Why EFT Can Help Supercharge Your Therapy
You’ve done the work. You’ve been to traditional talk therapy, maybe even for years. You’ve explored your past, talked about your patterns, connected the dots. You know where your anxiety comes from, why you feel the need to be perfect, why you can’t seem to relax or have fun and how your childhood shaped your relationships. In fact, you have talked about the same things over and over and over, but nothing really changes.
If that sounds familiar, you’re not alone. This is because talking about something, evaluating it from all angles, analyzing it for weeks or months at a time does not necessarily process the feelings and emotions behind it. Feelings like: sadness, loss, grief, anxiety, and anger. These feelings may have caused you to make certain kinds of meaning of some situations in your life and a to develop a corresponding narrative.
EFT, or Emotional Freedom Techniques, is a mind-body method that helps regulate the nervous system and releases the emotional charge of past experiences. EFT works with the feelings level not only the thoughts about the feelings.
Why can this help supercharge your therapy?
When Insight Isn’t Enough
Talk therapy is powerful. I believe in it. And it is often a crucial first step. It helps you understand yourself, your relationships, and your story in a deeper way. It has allowed you to share your struggles with someone trained to help you. If only understanding alone was enough to create lasting change!
Maybe you’ve noticed this. You know that your people-pleasing comes from childhood. You understand that your anxiety spikes when you feel overwhelmed or things feel out of control or too much is coming at you. You’re aware of your coping patterns and you’ve talked about them—over and over.
But your body still reacts like it always has. You still freeze in conflict, or snap back, stuff your feelings, pretend everything is fine, try not to make waves, spend time trying to figure out what others need and put yourself last. You keep carrying something heavy that you can’t seem to set down.
That’s because emotional pain doesn’t live only in the mind. It lives in the nervous system. It’s stored in the body.
And that’s where EFT can help.
How EFT Works Differently
EFT combines gentle tapping on specific acupressure points with mindful attention to your emotions and thoughts. It works by calming the nervous system and sending a signal to your brain that says, “You’re safe now.”
Here’s why that matters.
When something painful or overwhelming happens in our lives—especially early in life—our body stores the memory of that event. Even if we later understand it, the emotional energy of that moment can still linger in the body. EFT helps release that energy.
Unlike traditional talk therapy, which engages the conscious mind, EFT works with the subconscious and the body’s energy system. It helps you move through emotion instead of just talking about it.
And when the emotion moves, the healing begins.
Why Some Clients Feel “Stuck” in Therapy
I see this all the time with many different examples. A woman comes in and says, “I have a hard time focusing on myself. I’ve been to talk therapy in the past and learned a lot. I know what my resentments are, but I can’t seem to relax or let go of those resentments. I feel like I have to do everything. I know I don’t, but I can’t seem to stop trying to do everything.” Sometimes they feel guilty for not getting more out of it.
It’s not that talk therapy wasn’t useful. It’s just that they weren’t getting to the root cause and haven’t been doing the work of processing feelings underneath the thoughts.
Here are some signs that EFT might be a helpful next step:
You know what the problem is but are still overwhelmed or can’t get past it
You’ve talked about something many times but still feel a charge when it comes up
You feel numb, checked out, or emotionally flat
You try to avoid it and get triggered by other things that remind you of it
You’re highly self-aware but struggle to change your reactions
Your nervous system feels constantly “on,” no matter how much you rest
You’ve had trauma or loss that feels too painful to revisit in detail
You’ve tried to talk about something but you only feel worse after
EFT doesn’t require you to relive everything in order to release it. It’s gentle. That’s one of the things people love about it. You can move through stuck emotions without being retraumatized.
The Body Remembers What the Mind Tries to Forget
You might have heard the phrase “the body keeps the score.” It’s true. Our bodies remember things that our minds can’t always process, especially if those experiences felt unsafe or too overwhelming to handle at the time.
You may not even consciously remember a certain moment, but your body does. That’s why you can feel anxiety in your chest or a knot in your stomach with no clear reason.
EFT allows us to work with those stored emotions, gently and compassionately, so you can release what’s no longer needed and feel more at peace in your body.
A Different Kind of Healing
So, what does this actually look like?
In an EFT session, you don’t have to rehash every detail of your life story. We start with where you are right now—maybe a stressor, a fear, or a stuck feeling—and we use tapping to help your nervous system shift out of fight-or-flight and into a more regulated, grounded state.
Sometimes the work is quiet and reflective. Sometimes it brings up laughter or tears. Often, it brings surprising insights or moments of deep emotional release. Clients are often amazed at how light they feel afterward—like something inside has finally let go.
And here’s the most important part: it’s gentle. You don’t have to push or force anything. We go at your pace, honoring what your body is ready to release.
What If You’ve Tried “Everything”?
If you’ve already done a lot of self-work, EFT may be the missing piece. It doesn’t replace therapy, but it can complement it beautifully—or offer a new path forward if therapy hasn’t brought the results you hoped for.
I’ve had clients say things like:
“I got more done with you than in years of therapy.”
“I finally feel like who I was meant to be.”
“I didn’t know healing could be so easy and fun!”
You don’t have to keep carrying what isn’t yours anymore. There’s a gentler way through.
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Your healing doesn’t have to be hard. It can be gentle. It can be joyful. And it can start right now.
