A one-day training 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.
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 without running the risk of making the pain of the traumas worse, even in the short term.
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 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.
What you will get from this EFT for Professionals training.
- An effective way to change the way your clients feel. Being able to reduce negative emotions quickly brings a great deal of relief to your clients and makes your work together much more comfortable for both of you.
- 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 the memory easily without being overwhelmed. The process can be very gentle so that even very severe traumas can be resolved with the minimum of discomfort.
- 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.
- You will be able to energise yourself as a therapist. 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.
- Make new connections with other professionals. There is a growing community of EFT Practitioners in the North East with opportunities for practice and supervision.
- 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. 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 does this help?
These old memories,limiting beliefs and negative feelings and reactions are the glue that holds unhelpful behaviour in place. Dissolve the glue and those old troublesome behaviours can change naturally and easily.
About this training
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.
This introduction includes:
- An introduction the short form version of EFT
- How to resolve traumatic memories.
- Resolving phobias
- Relieving anxiety
EFT is a practical skill. Our intention that this course be hands on, practical stuff you can use from the start. You will be learning by:
- Watching live demonstrations
- Practising EFT in structured exercises
- Trying things out in a supportive environment
- Using EFT for yourself and others.
Because you will be using EFT in this training you can expect to feel the kind of benefits that your clients will get from using this process. You don’t just have to take our word for it.
Venue & Fees
The courses will take place at Wednesday March 5th or May 7th at The Dryden Centre, Gateshead, between 9:30am and 5:00pm
Information about directions, parking, public transport and catering will be sent on receipt of an application.
The day’s training will cost £75 including all training materials.
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.
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If you are still not sure
Andy is running some very inexpensive Beginner’s EFT workshops at St Oswald’s Hospice. In these three hour workshops you’ll be introduced to EFT as a way to work with everyday stresses and strains.
The workshops cost just £15 and all the proceeds go to St Oswald’s Hospice. If you decide to try the Beginner’s EFT workshop first I will discount the £15 from the training fee for EFT for Professionals course.
Request application form for Beginner’s EFT workshop
Does this stuff work?
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 Tourette’s 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