EFT Training Level 2 will enhance your knowledge of the scientific literature around somatic approaches to moving through stress and trauma. Develop your Tapping skills with these new EFT tools and methods.

It is intended to deepen and enhance your understanding of Tapping, including the nuances of the practice and special methods around trauma. You’ll have the opportunity to learn to use EFT strategies with children, surrogates, and groups. You’ll study how to apply specific EFT Strategies to special case scenarios and use Tapping education with clients aimed to improve outcomes.

Level 2 EFT Training is open to all who complete Level 1 training.

LCSWs, LMFTs, LMHCs, LPCs LEPs, Psychologists, Substance Abuse Counselors, Occupational Therapists, Nurses, Physicians

1. Distinguish between small and large traumas in clinical contexts.
2. Apply the container method as a trauma management technique.
3. Utilize the "sneaking in" technique to address trauma safely.
4. Demonstrate an understanding of the "sneaking out" technique and its clinical applications.
5. Explain the concept of UDIN (Unexpected, Dramatic, Isolating, No Resources) and its relevance in trauma work.
6. Apply gentle EFT techniques for trauma healing.
7. Implement strategies to help clients regulate their emotions effectively.trauma. 
8. Apply advanced tapping techniques for addressing complex issues, including highly charged emotional content and persistent challenges that haven't responded to basic EFT protocols.
9. Develop proficiency with specialized trauma-resolution protocols, including advanced applications of the Movie Technique and Tell the Story Technique for working with "Big T" trauma safely and effectively.
10. Implement appropriate strategies when working with psychological reversals and secondary gain issues that may be blocking progress in the EFT process.
11. Recognize shifting aspects during EFT sessions and adapt treatment approaches accordingly to achieve comprehensive resolution of issues.
12. Demonstrate skill in identifying and addressing core beliefs and limiting patterns that may underlie presenting problems using specialized EFT approaches.
13. Apply ethical considerations and appropriate boundaries when working with others, including knowing when to refer clients to licensed professionals for issues beyond your scope of practice.

Day 1

9 to 10:15 am

• Training Points: Learning Outcomes:
• Review of Basic Knowledge and
• Skills (EFT Level 1)
• Have basic knowledge and skills from EFT International

Break

10:15 to 10:30 am

10:30 to 12 noon

“Don’t Go Where You Don’t Belong”

• More About The Trauma
• Understand the importance of a gentle approach (e.g.,Sneaking Up and other Gentle Techniques) at all times, and the utility of Protective Distancing/ proceeding slowly and systematically

Lunch

12 noon to 1 pm

1 to 2:30 pm

The Gentle Techniques (The Importance of Being Gentle)

• Preventing an abreaction

Break

2:30 to 2:45

2:45 to 4:30 pm

The Movie/Tell the Story Technique 

• Introduction to the Boxing/Container Technique*
• *Teaching of Box/Container Technique 
• Abreactions Understand the concept of abreactions and how excessive emotional intensity can be minimized or otherwise handled using EFT. Understand how abreactions are normal and may be a part of an EFT interaction.

Day 2

9 to 10:15 am

Writings on the Wall Metaphor (Introduction to Limiting Beliefs)

• Know how to identify limiting beliefs/thinking, ask questions about where such thinking may have originated, and apply EFT successfully to it Identifying and Handling Core Issues, and the “Tabletops”

Break

10:15 to 10:30

10:30 to 12 noon

Metaphor

• Explain what a core issue is in terms of writings on the wall and “tabletops” metaphor
• Know how to identify and handle a global core issue using EFT
• Be able to uncover table “legs” or specific past events by asking appropriate questions such as, “What does this remind you of?”
• Understand the role of core issues in relation to present challenges

Lunch

12 noon to 1 pm

1 pm to 2:30 pm

• Know that some “tabletops” may be stacked on others
• *Know how the “tabletops” metaphor is ALSO useful for describing the presenting or “global” issue (e.g., anxiety) as a tabletop that is supported by “legs” of past experiences
• Handling Specific Past Events, and the “Table Legs” Metaphor
• Know how to Sneak Up and “sneak away”, and how to begin using Movie/TTS or work with Aspects of specific past experience
• Understand specific past events in terms of the trauma experience and how the “legs” metaphor applies in the context of an EFT session
• Reversals and Secondary Gain: More About When EFT Doesn’t Work
• More on Testing and Testing for Tail-Enders

Break 2:30 to 2:45

2:45 to 4:30 pm

Integrating Cognitive Shifts

• Preframing: How to preframe appropriately for the purposes of helping a client know what to expect during the EFT interaction (e.g., “setting the stage”)
• Role of “The Positive” in EFT Know when to introduce positive language in EFT (see below)
• Understand how EFT is useful for acknowledging what is there (e.g., the “negative” that we might otherwise be pushing away) and allowing it the space to evolve (i.e., creating room for the “positive”)
• Introduction to Tapping with Children
• Introduction to Surrogate Tapping
• More on Borrowing Benefits Understand that Borrowing Benefits is a phenomenon that happens when we experience a reduction in
• The Importance of Practitioner Self-Care and The Personal Peace Procedure
• Safety: Professional and Ethical Considerations for Therapist and Client
• Q & A
• Wrapping Up

Participants must have paid tuition fee, signed in, attended the entire seminar, completed an evaluation, and signed out in order to receive a certificate. Failure to sign in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available. Certificates available after satisfactory course completion at credits.education

Credits.Education is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs. Credits.Ecucation maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.  Course meets the qualifications for 12 hours of continuing education credits for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.