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Research Findings for Tapping for Chronic Pain – Dr Peta Stapleton

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Dr. Peta Stapleton is a registered clinical/health psychologist and Associate Professor at Bond University (Australia) who embraces evidence-based and innovative techniques. Peta is a world-leading researcher in Emotional Freedom Techniques (Tapping) and led a world-first study investigating brain changes after EFT. 

She was awarded the Harvey Baker Research Award for meticulous research (Association of Comprehensive Energy Psychology), and was named 2019 Psychologist of the Year (Australian Allied Health Awards). Peta has authored *The Science Behind Tapping: A Proven Stress Management Technique for the Mind and Body* (Hay House), which won Best Self-Help Book (2019 Best Book Awards, American Book Fest).

Website: EvidenceBasedEFT.com

Tapping for Domestic Violence – Melissa Beasley

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Melissa built her skin care line, Love-Essential Skin Care, while recovering from an abusive marriage, and now uses her experience to help survivors of domestic violence and spiritual abuse rebuild their lives. She coaches women one-on-one and also offers mentorship programs.

Her approach to healing is gentle and methodical, starting with learning to regulate and calm the nervous system using tools like EFT/Tapping, and progressing to healing trauma. Through this powerful process, she guides women to rebuild their lives by discovering where they have become stuck in life, identifying their deep desires, and reconnecting to their innate strength.

Website: LoveEssentialSkinCare.com

Emotional Alchemy – Kris Ferraro

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Kris Ferraro is an Author, Energy Healer and Teacher on practical healing, emotional alchemy, manifestation, and spirituality. Blending ancient with cutting-edge principles and practices, Kris teaches how to clear past wounds and create a flourishing future. She is an accredited certified EFT Practitioner and licensed Spiritual Practitioner, with a private coaching practice for over 15 years. Her books include the #1 Amazon bestseller Energy Healing, an introduction to energy psychology practices, and Manifesting, now in its 6th printing. Her latest, Your Difference Is Your Strength, debuts 10/3/23.

Website: KrisFerraro.com

Tapping for Sexual Trauma – Jules Vandermaat

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Jules is an EFT Trainer, a mentor, Advanced Certified EFT Practitioner and a social worker. Based on the East Coast of Australia, she works online with people from all over the world in her private practice, specializing in helping people to recover from the trauma of sexual abuse.

She particularly enjoys training mental health professionals on how to incorporate EFT safely and gently into their therapy practices for traumatized clients. 

Jules first discovered EFT on Facebook about six years ago when she was working at a local sexual assault centre. She was amazed at how quickly EFT helped her clients to recover from PTSD, anxiety, depression and other trauma-related issues like shame, guilt and self-blame. She was hooked on EFT from the very beginning, and credits it with helping her to recover from burnout, and for reinvigorating her passion for her work.

Website: TappingWithJules.com

How EFT and Meditation Work Together – Dawson Church

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Dawson is an award-winning science writer with three best-selling books to his credit. *The Genie in Your Genes* was the first book to demonstrate that emotions drive gene expression; *Mind to Matter* showed that the brain creates much of what we think of as “objective reality”; and *Bliss Brain* demonstrates that peak mental states rapidly remodel the brain for happiness. He has conducted dozens of clinical trials, and founded the National Institute for Integrative Healthcare to promote groundbreaking new treatments. Its largest program, the Veterans Stress Project, has offered free treatment to more than 20,000 veterans with PTSD over the past decade. Dawson shares how to apply these health and performance breakthroughs through the EFT Universe website, one of the largest alternative medicine sites on the web.

Website: DawsonChurch.com

Tapping for Productivity and Focus – Alex Ortner

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Alex is the CMO and co-owner, along with his brother Nick and sister Jessica, of The Tapping Solution, a company with a mission to bring EFT/Tapping into the mainstream. He is also a producer of The Tapping Solution’s annual online *Tapping World Summit* that has been attended by more than 2.5 million people over the last 14 years. 

Alex is the author of the children’s book *Gorilla Thumps and Bear Hugs: A Tapping Solution Children’s Story* and speaks to teachers and students on how to use Tapping in the classroom to create balance, relieve stress and get better results. 

Most recently, Alex has developed The Tapping Solution App, which features hundreds of Tapping Meditations that have been played millions of times, and has been downloaded in over 130 countries. 

Website: TheTappingSolution.com

Using Tapping in Palliative Care – Sue Marsden

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Sue has been a palliative medicine physician for more than 30 years, following an initial medical career as an oncologist and was first introduced to EFT some 20 years ago. 

In finding EFT powerful in her own life, Sue soon started to use it on her palliative care patients. She has mainly used SET (Simple Energy Technique), developed by Steve Wells and Dr. David Lake, for its simplicity that makes it suitable for patients at the end of life with limited energy and concentration. 

A native New Zealander, Sue has also lived and worked in Australia. She has taught palliative care and co-facilitated self-care workshops in South East Asia, Zimbabwe, USA, Samoa and in Australasia, some of them sponsored by the Elisabeth Kubler-Ross organization. 

She now provides locum cover for hospices and palliative care teams and has just finished writing a book, *Thank you, Elisabeth. Self-awareness when working with people at the end of life*, which is soon to be published.

A Heart Centered Approach to Inner Peace – Sue Beer and Emma Roberts

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Sue and Emma are the co-founders of The EFT Centre, EFT Founding Masters and EFT International Master Trainers and Trainer of Trainers. They are the originators and pioneers of Integrated Energy Techniques (IET), bringing together Energy Psychology and the very best ways of working with Ericksonian Hypnosis, NLP, coaching, cognitive psychotherapy and psycho-spiritual approaches. Their combined backgrounds have proven to be a strong foundation within which the newer breakthrough approaches of Energy Psychology continue to grow and develop.

Website: TheEFTCentre.com

Tapping for Ancestral Healing – Jacqui Crooks

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Jacqui is one of the pioneers in Energy Psychology. She is an international speaker and trainer, an EFT Founding Master, and one of the authors of *EFT and Beyond* and *Tapping into Ancestral Healing*. Jacqui’s background in NLP and Hypnosis helped her to create her unique way of working with EFT that facilitates rapid change at a deep level, without trauma.

Websites: JacquiCrooks.com

Shortcut Tapping for Painful Memories – Naomi Janzen

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Naomi is an Accredited Master EFT Trainer and Mentor for Evidence Based EFT and EFT International. She works with clients from all over the world in her private practice and runs training workshops for practitioners in Australia and the USA. In addition to practicing, training, and mentoring, Naomi works to further the cause of Tapping along with mindfulness and meditation through a number of channels. She is the creator of Remindfulness, an app listed in 2017 by Positive Psychology as a Top 10 App for Mindfulness, as well as the writer and co-producer of the documentary *The Science of Tapping*. 

Website: OzFreedomTechniques.com

Intention Tapping – Steve Wells

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Steve is a leadership coach and peak performance consultant from Perth, Western Australia. He is a pioneer in Energy Psychology and has been teaching and researching Energy Psychology techniques for the past 25 years. He conducted the first randomized control trial of EFT for treating specific phobias.

Steve is the co-creator (with Dr. David Lake) of Simple Energy Techniques (SET) and Provocative Energy Techniques (PET), and the developer of Intention Tapping. He is the author of *100% YES! The Energy of Success* and co-author of five other books. Steve teaches practical techniques that can be put to immediate use to get better results with less stress.

Website: IntentionTapping.com/ and EftDownUnder.com

Healing Identity – Andy Hunt

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Andy is an EFT International Master Trainer and NLP trainer who has also trained in Person-Centered Counseling and studied many other healing modalities. Since 2002 he has been working as a self-employed psychological therapist and trainer with clients from all over the world from his seaside home in Northumberland, UK.

Andy works with people whose emotional lives have been badly distorted by their early life experiences and, as adults, find their lives at the mercy of their wounded younger selves. He helps his clients to find and heal their younger selves so they can have a more integrated and resourceful life. 
In 2008 he started to develop what became the *Identity Healing®* processes, a way of working with our troubled younger selves and now offers certification trainings in *Identity Healing®* for experienced EFT practitioners.

Website: IdentityHealing.com

Emotional First Aid Tapping – Jondi Whitis

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Jondi loves energy work, from her beloved EFT to a host of Tapping adaptations that reflect years of practical hands-on training, mentoring and client work. She calls herself ‘The People’s Teacher’ in honor of her commitment to making energy work accessible to all. 

Jondi’s body of work includes training for groups and individuals 

seeking to use energy tools for healing, recovery from trauma, and personal transformation. She has a particular place in her professional life for humanitarian outreach and work with veterans, indigenous peoples, and teachers.
She is a longtime member of EFT International™, and a member of its Training and Accreditation Board, as well as ACEP’s Humanitarian Committee, an original member of the EFT Guild, and the founder of the annual Spring Energy Event gathering.

Website: JondiWhitis.com

Day-to-Day Tapping for Performance – Dr. Tom Hanson

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Sports and business performance coach Dr. Tom Hanson coaches highly successful athletes and teams ranging from the New York Yankees and Microsoft to entrepreneurs and amateurs in a wide variety of sports. He started tapping in 2003 and is widely known for his work with the “yips,” a state of nervous tension affecting athletes that produces involuntary muscle spasms.

Website: Dr.TomHanson.com

Tapping for Social Anxiety – Sebastiaan Van Der Schrier

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Seb is a coach who is versed in multiple healing modalities that include EFT/Tapping, Pro-EFT, Matrix Reimprinting and NLP among others. He first discovered self-help when he was 16, which he studied and applied intensely as he struggled with social anxiety disorder. It was only once he discovered EFT that he made significant progress and he now specializes in helping others overcome their social anxiety. 

His goal for his clients is to help them feel safe being their true selves around others so that they can feel comfortable and at ease socially, enjoy connecting with others, and create satisfying social lives. 

Seb is the founder of the Social Confidence Club, an online community providing group coaching and support for people with social anxiety. He is also the host of the popular podcast *Social Anxiety Solutions* and has his own YouTube channel with resources for social anxiety sufferers. 

Website: Social-Anxiety-Solutions.com

Tapping in a Post-Trauma Growth Framework – Nancy Forrester

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Nancy Forrester is a Clinical Psychotherapist (ret), Coach, international speaker, award-winning entrepreneur and adult educator. Her own experiences of overwhelming loss thirty years ago led her into deep study of how the stuck energy of unprocessed trauma continues to be expressed in the biology of the nervous system today, limiting a person’s capacity to lead a joyful, healthy and productive life.

She is the founder and Executive Director of the National Emotional Freedom Techniques Institute, NeftTi.com. Using over 40 years of experience, Nancy has channeled her frustrations at the limitations and potential harms of traditional therapy, coaching and EFT approaches into a revolutionary integrated holistic framework called Conscious Emotional Freedom Techniques™. 

Conscious EFT offers heartfelt human service providers a way to safely support clients to improve the quality of their lives today, without the overwhelmingly destructive impact of attempting to resolve trauma experiences from the past. NeftTi trains, certifies and mentors current and aspiring health and wellness practitioners in Conscious EFT, a post trauma growth framework that supports safe, significant and sustainable real-world results, using Emotional Freedom Techniques/tapping as the fundamental modality. Graduates of NeftTi’s certification level program are dual certified, as an Emotional Success™ Coach and a Conscious EFT™ Practitioner.

Website: NeftTi.com

No Pain with a Tranquil Brain – Robin Bilazarian

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Robin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), a Diplomate of Clinical Social Work (DCSW), a Diplomate of Energy Psychology (DCEP), a psychotherapist in private practice and an AAMET International EFT Trainer. She is also an author and published *Tapping the Mighty Mind* in 2018.

Over her 40-year career Robin has accrued immense experience in working with all aspects of mental health. For the past 25 years she has extensively brought EFT/Tapping into mainstream mental health by training other psychotherapists, through her work in community mental health, and in her active private practice.

Website: TapWithBrad.com

Tapping for Self-Love – Brad Yates

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Brad is known internationally for his creative and often humorous use of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT). He is the author of the best-selling children’s book *The Wizard’s Wish*, the co-author of the best-seller *Freedom at Your Fingertips*, and a featured expert in the film *The Tapping Solution*. Brad has also presented at numerous events, including Jack Canfield’s Breakthrough to Success, on teleseminars with stars from *The Secret*, Bob Doyle and Dr. Joe Vitale, and on internet radio talk shows. Brad has more than 1000 videos on YouTube that have been viewed over 37 million times.

Website: TapWithBrad.com