​Why Tap Your Way Home?

I'm Kate, from Tap Your Way Home, and I'm so glad you're here!

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I started Tap Your Way Home after discovering a therapy technique called Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), which is also known as Tapping. Personally, I think this therapy approach has a terrible name! But the results just don't lie.

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I have worked in the social services for over a decade now. I have my Masters in Social Work and have worked in disability, foster care, family support, legal systems, Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations (ACCOs), and family violence.

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Through that time I have used, and witnessed a huge range of support and counselling styles.

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Nothing compares to EFT/Tapping.

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Tapping involves the brain and body. A skilled counsellor will support you to think and talk about what is happening for you, while also tapping pressure points on the face, hands and torso.

 

Honestly, it does seem pretty weird, but it is all grounded in scientific evidence. 

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The pressure points you tap on are connected to your brain and body through something called the primovascular system. This allows us to send a message straight to your brain asking it not to panic so much about a specific thought, memory, belief, emotion or sensation.

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We use this handy system to let our brain know that right now it is not in danger. Once our brain receives this message, a few wonderful things happen.

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Our body relaxes. Cortisol (the stress hormone) reduces in our body, our immune system starts working better, and we can access our feel good hormones.

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Something called adaptive information processing starts to happen. This is iust a fancy way of saying that we can now easily come up with new ways of thinking about what has happened.

 

​This is fantastic, because we've all had the experience of a friend telling us something will be okay, but not actually believing them. With tapping, our brain is our friend and we now completely believe what it has to say!

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​We might even forget that we ever had enough negative emotion about something to bother tapping on it.

 

I can't count the number of times that I've done a review with a client of the work we've done together, and they had totally forgotten about most of the memories until I reminded them. And when they're reminded, sure they can remember the details of the event, but there is no distress about it. It's now just a fact instead of a feeling.