Emotional Freedom Therapy is a body-based somatic therapy that can release emotional or physical pain and can help you make changes you wish to make in your life.  

 

Tapping on specific points on the head and upper torso can have a profoundly relaxing effect and, when combined with placing your attention on emotional or physical discomfort allows that to release. 

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Traditional Chinese Medicine has mapped body energy meridians.  EFT tapping is based on the principal that emotional and physical pain results in this energy flow being blocked or constricted.  Tapping on acupressure points where these major energy lines runs close to the surface of the body and close to a bone, can stimulate the flow and release stuck held energy and pain. 

Therapy using EFT

 

EFT as a therapy approach will use tapping often through the session.  We will work together starting with exploring the current problem and identifying your goals for therapy.  We may focus first on what is going on now in your life, and then explore to find when the pattern began. 

 

We may focus on relating a specific issue to how you are feeling in your body (pain, agitation, muscle tension or other sensations) as well as the thoughts and emotions you are feeling.  These are known as aspects of the issue.  Exploring an issue while tapping can help calm intense feeling and thoughts and new understandings often arise. ​

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Trauma therapy using EFT 

 

There may be negative recent or early life traumatic events and memories that are related to your issue.  Trauma therapy uses tapping within a structure of trauma therapy to safely, gently and thoroughly release the pain and intensity of these memories.

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Self care / Doing your own work

 

Therapy works best when you also do your own work.   

Methods include:  exercise, journalling, meditation, 

 

Tapping can be used as self-care for:

• Upsets or physical pains that arise during yourdaily life. 

• For those struggling with stress and anxiety, setting a daily time for 10 minutes of tapping can start to calm an overwhelmed nervous system 

• “Rant and tap” can be helpful to release anger and bring new perspectives and clarity.

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