Healing Magic's Faster EFT creator Robert. G.Smith's tour down under continues.

As a psychologist I am always interested in improving my skills to assist people as quickly and thoroughly to effectively resolve their problems.

This means I am in touch with the latest and greatest in research keeping myself up to date in therapy land with what gel's for both me and the clients I work with. When I find something useful I go all out to study and understand it.

In 2010 I was trained by Dr Laurie Mackinnon in Radical Exposure Therapy, in a course called "Deactivating the Buttons - integrating  a trauma lens into a counselling framework". This has to be the most useful workshop I have ever attended in terms of therapeutic effectiveness and practicality. I do not say that lightly. I have been amazed at the sudden and positive responses to" Tapping" . It is also a self help practise. If you are a psychologist, counsellor or Doctor I would encourage you to visit Dr Mackinnon's website www.insiteconsulting.com.au for the upcoming training early September, get in early to avoid disappointment.

 This opened up my eyes to the effectiveness and benefits of "Tapping" derived from Dr Roger Callahan's Thought Field Therapy and adapted by Gary Craig into Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). As Dr Mackinnon Ph.D. was trained in Francine Shapiro's Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing modality ( EMDR) , and cognitive Exposure therapy she has therefore incorporated useful elements of these power therapy approaches and her vast experience into her teachings.

I was really hooked when 'practicing' the "Tapping"with a therapist friend who had attended the workshop, having an incredible experience as both practitioner and client. I won't ask my clients who consult me to do anything that I have not or would not do ( Yes, I have even completed the Black Dog Institute's Online Mood Assessment Program for Depression www.blackdoginstitute.com.au , which I use around depression issues!). This encouraged me to begin using the "Tapping" with clients. I have completed the advanced workshop with Dr Mackinnon and workshops with psychologist Steve Wells and Dr David Lake world renowned "Tapping " experts from www.eftdownunder.com and am listed as a practitioner there and highly recommend their training.

Since then I have had the opportunity to help people work through, sexual abuse, rape, sexual assault, post traumatic stress disorder, grief and loss, miscarriage, difficult births, post separation, assault, bullying in school and the workplace, weight loss, anger, panic attacks, domestic violence, affairs, incest, binge eating, depression, anxiety, trauma - big T and small t.

As I mentioned earlier, when I find something really useful I like to understand all of it's elements, the theory and the practise. This lead me to studying EMDR and finding Robert.G.Smith's Faster Emotional Transformation Technique (Faster EFT). Robert has applied his superior knowledge of Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP) as a Master NLP practitioner into EFT as he trained with Gary Craig back in the day.

If you wish to find out more about this advanced EFT practise, I suggest you look up Healing Magic for over 500 free Utube videos available to watch Robert in action http://www.youtube.com/user/HealingMagic . 
This was how I found Faster EFT and decided to train in it when Robert announced his tour to Australia last year. In March I completed Level one Practitioner trainer and am listed on Faster EFT practitioner page on his website. Sadly there are few practitioners in New South Wales as yet, but I do hope to improve on that.

Lucky for us his workshops are happening now in Adelaide - last chance, it starts tomorrow. However if you visit www.fastereft.com/events you will see a Melbourne workshop and transformational retreat for a taster scheduled for May 2013.

I didn't want to you  miss out, so I encourage you to sign up quickly to secure your place in this invaluable and effective training.

These type of Power Therapies recognise the Mind- Body connection necessary in healing unresolved trauma and childhood hurts. With EMDR and Faster EFT your brain does the healing for you letting go of unhelpful negative reactive emotional patterns - perhaps you have found yourself in these vicious cycles of reacting in ways that seem out of proportion after the fact? Then these therapy models are for you.