How can you integrate EFT with hypnotherapy? In this article find out how different hypnotherapists successfully combine the two approaches.
Integration of EFT and Hypnotherapy
When I first trained as a therapist it was in hypnotherapy. Interestingly enough I found out later that my father had been a hypnotherapist in the 1950s. Hypnotherapy is a powerful therapeutic technique. Since being very young I have used self-hypnosis and tapes to reprogram my mind to achieve the things I have wanted to achieve in life. When I take on board a technique it is because it’s fits into my criteria for what I believe is important in therapy. Techniques have to be powerful, fast and effective. In other words, I don’t like going around the bushes and doing pointless things within a therapy session, I want to use the techniques that are highly effective.
When I came across EFT it fell into this category. In my own practice I tend to use EFT and energy techniques such as MBIR as my main approaches. They are however heavily influenced by my knowledge of hypnotherapy and NLP (neuro-linguistic programming). When a client comes into a therapy situation they come because they have a problem and they want to resolve it. My approach is therefore very solution focused. I use whatever technique that is going to help the client in the fastest possible time.
The Power of EFT and Hypnotherapy
How do I integrate EFT with my knowledge of hypnotherapy? Having a knowledge of how to use language to communicate effectively with the part of the mind you need to connect with in order to create profound change is incredibly useful. In hypnotherapy I was taught about how to use language effectively. EFT works by tuning the client into their problem then tapping and rebalancing the mind-body system. If a client is too analytical they can find it difficult to tune in and therefore don’t always get the results they want. Using some hypnotic language patterns with the tapping can be powerful. It can help the client break through this barrier and as a consequence improve their results.
Regression and EFT
Also, when looking for past events that have happened to the client that maybe at the root of their current problem, you can use language patterns that put the client into a transderivational search for the underlying event. A transderivational search is one that goes through all the databases that the unconscious mind is aware of.
Conversational Post Hypnotic Suggestion
I also use conversational hypnosis to help the client shift more of the underlying problem at a deep unconscious level outside of the session, without them having conscious awareness of it. When it has been completed, I often say, “I wonder where you will be when you realise things have changed in a positive way”.
There are many other ways I integrate the two process in order to help my clients gain deep transformation shifts. I asked some colleagues that have attended my EFT Training courses how they integrate EFT and hypnotherapy, here are their responses.
Clearing Emotion
Toni MacKenzie, hypnotherapist, EFT Practitioner
With most of my clients, I tend to use a combination of hypnotherapy, EFT, NLP and RTT (Rapid Transformational Therapy) as they all work well together. RTT begins with regression hypnotherapy to get to the root of the problem concerned. While I don’t use EFT during hypnotherapy, it can be highly beneficial to use afterwards. Clients can tap on their feelings around any negative early experiences that have surfaced from the subconscious mind, in addition to the feelings they are currently experiencing connected to their surface issues.
Ericksonian Language and Tapping
Anthony Middlemas, EFT Trainer, Lightening Process Trainer and Hypnotherapist
Anthony integrates the language patterns of hypnotherapy and NLP into his EFT practice. He uses Ericksonian language when tapping to help regress clients back quickly to underlying causative events. Once the events are identified he then uses EFT to clear them.
“Trance is always happening as we switch from state to state, and therapeutically used to direct someone into a more useful state (altered state) of awareness from their undesired state that they are currently experiencing, so an EFT client will be typically in a therapeutic trance state throughout a session but probably will not be aware of this, though they will be demonstrating changes that would be associated with a hypnotic state during a session.”
“MBIR (Mindfulness Based Inner RePatterning) can be quite trance inducing for people, also using a single point tapping while guiding someone or listening to a mediative recording could also be a way of guiding a person into a trance like state. Varying the speed that we tap can also influence our state”.
“The regression technique in EFT is quicker than standard hypnotherapy approaches and I’ve heard that hypnotherapist use EFT to deepen a trance, but I have never used it this way.”
EFT for Dealing with Trauma and More
Adrian Basford, EFT Practitioner, Hypnotherapist who specialises in PTSD
“Some of my EFT delivery is blended with hypnotherapy to some degree or other. Possibly as simple as voice delivery, in the same way NLP is used. It’s not something I planned, but it is something I find effective and useful at times.
In a blended session it is normal for me to do the hard work and break down barriers etc with EFT. I can address specific concerns, stressors and traumatic events prior to consolidating with an in-depth hypnotherapy session. The hypnotherapy could be an ego boost or an inner child nurturing session following the EFT work, or it could be as simple as subconscious reassurance of the work done today.
EFT is a simple and effective tool that is of use to me in many ways. It’s valuable when a client is emotionally or mentally or sometimes physically incapable of relaxation. This state does not prevent good work with EFT to be done. But hinders traditional (hypnotherapy) Induction etc. Basically, it doesn’t matter the state, EFT has been the initial go to method in pretty much all of my sessions.”
Tania A Prince
EFT Trainer, Manchester: Helping people become EFT therapists
Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.
I am an EFT trainer and Founding Master with over eighteen years of experience training people to become EFT therapists. My training courses take people from beginner stages to EFT Practitioners to Advanced EFT practitioner’s levels and beyond to master trainer level. I provide the complete training package to my students. I run my UK training courses primarily from Central Manchester and North Cheshire in England. I also train internationally.
Feedback from Past Training Courses: “Never have I learnt so much from any type of course, I’ve ever taken” “…excellent teacher…her depth of knowledge and experience…great sense of humour”.
I am an EFT Founding Master from Gary Craig’s original EFT Masters program which ran in 2005 to establish experts in the field; there are twenty-nine in the world. I am the developer of Deep State RePatterning (an advanced technique that uses EFT and NLP combined) and also Mindfulness Based Inner RePatterning an approach that integrates mindfulness with energy psychology. I am trained in many therapeutic techniques and have worked with thousands of clients which enables me to give depth to my courses. I speak at international conferences and am also an author. In my private practice, I specialize in building confidence in Public Speaking.
When I am not working, I am with my family enjoying the culture of Cheshire. I am also travelling as I love exploring and meeting people from around the world.
If you want to connect with me and discuss how to train in either EFT or Mindfulness Based Inner RePatterning feel free to send me a message on LinkedIn or email at tania@taniaaprince.com