EFT Nation Podcast

Alina Frank and Craig Weiner interview Dr. Christine Gibson about the difference and similarities between EFT, Matrix Reimprinting, and A.R.T. (Accelerated Resolution Therapy) Dr. Gibson is a family doctor and trauma therapist, author of The Modern Trauma Toolkit (with a chapter on EFT), and co-founder of Safer Spaces Training. A lifeline learner with a Masters in Medical Education and a Doctorate in Transdisciplinary Studies, she has been certified in over a dozen different therapies – and her favorite for trauma processing is Accelerated Resolution Therapy (with Matrix Reimprinting coming a close second). She loves to share her skills on TikTok as TikTokTraumaDoc. For more information please visit www.christinegibson.net or www.moderntrauma.com

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This series of interviews is the culmination of a desire to help illustrate the similarities and differences that exist between the Emotional Freedom Techniques and other therapeutic and clinical approaches currently being practiced. For this series we have selected a variety of trauma-informed clinical approaches that we felt would be useful for both practitioners and the public to get insight into how EFT is similar or different to these other techniques. We have carefully chosen clinicians who have either had years of clinical practice or are trainers in these other methods and who also are well trained and familiar with EFT in order to bring you a comprehensive perspective.

Carol is a licensed psychologist in private practice in San Diego, California. She has considerable expertise in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), and is both an EMDRIA Approved Consultant in EMDR and an EMDRIA Certified Clinician (EMDR International Association). She also participates in teaching other psychotherapists EMDR as a facilitator in EMDRIA approved trainings. Carol also has extensive experience and training in the most popular form of Energy Psychology, EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques). She taught EFT to other psychotherapists as an adjunct faculty member at JFK University for ten years and she has taught EFT to psychotherapists in private workshops and at various agencies. Carol has taught EMDRIA approved classes she created on “Enhancing EMDR with Energy Psychology”, which specifically teach EMDR therapists how to use EFT, and how to integrate EFT into their EMDR work. Since 2016, Carol has also been incorporating IFS (Internal Family Systems) into her work with clients and consultees. She has completed the IFS Institute official Level One and Level Two trainings. Carol divides her time between psychotherapy, teaching and consultation. She provides consultation to EMDR and EFT practitioners locally though individual mentoring and group consultation. She also provides consultation to clinicians nationally by phone and Zoom. For more information about Carol, please see her website at www.carolodsess.com. For more information about EFT Trainings visit www.efttappingtraining.com

This comparison chart was published in the 2003 book, Energy Psychology (EP) and EMDR;

Combining Forces to Optimize Treatment, written by clinical psychologists John Hartung, Psy.D. and Michael Galvin, Ph.D.ology. For over 25 years they taught EMDR and EP methods in more than a dozen countries and co authored various manuals in EMDR. In the book they begin by comparing EMDR and EP and then describe the training models they have used to teach these treatments to professionals and paraprofessionals alike.

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Welcome to our 50th podcast! The holidays are a time of year that bring not only joy and celebration but also can be associated with many sources of stress. Time management stress. Financial gift-giving stress. Handling family conflict concerns. Food and alcohol related issues. How can you use EFT in advance to prepare for creating your best holiday yet? How might you use tapping for in-the- moment stress?

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We dedicated this episode to exploring various methods of EFT Testing. What is the purpose of testing? What is basic EFT Testing/ What are different Gentle EFT Testing Techniques and more Provocative Testing Techniques? When do you test and when don’t you? These are the kinds of questions we discuss that will be of interest especially to EFT Tapping practitioners working with clients who are committed to great results!

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This episode explores some history and explanation about the Adverse Childhood, Positive Childhood and Positive and Adverse Childhood Experiences studies. It is critical that EFT practitioners and individuals have some safety and practice guidelines informing them when they should and should not be tapping on themselves or with their clients in order to not induce retraumatization. We offer our recommendations for how to use these tools as a guideline for finding your own score as well as your EFT client’s score in clinical practice. Here are some excellent resources that offer an immense amount of additional tools and resources pacesconnection.com and acestoohigh.com.

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While EFT is incredibly effective in assisting individuals to resolve past adverse and traumatic experiences it also is important to know how to use EFT Tapping for “in the moment” self-regulation. When a client starts becoming emotionally dysregulated and either begins to emotionally flood or freeze or abreact, it is critical that we have a variety of tools to help them return to the present moment and move towards a regulated state. It is also important to consider what you wish to teach your clients and students to do if and when they become dysregulated outside of a session. Here we offer our Top Ten Tips to help a person using Tapping to return to a neuro regulated state.

Additional Resource mentioned Podcast Episode 14 on Surrogate Tapping.

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How many of us never learned how to set healthy boundaries for ourselves when we grew up? How many of us never got to witness or experience clean boundaries that were empowering in our families of origin? How many of us have suffered emotionally or even physically because we learned to put others needs ahead of our own and then felt resentful towards others and angry at ourselves for not being able to express or maintain healthy boundaries to have our own needs met? This episode looks at how setting boundaries can be triggers for some and healing opportunity for others especially when using EFT to turn them into the latter.

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We are thrilled to share the wisdom and experience of our colleague La’Quesha Fonrose, a licensed therapist and certified EFT practitioner with over 15+ years of experience working in the mental health field. She specializes in working with millennial women, specifically Black mothers, who are survivors of childhood and complex trauma living with uncontrolled stress and anxiety who are looking to find relief and are ready to focus on their own self-care. In this interview we explore common signs and risk factors that increase mental health issues for mothers in the black community as well as some of the common myths ad challenges that black women and mothers face in our society. She also shares personal experiences of discovering and using EFT in her own personal journey towards greater balance and self care. You can find out more about her work wholelisticquestwellness.co or on Instagram at wholelistic_quest

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We often hear this phrase, that an EFT practitioner should meet a client where they’re at. We agree but what does that really entail? What kinds of circumstances or challenges might get in the way of that? Can the client be the problem in that scenario or is it more likely the challenge facing the practitioner? What kinds of obstacles might prevent a practitioner from consciously or unconsciously being able to do just that? What may interfere with clinically integrating a person centered approach into your work? Where do maintaining personal values come into play? What about vicarious trauma? It’s a great topic that we enjoyed exploring in this episode of EFT Nation.

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Changing old habits and adding new ones can be challenging for all of us. The end of one year and the beginning of a new year is a time when many people consider habit changes. In this podcast we review the four most common reasons people fail to build habits for the long term. Then we explore five specific tapping taps that you can personally apply to clear the obstacles that may show up for you when you decide you want to make a healthy change in your life. Learn how to use EFT and habit-stacking to take you from feeling challenged to creating success in your life whether it be creating new habits for your health, your relationship, your finances or more.

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