My Journey with EFT/Tapping

I came across Emotional Freedom Techniques (otherwise known as Tapping) in early 2022. I was providing counselling to victim-survivors of family violence, and one of my clients mentioned this as a counselling technique they were interested in trying. Having never heard of it before I did some research, and came across a free seminar being offered by EFT Universe. I decided to give the free seminar a try so I could understand more about what my client was wanting when they said they were interested in EFT.

At the same time, I was experiencing some conflict in my neighbourhood. This conflict was making me feel unsafe in my home - like I was constantly being observed and judged by others. As someone who has always felt like home is a santuary to get away from the challenges in the outside work, I was quite shocked at how much this impacted my wellbeing. I was doubting myself, catastrophising, and being hypervigilant.

While I had LOADS of self-care and cognitive behavioural support strategies in place as a Social Worker with over 5 years experience, none of that was helping me to feel reassured or safe in my home. I had tried talking with others, controlling what I could in my physical environment, reframing the scenario in my mind, meditation and mindfulness; nothing was working.

The EFT Seminar encouraged me to try tapping on myself, so I followed along with the instructions and did 2 rounds of tapping on the situation in my neighbourhood. After weeks of feeling anxious, on-edge and like nothing was working, I was shocked to feel an immediate difference. Through the 2 rounds of tapping I could feel the anxiety reducing, and I was able to access the more logical parts of my brain that supported me to reassure myself of my safety. This logical part wasn't coming forward and controlling the emotional stress response; instead the emotional stress response was quieter (gone even) and so the logical part was the only thing my brain and body needed to listen to.

Now considering I had never tried tapping before, and I had been struggling with this issue for weeks, I was pretty skeptical. I expected that I would be soothed in the moment, but that the worry and anxiety would come back in time. As days and weeks passed though, there was no sign of the anxiety. Nothing in my outside world had changed, but everything in my inside world had!

This was enough for me to believe that EFT was a fast, effective and empowering modality that I wanted to explore more. From there I signed up to trainings with EBEFT and went on the path to becoming an Accredited Emotional Freedom Technique Practitioner. During my trainings, accreditation process, and time as a practitioner, I have only become more convinced at the power of EFT. It feels magic and transformative. I am yet to see an issue that cannot be helped with EFT!

My favourite work to do with EFT is in supporting victim-survivors of family violence, or people who have experienced an imbalance of power and control in their relationships - whether this be at work, in friendships, their family of origin or with intimate partners (now or in the past). This work feels particularly powerful because it creates such a deep wound that is carried around for years and affects all areas of life. To be able to work alongside people to reduce the emotional impact of those wounds, and see the possibilities this opens up for them is just wonderful. I feel particularly excited when it is someone who is skeptical about EFT, or believes there is nothing that can help them "get over" the trauma and control they have experienced. Spoiler... EFT has always helped people achieve their goals!

I started Tap Your Way Home so I could bring this work with EFT, counselling and trauma recovery into my local and global community. I am a Social Worker training, and am passionate about how Social Work, Counselling and EFT/Tapping can intersect for powerful change for those who interact with the intersection - both practitioners and clients.