Tapping and How Can It Help Heal Trauma
- Emotional Freedom Technique explained
- Why a mind body approach can reduce trauma
- Assist client in uncovering underlying trauma
- The need to use alternative approaches in healing PTSD
- Risks, Limitations and Current Research
- Special Considerations
Design a Tapping Session for Trauma – From Start to Finish
- Psychoeducation: introduce clients to tapping in easy to understand language
- Treatment planning: create a set up statement to use in the first session
- Approaches to increase client trust and disclosure
- Evaluate progress during the session: key interactions
- Assist the client to feel safe during the tapping process
- Effectively end a tapping session
EFT Techniques for PTSD & Trauma
- When to use and how to modify “Tell the Story Technique” when processing a traumatic event
- Three effective EFT techniques to decrease and eliminate trauma
- Assist clients to tap between sessions to reduce effects of traumatic memory
- Tearless Trauma Technique
- The Movie Technique
- Sneaking up on the Problem Technique
- Working with intergenerational trauma
Integrate Tapping with Other Clinical Approaches
- Breathing techniques
- Visualizations & guided imagery
- Sound bowl therapy to increase client relaxation
- Cognitive therapy, systemic approaches, neuro linguistic programming (NLP) with EFT
- Gestalt therapy techniques to reprocess event and redefine traumatic moment
Reduce Symptomology of Trauma
- Tapping to empower client when experiencing traumatic memory
- Use EFT to diminish core negative beliefs about self and world caused by trauma
- Reduce trauma-initiated self-harm and suicidal ideation
- Trauma, the grieving process and tapping
- Reduce perpetual fear and rebuild strength and courage and resilience
- Express repressed anger due to traumatic event
Client Case Studies
- Maintaining ethical standards, tap on scenarios of clinical situations
- Develop tapping scripts to meet the needs of your clients


