The Practitioner’s Guide is designed to help spiritual support providers and alternative health practitioners to recognise and address the many underlying problems and circumstances that may present in clients living with mental health issues who are seeking guidance and assistance. It endeavours to illustrate caring methods that are supportive of clients’ wellbeing, at the same time protective of practitioners on a legal and professional level.

Based on actual client presentations for healing over a 30-year period, Dr Linet Amalie explores mental health and trauma-related issues and provides suggested outcomes for treatment of the emotional, physical and spiritual self. In addition, thought-provoking Questionnaires and Scenarios assist the reader to reflect on what they could do when and if confronted with challenging behaviors.

The Practitioner’s Guide will prove itself a handy reference tool for when you feel something is ‘not quite right’ for the person sitting across from you. It will help you identify what the client may be going through, while providing understanding of how best to support them. It also aims to help the practitioner understand the signs and symptoms for referring or directing the client to further professional treatment.

The Practitioner’s Guide was also written with the intention of establishing basic standards within the Mind Body Spirit industry and addresses practitioners’ professional principles and behavior when handling and monitoring clients.