Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) and Tapping: Evidence-Based, Mind-Body Treatment Approach to the Anxiety Spectrum Disorders and Pain

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Robin Bilazarian, LCSW, DCSW, DCEP (Diplomate in Energy Psychology), and International Certified Master EFT trainer Related seminars and products

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Robin Bilazarian, LCSW, DCSW, DCEP (Diplomate in Energy Psychology), and International Certified Master EFT trainer, is a brief therapy expert, author and speaker who uses passion and humor to share a wealth of knowledge and her twenty years of experience integrating EFT into mainstream mental health treatment. She is the author of the Amazon best-seller Tapping the Mighty Mind: Simple Solutions for Stress, Conflict, and Pain. Her passion is to bring these rapid, thorough and gentle meridian and cognitive-based techniques into mainstream clinical mental health treatment.

EFT is a well-researched, comprehensive, mind-body treatment that rapidly desensitizes unwanted thoughts, emotions and connected physical reactions. EFT goes beyond supportive counseling and is actual treatment. It’s surprising how quickly turmoil dissipates; clients are usually better in one session -even if the issue is long standing.

Robin obtained her MSW degree from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill and interned at Duke Medical Outpatient Psychiatry. Her more than thirty years of clinical practice includes employment in all levels of mental health treatment, including private practice and using EFT in a community mental health center and with medical staff. She was recruited and worked for fourteen years as an internal Employee Assistance Program counselor, bringing these highly effective, short-term techniques to medical staff and students in a regional trauma hospital. Her trainees also included police, fire fighters, first responders, educators, city workers and others. She ran numerous internal and external EFT workshops, including psychiatric rounds and community conferences. She speaks nationally and internationally on this topic and presents frequently for NASW and Rutgers University. She is a sought-after expert in working with anxiety spectrum disorders.
 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Robin Bilazarian maintains a private practice and has an employment relationship with Cooper University Hospital. She receives royalties as a published author. Robin Bilazarian receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Robin Bilazarian has no relevant non-financial relationships.

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Objectives

1. Analyze the origin and efficacy of the Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) including peer reviewed, published research.
2. Implement self-applied, light touch or tapping on acupoints to calm and rebalance the body system while thinking about disturbing upsets to create a desensitized state as measured by continuous dropping of the SUDS level.
3. Distinguish that EFT is a mind-body treatment that desensitizes unwanted thoughts, emotions and physical discomfort.
4. Use exploratory questions to elicit the first or worst defining event and how to treat in all manifestation in the past, present and future.
5. Demonstrate EFT techniques for stress, phobias, generalized anxiety disorder and panic and traumatic events.
6. Investigate how EFT can greatly diminish OCD-frustrating compulsions and unwanted habits.
7. Utilize a two-prong approach to treating social anxiety: EFT and social skill building.
8. Justify why EFT works in conjunction with and beyond talk therapy and how it often cuts quickly through resistant problems.
9. Practice working with pain reduction using acupoints and psychological constructs of metaphors and emotions.
10. Determine the ethical concerns of not working outside the knowledge base and obtaining ongoing “permission” to use these methods.

Outline

Origin and Research

• The origin of EFT
• The different nomenclature of EFT:
  • Energy Psychology
  • Thought Field Therapy
  • Tapping Solution
  • Meridian Therapies
• Highlight significant cortisol reduction in peer-reviewed, published research
• The EFT steps of activating acupoints in conjunction with descriptions of upsets
• The profound relaxation response from EFT
• EFT includes cognitive interventions
• Going beyond talk therapy: Relaxation of activating meridian

EFT to Eliminate Phobias

• Two categories of phobias: Instinct driven or driven from a past negative event
• Demonstration of finding and treating with EFT the “first or the worst” time
• Live example from the audience, case studies
• The “borrowing benefits” for all to participate

EFT for Pain Reduction

• Self-applied acupoints: A sister to acupuncture
• Adding metaphors and emotions
• A mobile tool

Using EFT for Stress, Generalized Anxiety and Panic

• Personal peace procedure
• Checking work and the value of persistence
• Considerations for treating issues thoroughly in the past, present and future
• Quieting the physiological arousal of panic

EFT treatment for Compulsions and Unwanted Habits

• Finding a baseline
• Treat the “urge” or “desire” to perform the unwanted behaviour
• Greatly diminish hand washing, checking, biting nails or thumb sucking
• Check your work via the SUDS intensity measure
• Future performance enhancement protocol to reinforce gains for the future

EFT with Social Anxiety and Building a Social Skill Set

• Social Anxiety: Fear of being scrutinized by others
• EFT on social situations: Past, present and future
• Establish layers of communication including ice breaker/small talk

EFT with Acute and Long-Standing Trauma

• EFT movie on Veterans 4 Vignettes of War
• Mind-body sweep: Gentle EFT approach via the associated physical discomfort

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Psychotherapists
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Nurses
• Psychologists
• Addictions Counselors
• Occupational Therapists
• Case Managers
• Other Mental Health Professionals

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