Stacy Ruse – Clinical EFT and EMDR Tapping for Trauma: Accessible Techniques for Rapid Symptom Relief and Stress Reduction

What you’ll learn Clinical EFT and EMDR Tapping for Trauma

With simple tools clients can use to self-regulate and manage their emotional well-being, tapping puts the power of healing directly in their own hands. And because it empowers clients to take an active role in their healing, the therapeutic process becomes an even more collaborative and mutually supportive endeavor.

Tapping Fundamentals

• Types of Tapping and Bilateral Stimulation (BLS)
• Understanding the Distinctions: EMDR
• Resource Installation, Resource Tapping, and Meridian Tapping
• Setting Clear Goals for Tapping and its Application in Healing
• Embracing a Holistic Approach to Tapping for Comprehensive Healing

How Tapping Works: The Science & Mechanisms of Action

• The Impact of Polyvagal Theory on Trauma Healing
• Understanding Bilateral Stimulation
• How does BLS Work? Mechanisms of Action
• Inner Workings of Meridian Tapping
• Therapeutic Benefits and Applications

Assessing Client Readiness for Tapping

• Signs of Readiness for Tapping Techniques
• Factors Impacting Readiness: Trauma History, Emotional Regulation, and Resourcing
• Assessing Client Preferences and Comfort Level with Tapping

Resource Tapping for Cultivating Calm, Connection, and Empowerment

Step-by-Step Instruction: Using Tapping Techniques from EFT and EMDR in Your Trauma Treatment

• When to Do and With Who
• General BLS Instructions
• Eyes Open or Closed: Choosing the Optimal Visual Focus
• Felt-Sense Connection: Tapping into Sensations and Bodily Awareness
• EMDR Resource Tapping Techniques
• Meridian Tapping: EFT Strategies to Restore Balance and Release Emotional Blocks
• Tapping for Individuals & Groups
• Pitfalls to Avoid and Common Challenges
• Demonstrations and Practice

Evidence, Research Limitations and Treatment Risks

Design a Tapping Session for Trauma — From Start to Finish

• Psychoeducation: introduce clients to tapping into easy-to-understand language
• Treatment planning: create a set-up statement to use in the first session
• Approaches to increase client trust and disclosure
• Evaluate progress during the session: key interactions
• Assist the client to feel safe during the tapping process
• Effectively end a tapping session

EFT Techniques for PTSD & Trauma

• When to use and how to modify “Tell the Story Technique” when processing a traumatic event
• Three effective EFT techniques to decrease and eliminate trauma
• Assist clients in tapping between sessions to reduce the effects of traumatic memory
• Tearless Trauma Technique
• The Movie Technique
• Sneaking up on the Problem Technique
• Working with intergenerational trauma

Integrate Tapping with Other Clinical Approaches

Reduce Symptomology of Trauma

• Tapping to empower clients when experiencing traumatic memory
• Use EFT to diminish core negative beliefs about self and the world caused by trauma
• Reduce trauma-initiated self-harm and suicidal ideation
• Trauma, the grieving process, and tapping
• Reduce perpetual fear and rebuild strength, courage and resilience
• Express repressed anger due to a traumatic event

Client Case Studies

• Maintaining ethical standards, tap on scenarios of clinical situations
• Develop tapping scripts to meet the needs of your clients

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