2-Day Emotional Freedom Techniques and Tapping: A Comprehensive Guide for Treating Anxiety, Trauma, and More

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Faculty

Robin Bilazarian, LCSW, DCSW, DCEP (Diplomate in Energy Psychology), and International Certified Master EFT trainer Related seminars and products

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Robin Bilazarian, LCSW, DCSW, DCEP (Diplomate in Energy Psychology), and International Certified Master EFT trainer, is a brief therapy expert, author and speaker who uses passion and humor to share a wealth of knowledge and her twenty years of experience integrating EFT into mainstream mental health treatment. She is the author of the Amazon best-seller Tapping the Mighty Mind: Simple Solutions for Stress, Conflict, and Pain. Her passion is to bring these rapid, thorough and gentle meridian and cognitive-based techniques into mainstream clinical mental health treatment.

EFT is a well-researched, comprehensive, mind-body treatment that rapidly desensitizes unwanted thoughts, emotions and connected physical reactions. EFT goes beyond supportive counseling and is actual treatment. It’s surprising how quickly turmoil dissipates; clients are usually better in one session -even if the issue is long standing.

Robin obtained her MSW degree from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill and interned at Duke Medical Outpatient Psychiatry. Her more than thirty years of clinical practice includes employment in all levels of mental health treatment, including private practice and using EFT in a community mental health center and with medical staff. She was recruited and worked for fourteen years as an internal Employee Assistance Program counselor, bringing these highly effective, short-term techniques to medical staff and students in a regional trauma hospital. Her trainees also included police, fire fighters, first responders, educators, city workers and others. She ran numerous internal and external EFT workshops, including psychiatric rounds and community conferences. She speaks nationally and internationally on this topic and presents frequently for NASW and Rutgers University. She is a sought-after expert in working with anxiety spectrum disorders.
 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Robin Bilazarian maintains a private practice and has an employment relationship with Cooper University Hospital. She receives royalties as a published author. Robin Bilazarian receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Robin Bilazarian has no relevant non-financial relationships.

Objectives

1. Apply EFT and Tapping foundational methods including basic language formations.
2. Utilize clinical strategies to deliberately focus on flushing out and treating target symptoms.
3. Utilize the Subjective Unit of Distress Scale (SUDS) to continuously measure outcomes that guide treatment refinements.
4. Investigate the interweave of negative thought, emotion and corresponding physical discomfort that are simultaneously released using EFT/Tapping.
5. Examine the physical manifestation of upset as a powerful point of intervention that usually lightens the entirety of the problem.
6. Experience highly interactive experiential learning in small groups and live demos.
7. Describe how EFT works in conjunction with and beyond talk therapies to cut through resistant problems.
8. Analyze possible language choices to find and desensitize the targeted upset.
9. Utilize EFT and Tapping for specific diagnostic categories while refining specific verbal and adaptations to EFT and Tapping.
10. Construct comprehensive, integrative treatment utilizing EFT and Tapping methods to interface with other treatment modalities and increase efficacy.
11. Develop 5 ways to release physical pain without medication and realize this potential role in the battle against the opioid epidemic and addiction relapse prevention. Some reduction is often a byproduct of EFT/Tapping acupressure for the emotions. Also devise specific language choices and adaptations to enlarge this pain releasing reach.
12. Determine specific directing adjustments to treat negative habits, compulsive behaviours, trauma, children, and couples work.

Outline

Emotional Freedom Techniques and Tapping

Why EFT: Breaking down misconceptions

• Supporting and peer-reviewed research
• EFT and cognitive interventions
• Reduce the emotional mental cloud and emotional blocks
• Break through resistant client problems
• Meridian activation to calm and rebalance thought, emotion, and physical reactions
• Compassion fatigue and burnout benefits
• Research limitations and potential risks

How to set up EFT sessions and zero in on treatment targets

• Set-up statement and sequence
• Develop foundational language
• Placement and applications of the acupoints
• Explore inquiring questions to elicit the target intervention
• Questions to zero in on treatment target
• Reduce physical discomfort
• Use of continuous measuring
• Overcome treatment resistance
• Sophisticated linguistic variations

Special considerations for treating anxiety, trauma, and more

• EFT/Tapping for the anxiety spectrum
• Special symptom dismantling to help depression
• Quick reduction of compulsive behaviours and negative habits
• Special consideration for treating social anxiety, phobias
• Desensitize traumatic reactions
• Benefits for pain reduction and relapse prevention

Advanced Applications and Tools

Expand EFT/Tapping ability and refine specific nuances for advanced benefit

• Tell the story technique
  • Defuse emotional dysregulation
• Art therapy tools
  • Projective use of EFT and tapping
• Somatic Intervention
  • Expression of emotional despair
• Choices method & weaving language
  • Breakdown negatives and enforce positive outcomes
• Augmenting with forgiveness and gratitude
• Advanced language patterns

Considerations for special populations

• 5 non-medication ways to release pain
• Couples work addressing the frustrating complementary behaviour, the imago
• Specific considerations and measuring changes for children
• Working with craving and relapse prevention
• Group trauma and serious incident debriefing
• Approach and benefit to humanitarian relief interventions

Integrating EFT/Tapping into other treatment theories

• Rebalance emotional dysregulation for CBT and DBT
• IFS parts work/child within
• Advanced brief therapy expertise
• Resource and closing of EMDR overwhelming moments
• Effective projective technique for use in play therapy

Live demonstrations and group practice

• Borrowing benefits for group therapy
• Tearless trauma technique
  • Release traumatic events
• Movie technique
  • Incorporating metaphors
• Eliminating phobia and the often triggering “small t” trauma
• Experiential EFT and Tapping group practice

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Psychotherapists
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Nurses
• Psychologists
• Substance Use Disorders Counselors
• Occupational Therapists
• Case Managers
• Chaplains/Clergy
• Psychiatrists
• Physicians
• Other Mental Health Professionals