Again, I find that counselling or psychotherapy can also be helpful, both to patients and to their families. Healing also facilitates the resolution of family tensions and conflicts. The United Kingdom is a world leader in the integration of spiritual healing with conventional medicine. Many more doctors are referring patients to healers at the healers' treatment rooms. Some doctors are developing their own healing gifts and may get Postgraduate Education Allowance credits for this by attending approved workshops.
Healers work regularly at hospital pain, cancer, and cardiac rehabilitation centres.
This provides a forum and resource for sharing information and progress in integrating healing with conventional medicine. The Doctor-Healer Network Newsletter shares the experiences of healers and doctors between member groups and with others who are interested in healing of body, emotions, mind and spirit. Spiritual healing opens people to awareness of deeper meanings to illness, which are then often amenable to psychotherapy. Illness can be a communication from a person's unconscious mind to bring to his awareness various inner conflicts or old hurts which might be ready for release. Illness may be a communication with others, such as a statement of need for love and caring or a protest against stresses.