Let’s wrap up this week’s look at Emotional Freedom Techniques therapy, or EFT, and how it can work for your clients by learning about its benefits.
Benefits of EFT:
• Your clients will make enormous strides in as little as 1 session.
• EFT can usually be completed in as few as 2 sessions.
• Your clients will not only get relief from their negative emotions, they will also experience relief from their physical pains and ailments.
• EFT can be used to treat just about anything from stage fright to severe emotional trauma.
Join me next week as we continue to explore therapy techniques available to you and your clients.
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Patricia Sherman, Ph.D., LCSW
*Written in collaboration with Jessica Hicks
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Let’s continue this week’s look at Emotional Freedom Techniques therapy, or EFT, and how it can work for your clients by learning about where EFT originated.
EFT was developed by Gary Craig a little over a decade ago. EFT is designed to be a simplified and improved version of Roger Callahan’s Thought Field Therapy, which we discussed last week.
Craig’s EFT therapy is designed to draw its power from:
• Time honored Eastern discoveries that have been around for thousands of years.
• Einstein’s theory that everything is made up of energy – even our own bodies.
Keep tuning in this week as we continue our look at how you can put Emotional Freedom Techniques to work for your clients.
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Patricia Sherman, Ph.D., LCSW
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March 20, 2008
This week I want to take a look at a therapy you can use with your clients to help them eliminate their negative emotions – Emotional Freedom Techniques, or EFT.
EFT is based on the theory that disturbances in the body’s natural energy fields cause negative emotions. The idea behind EFT therapy is if the client taps on the meridians of the body’s natural energy fields while the client is thinking about a negative emotion, the body’s energy field is restored to its balanced state, and the negative emotion disappears.
Continue to join me this week as we take a look at how you can put Emotional Freedom Techniques to work for your clients.
Hope Makes Healing Possible!
Patricia Sherman, Ph.D., LCSW
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March 17, 2008
Let’s wrap up this week’s look at Thought Field Therapy by answering some of the more frequently asked questions about Thought Field Therapy.
Is Thought Field Therapy painful to the client?
Absolutely not. Thought Field Therapy doesn’t use any tools or instruments, and it doesn’t require the client to discuss a traumatic situation or event in any great detail.
Is Thought Field Therapy a good therapy to use with children?
March 15, 2008
We’ve taken a look at what Thought Field Therapy is. Now let’s examine how you can put it to work for your clients.
A Thought Field Therapy session begins with the therapist asking the client to think about a specific situation or event, and rate how uncomfortable s/he feels thinking about the event on a scale of 1 to 10, with ten being the worst the client could feel and one being the client has no problems thinking about the event.
Then, the therapist directs clients to tap with two fingers on various pressure points on their bodies. The points you direct your clients to tap are done according to a specific algorithm developed based on the emotions your clients feel when thinking about the specific event. As you instruct your clients where to tap, they rate how they are feeling.
This series of therapist directed tapping lasts five to six minutes. At the end of the tapping session, the Thought Field Therapy treatment is complete and the client’s distress is eliminated.
Check back this week as we wrap up our look at Thought Field Therapy, and answer some frequently asked questions about this treatment.
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Patricia Sherman, Ph.D., LCSW
*Written in collaboration with Jessica Hicks
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March 13, 2008
This week I want to take a look at a safe and effective therapy you can use with your clients to help them eliminate emotional distress – Thought Field Therapy, or TFT.
One of the greatest benefits to Thought Field Therapy is that the client sees immediate results; and, Thought Field Therapy is extremely versatile – it can be used to treat a variety of addictions, phobias, fears anxieties, and even post-traumatic stress disorder.
Thought Field Therapy works by eliminating negative feelings a client previously associated with a specific thought. You see, a client’s negative emotions create disturbances in their body’s energy system, and it’s these disturbances that may cause the client’s physical problems, negative emotions, addictions, and cravings.
Thought Field Therapy works as a mind-body therapy for clients by combining modern science, oriental medicine, and the body’s own energy system to help the client overcome their negative feelings.
Continue to join me this week as we take a look at how you can put Thought Field Therapy to work for your clients.
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Patricia Sherman, Ph.D., LCSW
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March 10, 2008
There are 3 types of clients who find Traumatic Incident Reduction, or TIR, particularly beneficial:
• Clients who have experienced a traumatic event they feel adversely affected them
• Clients who react inappropriately or overreact to certain situations and their reaction could be connected to their past traumatic experience
• Clients who experience uncomfortable negative emotions in response to certain triggers.
If you have clients who fall into any of these categories, then Traumatic Incident Reduction therapy may be a good option for them.
Join me next week as we take a look at Thought Field Therapy.
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Patricia Sherman, Ph.D., LCSW
*Written in collaboration with Jessica Hicks
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March 8, 2008
We’ve taken a look at what Traumatic Incident Reduction, or TIR, is. Now let’s take a look at how you can put it to work for your clients.
A TIR session begins with clients thinking of a specific past trauma they want to move beyond. Clients treat the past trauma like a movie, and play it in their heads from start to finish without talking about the incident.
After clients have “viewed” the movie of the past traumatic incident, they
describe what happened in it and their reactions to viewing it.
Then, clients “rewind” the movie and replay it.
After replaying the movie several times, clients will experience an emotional peak. As they continue to replay the movie, their negative emotions will eventually lessen. They continue to replay the movie until they no longer have any negative emotions about the incident.
Once clients have reached a point where they feel good about the traumatic incident, the session is over. Most sessions take about 90 minutes, but this can vary depending on each client’s needs.
Continue to join me this week as I show you how TIR may be useful for your clients.
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Patricia Sherman, Ph.D., LCSW
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March 6, 2008
Traumatic Incident Reduction, or TIR, is a client-driven treatment method for successfully eliminating the negative effects of a client’s past traumas.
What’s great about TIR is it’s brief, it’s simple, it’s successful, and the clients do all the work on their own!
During a TIR session, you provide your client with no interpretation or feedback – you only give your client step-by-step instructions. You offer no advice, evaluation or reassurance.
Using the simple steps of Traumatic Incident Reduction, you allow your client to permanently eliminate the negative emotions tied into a past traumatic experience.
Join me this week as I take you through the steps of a TIR session and show you how you can put it to use for your clients.
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Patricia Sherman, Ph.D., LCSW
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February 19, 2008
Let’s wrap up this week’s look at the 8 phases of EMDR treatment by exploring phases 7 and 8.
Phase 7 of EMDR treatment is all about closure.
During this phase, the therapist will ask the trauma patient to keep a journal throughout the week documenting anything that reminds the patient of the self-calming steps that they worked on together in phase 2.
In phase 8, the therapist and trauma patient discuss the previous 7 phases and any progress the patient has made since the previous treatment session.
At this point, the trauma patient will likely be able to report the state of dysfunction from the past traumatic event has at the very least been decreased; and hopefully, eliminated.
Check back next week as we examine TIR – or traumatic incident reduction.
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Patricia Sherman, Ph.D., LCSW
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