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In 1984, Francesca McCartney founded the Academy of Intuition Medicine in Mill Valley, California USA.
Since 1976, Dr. McCartney has worked in the field of intuition as a medical intuitive in an integrative health clinic, a pastoral counselor, author and educator. Francesca synthesizes her thirty years of study in Eastern and Western spiritual and healing arts into a multi-modality approach which grounds her in respectfulness for the uniqueness of the individual. From her pastoral counseling and medical intuitive work with thousands of clients Francesca developed the Intuition Medicine curriculum. Dr. McCartney is the inaugural recipient of a PhD in Intuition Medicine and also holds a PhD in Energy Medicine.
In 1966, Francesca received Laboratory Technician (hematology) certification from St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Michigan. From 1968 to 1973, she studied Eastern mysticism, Divine Science of the Soul with Kirpal Singh. She also studied the Western mystical traditions of Theosophy and the Rosicrucian Society. She has been a licensed nondenominational minister since 1976.
Francesca received her Montessori teaching credential at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1974. She directed three Montessori preschool programs in Northern California. In 2002 she received her doctorate degree with honors in Energy Medicine and Intuition Medicine® from Greenwich University.
In 1976, Francesca joined an alternative medicine clinic, the Academy of Eastern Medicine, in Walnut Creek, California where she was the meditation instructor and health intuitive for seven years. Through her work there she became one of the first professional intuitives to practice an interdisciplinary modality combining Eastern and Western healing arts in a holistic system. In 1980, she was co-speaker with Dr. Alan Charles, MD on a talk entitled "The Effects of Energy and Color in Health and Behavior" at the International Academy of Preventive Medicine's annual conference in Denver, Colorado, USA. During the conference, she led daily meditation workshops for the members. Her studies continued with training in Homeopathy, Radionics, Nutritional Therapy, Ayurvedic Medicine, Reiki, Qi Gong and Huna Healing as well as the practices of Tai Chi and Yoga.
In 1984, the San Francisco Examiner newspaper interviewed Francesca for a story on predictions, and Gnosis magazine published a story about her intuitive healing work. In 1990 she was a founding member of the USA branch of the Kundalini Research Network and wrote a chapter on "Paranormal Experiences" for their international questionnaire. During this time, she was also a staff writer for Psychic Life magazine.
In 1990, Francesca published her own audiotape set — The Intuitive Development Series. Then, in January of 2001, Francesca published her debut book, Intuition Medicine: The Science of Energy, and recorded and published eight audiotapes that cover various aspects of Intuition Medicine: Grounding System, Aura/Life-Force and Earth Energy System, Energy Anatomy of the Chakra System, Kundalini Energy Anatomy System, Color Meditations, Prosperity and Synchronicity, Creating Healthy Relationships, and Male/Female Energy Anatomy System.
In 2005, another book on her model of Intuition Medicine, energy and healing – Body of Health: The Science of Intuition Medicine was published by New World Library. She is also at work on a book of intuitive development stories for children and their parents.
In 1999, Francesca's class in Intuition Healing was taught on-site to the staff of fifteen complementary care physicians at California Pacific Medical Center's (CPMC) Health & Healing Clinic in San Francisco, California. She participated as a "healer" in a research project conducted by Dr. Elisabeth Targ, research director at CPMC. Dr. Targ received a National Institute of Health grant to study the “Efficacy of Distant Healing by Nurses and Healers.” Francesca and Pamela Bradley, PhD, a research psychologist at the University of California at Berkeley, are creating a research project utilizing the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). They plan to use the MBTI assessment information in researching what they have observed as the varied types of "intuitive personalities." Francesca is also currently conducting research into the efficacy of long-distance healing with Reiki Energy (for a detailed report on this study see “Effects of Reiki and Body Magnets in Distant Healings of the Chakra System”.
In 2003, Dr. McCartney had three articles published in Vision Magazine. They were: “Anima & Animus, Our Inner Female and Male Persona,” “The Gift of a Peaceful Death” and “Intuition – Your Sixth Sense.”
Also in 2002, the Institute of Noetic Sciences funded a seed grant and gave Francesca permission to conduct research in their Ganzfeld laboratory on the topic of Distance Healing. In July, Dr. McCartney presented her research paper “Distance Education: Utilizing Intentional Intuition in the Curriculum of a Distance Learning Model of Energy Medicine” at the at the L’Aquila, Italy IPSI Scientific Forum.
In December 2003, Dr. McCartney's paper — “The Conscious Internet: An Empirical Study of the Transmission of Healing Energy via E-mail” — was published in Dynamical Psychology – An International, Interdisciplinary Journal of Complex Mental Processes.
In May 2004, Dr. McCartney presented a research paper on Distant Healing at the annual conference of the Society for Scientific Exploration. In June 2004, Francesca presented the Distant Healing research at a poster session during the annual conference of the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energy & Energy Medicine. As well, the Distant Healing research study was published in the The International Journal of Healing & Caring.
In October, 2004 Dr. McCartney was the invited speaker at the annual dinner of Sigma Theta Tau International Lambda Gamma Chapter Sonoma State University, Nursing Department presenting her work on “Intuition and Distant Healing.”
In 2006, Dr. McCartney expanded the Academy and founded Energy Medicine University. EMU is a fully distance university granting PhD and MS degrees in Integrative Holistic Health.
In 2008, the ISSSEEM Journal published Dr. McCartney's peer reviewed research report on distance healing and intuition. Also that year a Romanian publishing house bought translation rights to her book, Body of Health: The New Science of Intuition Medicine.