Emotional Freedom Techniques Crash Course: Quick and Simple Tapping Solutions for Anxiety Disorders, and Trauma

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Joan Kaylor, MSEd, LPC, DCEP, International Certified Master EFT Trainer Related seminars and products

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Joan Kaylor, MSEd, LPC, DCEP (Diplomate in Energy Psychology), and International Certified Master EFT Trainer an expert in combining CBT with clinical Emotional Freedom Techniques. She is the host of the podcast: EFT Tapping Stories and a speaker whose enthusiasm for her students is well known. Joan has used EFT clinically and has been teaching EFT since 1994.

Her passion is to bring these gentle meridian and cognitive-based techniques into mainstream clinical mental health treatment.

The research in Clinical Emotional Freedom Techniques continues to grow. EFT has over 50 controlled double-blind studies and over 50 Meta Analyses.

Joan earned her Master of Science in Education degree from the Duquesne University. She earned certification in clinical EFT from the Association in Comprehensive Energy Psychology in 2013 and earned advanced practitioner status from EFT International in 2015 and Master Trainer status June 2023. Joan served on the board of directors of the International OCD Foundation from 1991-1997. She took the first behavior therapy institute in 1996; her more than thirty years of clinical practice includes private practice and using EFT in a not-for-profit community mental health agency in Pittsburgh called South Hills Interfaith Ministries. She speaks nationally and internationally on EFT and presents frequently for Canadian based Moving Forward Family Services, the Pennsylvania Counseling Association, and the Trichotillomania Learning Center Foundation for Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors. She is a sought-after expert in working with anxiety spectrum disorders, obsessive compulsive disorders and body focused repetitive behaviors.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Joan Kaylor maintains a private practice. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Joan Kaylor is a member of the EFT International, the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology, the Pennsylvania Counseling Association, and the International OCD Foundation.

 

 

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Objectives

1. Utilise evidenced based EFT in any clinical setting.
2. Identify how to prevent abreactions.
3. Determine a specific set up statement to address the emotion and sensation.
4. Define 14 acupressure points as used in traditional Chinese Medicine.
5. Determine how to lower the stress hormone cortisol using Emotional Freedom Techniques.
6. Identify the importance of understanding what Shifting Aspects are.

Outline

• Evidence based cortisol reduction
• Physical response to internal and external stimuli
• Clinical EFT improves multiple physiological markers of health
• Short and long versions of EFT
• Tapping on the negative
• Cognitive belief shifts
• Research risks and limitations

• Cognitive shifts naturally occur after tapping
• How to handle resistance/psychological reversal
• Monitor for secondary gains
• The importance of being specific
  • Using the client’s words, not yours
  • Specific set up and reminder statements
  • The client must believe what they are saying
  • How to neutralise triggers
• The Generalisation Effect
• The Apex Effect

• CBT for intrusive thoughts, images and impulses
• Identify the anxiety triggered by the thought or image
• Using SUDs to measure the intensity of the anxiety
• Identify the triggered somatic sensation in the body
• Create a specific set up statement to address the emotion and sensation
• Live demonstrations and experiential practice
• Case study: Pregnant woman afraid of cutting herself when preparing a meal

• Identify the target
• Measure the intensity of the anxiety
• Identify the triggered somatic sensation in the body
• Use a set up statement according to what event triggered the anxiety
• Apply 9 gamut eye movements
• Re asses the anxiety
• Experiential practice and breakout groups

• Small T versus big T trauma
• Using gentle techniques on small T Trauma
• Sneaking in/out
• Tearless trauma
• Tell a story

• Focus on being specific as possible
• Teach collarbone breathing
• Use the 9 gamut
• Check for psychological reviews

Target Audience

• Counsellors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Case Managers
• Therapists
• Art Therapists
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Other Mental Health Professionals