Kerri Rhodes is a licensed mental health clinician with 30 years of experience, personally touched by the opioid epidemic and fueled by the loss of her son, Taylor. With a powerful message and rapidly growing platform, Kerri is challenging and changing how America treats and addresses mental health, trauma and substance use disorder.
Kerri has spent the last 29 years working in schools, community mental health, the justice system, and private practice.
She brings her expertise to bear as she educates and empowers, in addition to the lessons Taylor taught her.
Her platform has reached schools, prisons, and national leaders. Invitations to speak, collaborate and teach are growing and include work with Weill Cornell Medicine, Shatterproof, Discovery Channel Plus, Senator Patrick Kennedy, Psychology Today, and the National Safety Council.
Kerri is currently a trauma therapist in the Chesterfield County Jail and works with the HARP program that helps those incarcerated with substance use and mental health issues to heal. The HARP program has certified over 100 inmates in the Trauma Tapping Technique in collaboration with the Peaceful Heart Network.
One of the phrases that Gary Craig used in the original EFT training videos that has stuck with me is “the comedies of our mind”.
New opportunities can be so exciting as they bring the promise of growth, change, and countless possibilities.
Tapping without words is one of my favorite ways to tap and I do it multiple times a day.
Maintaining high standards for ourselves is a good thing and means we have goals to shoot for and measuring sticks with which to evaluate our progress.
One of the highlights of this year's 24 Hours of Tapping was the conversation that I had with Kerri Rhodes. Kerri is one of the program directors of the Helping Addicts Recover Progressively (HARP) program in the Chesterfield (VA) County Jail.
Most of the time, when we sit down to tap, we are trying to create positive change.
The primary goal of our subconscious mind is to keep us safe.
Wanting to belong is a basic human desire.
Erik Tait is a world class magician and someone I love to see perform. He has spent over two decades performing as a juggler, standup comedian, and magician.
There is a natural human tendency to want to make sure everything is “exactly right” before we take action. That's because when everything is exactly right, we can be as sure as we can be of getting the results we desire.
One of the reasons I love art is because it gives us the ability to communicate meaning in ways that we aren't always able to do when simply talking about our lives.
One of the reasons I love tapping so much is that it can be used for so many types of issues. It can be used to:
Late last year my friend Brad Yates reached out to see if there was some way we could use our platforms to encourage more people to tap for peace and to become more active peacemakers in the world.
I love how tapping can be used to clear and transform the negative.
Tapping is deceptively simple.
One of the most important parts of the 
Something I really love about the people I work with is their tendency to see the bigger world outside of themselves. They recognize the people in their lives who are struggling and in pain, and they also want to do something about it.
For the