As a Clinical Social Worker I am all about empowerment and EFT is all about acceptance of self – a great therapeutic combination. Clients can often come to us feeling they have no power, little or no control in their lives, and have been spending lots of time in negative […] Read more »
The Dichotomy of SUDS
Getting a baseline for someone’s discomfort and checking for any movement in the intensity is – like getting to a specific – a key practice in EFT. Most often used is a 0 to 10 scale often referred to as “SUDS” or “SUDs” i.e., Subjective Unit of Distress Scale, developed […] Read more »
Stretching to Fit – Procrustes Style!
We talk a lot about our ideas about what makes us humans tick. We also tend to get ideas, hunches, or intuitions as to what is going on with our clients – even ourselves! Without getting into a debate about where all this comes from – or whether we are […] Read more »
What do VETs really want in therapy?
How Veterans Perceive Therapy and Therapists Only 50% of veterans with distress ever come for services. Of the half that do walk into the “Behavioral Health” services door, you have only about 20 minutes to show them you “get them” before 60% decide to drop out after the first visit. […] Read more »
Difference in Movie Technique and Tell the Story
While initially Gary often used the terms the Movie Technique and Tell the Story interchangeably he now clarifies them separately. The main difference? Privacy. The movie is done silently in their head, Tell the Story, as the terms indicates, is told out loud. In Tell the Story the person does […] Read more »
Thoughts about Tapping Scripts
Scripts abound on the internet. Scripts have enabled many more people to be introduced to EFT and experience some of the benefits. Some of the people doing these scripts are very fluent – sometimes it’s almost like hearing poetry! Impressive. And, scripts are effective often enough for people to begin […] Read more »
Working in the Dark
Sometimes in working with children – or adults – they may not want to share what they are really upset about. They want to feel better – yes – but they don’t want to talk about it. When I was at the residential program for children I often didn’t have […] Read more »
Going slow can be the fastest way to get there.
Younger children often take very easily to EFT. Teenagers appear to be tired of feeling the pain and are willing to try most anything. Pre teens, especially those with abuse in their history – can be a different story! Hormones are beginning to rage; they don’t understand what is going […] Read more »
Teaching EFT to Children
After studying EFT (beginning in 1999) for months and practicing on all sorts of willing folks, I began teaching EFT to the kids at the residential treatment program where I worked as Campus Director until 2005 when I left to run Gary’s EFT Master Program. The program accepted children who […] Read more »
And even more questions
After downloading and reading the handout on Questions to Get to the Specific, Karen L Arthur, an EFT practitioner in New York, sent a few more questions that can help you think about ways to get specific in addressing the issue. What do you believe about yourself when you feel […] Read more »
