EFT for Professionals

A series of three one-day trainings in the use of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) that will give you a simple and versatile way of making a difference to your clients’ lives. Many methods of talking therapy can help through the healing power of the therapeutic relationship. However some negative emotions can be very difficult to shift using conventional methods. You may fear causing more pain to your client by reactivating difficult memories and you can use up a lot of paper tissues going round and round in circles.

Sometimes people feel too defeated to answer your solution focused miracle question.

Together you may produce excellent, insightful CBT maps of their problems but how do you get rid of those long-held beliefs and thought/behaviour patterns?

Clients may come to you with lots of horrible things that have happened to them and want your help to get over those traumas.

Perhaps they already know that their anxieties, physical symptoms, phobias, obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviours are completely irrational yet they still can’t stop doing these things.

You may have explored attachment patterns and helped them learn to manage symptoms of anxiety, but somehow the client still doesn’t feel a great deal better about themselves.

You would like to be able to deal with these issues more effectively without causing damage or pain to the client or their sense of themselves but you are not sure how. You need to have a simple way to resolve your clients emotional issues and helping them move on, and that’s what this training is about.

This EFT for Professionals training is for you if … you want to add a simple, multi-purpose, surprisingly effective technique to your therapeutic toolbox that will help your clients overcome phobias, anxieties and traumas

I was sceptical to start with that the tapping would really work, but I am pleasantly surprised to discover that it actually does, even though it seems like quite a strange thing to do!

What you will get from this EFT for Professionals training.

1. An effective way to change the way your clients feel. Being able to reduce negative emotions in a short space of time brings a great deal of relief to your clients and makes your work together much more comfortable for both of you. Using EFT causes a psychological and physiological reduction in anxiety, as a result the subconscious seems to take more notice of the conscious brain’s messages. This makes it much easier to persuade the subconscious that they are OK and safe, and that their anxiety reactions are no longer necessary.
2. You will be able to help people comfortably get over painful memories. Neutralising negative emotions and beliefs that are provoked by bad memories allow the events to be viewed in a new light. Though the content is still unpleasant the conscious brain can now handle and process the memory easily without being overwhelmed.
3. You can help clients challenge and neutralise limiting beliefs. EFT can be used to soften entrenched unhelpful beliefs. New alternatives more appropriate to current realities can be explored without resistance.
4. You will be able to energise yourself as a therapist and end the day feeling fresher than when you began. Doing EFT is good for you whether you are the therapist or the client, as a result you will find yourself much less prone to burn out.
5. You will get extensive support materials. Including a manual, CD recordings of interviews with experienced EFT professionals discussing how to use EFT with trauma, anxiety and other conditions, and other training materials.
6. Make new connections with other professionals using this modality. There is a growing community of EFT Practitioners in the North East with opportunities for practice and supervision.

Some of the things you learn how to do on this training.

Over the course of these trainings you can learn how to:

• Reduce your client’s anxiety and stress levels much more quickly than you can by talking about the problem. Using this approach, the client’s negative emotions can become the way out of the problem and not the way stay in to it.
• Help them overcome bad memories. EFT can shift stuck memories where the emotions still feel like they are happening right now. You will learn how to transform traumatic memories into neutral memories be they abuse, traumas, accidents. The process can be very gentle so that even very severe traumas can be resolved with the minimum of discomfort.
• Change limiting beliefs in a very straightforward way. Updating limiting beliefs that have passed their sell-by date and neutralising the memories of the situations that gave rise to them.
• Teach your clients something they can do for themselves. We hear a lot about empowering the client, but that’s not always easy with conventional approaches. This technique is simple enough to teach to a client how to use it to help themselves. Hundred’s of thousands of people around the world are using EFT for themselves as a self help technique as and when the need arises.

How this EFT for Professionals Training works

This training is presented by Andy Hunt and Liz Kirsopp. Andy is an EFT & NLP therapist and trainer in private practice, Liz is a Mental Health Worker with extensive experience in therapy work.

The course itself is divided into three modules: Foundation, Treating Anxiety, Relieving Trauma.

The Foundation module: In this module we will introduce you to the process of EFT. By lunchtime you will have a good understanding of how it works and how it can be used. In the afternoon we will apply this approach to dealing with phobias and irrational fears. At the end of the day you will know enough EFT to be able to get relief for yourself and to help your clients in ways that are surprisingly effective.

Note: You must attend this module to learn the basics of EFT before attending either of the others.

The Anxiety module: In this module we will use EFT to work with anxiety states. Using what you already know to guide your use of EFT. You will experience relieving the symptoms and reducing the effects of triggers. We will cover: Generalised anxiety, Social Anxiety, Health Anxiety and Panic related problems.
The Trauma module: In this module you will learn how to use EFT to gently defuse painful memories and traumas, working through and neutralising the trauma more thoroughly and more gently than previous techniques such as EMDR and CBT.

EFT is a practical skill so there’s not going to be a lot of unnecessary theory in these courses, it’s hands on, practical stuff you can use from the start.

You can expect to learn by:

• watching live demonstrations
• practising EFT in structured exercises
• trying things out in a supportive environment
• using EFT for yourself and others.

Because EFT is very relaxing you can also expect to feel very comfortable by the end of the training day.

Does this stuff work?

EFT looks too absurd to work, yet it works very well in all sorts of different situations.

This extract from a report on a very large scale trial over 14 years in South America by Andrade and Feinstein assesses the merits of ‘energy psychology’ of which EFT is one example on a variety of psychological problems

Rating of 1: Much better results than with other methods.Many of the categories of anxiety disorder were rated as responding to energy interventions much better than to other modalities. Among these are panic disorders with and without agoraphobia, agoraphobia without history of panic disorder, specific phobias, separation anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress disorders, acute stress disorders, and mixed anxiety-depressive disorders. Also in this category were a variety of other emotional problems, including fear, grief, guilt, anger, shame, jealousy, rejection, painful memories, loneliness, frustration, love pain, and procrastination. Tapping techniques also seemed particularly effective with adjustment disorders, attention deficit disorders, elimination disorders, impulse control disorders, and problems related to abuse or neglect.

Rating of 2: Better results than with other methods. Obsessive compulsive disorders, generalized anxiety disorders, anxiety disorders due to general medical conditions, social phobias and certain other specific phobias, such as a phobia of loud noises, were judged as not responding quite as well to energy interventions as did other anxiety disorders, but they were still rated as being more responsive to an energy approach than they are to other methods. Also in this category were learning disorders, communication disorders, feeding and eating disorders of early childhood, tic disorders, selective mutism, reactive detachment disorders of infancy or early childhood, somatoform disorders, factitious disorders, sexual dysfunction, sleep disorders, and relational problems.

Rating of 3 Similar to the results expected with other methods.Energy interventions seemed to fare about equally well as other therapies commonly used for mild to moderate reactive depression, learning skills disorders, motor skills disorders, and Tourettes syndrome. Also in this category were substance abuse-related disorders, substance-induced anxiety disorders, and eating disorders. For these conditions, a number of treatment approaches can be effectively combined to draw upon the strengths of each.

Rating of 4 Lesser results than expected with other methods.The clinicians post-treatment ratings suggest that for major endogenous depression, personality disorders, and dissociative disorders, other therapies are superior as the primary treatment approach. Energy interventions might still be useful when used in an adjunctive manner.

Rating of 5 No clinical improvement or contraindicated. The clinicians ratings of energy therapy with psychotic disorders, bipolar disorders, delirium, dementia, mental retardation, and chronic fatigue indicated no improvement. While anecdotal reports that people within these diagnostic categories have been helped with a range of life problems are numerous, and seasoned healers might find ways of adapting energy methods to treat the conditions themselves, the typical psychotherapist trained only in the rudimentary use of acupoint stimulation should have special training or understanding for working with these populations before applying energy methods.

Extract from Preliminary Report of the First Large-Scale Study of Energy Psychology By Joaquin Andrade, MD and David Feinstein, PhD, 2003

This is a report from an attendee of an EFT Level 1 training.

Hi Andy

I was on your Level 1 course, I was the one with the anxiety attacks and height phobia.

At the end of the session we worked on my anxieties and used second floor in Tesco`s as an example.

Well today was the first chance I had to go there, I worked some EFT in the morning then off we went.

I must say I came with an open mind but if am honest was a little sceptical because I’ve had this thing for so long and thought I would have it for life and would be just something I would have to deal with.

I just have one word “WOW”, I couldn’t believe the difference in me when I went up there . My partner couldn’t believe it either.

So much so that when we came down I had to go up again.

Now I’m excited about trying my next test of heights.

So I just wanted to drop you a quick email to say THANK YOU!!!!

Thanks again

Simon

Venue

The courses will take place at Newton Village Hall, a brand new village hall in a beautiful and secluded setting near Corbridge.

The courses will take place on the following dates between 9:30am and 5:00pm

Information about directions, parking, public transport and catering will be sent on receipt of an application.

Fees

Reserve your place now

This training is hands on, interactive and useful. You will finish the training with some very effective skills that will serve you and your clients very well from the moment you start to use EFT in your work.

When you book your place on the course you will receive: A copy of the Basic EFT Course Training DVDs, CDs of EFT discussions in professional areas of interest.

We look forward to seeing you in September.

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