EFT Practitioner services

I’m qualified to work with all ages as a therapeutic coach using Emotional Freedom Techniques. I’ve assisted people ages 8 to 89 with good results – irrespective of age. 

EFT working has nothing to do with age. What matters is that someone is open and ready to change their life.

Most of the kids and adults I work with want my assistance to change their habits and emotional state when they are still in the ‘moderate’ and ‘moderate severe’ anxiety and well-being states. They want to change because they want to prevent their well-being problem escalating into something more serious, like a full blown Anxiety Disorder or Panic Disorder. 

I have age-appropriate screening tests that check my sense of whether someone’s problem is within my scope of practice. These are not diagnostic tools, just screening tools.  

I also have pretty good intuition. If the screening tool(s) suggest a particular case is within my scope of practice, but something feels off like there may be something there that’s beyond what I can help with, I do also take my intuition into account.

Finally, I look for signs that someone is ready to change and to work on the issue they are presenting with through a teamwork approach. I help people who are ready to take responsibility for their life and meet me half way. Tapping isn’t something an EFT Practitioner “does to you” in a session. The best results are co-created.

Every case is different, it depends on what the situation is. 

Sometimes I coach people using EFT Tapping for goals by combining my teaching and coaching skills from my previous career as a classroom teacher with EFT protocols for goals and peak performance. For example, I sometimes coach people to break their big goal down into smaller SMART goals (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound). These smaller goals are stepping-stones to achieving their bigger goal. We then tap on any emotional, cognitive, or somatic sensation stress blocks that come up for them when they think about achieving one of their SMART goals. This is one way that I structure my work with a child or adult using EFT session packages.

In other cases, we need to start with some sessions for grounding and stabilization (phase 1). We then move on to doing some deeper emotional processing work on any bad memories from past similar experiences that still carry a negative emotional charge when they think about them (phase 2). This is because unprocessed emotions from past failures/disappointments can affect how a child/adult perceives themselves and their ability to achieve their goal. Once that’s cleared, we can move to directly preparing for the future event (phase 3). 

In general, just doing a few sessions just to relieve stress right before a big event like an exam or interview may be too little too late. A structured therapeutic coaching program with consistent coaching sessions to prepare for a big event weeks, or even months, in advance is generally recommended. Particularly if the problem is more complex, or you have experienced a big disappointed in a similar past situation. The more complex and long-standing the problem, the more sessions you will need to address the issue properly.

No. Much of my work involves preventative mental health care. In other words, I often work with kids, teens and adults who are at risk of becoming clinically depressed, or developing General Anxiety Disorder, etc if they don’t develop healthier habits (e.g. sleep and exercise, unhealthy food cravings, unhealthy mobile habits etc) and reduce their stress levels. I help people change their habits and achieve their goals. My job is not to diagnose, treat mental illnesses or addictions, or give advice on medication. 

If, for example, someone with an eating disorder is receiving treatment by a qualified professional who knows how to treat their Bulimia, they can also come to me if they want assistance for their fear of failing their university course due to study procrastination. I can help them with their academic goals and procrastination problem using EFT Tapping and academic coaching. In other words, I can be part of the team of professionals supporting a child or adult with a mental illness, but I am not the relevant professional for treating their mental illness. That’s outside of my scope of practice as a therapeutic coach. 

To give you another example, if someone is already receiving weekly group therapy to treat a particular addiction, tapping sessions with me can help complement that. I can help them clear the stress of resisting their craving or impulse. I can also assist with helping someone clear inner blocks to following through on replacing their unhealthy habit with a healthier behavior or habit. That’s tapping for the stress of cravings and tapping for achieving a specific goal.

If you are on medication, you should never stop or reduce any medication you have been prescribed without consulting appropriate doctors or psychiatrists you can trust to advise you appropriately.

Watch this if you prefer to learn by watching a video.

If you prefers to learn by reading, see below. This is the information Clinical Psychologist, Dr Peta Stapleton, shares in her advanced training for mental health professionals. She’s given those of us who train with her via EFT HQ permission to share this with people.

QUICK EFT TAPPING RESEARCH FACTS

• 80+ Randomized Control Trials (RCTs)
• 75+ clinical outcome studies
• Randomized Control Trials using biologic or genetic outcome measures document positive outcomes
• 4 fMRI studies document positive neurological changes
• Numerous cortisol, EEG, HRV, DNA studies show positive outcomes
• 4 meta-analysis (depression, anxiety and PTSD)
• Studies show 86% of veterans no longer had PTSD after EFT treatment – 2x as effective and 2x faster than prolonged exposure therapy
• 9 systematic reviews
• 15 comparative reviews – 8 studies comparing CBT (Cognitive Behavior Therapy) show EFT is equivalent to and more effective than CBT, and it achieves results it less sessions. 

SO HOW GOOD IS EFT TAPPING?

1. Meta analysis research studies have found very large effects for EFT (Cohen’s d).

Cohen’s Effect Sizes: 
d=0.2 is considered a small effect size,
d=0.5 represents a medium effect size
d=0.8 a large effect size

You will notice that the Cohen’s effect sizes for EFT are very clearly large:

• 20 studies of EFT for Depression 1.31
• 14 Randomized Controlled Trials of EFT for Anxiety 1.23
• 7 Randomized Controlled Trials of EFT for PTSD 2.96

Yes I have a stress management program that is for companies that want me to come in on a regular basis to help a particular group of interested employees decompress. I can work employees in private schools/preschools, corporate, private clinics/hospitals, or universities in the private sector. Let me know what you want and I can send you an offer. Contact: eleni@elenivardaki.com

I have experience working with both school age and university level students on the spectrum for friendship issues, anxiety, academic progress, and meltdowns in tests/exams.

I also have experience working with adults who only discovered later in life that they have High Functioning Autism and ADHD. Typically they went unnoticed because they learned to mask by being very conscientious and putting in an extraordinary amount of effort when facing social situations and daily life demands.