Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) for Trauma: Tapping to Transform Treatment Outcomes in Clinical Practice

CPD

Handouts

Speaker

Bonnie Grossman, LPC Related seminars and products

---

Bonnie Grossman, LPC, is founder of Pathways to Transformation LLC, an organization that provides professional development and leadership training. She is an EFT Master Practitioner. Bonnie is an international keynote speaker, author, workshop leader and consultant with over 20 years’ experience attending clients and teaching seminars. She also assists institutions to incorporate innovative modalities to their traditional mental health approaches.

Bonnie teaches both EFT Level One and Level Two practitioner training courses and provides EFT Practitioner certifications. She has extensive experience training mental health professionals, medical doctors, university professors, teachers, corporate executives and employees. Bonnie has a private practice where she provides holistic therapy and coaching to individuals, couples and families. She has worked with adults and youth who experienced a wide range of psychological diagnoses.

Bonnie began Women’s Empowerment, a nonprofit organization in Mexico. She passionately believes that all people can develop potential, greatness, and the ability to love. Bonnie works frequently in the United States, Latin America, and Brazil. She is the author of the book How to Heal from a Painful Relationship (Como sanar de amores dificiles).
 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Bonnie Grossman maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with NOCD, Cooperative Counseling LLC., Pathways to Transformation, and Women Who Love too Much. She receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Bonnie Grossman has no relevant non-financial relationship.

 

 

Objectives

1. Implement tapping technique with clients to identify and disclose events at the root of their pain and symptoms. 
2. Demonstrate EFT techniques such as Tearless Trauma, The Movie Technique, and Sneaking up on the Problem. 
3. Design a treatment plan that incorporates tapping techniques for clients with a trauma history. 
4. Utilize EFT to reduce trauma-related self-harm and suicidal ideation.
5. Demonstrate to clients breathing techniques to help in manage trauma-induced anxiety. 
6. Determine how using sound bowls and visualizations practices may reduce traumatic stress symptoms. 
7. Theorize how EFT can be used to reduce effects of intergenerational trauma by combining tapping with systemic approaches.

Outline

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

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

Risks, Limitations and Current Research

Special Considerations

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Physicians
• Psychologists
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Nurses