2007 by Marcus Schmieke, described by the company as its founder and inventor, and is based at Kränzlin Castle near Berlin [source: TimeWaver, Company]. The company says its systems analyse and "harmonize" imbalances in an "Information Field", a concept it derives from the unified field theory of the German physicist Burkhard Heim, and which it describes as "neither a physical nor a mental thing" and as linking matter and mind. It states that analysis results are prioritised using data from a physical noise generator and reflect factors at the time of analysis "including the intention of the user", and that harmonisation is often combined with frequencies and microcurrent [source: TimeWaver, The Information Field]. Product lines named by the company include Frequency, Pro, Cardio, a Coaching module and a business product, with users listed as physicians, naturopaths, physiotherapists, coaches, systemic constellators and business coaches [source: TimeWaver, Company]. Some secondary accounts place TimeWaver in the radionics lineage; the company's own descriptions do not state this [uncertain: not verified].

Core idea of change (as the methods hold it). Disturbance in subtle energies or the information field is held to underlie ill-health, and restoring balance there is held to support wellbeing. Neither organisation presents a psychological mechanism. For the therapist, change happens in the client's own decisions, meanings and health behaviour, which is where section 4 works [synthesis].

Status in one line each.

  • Evidence: the UK advertising regulator states it has not been given evidence that the radionic energy field exists or that radionics restores it [source: ASA/CAP, Health: Radionics]; TimeWaver itself states that wellbeing benefits "have not been confirmed by independent studies" [source: TimeWaver, Company]; historical investigations of Abrams' devices (a 1924 Scientific American series; an AMA examination of a box that found ordinary components) found the claims unsupported [source: NZ Skeptics; Skeptic's Dictionary — secondary].
  • TimeWaver's own position: its analysis and harmonisation "is not intended to cure, treat, mitigate, diagnose or prevent any disease or medical condition"; users are told to work within their licence or certification and use is "at the user's own risk" [source: TimeWaver, The Information Field; Company].
  • UK: radionics is not a statutorily regulated profession [synthesis]; CAP/ASA advise marketers to make no efficacy claims, including in testimonials, until robust evidence exists [source: ASA/CAP].
  • USA: historically, Ruth Drown was prosecuted and fined after an FDA case; later prosecutions for distributing unapproved diagnostic devices of the radionic/energy type are reported (2009, 2013) [source: NZ Skeptics; Skeptic's Dictionary — secondary; uncertain: primary FDA records not verified].
  • Australia: the TGA ran a priority advertising compliance activity on bioresonance devices from May 2019, citing high non-compliance and prohibited claims about serious disease; radionics as such is not named [source: TGA].
  • Germany and the EU: the medical-device status of individual TimeWaver products (including the product the company files under "Medicine") is not stated in the company's published descriptions [uncertain: not verified].

2. Framework

What the client experiences in the method (as published).

  • Radionics: the client chooses a practitioner directly (distance is said to be "no barrier"), completes a confidential case-history form, sends "a small snippet of hair" as a witness, and agrees fees individually; there is no fixed fee scale. The Association says radionics "may be used alongside other therapies and to support conventional medicine" [source: Radionic Association, How to find a practitioner]. The client is usually not present; analysis and treatment take place at a distance [source: Radionic Association].
  • Training of practitioners: introductory dowsing and radionics courses, a three-year part-time diploma (humans; soil and crops) with a personal tutor and periodic study weekends, and postgraduate animal courses [source: Radionic Association home page].
  • TimeWaver: a professional user runs a software-based analysis of the client's "Information Field" and may apply "harmonisation", sometimes with frequency or microcurrent output; training is offered through the TimeWaver Online Academy and associated institutes founded by Schmieke [source: TimeWaver, The Information Field; Company]. Details of what clients physically experience in a session are not set out in the company's published descriptions [uncertain: not verified].

The therapist's framework (alongside). There are no published psychotherapy protocols for work alongside radionics or TimeWaver; the structure below is the therapist's own [synthesis]. It is woven into ordinary therapy rather than delivered as a separate course; most clients need one focused conversation and periodic review, while clients facing serious illness decisions, health anxiety or financial pressure may need several sessions.

  • Phase A – Ask and record (first contact, then at review). Goal: an accurate, non-judgemental picture of what the client uses, who provides it, cost, and what they have been told. Move on when you know what is being used and whether any medical decision rides on it.
  • Phase B – Understand meaning (1–2 sessions). Goal: the client's hopes, explanatory model and what the method gives them (control, being heard, spiritual coherence, distrust of medicine, community). Move on when the client feels understood and you can name the function the method serves.
  • Phase C – Support informed decisions and coordinate care (as needed). Goal: the client makes their own decision with accurate information, and their doctor or pharmacist is in the loop with consent. Move on when any medical decision is explicit and owned by the client.
  • Phase D – Risk check and response (every contact while risk exists). Goal: identify delayed medical care, children, pregnancy, financial or group pressure; act on safeguarding duties. Escalate at once if a serious condition is going untreated.
  • Phase E – Review and reporting. Goal: revisit decisions, address health anxiety or somatic focus (Domain II), and use reporting routes where advertising, device or practitioner conduct crosses regulatory lines.

3. Guiding principles

  • Never perform, sell, prescribe or recommend. You do not run analyses, send witnesses, refer to practitioners or endorse products; your role is psychological [synthesis].
  • Curiosity without judgement. Ask as you would about any health practice; clients who expect ridicule stop disclosing [synthesis].
  • Attribute, do not adjudicate. Describe energy, subtle bodies and the "Information Field" as the method holds them, neither as fact nor with dismissal; your job is the client's reasoning, not the metaphysics [synthesis].
  • Separate the spiritual from the medical. A client may value radionics or TimeWaver as spiritual or wellbeing practice; the line you hold is that no method is a substitute for diagnosis and treatment of physical disease, and TimeWaver itself says its system is not intended to diagnose or treat disease [source: TimeWaver; synthesis].
  • Autonomy with information. Adults decide; you make sure the decision is informed, including what the providers and regulators themselves state [synthesis].
  • Medical decisions go to medical professionals. You never advise starting, stopping or changing medicines or remedies; you route to the prescriber or pharmacist [synthesis].
  • Safety overrides neutrality. Children, serious untreated illness, coercion and exploitation trigger action, not just exploration [synthesis].
  • No conflicts of interest. You do not hold financial or referral ties to practitioners, device sellers or trainings, and you do not sell courses or products to clients [synthesis; uncertain: ethics-code wording not verified].
  • Record accurately. Note what the client uses, what they were told, and your discussions, in the client's words where possible [synthesis].

4. Intervention inventory

All interventions below are the psychotherapist's own work alongside radionics or TimeWaver. None involves running, interpreting as valid, endorsing or referring for an analysis, witness, "harmonisation" or device application. The published sources for both methods give no guidance for psychotherapists, so the procedures are [synthesis] unless a source is cited; descriptions of the methods themselves come from sections 1–2.

4.1 Routine, non-judgemental inquiry and recording

  • Purpose / when: at intake and at each review, and whenever a client mentions "energy work", "distance healing", "frequency" or "information field" sessions, a "scan", or a practitioner who works from a hair sample or photograph. Clients often do not volunteer this unless asked plainly [synthesis].
  • Steps: (1) Ask about all health practices in one neutral question, listing complementary methods alongside medicines. (2) If radionics or TimeWaver is named, ask: who provides it, in person or at a distance, how long, cost so far and committed, what they were told (findings, "imbalances", recommendations). (3) Ask whether any recommendation touched medicines, diet, supplements or seeing a doctor. (4) Record in neutral terms, using the client's words for what they were told, e.g. "Client receives distant radionic treatment (hair sample sent); told stress is affecting 'subtle bodies'; no change to medical care reported." (5) Flag any medical decision for Phase C.
  • Example language (illustrative): "Lots of people use things besides medical treatment: remedies, energy work, devices, apps. I ask everyone so I have the full picture. Is there anything like that for you?" / "What did the practitioner tell you the analysis showed?"
  • Watch for: defensiveness (soften and normalise), minimisation of cost, reports that name diseases, and any hint that medical appointments or medicines have been dropped. It is working when the client discloses freely and keeps you updated without prompting.

4.2 Mapping what the client actually received

  • Purpose / when: when the client is unclear about what was done, or when "results" are driving decisions. Knowing whether they received distant dowsing-based radionics, a TimeWaver software analysis, or a session with an electrical/microcurrent applicator matters for risk (section 4.7) [synthesis].
  • Steps: (1) Ask the client to describe a session from their side: present or remote; what they sent (hair, photo, name, questionnaire); whether anything was attached to the body. (2) Ask to see any written report, if they wish to share it; read it for content that bears on health decisions, not to judge its validity. (3) Note any named diseases, "toxins", "parasites", relational or ancestral attributions, or product recommendations. (4) Share, factually and briefly, how the organisation itself describes the method where relevant (e.g. TimeWaver states its analysis is not intended to diagnose or treat any disease; the Radionic Association says radionics may be used alongside and "to support conventional medicine") [source: TimeWaver; Radionic Association].
  • Example language (illustrative): "Walk me through what happened, from booking to the report. Were you there in person, or was it done at a distance?" / "The company's own information says the analysis isn't meant to diagnose any disease. How does that fit with what you were told?"
  • Watch for: reports that frighten the client (a historical pattern with radionic diagnoses, where false serious diagnoses were followed by "cures" [source: NZ Skeptics]); repeated paid "re-tests" or escalating packages; the client treating a report as a diagnosis. Working when the client can distinguish the practitioner's framework from a medical diagnosis.

4.3 Exploring meaning, hopes and the explanatory model

  • Purpose / when: after disclosure, and when the method seems central to the client's coping or identity. Understanding what it gives the client lets you support the need without arguing about the method [synthesis].
  • Steps: (1) Elicit the client's explanatory model: what they think is wrong, what causes it, how radionics/TimeWaver is supposed to help. (2) Ask what drew them: control, hope after failed treatments, feeling heard, spiritual coherence (chakras, subtle bodies, a field linking mind and matter), distrust of medicine, a community or teacher. (3) Ask what they hope will change and how they would know. (4) Reflect the underlying need (e.g. agency, being taken seriously). (5) Note the function for formulation: is the method complementing care, substituting for it, or managing anxiety?
  • Example language (illustrative): "What makes sense to you about the idea of an energy or information field?" / "What does it give you that you haven't found elsewhere?" / "If it worked as you hope, what would be different in three months?"
  • Watch for: spiritual meaning being dismissed (rupture risk); hope that hides despair about a medical prognosis; the method as the only place the client feels heard, which may say something about their medical relationships. Working when the client explores openly and links the method to needs you can also address in therapy.

4.4 Supporting informed, values-based decisions without coercion

  • Purpose / when: when a client is weighing a medical decision against a radionic or TimeWaver recommendation, or considering a large financial commitment (packages, devices, training) [synthesis].
  • Steps: (1) Name the decision explicitly. (2) Ask what the client knows about each option and from whom; suggest they ask their doctor about the medical options. (3) Offer, as information not persuasion, what the providers and regulators themselves say: TimeWaver's disclaimer that it does not diagnose or treat disease and that benefits are not confirmed by independent studies; UK CAP/ASA's statement that no evidence has been provided for the radionic energy field [source: TimeWaver; ASA/CAP]. (4) Clarify values (health, independence, spiritual beliefs, family, money) and what the client would regret. (5) Distinguish "both" (complementary use alongside medical care) from "instead of". (6) Leave the decision with the client; document. No published decision aid for these methods is cited here [uncertain: not verified].
  • Example language (illustrative): "This is your decision. My job is to make sure you're making it with all the information, including what the company itself says about its limits." / "Some people use this alongside their medical treatment, others instead of it. Which are you considering, and what matters most to you in choosing?"
  • Watch for: your own urge to persuade (it tends to increase commitment); the client deciding under time pressure from a seller; fear-driven decisions. Working when the client can state the options, the evidence position and their own reasons.

4.5 Coordinating with the doctor or pharmacist (with consent)

  • Purpose / when: when a medical condition is involved, a recommendation affects medicines or medical appointments, or a client has stopped or delayed care [synthesis].
  • Steps: (1) Ask consent to share specific information with the GP, specialist or pharmacist; agree what will be shared. (2) Encourage the client to tell their doctor themselves, and rehearse it if they fear judgement. (3) If the client consents, write a brief factual note: what is used, any change to medical care, your concern. (4) Never advise starting, stopping or changing medicines or remedies; route every such question to the prescriber or pharmacist. (5) Record consent and contact.
  • Example language (illustrative): "Would it be okay if I let Dr __ know you're doing this, so they have the full picture? You choose what I say." / "That's a question about your medication, so it needs to go to your doctor or pharmacist. Shall we plan how you'll ask?"
  • Watch for: refusal of consent (respect it unless safeguarding thresholds apply; revisit later); clients worried that the doctor will mock them. Working when the client's medical team knows and the client stays engaged with them.

4.6 Recognising and responding to medical-care risk

  • Purpose / when: throughout, and urgently when the client has a serious or progressive condition (including cancer), new or worsening symptoms, or has been told by a practitioner that a condition is "cleared". Historically, radionic devices were sold with claims to diagnose and treat cancer, and practitioners were prosecuted or disciplined over frightening false diagnoses and missed care [source: NZ Skeptics; Skeptic's Dictionary — secondary]. Current regulators name claims about cancer and other serious diseases as prohibited advertising for related energy devices [source: TGA].
  • Steps: (1) Ask directly whether any medical test, appointment, treatment or medicine has been delayed, stopped or changed because of a reading or recommendation. (2) If yes, assess urgency: symptoms, diagnosis, what the doctor last advised. (3) Express concern clearly and without contempt; separate your respect for the client's beliefs from your worry about untreated illness. (4) Encourage prompt medical contact; offer to help arrange it; with consent, contact the doctor (4.5). (5) If the client lacks capacity, or a dependent is affected, follow safeguarding procedures (4.8). (6) Record your advice and the client's decision.
  • Example language (illustrative): "I respect that this matters to you. I'd be letting you down if I didn't say I'm worried about the lump not being checked. Could we look at getting it seen this week, whatever else you decide?"
  • Watch for: the client presenting a reading as reassurance ("the scan said it's only energetic"); belief that medical tests will "interfere"; late presentation with advanced illness. In psycho-oncology, keep palliative-care referral and family support in view. Working when the client has a medical review booked and kept.

4.7 Physical safety where an electrical or "frequency" applicator is used

  • Purpose / when: when a client describes something attached to the body in a session, e.g. TimeWaver harmonisation "combined with frequencies and microcurrent" [source: TimeWaver, The Information Field]. Distant radionics involves no physical contact [source: Radionic Association].
  • Steps: (1) Ask whether anything was attached and whether the client has an implanted electronic device (e.g. pacemaker), is pregnant, or has epilepsy. (2) If so, suggest they check with the doctor or device clinic before any further electrical application; do not advise on settings or use. (3) Note any burns, skin reactions or unusual symptoms and encourage medical review. Device-specific safety warnings from the manufacturer are [uncertain: not verified]; the precautions above are general caution for electrical stimulation [synthesis].
  • Example language (illustrative): "Was anything connected to your body during the session? Do you have a pacemaker or any implanted device? That's worth checking with your cardiologist before anything electrical is used again."
  • Watch for: symptoms during or after sessions; the client being told a device is "just information" and so cannot cause harm. Working when the client has checked with the relevant clinician.

4.8 Children, dependants, pregnancy and consent

  • Purpose / when: when a client is having a child, partner, elderly parent or other dependant analysed or treated, including at a distance from a hair sample or photo, or when pregnancy is involved [synthesis].
  • Steps: (1) Ask whether the method is being used for anyone else, and whether that person knows and agreed; for children, ask about assent appropriate to age. (2) Ask whether the child's medical care, vaccinations or nutrition have changed because of findings. (3) If a child is being deprived of necessary medical care, vaccination or adequate nutrition, or given a harmful product, follow your local safeguarding procedure and consult your safeguarding lead; record your reasoning. (4) For pregnancy, ensure antenatal care continues and medical questions go to the midwife or obstetrician. (5) Explore the parent's fear and hope (4.3) alongside any safeguarding action. Never name minors in records shared outside the clinical team beyond what procedures require.
  • Example language (illustrative): "You mentioned sending your son's hair sample. Is his doctor still involved with the asthma?" / "Because it involves a child's health, I need to make sure his medical care continues. Let's talk about how we do that together."
  • Watch for: a child's chronic condition managed only by readings; adult relatives "treated" without their knowledge (a consent and family-conflict issue rather than a safeguarding one unless they lack capacity). Historical accounts describe an energy device used in a child's serious illness [source: NZ Skeptics]. Working when the dependant's medical care is secure.

4.9 Financial exploitation, commerce and group pressure

  • Purpose / when: when costs escalate, the client is being trained or recruited to become a user or reseller, or a teacher, community or practitioner discourages outside views [synthesis]. TimeWaver markets systems and training to professional users (health practitioners, coaches, constellators, business coaches) through an online academy and associated institutes [source: TimeWaver, Company]; radionics training runs to a multi-year diploma [source: Radionic Association]. Historically Abrams leased devices under agreements forbidding users to open them, and taught costly courses [source: NZ Skeptics; Medical Museum entry].
  • Steps: (1) Ask about total spending, debt, contracts and pressure to buy further packages, equipment or courses. (2) Ask whether income is expected from using or selling the system, and how realistic that is. (3) Explore social context: whether doubts are welcome, whether outside medical or family views are dismissed, whether the client feels free to stop. (4) Help the client set their own limits (budget, cooling-off before purchases). (5) Point to consumer-protection advice and reporting where claims or contracts look misleading (4.12).
  • Example language (illustrative): "Roughly how much has gone into this so far, and what's coming up?" / "If you decided to stop, how would people in that group respond?"
  • Watch for: shame about spending; isolation from family; testimonials used as proof; the client being urged to buy a professional system to treat their own family. Working when the client's spending matches values they have stated in calm conditions.

4.10 Health anxiety, somatic symptom presentations and environmental intolerance

  • Purpose / when: when readings feed preoccupation with illness, "toxins", "frequencies" or environmental exposures; when repeated analyses serve as reassurance-seeking; or when persistent bodily symptoms lack a medical explanation. Use established psychological treatments for health anxiety and somatic symptoms; see Domain II [synthesis; cross-ref Domain II].
  • Steps: (1) Assess health anxiety and somatic symptom burden with your usual measures and a shared formulation. (2) Map the reassurance cycle: worry → reading or report → brief relief → new worry. (3) Agree, collaboratively, on reducing checking and reassurance-seeking of all kinds (medical, online, energetic) as part of the Domain II protocol; frame it as the client's experiment, not a ban. (4) Address catastrophic interpretations of bodily sensations. (5) For idiopathic environmental intolerance (e.g. fear of electromagnetic fields), use the same formulation-based approach while ensuring medical assessment has occurred.
  • Example language (illustrative): "After each report, how long does the relief last? What happens to the worry afterwards?" / "Shall we test what happens to your anxiety if you hold off on any checking for two weeks, medical or otherwise?"
  • Watch for: substitution of one form of checking for another; reports introducing new feared conditions. Working when worry and checking frequency fall and functioning improves.

4.11 Holding professional boundaries (requests to use, refer or endorse)

  • Purpose / when: when a client asks you to look at, interpret or endorse a reading, to recommend a practitioner, or to combine therapy with a TimeWaver or radionic session; or when colleagues, coaches or constellators in your network use these systems [synthesis].
  • Steps: (1) Decline to interpret readings or recommend providers, explaining your role kindly. (2) Redirect to what the reading means to the client (4.3). (3) Do not offer or co-deliver sessions with these systems and hold no financial or referral ties to sellers or trainings; disclose and manage any conflict of interest. (4) If a colleague in a regulated profession presents such readings as diagnosis, consider whether professional-conduct concerns apply (4.12).
  • Example language (illustrative): "I'm not able to read or advise on that report; it's outside what I do. What I can do is help you think about what it means for you and what you want to do with it."
  • Watch for: the client experiencing refusal as rejection (repair, 5.4). Working when the client accepts the boundary and continues to share openly.

4.12 Reporting routes

  • Purpose / when: when advertising makes disease claims, when a device is used or sold unlawfully, when a practitioner's conduct causes harm, or when safeguarding thresholds are met. Discuss with the client first, except where safeguarding requires otherwise [synthesis].
  • Steps: (1) Advertising: UK – complaint to the ASA, which advises that radionics marketers should not make efficacy claims, including in testimonials [source: ASA/CAP]; Australia – the TGA, which has taken compliance action on advertising of related bioresonance devices and invites contact [source: TGA]; elsewhere, the national advertising or consumer regulator [synthesis]. (2) Devices: the national medical-device regulator (e.g. MHRA in the UK, FDA in the USA, TGA in Australia, the competent authority in EU states) [synthesis]. (3) Practitioners: the relevant professional or licensing board if the practitioner holds a regulated title; the Radionic Association for its members, though its complaints procedure is not described on its public pages [uncertain: not verified]. (4) Safeguarding: local child or adult safeguarding services. (5) Record what was reported, to whom, and why.
  • Example language (illustrative): "The way that product was advertised to you may break advertising rules. Would you like to make a complaint? I can show you how."
  • Watch for: the client fearing conflict with the practitioner or group. Working when concerns reach the body able to act.

4.13 Documentation and review

  • Purpose / when: every session where the topic arises; formally at treatment reviews [synthesis].
  • Steps: (1) Record use, cost, what the client was told, medical decisions, consent to share, risks and actions. (2) Review at set intervals whether the method is complementing or replacing care, and whether health anxiety or financial strain is rising. (3) Update the formulation.
  • Example language (illustrative): "Let's check in on how things stand with the radionics, as we agreed we would."
  • Watch for: drift from "alongside" to "instead of" over time. Working when reviews show stable medical engagement and informed choices.

5. Handling problems

The published sources for radionics and TimeWaver do not address psychotherapy problems; all guidance here is [synthesis] unless cited.

5.1 Client will not discuss it ("you'll just tell me it's nonsense")

  • Name the fear and your stance: you are not there to judge the method but to understand what matters to the client and keep them safe.
  • Ask about the experience rather than the theory. Return to the topic later if needed; disclosure often follows trust.
  • (illustrative) "I'm not going to argue with you about it. I'd just like to understand what it means to you."

5.2 Stuck: the client relies on readings for every decision

  • Formulate the function (certainty, relief from anxiety, outsourcing responsibility). Work on tolerance of uncertainty and the client's own decision-making (Domain II for health anxiety).
  • Use small experiments: one decision made without consulting a reading, with prediction and review.
  • (illustrative) "What would you decide if no report were available? Let's see how that feels."

5.3 Resistance when you raise medical concern

  • Avoid debate about the information field or subtle energies; return to the client's own goals and what the providers themselves say (TimeWaver: not intended to diagnose or treat disease [source: TimeWaver]).
  • Offer "both/and": the client can keep the practice and still see the doctor.
  • If risk is high, be explicit about your concern and any duties, while preserving the relationship.
  • (illustrative) "You can keep doing what feels right spiritually. I'm only asking that the doctor sees this too."

5.4 Ruptures

  • Typical triggers: the client feels mocked; you decline to interpret a report; you raise safeguarding.
  • Repair: acknowledge the impact, restate your role and respect, ask what would help. Check your own reactions (contempt, rescuing, or over-accommodation) in supervision.
  • (illustrative) "I think what I said came across as dismissive. That's not what I intended. Can we go back to it?"

5.5 Overwhelm and fear after a frightening reading

  • Ground first; then help the client separate what a practitioner said from what a medical assessment has shown. Encourage prompt medical review rather than further readings.
  • Historically, false serious diagnoses followed by paid "cures" were a documented pattern in radionics [source: NZ Skeptics] — a useful context for the clinician, not a line to deliver to the client.
  • (illustrative) "That report has really frightened you. Let's slow down. What would help you find out what's actually going on medically?"

5.6 Non-adherence to medical care or to agreed plans

  • Explore the reason without blame: fear of tests, past bad experiences, cost, conflicting advice, group loyalty.
  • Problem-solve concrete barriers; with consent, involve the doctor. Record the decision and your advice.

5.7 Family conflict

  • When relatives oppose (or impose) the method, consider a joint session focused on shared goals, communication and respect for the adult client's autonomy. When a client treats relatives at a distance without their knowledge, explore consent and the relationship impact.

5.8 Grief, regret and serious illness

  • If a client or family chose an alternative path and illness progressed, work with guilt and regret without blame; support palliative-care engagement and family repair. Never use regret as a lever.

5.9 Financial loss or feeling exploited

  • Validate, avoid "I told you so", support practical steps (budgeting, consumer advice, complaints) and address shame. See 4.9 and 4.12.

5.10 Therapist's own position

  • If you personally value or reject these methods, take it to supervision; neither enthusiasm nor contempt should shape the client's decision. Keep clear of financial or referral ties [synthesis; uncertain: ethics-code wording not verified].

Sources

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