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Whilst EFT can be done at home with great results, working with a practitioner can really help to (quickly) tap into healing.  

Think of it as having a personal hiking guide for a challenging trail. You could absolutely try to navigate the path on your own, but a skilled guide supports you through the tough terrain – they know the most efficient routes, can avoid dead ends and keep you from getting lost. They also teach you skills, like pacing yourself and reading trail markers so that your next hike is filled with more confidence and ease.  

Similarly, an EFT practitioner helps you navigate your emotional landscape, guiding you through steep slopes whilst also teaching you strategies you can use after a session ends. Instead of struggling through the journey alone, you can move forward – forging a safe, calm path with a backpack full of the tools you need.  

Here are 5 reasons why you may find it beneficial to work with an experienced practitioner:   

1. Get Faster, More Effective Results

Through the strategic use of other expert tools alongside EFT, results are targeted and suited specifically to you (and your brain!)  

Whilst you may be aware of what’s holding you back, often, deeper subconscious ‘blind spots’ heavily influence your thoughts, behaviors and actions. As these blind spots are typically rooted in past experiences, beliefs, or trauma, we are often not even aware they are there! A skilled EFT practitioner can help bring these into focus so they can be addressed at their core. In my sessions, many clients come in expecting small shifts, only to be amazed when they unearth the real ‘root’ cause – setting off a chain reaction of positive change! 

2. Avoid Getting Stuck or Overwhelmed

When processing difficult or uncomfortable emotions, it’s easy to get stuck in loops of frustration or overwhelm. Working with a practitioner can help to you to continue to move forward and stay focused.  

3. Receive Personalized Guidance

EFT isn’t one-size-fits-all. A practitioner customizes sessions to target your specific needs – whether that be trauma, stress, anxiety, burnout, illness or striving for greater joy and well-being. I am practitioner but also have additional training in a range of other areas, I use EFT in combination with various expert tools including Neuro Linguistic Programming, biofeedback, hypnosis, breathwork and visualization, tailoring their approach to your unique requirements.  

This also provides tailored take-home strategies (think homework, but fun), which typically includes expanding your ability to incorporate EFT into your daily life, leaving you feeling empowered to shift your emotional state on your own. 

4. Stay Accountable & Motivated

Having your own personal cheerleader to provide encouragement and reassurance helps to keep you motivated. Additionally, regular sessions with a practitioner can create a sense of commitment and accountability, as they provide ongoing guidance and check-ins to ensure you’re making progress. 

5. Work Through Trauma SAFELY

If you’re dealing with trauma, a trained EFT practitioner helps you navigate it safely, reducing the risk of re-traumatization. A practitioner creates a ‘safe space’, ensuring you are provided with emotional support and structure so you don’t feel alone in the process. 

Your Journey, My Expertise

Now that you know why working with an EFT practitioner can be so powerful, let me share why I’m the right person to support you on your journey. I would be thrilled to work with you!  

My own journey and success with EFT inspired me to train as a practitioner. Thanks to a range of other diverse roles and experiences (including a Licensed HeartMath Biofeedback Instructor), I have been able to develop my own holistic, unique approach, blending modern Psychology, Neuroplasticity and Traditional Chinese Medicine to heal your body, mind and spirit. 

You can read specifics about my qualifications, approach and what a typical session looks like, but with me you get the perfect combination of subconscious rewiring and simple, tailored strategies to implement into your daily life with ease – all with a sense of fun and joy.   

Let’s find your subconscious ‘sweet spot’ together. Book in for a discovery call or find out more about my group coaching! 

Happy tapping,  

Val xxx 

EFT (aka tapping) stands for Emotional Freedom Technique. It is an evidence-based technique, with ” three essential ingredients [of] exposure, cognitive framing, and acupressure¹.” It combines techniques from traditional psychological approaches including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, whilst adding the novel ingredient of acupressure.  As the name suggests, you ‘tap’ on specific energy points on the body while focusing on uncomfortable thoughts and feelings to reduce stress (or any other unpleasant emotion) as well as promote self-empowerment.  

I like to think of it as a blend of modern Psychology, Neuroplasticity and Traditional Chinese Medicine – healing that feels magical but works like science. 

Why does EFT work?

Research shows that thoughts, feelings, and experiences (real or imagined) are constantly rewiring our brains and creating our reality. If you think the same thoughts over and over again and assign truth to them, they become beliefs. Thanks to your brain’s reticular activating system, these beliefs create a lens through which you interpret information, meaning you look (typically unconsciously), for evidence to match up with these beliefs in your environment – often shaping how we act and show up in the world.   

By using EFT to expose these thoughts and feelings and then tapping on them, you are not only interrupting the fight-flight-freeze response and lowering the stress hormone cortisol, but “removing the emotional charge²” from any memories.  

When these triggers are removed, you can input new ‘coding’ (thoughts) into your brain, re-programming your RAS to enforce these updated beliefs. As you create new neural connections, you not only “create an improved state of well-being³”, but shape a new reality.  

Acting as “acupressure for the emotions”, EFT can be used to overcome a range of emotions including fear, stress, anger, shame and guilt. It can even be used to cultivate and enhance more positive feelings such as love and (see a video demonstration here).  Thanks to developments in research, we are only learning more and more about the extensive benefits of tapping. Read this systematic review about how EFT has been shown to reduce stress, anxiety, depression, trauma as well as improvements in happiness levels. Dr Peta Stapleton, a Psychologist, Professor and leading EFT Researcher highlights its efficacy: 

• The American Psychological Association has validated clinical EFT as an “evidence-based” practice.”   
• As of 2020, in Australia EFT was approved under the National Insurance Disability Scheme for therapy.  
• Her research has also demonstrated how EFT is a useful tool for reducing chronic pain and even assisting with food cravings and weight loss.  

Benefits of EFT

Light taps, big shifts! Because EFT addresses underlying emotional causes, it gets to the “root” of the problem, helping to achieve long-term results. As you are re-programming the thoughts and beliefs your brain produces, changes continue to occur – even after you’ve finished a session!  

EFT also provides instantaneous relief. Many individuals have reported feeling calmer and lighter after just a few short rounds of tapping. You can read some inspirational experiences from EFT recipients here.  

The effectiveness of tapping has been documented when “delivered in person or virtually¹”, so you can essentially redesign your life without having to leave your cozy cocoon (or change out of your pajamas!)     

Other benefits include:  

• Improved confidence and self-esteem: By rewiring your brain to think new thoughts, you can change how you think and feel about yourself and start to believe in things you previously thought were not possible.  
• Stress reduction: By lowering the body’s production of cortisol and nipping the stress response in the bud, EFT helps you to feel calm. Expect to also experience improvements in sleep, energy and focus as a result.  
• Eases or releases chronic pain⁠⁠: As EFT is a somatic therapy, it can be particularly helpful to release stored tension and trauma which often manifests as physical ailments including headaches, chronic fatigue, inflammation, high blood pressure and other autoimmune conditions.  
• Recovery from trauma, addiction and phobias: By using this supportive healing modality, underlying emotional blocks and triggers can be processed.  
• Improved relationships: As a result of targeting emotional blocks, your capacity to communicate, become less reactive and more regulated increases, which has flow-on effects for your relationships.   

Where can I learn more about EFT?

• Click on the links referred to in this post or see the footnotes below for some EFT-related readings.  

• Brad Yates’ YouTube channel has a range of EFT videos on varying topics you can follow along with.  

• Free EFT Resources as well as links to Dr Peta Stapleton’s EFT research on her website.   

And of course, me!! I would love to hear from you. I often post handy tips and ‘tap along’ videos over on Instagram. You can also read through some EFT FAQs, find out more about the structure of an EFT session, or book a free discovery call.  

Happy tapping, 

Val xx 

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¹Church. D., P. Stapleton, A. Vasudevan, & T. O’Keefe. “Clinical EFT as an Evidence-Based Practice for the treatment of Psychological and Physiological Conditions: A Systematic Review.” Front Psychol. 13:95145. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.951451  

²Church, D. The EFT Manual. Third ed. Petaluma, CA: Energy Psychology Press, 2014.  

³Dispenza, J. You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter. Carlsbad, CA: Hay House Inc, 2014.