Do You Need a Certification to Practice EFT Tapping?
The short answer is yes. There are different levels to becoming an EFT Practitioner—from basic to advanced. Read on to learn about three different levels of EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) Certification and how to choose between becoming an EFT Facilitator and Trainer.
The Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is possibly one of the most powerful alternative treatments in today's times.
A fine fusion of traditional Chinese medicine, energy flow and modern psychology, Tapping is having a remarkable impact on thousands of people across the globe, with ample clinical trials to vouch for its efficacy (1).
With that said, we cannot ignore the fact that the journey from learning a basic technique to mastering it is long and full of new experiences.
Let's dive right into the technical aspects that this article aims to address, such as certification and accreditation.
WHO CAN LEARN EFT TAPPING?
Clinical Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) is a really simple, easy, and flexible healing therapy to ease emotional blocks. You can learn it if:
You desire to learn about emotional wellness and therapy.
You wish to heal from within and free your limits.
You want to help heal both yourself and others.
You are on the lookout for a new profession to help other humans heal and transform.
You aim to boost your career and gain emotional balance.
ARE THERE ANY PREREQUISITES FOR LEARNING EFT TAPPING?
There is only one prerequisite for learning Tapping therapy – a desire to learn Tapping to transform your life!
You do not require experience with Meridian Tapping, Karate Chop point, energy channels, acupuncture points, psychological acupressure or any other healing technique up your sleeve to begin your journey with Tapping (2).
HOW TO GET STARTED AND LEARN EFT TAPPING?
EFT Tapping being an alternative healing therapy, purposively addresses the emotional aspect of issues. The best way to begin your journey in this alternative therapy is by grasping knowledge of the foundational concepts involved.
Thus, foundational training is a must in order for you to lay the basis for meaningful and rich practice of EFT.
LEVEL 1 - EMOTIONAL FREEDOM TECHNIQUE FOUNDATIONAL TRAINING
As the name suggests, EFT Foundation Training aims at familiarising a person with the tapping solution foundation concepts of EFT such as what EFT Tapping really is, what is its origin and background, how and in what areas it works, etc.
Primarily, the purpose of EFT Foundational Training is to serve as more of a self-help tool. It's a great way to get started if you are looking for a fuss-free alternative healing therapy that will come in handy in your personal development journey.
TOPICS COVERED
Here's a list of the topics or concepts that you can expect to be covered in EFT Foundational Training:
How EFT Tapping works and can be used as a self-help tool and with friends and family
Origins and Background of EFT
The full EFT tapping sequence as developed by founder Gary Craig
Proposed Clinical Guidelines for Clinical EFT
Shorter tapping sequence
EFT Tapping for past traumas, stress relief and anxiety
How to eliminate physical pain
EFT Tapping for negative events/memories
Tapping away dis-empowering negative emotions
EFT Tapping for cravings and fears, PTSD symptoms, physical symptoms, psychological symptoms, self-acceptance and chronic pain
How EFT treatment helps to release blocked energy and emotional pain
By the end of your EFT Foundational Training, you get a certificate to use clinical EFT as a self-help tool or for friends and family.
LEVEL 2 - EMOTIONAL FREEDOM TECHNIQUES PRACTITIONER TRAINING
Practitioner Training consists of a purposive work plan. This work plan is for those who want to establish their practice as certified clinical EFT practitioners.
You could be a complete newbie in the area of healing and psychotherapy wanting to begin with your career.
Or you could be an already practicing psychologist, healer, therapist, wellness coach, etc. wanting to supplement their skills with the new technique.
The aim of EFT Practitioner Training is to prepare and equip you with all the necessary skills and resources so that you can go ahead and use EFT Tapping with clients in a more professional setting.
TOPICS COVERED
Here's a list of the topics or concepts that you can expect to be covered in EFT Practitioners Training:
How to use EFT Treatment with clients
Building rapport, trust, and a safe environment
Getting to the heart of the problem or issue
Daily EFT Tapping practice to remove limiting beliefs and negative patterns
EFT Tapping for addictions, allergies, and pain
Borrowing benefits by group tapping
How to ask questions that get you to the root cause
Tapping on specific issues to eliminate the problem
Identifying different aspects of an issue
Testing the effectiveness of tapping on meridian points
Additional EFT tapping meridian points
EFT Tapping meridian points and telephone sessions
Surrogate Tapping and using EFT Tapping with animals
For instance, when tapping along a group, video, or audio of EFT sessions, you might notice a significant decrease in emotional intensity or a shift in perspective or awareness.
These shifts and changes are what we call Borrowing Benefits. It happens when you are mirroring the client's issues.
Borrowing Benefits could also be understood as a strategy to set an intention for a practitioner to turn inward and work on their own issues before trying to help others with largely unrelated issues.
This is one of the topics - Borrowing Benefits that we cover in the Practitioner Training (Level- 2).
Upon completion and submission of case studies and a multiple-choice test, you will be awarded a Level 2 Practitioner Certificate.
LEVEL 3 - EMOTIONAL FREEDOM TECHNIQUE ADVANCED PRACTITIONER TRAINING
EFT Advanced Practitioner Training is for those who are interested in becoming certified EFT practitioners or therapists and want to work with clients in a professional capacity.
This training equips you with the skills and knowledge necessary to address a wide range of emotional and psychological issues effectively.
You explore advanced EFT techniques to address deep-seated emotional issues and psychological trauma symptom improvement of your clients.
TOPICS COVERED
EFT Advanced Practitioner Training focuses on:
Identifying core issues and resolving them
Ways to work with the inner/wounded child
Uncovering and integrating limiting parts
Awareness of sub-personalities and archetypes
Creative use of language
Re-framing old issues and pre-framing
The value of forgiveness and love
How to use intuition and creativity
Working with serious diseases, psychological issues, and impairments
Advanced rapport, calibration, questioning, dissociation/association, and choices
Unstructured tapping transitioning from science to art
Self-monitoring and supervision
Peak performance and abundance
Tapping for business success and energy marketing
To give you an idea of the concepts covered in this level of training, here is a brief explanation of pre-framing:
Pre-framing is where you frame a piece of information before you share it.
For example, if you were to share a piece of bad news with someone, you can reframe it by saying, “I am really sorry I have some bad news to share.”
Or in case of client sessions during the consultation call, you can pre-frame what to expect in therapy. Pre-framing sets the expectations of your client and sessions as in what you can and cannot offer.
SKILLS YOU NEED TO GET CERTIFIED AS AN EFT PRACTITIONER
Certification does not come easy. To get certified as an EFT Practitioner, you need to demonstrate that you have the skill set to establish a practice that successfully ensures the happiness and safety of your clients.
Here's an overview of the necessary skills you need to have to get certified as an EFT Practitioner.
1.
Questioning skills
You need to be well-versed in the art of asking your clients the right questions such as:
What does that feeling remind you of?
Where do you feel that right now?
What SUDs level is it?
2.
Grasping the information
Knowing how to gather the right information from the clients matters such as:
- Is the client's body language being noticed?
- Are appropriate listening skills being used?
3.
Keeping the client safe
You need to keep your client safe by ensuring the following:
- Not contaminating the client's words.
- Being respectful of the client in all ways.
- Being non-judgmental.
- Being aware of anything they were triggered by during the session.
- Explaining what the client feels now is a trigger and not what is happening now.
4.
Noticing skills
Notice any projections or counter-transferences taking place with your client.
5.
Analysing skills
Measure the changes in the condition of your client's health through a variety of measurement tools like SUD and VOC.
6.
Awareness
You need to be fully aware of the aspects of your client's problem.
7.
Checking with Original Aspects
Move with each aspect as it comes up. You should also remember to go back to the original aspect to check if it's been cleared or not.
8.
Specificity
Learn to be specific enough!
9.
Making clients self-aware
Be skilful in helping your clients pick their belief systems and the issues they are facing.
10.
Neutralise negative emotions
Test your clients sufficiently to establish if the negative emotion has been neutralised.
11.
Full connection and focus
Be present at all times in the session giving your clients full attention to detail and focus.
12.
Avoid new issues from arising
Be self-aware of the ‘clock' and when 10 minutes remain, prepare the client's subconscious and avoid any new issues from arising.
13.
Resolving issues
Find out how an issue was resolved especially in cases when issues were isolated.
14.
Ability to humanise techniques
In case of partial resolution, decide upon your next steps.
15.
Cognitive shifts
Check if there were any cognitive shifts.
16.
Appropriate selection
Skills and techniques may vary session by session. Use the appropriate skills for sessions of different clients.
Once you become a certified EFT Advanced Practitioner, you are qualified to work with clients on much deeper and more sensitive issues such as wounded inner child.
The best way to sharpen your skills to help such clients is to do the Inner Child Matrix (ICM) Programme. This programme will equip you with all the necessary skills and set you up for success.
Once you have submitted your case studies in accordance with the guidelines and certification process, you may have a desire to broaden your horizons and share Tapping with groups of people.
To do so, you need to acquire the accreditation of an EFT Facilitator. Let's dive into what that is and what your next steps should be.
BECOME AN EFT FACILITATOR
Suppose you wish to introduce EFT Tapping to corporate organisations or multi-national companies in order to help them relieve stress.
The only roadblock you might face in your pursuit would be not having the necessary certification or accreditation to execute your plans. Sharing about a technique like EFT requires you to be mindful of a few intricacies.
This is because the EFT technique can deeply impact people's psychology and, eventually, lives.
Basically, an EFT Facilitator is someone who can give talks of about three hours on EFT to groups of people. The format of the mini seminar, talk, or event must be in the spirit of:
Personal development
Borrowing benefits
Tapping on Self
Self-help tapping
The talk should not be about:
Training to become a practitioner
Get attendees to give & receive sessions
Benefits of being an EFT Facilitator
An EFT Facilitator gets to interact with audiences and thus, has a wider field of potential clients. The facilitator can-
Conduct EFT sessions for a group of people.
Earn money by having paying seminar attendees.
Get on the track to becoming an EFT presenter and share EFT-themed workshops and seminars.
Increase their own client base, earnings, and fee-paying clients.
Nevertheless, becoming an EFT Facilitator does not make one credible enough to train other people in EFT Tapping. So, in that case, what would be the next step?
BECOME AN EFT TRAINER
Your next step in the game would be to become a certified EFT Trainer or Coach.
What are the perks of being an EFT Trainer or Coach?
The following are the perks of being an EFT Trainer or a coach:
As a certified EFT Trainer or Coach, you get to run your own seminars.
You can work as a Professional Life Coach or Corporate and Business Coach.
You will get the opportunity to impact hundreds of lives and make a difference.
You can get higher-paying clients.
You can help others get faster results.
EFT Trainer's Training aims at familiarising you with a number of concepts. The training helps you:
Understand the psychology of your audience and have a rapport in seconds.
Coach others to gain clarity on what they want in life, relationships, finances and careers, and make it happen.
Get on someone's wavelength fast and influence for a win-win situation.
Put the past behind you and start living in the present.
Enable deep relaxation.
Experience peace of mind and infinite calm.
Harness the power of the mind for success.
By becoming a professional life, corporate, and executive coach, you get to facilitate training programs in the following skills:
NLP Diploma & Practitioner – With UK-based international organisation - ANLP
Hypnotherapy Practitioner
Breakthrough Coach
Timeline Technology
By the end of the EFT Trainer's Training, you are awarded certification that allows you to practice as a trainer, motivational speaker, anchor, coach, or consultant.
CONCLUSION
EFT Tapping is an easy, flexible and fuss-free alternative healing therapy that helps thousands across the globe to live a life full of health, happiness and vitality.
It is almost a cliché that so many are interested in or aware of this fabulous technique. These interested individuals translate into EFT Practitioners, Facilitators, Trainers and Ambassadors.
Keep helping yourself and others with Tapping!
Love,
Dr Rangana Rupavi Choudhuri (PhD)
In summary, EFT Tapping Certification is a process that involves a step-by-step approach. You begin with EFT Foundational Training followed by EFT Practitioner and EFT Advanced Practitioner Training. Upon certification, if you wish to conduct a Tapping session with a group of people, you need to become an EFT Facilitator. However, if you'd like to become an EFT trainer, you'd need to go through further EFT training. If you're interested in spreading awareness about EFT in your community, you may become an EFT Ambassador.
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