Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT Tapping)

What is EFT Tapping?

Emotional Freedom Technique, or EFT Tapping, is a combination of 8 well-accepted mechanisms in psychology that facilitates rapid emotional, cognitive, and physical processing of distressing feelings, thoughts and memories.

What does this mean in layman’s terms? Essentially, EFT is a useful tool for improving mental and physical health. One of its primary uses is as a treatment for anxiety. Tapping works by calming the nervous system and results in better emotional regulation. Additionally, tapping is an efficient technique for reducing or eliminating phobias, sometimes very quickly. EFT is also an excellent tool for resolving traumatic experiences once and for all.

Trauma Reduction

We all experience various forms of trauma in our lives. These can be day-to-day interactions that leave their mark on us, to large events that we all recognize easily. Regardless, the impact trauma can have on our lives is considerable. By reprocessing distressing thoughts, feelings and experiences, we can eliminate the stress on your nervous system once and for all and help you live on the other side of it.

Tapping can be a very effective coping skill. But it isn’t just about feeling better in the moment. It is about resolving sources of distress once and for all. In fact, Harvard Medical School Psychiatrist Eric Leskowitz, MD, says it’s “the most powerful intervention I’ve encountered in 25 years of work.” Meanwhile, world renowned trauma researcher Bessel van der Kolk, MD, has said, “I could not do my trauma work without Tapping.”

No wonder millions of people have taken notice. EFT Tapping works.

So How Does EFT Tapping Work?

EFT combines:

• Imaginal Exposure
• Acupressure
• Somatic, Emotional and Cognitive Activation (CNS Activation)
• Amygdala/Prefrontal Cortex Rewiring & Deactivation
• Information Processing & Reprocessing
• Cognitive Restructuring
• Memory Re-consolidation and
• Eye Movement and Reprocessing

Chances are good that you’ve had some exposure to some of these approaches. Tapping elegantly combines all of these into a seamless and intuitive process anyone can learn. We can incorporate tapping into as much of our work as you like, in order to provide you with as much relief as quickly as possible. EFT Tapping Intensives are available for anyone wanting an “individualized workshop” approach to achieve as much progress as possible in a half-day format.

If you have any questions about the above, please feel free to email me.

Scientific Research Regarding Tapping

In a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of fifty veterans diagnosed with PTSD, 86% of them no longer met criteria for this diagnosis after only 6 sessions with EFT. (You can read the story of RM here in the National Center for Biotechnology Information.) Further, the participants in this study sustained these results at their 3 and 6 month rechecks. This is a huge difference!

Another study measured a dramatic reduction in participants’ cortisol levels (down 24-50%) after Tapping. You’ve probably heard a lot about cortisol lately. Cortisol is a hormone that regulates stress in our bodies and contributes to the disease process. This is an impressive reduction in stress hormone levels, requiring no invasive procedures. And yes! You can accomplish this on your own. EFT makes it possible.

These are just two of many studies yielding compelling results. I encourage you to read more at EFT International’s Research Page. There you can choose the topics that interest you most via the dropdown menu. You’ll find that tapping can help with just about everything. If you want to learn more you are welcome to contact me.

Advanced EFT Practitioner and EFT Tapping Trainer

I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Georgia. I am also an approved Telehealth provider in Florida, and an EFT Tapping Trainer (NQT) certified by EFT International. It has been my pleasure to have been mentored in EFT by master level trainers. I have even worked with the originator of the first-ever training program in EFT Tapping, Ann Adams, LCSW. Furthermore, I am proud to host workshops, trainings, and other tapping activities.

Be on the lookout for our upcoming announcements and your chance to get involved. I look forward to joining forces with you and your organization. Together we can contribute to the well-being of our local community with EFT.