If you’re a state-licensed chiropractor or massage therapist, you may be thinking about incorporating essential oils or aromatherapy into your practice.

You’ve chosen to follow your path in holistic health in order to help others achieve and maintain physical, emotional and mental health. You offer much-needed alternatives to a mainstream system of Western Medicine that relies heavily on pharmaceutical medications and procedures that treat the symptoms, but often ignore root causes of disease.

Before offering any services outside of the scope of a current state-licensed practice, it is important to know the regulatory realities and legal implications of incorporating additional holistic health specialties.

In the field of holistic health, there is a lot of confusion around what it takes to provide services legally as a practitioner.

You may have wondered: Is my certification enough? Do I need to be licensed? And what exactly is a 'defendable legal basis'?

One of the biggest challenges for holistic health practitioners is successfully marketing their services. Even if you are highly skilled and experienced in your holistic health field, without good marketing and a defendable legal basis for your services, you may struggle to make a livelihood or even put your profession at risk.