Emotional Freedom Techniques | Training for Health and Mental Health Professionals

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Weight Loss with EFT Carol Look, LCSW
Program Sessions May 4th - June 29th

Course Agenda

WEEK ONE

Is Compulsive Overeating just Another Addiction?

How to determine if your client is addicted
Disordered eating and eating disorders
When food is the drug of choice
Why traditional treatment approaches fail so often

Why Diets Don't Work

How anxiety sabotages even the most ambitious dieter
Does your client need antidepressants instead of food?
Five feelings that sabotage any diet
Three reasons to stop dieting

WEEK TWO

The Intake Interview: Setting the Stage for Successful Treatment Issues

Ten easy questions to identify what sabotages your client's diet
Is there a downside to weight loss?
How to assess your client's diet history

Why Energy Therapy is Described as Emotional Acupuncture

How Energy Therapy resolves intractable issues
How Psychological reversal interferes with successful treatment
Why the Energetic system is the missing link in healing core issues

WEEK THREE

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)

How EFT can resolve complex symptom clusters
Step-by-step directions to relieve stress and soothe anxiety

EFT & Weight Loss: A Perfect Match?

Five reasons why EFT works for weight loss
Effective methods for managing cravings with EFT
How to use EFT to neutralize feelings of deprivation

WEEK FOUR

How to Incorporate EFT into Your Practice

When to talk and when to tap?
Valuable strategies for working with threatened clients

Using EFT for Immediate Stress at Home and on the Job

EFT as a daily self-management tool
How perfectionism undermines a successful diet
Insatiability: When there's never enough

WEEK FIVE

Peer Pressure: Who Will Sabotage the Diet?

How diet success creates family conflict
The Road Less Traveled: How to teach your clients to set boundaries

It's That Time of Day Again

The role of hormones and body chemistry in cravings
Two strategies for coping when cravings won't quit

WEEK SIX

Spirituality

How spiritual emptiness leads to addiction
Why eating disorders prevent spiritual connection
How to frame food addiction as a spiritual issue

How Energy Therapy Accesses the Past in a Non-Threatening & Safe Way

Three ways food is used as a tranquilizer
EFT protocol for addressing abandonment issues

WEEK SEVEN

Specific Protocols for the Treatment of Family of Origin Dysfunction

Three ways EFT will improve self-esteem
Step-by-step protocols for your neglected clients
A roadmap for abuse issues with EFT

EFT Strategies for Maintaining Weight Loss

The downside of losing weight?
Uncovering secondary gains of relapse

WEEK EIGHT

Is Relapse Preventable?

What the timing of relapse tells us about our patients
Troubleshooting the causes of noncompliance
Planning for holidays and other significant events

Practice Considerations in using EFT

Ethical issues
Contraindications
Essential boundary guidelines

The National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine

Weight Loss with EFT

Program Sessions