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The Trauma Therapist’s Guide to EFT
A Mind-Body Approach to Regulation, Trauma Processing, and Integration
Learn how to integrate Emotional Freedom Techniques into the trauma work you already do—and help clients carry therapeutic gains into their everyday lives.
Starts Sept 15, 2026
5 Training Sessions
Only
$297
Recordings Included
Bonuses included
What if “successful” trauma therapy is aiming too low?
Trauma clinicians have many effective ways to help clients understand their histories, regulate distress, process difficult experiences, and develop healthier coping skills.
And often, those approaches work.
Clients recognize their triggers.
They understand where their patterns began.
Their symptoms decrease.
They’re functioning better.
But the effects of trauma may still be showing up in their bodies, behaviors, beliefs, relationships, and choices.
They’re doing better—but they may still be organizing their lives around what happened to them.
They avoid opportunities they genuinely want.
Stay guarded in relationships they care about.
Continue believing something about themselves they intellectually know is not true.
Or find that the same fear, shame, anger, withdrawal, or self-protective pattern keeps resurfacing in a different form.
Eventually, you may find yourself asking harder clinical questions:
- Do I help this client regulate more—or is regulation becoming another form of avoidance?
- Do we move toward the traumatic memory—or would that be too much, too soon?
- Why does a limiting belief still feel emotionally true when the client knows intellectually that it isn’t?
- What do I do when the symptoms have improved, but the client still isn’t living differently?
These aren’t signs that therapy has failed.
They may be signs that you need a more precise map for what to attend to—and what to do next.
What if part of the problem is the map we are using?
What if you could help clients go further—not only reducing distress, but restoring connection, resilience, choice, joy, and meaningful engagement with life?
Then symptom reduction and trauma processing become part of a larger goal—not a destination.
In this live training, Dr. Robert Schwarz will show you how Clinical EFT can support that larger goal across regulation, trauma processing, and integration.
Join Dr. Schwarz live to integrate EFT into your trauma work and help clients move from regulation and trauma processing toward greater agency, connection, and meaningful engagement with life.
Develop more confidence in what to do next
Trauma work rarely unfolds according to a script. A client may begin by describing anxiety, only for a sensation, memory, or belief to emerge as emotional intensity shifts and the body responds in an unexpected way. Before long, the work may be somewhere neither you nor the client anticipated.
The challenge is not simply knowing which technique to use. It is knowing how to follow the client’s changing experience, recognize what needs attention, and respond without losing sight of the larger therapeutic map.
Across five live sessions, Dr. Robert Schwarz will teach you how to recognize whether the work calls for:
- Greater regulation
- More precise attention
- Deeper engagement
- Trauma processing
- Belief work
- Strengthening resourceful states
- Integration
- Future-oriented growth
And you’ll learn how EFT can be used flexibly within each of those moments.
The goal is greater confidence without greater rigidity.
A more complete map of trauma healing
Emotional Freedom Techniques—commonly known as EFT or tapping—is often introduced as a simple strategy for calming the nervous system.
That is one useful application.
But Clinical EFT can go much further.
Used skillfully, EFT brings together focused attention, somatic engagement, mindful awareness, titrated exposure, self-compassion, moment-to-moment assessment, and experiential processing.
The tapping itself is only one part of the process. The deeper clinical skill lies in knowing:
- What are we actually targeting?
- Which aspect of the client’s experience deserves attention right now?
- How much activation is therapeutically useful—and when is it too much?
- When do we stay with something, and when do we shift focus?
- What does an unexpected emotional or bodily response tell us?
- When is the client regulating—and when is something deeper beginning to integrate?
That is what The Trauma Therapist’s Guide to EFT is designed to teach.
You won’t only learn where to tap.
You’ll learn how to think with EFT.
Enrollment Now Open
Choose Your Payment Option
Join five two-hour live sessions with Dr. Robert Schwarz, including demonstrations, clinical debriefs, and lifetime access to the recordings.
Our first live class starts on September 15, 2026
Can’t attend live? All sessions are recorded.
You’re protected by our 100% Satisfaction Guarantee
We’re confident this program will be a valuable investment in your education and clinical practice.
Try The Trauma Therapist’s Guide to EFT: A Mind-Body Approach to Regulation, Trauma Processing, and Integration 100% risk-free.
If, for any reason, the course does not meet your needs, contact our friendly Customer Support Team within five days of the course start date, on or before Sunday, September 20, 2026, and we’ll happily issue you a refund.
For those with financial needs, a limited number of partial scholarships are available. Please contact our Customer Support Team for further information.
Three Dimensions of EFT in Trauma Treatment
EFT Has More Than One Job in Trauma Therapy. In this training, you’ll learn to use EFT across three interconnected dimensions of trauma treatment:
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Regulation
Help clients stay connected to sufficiently resourceful internal states while engaging thoughts, emotions, physical sensations, urges, memories, and situations that previously overwhelmed them.
Regulation is not simply making distress disappear. It is increasing the client’s capacity to remain present and responsive while experience unfolds.
2
Trauma Processing
Learn how to approach traumatic experiences with greater precision by identifying and working with the emotions, bodily sensations, images, thoughts, sounds, meanings, beliefs, and moments of emotional intensity within a painful memory.
You’ll explore how EFT can support carefully titrated engagement with these individual components while helping clients remain within their window of tolerance.
3
Integration
The work doesn’t end when a memory becomes less distressing. You’ll learn to strengthen emerging resilience, connection, and agency, helping clients carry those gains into their identities, relationships, goals, and daily lives.
Successful trauma therapy should do more than change someone’s relationship to the past. It should expand what becomes possible in the future.
From Coping to Choice: One Survivor’s Experience With EFT
The work doesn’t end when a memory becomes less distressing. You’ll learn to strengthen emerging resilience, connection, and agency, helping clients carry those gains into their identities, relationships, goals, and daily lives.
Successful trauma therapy should do more than change someone’s relationship to the past. It should expand what becomes possible in the future.
This video reflects one participant’s personal experience. Individual experiences and outcomes vary.
You Don’t Need to Abandon the Therapy You Already Practice
This course does not ask you to replace your current clinical approach.
EFT can complement phase-oriented trauma treatment, somatic therapies, polyvagal-informed approaches, ACT, resource-oriented psychotherapy, EMDR-informed concepts, attachment-focused work, and other integrative trauma therapies.
The goal is to give you another practical way into the work, not a new therapeutic identity.
Can’t attend every live session?
All five sessions are recorded and available in your course portal for lifetime access.
What Makes This Training Different?
This training approaches EFT as more than a standalone technique for reducing distress. Dr. Schwarz connects the method to the clinical judgment, careful pacing, and moment-to-moment decisions that shape effective trauma treatment.
- Learn Clinical EFT—Not Just a Tapping Script
Learning where to tap is relatively straightforward, but knowing what to target, how to pace the intervention, and how to respond when the client’s experience changes requires greater clinical skill. Dr. Schwarz teaches both the EFT process and the reasoning that helps you recognize where the work may need to go next.
- Learn to Regulate Without Making “Calm” the Goal
A client may appear calm because they have become skilled at avoiding anything activating, but the capacity to avoid distress is not the same as greater freedom. You’ll learn to view regulation as the ability to remain connected to sufficiently resourceful states while engaging difficult experiences, making deeper therapeutic work more accessible.
- Process Trauma Without Needlessly Overwhelming the Client
Trauma processing does not have to begin with the most painful moment of an experience. You’ll learn how to slow the process down, identify emotional crescendos, work with specific aspects of a memory, monitor subjective distress, and adjust the intervention as the client’s experience unfolds. This precision helps you support meaningful change without forcing the client through a predetermined protocol.
- Understand Why Insight May Not Change a Belief
A client may understand intellectually that an experience was not their fault while continuing to feel that something is wrong with them. Dr. Schwarz’s “tabletops and table legs” model helps explain how larger beliefs, schemas, and identity conclusions can remain supported by specific emotionally charged experiences. EFT gives clinicians a way to work with the experiences that gave those beliefs their emotional credibility, instead of relying on cognitive insight alone.
- Move Beyond Trauma Recovery Toward Living Fully
When a client speaks with greater confidence, recognizes a new choice, takes a meaningful risk, or imagines a different future, these moments may signal that their relationship with themselves and their life is changing. You’ll learn how to recognize these emerging experiences of resilience, possibility, and agency, then use EFT to help strengthen and integrate them.
- See Clinical Decision-Making Happen in Real Time
Through live teaching, EFT demonstrations, experiential exercises, case analysis, clinical debriefs, and Q&A, you’ll see how Dr. Schwarz applies these principles as the work develops. He will explain what he is doing, why he is making each clinical choice, and how he determines where to focus next, helping you understand the judgment behind the intervention instead of simply memorizing its steps.
—All-New Online Training Now Open—
The Trauma Therapist’s Guide to EFT
A Mind-Body Approach to Regulation, Trauma Processing, and Integration
Five LIVE 2-hour training sessions beginning September 15, 2026
Learn how to integrate Emotional Freedom Techniques into contemporary trauma treatment—from stabilization and regulation through trauma processing, belief change, integration, attachment healing, and post-traumatic growth.
What You Get For Only $297…
Total Program Value: $897
Five 2-Hour LIVE, Demonstration-Based, Interactive Training Sessions
Including live Q&A with Dr. Schwarz and a special attachment session with Dr. Diane Poole Heller
Across 10 hours of live training, Dr. Schwarz will guide you through a structured framework for applying EFT across regulation, trauma processing, belief work, and integration. Each session combines focused teaching with live EFT demonstrations, guided experiential practice, clinical debriefs, case analysis, and Q&A.
As Dr. Schwarz applies EFT in real time, he’ll explain how he selects treatment targets, follows emotional and bodily shifts, adjusts the pace, and determines where the work needs to go next. You’ll gain insight into the clinical reasoning behind the intervention while also experiencing key elements of the process.
A select number of participants will also have the opportunity to work directly with Dr. Schwarz in the live sessions—a rare chance to experience this work firsthand while contributing to the learning of the entire group.
Every class includes time for questions, with Dr. Diane Poole Heller joining Robert for the special fifth session on attachment wounds and relational patterns.
After-Class Group Breakouts for Reflection and Integration
Connect with fellow participants in guided breakout groups to reflect, share insights, and apply what you’ve just learned.
You’ll have space to integrate new skills and stay connected within a supportive learning community.
Practical Clinical Skills and Techniques
Build practical EFT skills for identifying treatment targets, pacing activation, and supporting regulation.
Live demonstrations and experiential practice show you how to apply them as the client’s experience changes.
Lifetime Access to Video, Audio, Transcripts & Bonuses
Every live session is recorded and available in video, audio, and transcript format within your personal library.
If you miss a session or want to revisit demos or group exercises, you can access the materials anytime at your convenience.
Enrollment Now Open
Choose Your Payment Option
Join five two-hour live sessions with Dr. Robert Schwarz, including demonstrations, clinical debriefs, and lifetime access to the recordings.
Our first live class starts on September 15, 2026
Can’t attend live? All sessions are recorded.
You’re protected by our 100% Satisfaction Guarantee
We’re confident this program will be a valuable investment in your education and clinical practice.
Try The Trauma Therapist’s Guide to EFT: A Mind-Body Approach to Regulation, Trauma Processing, and Integration 100% risk-free.
If, for any reason, the course does not meet your needs, contact our friendly Customer Support Team within five days of the course start date, on or before Sunday, September 20, 2026, and we’ll happily issue you a refund.
For those with financial needs, a limited number of partial scholarships are available. Please contact our Customer Support Team for further information.
“EFT can be surprisingly rapid and thorough in changing the problem.”
–Dr. Robert Schwarz
Here’s what’s included…
The Trauma Therapist’s Guide to EFT
A Mind-Body Approach to Regulation, Trauma Processing, and Integration
A 5-Session LIVE Course beginning September 15, 2026
Learn to integrate EFT into your trauma work to support regulation, trauma processing, belief change, and lasting therapeutic gains.
Five LIVE Two-Hour Interactive and Experiential Training Sessions & Live Q&A with Dr. Robert Schwarz
Across 10 hours of live training, Dr. Robert Schwarz will guide you through a structured framework for applying EFT across the phases of trauma treatment.
Every session combines core teaching with clinical application, experiential learning, demonstrations, and opportunities to ask questions.
Live EFT Demonstrations + Clinical Debriefs
Seeing an intervention unfold can change how you understand it. As Robert applies EFT in real time, you’ll observe how he identifies a useful target, decides which aspect of the client’s experience to follow, assesses distress, and determines when to continue or slow the process down. You’ll also see how he supports the client’s window of tolerance, interprets unexpected emotional or bodily responses, and recognizes when an opportunity for deeper integration has emerged.
The goal is not to copy Robert’s steps or follow a rigid protocol. It is to understand the clinical principles guiding his choices so you can respond more confidently and make better-informed decisions in your own work.
Experiential Practice
This LIVE online training gives you opportunities to experience EFT for yourself, not only observe it. Through guided experiential practice, you’ll learn to identify treatment targets, distinguish different aspects of an experience, track emotional and bodily shifts, and recognize when more resourceful states begin to emerge.
Experiencing the process from within offers a different kind of understanding than learning it intellectually. It can help you appreciate what the intervention asks of clients and bring greater sensitivity, clarity, and confidence to the way you apply it in your clinical work.
Interactive Group Breakout Sessions and Guided Reflection
Following each live training, you’ll have the opportunity to continue learning through optional breakout discussions with fellow participants. These conversations provide time to reflect on the material, consider clinical applications, discuss observations from the demonstrations, and deepen your understanding through shared inquiry.
Whether you’re new to EFT or already using it in your work, the breakout discussions give you space to integrate what you’ve learned, exchange perspectives, and connect with other professionals in a live learning community.
Network with colleagues, ask questions and receive support in our course portal.
Private Course Portal with Downloadable Access to Video, Audio, Transcripts + Additional Bonuses and Resources
Every live training will be recorded. The recorded replay will be available in video, audio and written format, so you’ll be able to access content 24/7/365.
If you miss a training session, want to download transcripts and use them for reference and note-taking—or come back to trainings and demos at a later date—you’ll be able to do so at your convenience.
Plus, you’ll get additional complementary resources, worksheets and slide handouts to enhance your learning.
This is the ONLY time this course will be offered live. Be sure to save your spot today…
10 hours of LIVE training + option to add 8 CE Credits. Now just $297!
Here’s What You’ll Learn in Each Live Session
Led by Dr. Robert Schwarz, a licensed psychologist and longtime leader in Clinical EFT and energy psychology
All LIVE sessions meet online for two hours
SESSION 1: Tuesday, September 15, 2026 | 11 AM–1 PM MT
Rethinking Trauma Healing: Regulation, Engagement, Integration, and EFT with Dr. Robert Schwarz
This foundational class begins by reconsidering the map of trauma healing. Robert presents regulation and memory integration as signs that the system has changed, while the therapist’s role is to help create the conditions for that change.
You’ll examine Regulation, Engagement, and Integration as interconnected dimensions of healing and learn how EFT can support each. You’ll consider how changes in one area can create movement in the others. This framework provides a practical foundation for the clinical applications explored throughout the course.
SESSION 2: Friday, September 18, 2026 | 11 AM–1 PM MT
EFT for Regulation in Phase 1 of Trauma Treatment with Dr. Robert Schwarz
Before clients can safely engage traumatic material, they need enough capacity to remain present with what arises.
This session takes you deeper into using EFT for emotional and physiological regulation.
You’ll learn how to deconstruct a presenting problem into smaller component aspects, identify useful treatment targets, and follow the client’s experience with greater precision. This creates a steadier foundation for engaging difficult material without moving faster than the client’s system can support.
SESSION 3: Friday, September 22, 2026 | 11 AM–1 PM MT
Telling the Story: Processing Trauma and Changing Beliefs with Dr. Robert Schwarz
How do you engage a traumatic memory without overwhelming the person remembering it?
In this session, you’ll learn one of EFT’s central trauma-processing methods: the Tell the Story Technique.
Rather than asking the client to repeatedly experience the traumatic event as one overwhelming whole, Robert will show you how to slow the process down and work with specific emotional crescendos and component parts.
SESSION 4: Friday, September 25, 2026 | 11 AM–1 PM MT
From Trauma Recovery to Living Fully: EFT for Integration, Agency, and Post-Traumatic Growth with Dr. Robert Schwarz
What happens after a traumatic memory no longer dominates the person?
That question is often overlooked. But resolving distress can create an opening rather than an ending.
In this session, you’ll learn how to notice when clients begin demonstrating greater courage, possibility, resilience, connection, flexibility, and agency—and how to help those experiences become increasingly stable parts of who they are.
SESSION 5: Tuesday, September 29, 2026 | 11 AM–1 PM MT
The New Frontier: Using EFT to Address Attachment Wounds and Relational Patterns with Dr. Robert Schwarz & Dr. Diane Poole Heller
In this special closing class, Robert and internationally recognized attachment expert Dr. Diane Poole Heller bring together EFT, trauma, and attachment. You’ll examine attachment strategies as adaptive relational systems shaped by implicit expectations about safety, closeness, trust, dependence, and what it takes to remain connected.
Using EFT, you’ll learn how to help clients understand the protective purpose of these strategies while loosening the relational beliefs that sustain them. Robert describes this as “physical therapy for attachment,” a process of repeatedly strengthening new relational experiences, expectations, and capacities.
Using EFT for Societal Stress & Overwhelm
A special bonus presentation with Dr. Robert Schwarz
The therapy room does not exist outside the world.
Clients and clinicians alike are living in a cycle of constant information, breaking news, social tension, uncertainty, digital stimulation, and rapid change.
Sometimes the nervous system never seems to get a chance to settle.
In this special bonus presentation, Robert explores how EFT can help people remain connected to internal resources even when circumstances outside them remain unsettled.
Rather than waiting for the world to become calm before feeling okay, you’ll learn how to begin developing what Robert calls an internal anchor.
In this bonus, you’ll explore:
- Why information overload and uncertainty can keep the nervous system scanning for danger
- The evolutionary pull toward hypervigilance and doom scrolling
- Why worrying and suffering are not prerequisites for caring
- How to identify resourceful states such as safety, centeredness, strength, connection, and presence
- How to use EFT with overwhelm and societal stress
- How to remain engaged with difficult realities without becoming consumed by them
- How to connect resourceful states with situations that would normally trigger dysregulation
- How to become increasingly response-able rather than simply reactive
Robert also guides you through tapping experiences you can return to when external stress begins pulling you away from your own center.
Because your ability to remain resourceful affects not only you—but the quality of presence you bring to the people you help.
Join our learning community and learn how to apply new skills, strategies, and exercises to your personal and professional life.
Enrollment is open until September 14, 2026
Who Should Join Us?
Don’t miss your chance to learn directly from Dr. Robert Schwarz!
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Therapists and Counselors Working With Trauma
If clients are making progress but sometimes plateau—remaining constrained by dysregulation, painful beliefs, traumatic memories, or patterns that insight alone has not shifted—this course gives you another practical way into the work. -
Psychologists and Clinical Social Workers
Learn how EFT can complement the trauma frameworks you already use rather than requiring you to replace them. You’ll gain a clearer understanding of the intervention itself and the clinical reasoning that determines how and when it can be used. -
Somatic and Body-Oriented Practitioners
If your work already recognizes that trauma involves physiology as well as cognition, EFT offers another structured way to combine body engagement with attention, emotion, meaning, and memory. -
EMDR, ACT, Polyvagal-Informed, Attachment, and Integrative Practitioners
You do not need to choose between EFT and the modalities you already value. This course is designed around integration. -
EFT Practitioners Ready for Greater Clinical Depth
If you already know basic tapping but want to move beyond scripts and stress reduction, Robert will help you understand the targeting, precision, pacing, assessment, and therapeutic decision-making involved in deeper clinical application. -
Helping Professionals Who Want to Understand EFT More Clearly
If you’ve been curious about EFT but skeptical of oversimplified claims about tapping, this course offers a more nuanced, clinically grounded way to understand what the method actually involves. No previous EFT experience is required.
Can’t make the live classes? Join now for lifetime access to all course materials, including recordings, demos, slide handouts, and more!
Meet Your Instructors
Dr. Robert Schwarz
Licensed Psychologist, Author, Educator & Leader in Trauma Treatment and Energy Psychology
My goal is to help you uncover your true potential and lead a life that is worth celebrating.
Dr. Robert Schwarz is a licensed psychologist, educator, author, and longtime leader in the field of energy psychology. Across nearly four decades of clinical work, he has focused on trauma treatment, integrative psychotherapy, brief therapy, hypnosis, and Emotional Freedom Techniques.
Dr. Schwarz formerly served as Executive Director of the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology, helped develop its online EFT training program, and is the author of Tools for Transforming Trauma. His teaching brings together clinical precision, experiential methods, and a practical understanding of how change unfolds in the therapy room.
Diane Poole Heller, PhD
International Speaker, Author, and Teaching Expert in Adult Attachment Theory and Trauma Resolution
When our nervous system recognizes security on a deep, embodied level, our capacity for love, trust, and connection expands exponentially.
Diane Poole Heller, is an internationally recognized speaker, author, and teaching expert in the field of adult attachment theory and trauma resolution.
Her signature approach—DARe (Dynamic Attachment Repatterning experience)—provides therapists and individuals with relevant skills and practical exercises that facilitate healing from attachment and trauma wounds.
Her work with adult attachment has forged a path for adults with childhood attachment injuries to develop Secure Attachment Skills (SAS) that lead to more connected and fulfilling adult relationships.
She has authored several books, including the widely acclaimed The Power of Attachment: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships, and the upcoming The Attachment Workbook. Her expertise in trauma healing has supported survivors, helpers, and families affected by events such as 9/11, Columbine, and other school shootings.
Through various training programs, books, lectures and her own work as a clinical therapist, Dr. Heller has helped a countless number of people in their healing journey towards experiencing greater intimacy, wholeness and more fulfilling relationships.
She believes that when we heal ourselves first, we heal our families, our communities and the world as a whole.
Enrollment Now Open
Choose Your Payment Option
Join five two-hour live sessions with Dr. Robert Schwarz, including demonstrations, clinical debriefs, and lifetime access to the recordings.
Our first live class starts on September 15, 2026
Can’t attend live? All sessions are recorded.
You’re protected by our 100% Satisfaction Guarantee
We’re confident this program will be a valuable investment in your education and clinical practice.
Try The Trauma Therapist’s Guide to EFT: A Mind-Body Approach to Regulation, Trauma Processing, and Integration 100% risk-free.
If, for any reason, the course does not meet your needs, contact our friendly Customer Support Team within five days of the course start date, on or before Sunday, September 20, 2026, and we’ll happily issue you a refund.
For those with financial needs, a limited number of partial scholarships are available. Please contact our Customer Support Team for further information.
Continuing Education (CE) Credits
Licensed Mental Health Professionals
Do you need CE credits?
This course has been approved for 8 CE credit hours
Course Level: Beginning to advanced practice professionals
Target Audience: Licensed mental health professionals
Continuing Education Credit has been approved for the following professions:
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Licensed Professional Counselors
(MUST attend live calls to be eligible)* - Licensed Clinical Social Workers
*ONLY THE LIVE ONLINE SESSIONS ARE APPROVED FOR CE CREDITS.
To be eligible, professionals must attend ALL FIVE live sessions. Attendance will be taken to verify eligibility.
A Certificate of Completion is available to all participants at the end of the course at no additional charge upon request.
It is the participants’ responsibility to check their individual state boards to verify CE requirements for their state. For detailed information regarding CEs, please contact our Customer Support Team.
Information on Continuing Education Credit for Health Professionals
- CE credits for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA) which is sponsoring this program. The Spiritual Competency Academy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Spiritual Competency Academy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
- The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by sponsors of CE who are approved by the American Psychological Association.
- LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFTs, and other professionals from outside of California need to check with their state licensing board as to whether or not they accept credits from programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
- SCA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP16887) for licensed nurses in California. RNs must retain their certificate of attendance for 4 years after the course concludes. Nurses outside of California must confirm acceptance with their licensing boards.
- For questions about your certificate or the content, logistics, or other support issues regarding this course, please contact Trauma Solutions Customer Support
- For questions about whether APA CE is valid for you, contact your licensing board directly.
- For general questions about APA CE, contact SCA at ce@spiritualcompetencyacademy.com.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this training participants will be able to:
- Differentiate regulation as a therapeutic outcome from the processes that facilitate regulation
- Describe the roles of regulation, engagement, and integration within phase-oriented trauma treatment
- Describe the two modes of EFT
- Perform the basic EFT protocol
- Identify appropriate targets for EFT treatment
- Identify component aspects of symptoms and distressing experiences
- Use EFT to support regulation
- Explain and apply the Tell the Story Technique
- Differentiate limiting beliefs, schemas, and identity conclusions from the experiences that support them
- Apply titration and precision attending while maintaining client safety within the window of tolerance
- Describe the role of memory reconsolidation in trauma processing and belief change
- Differentiate post-traumatic growth and integration from symptom reduction alone
- Identify and strengthen moments of resilience, agency, and resourcefulness
- Use EFT to link resourceful states with identity and meaningful goals
- Identify common attachment patterns and their associated beliefs and relational strategies
- Apply EFT principles to attachment wounds and maladaptive relational expectations
Frequently Asked Questions
How can we help you?
Do I need previous experience with EFT?
No.
The course begins with the foundational framework and basic EFT protocol, then progressively moves into regulation, trauma processing, belief work, integration, and attachment applications.
Do I need to be a therapist to benefit from this training?
While many of the students who take this course are both new and experienced practitioners (in a wide variety of professional roles), we do have non-therapists who join us and find the exercises and learning very beneficial to their well-being.
Due to the sensitive nature of the material, we do encourage non-therapists who choose to take this course to have therapeutic support in place should the material become activating.
Please note, the material in this course is not meant as a substitute for therapy. And if you are currently working with any mental health professional, we encourage you to invite them to join this program with you as well.
Is this only for therapists who already practice EFT?
No.
The training is specifically designed to show how EFT can be integrated into contemporary trauma treatment and used alongside approaches clinicians may already practice.
Is EFT being presented as a replacement for EMDR, somatic therapy, ACT, Polyvagal-informed work, or other trauma approaches?
No.
The goal is integration, not replacement.
EFT is presented as a flexible mind-body method that can complement the therapeutic frameworks and clinical judgment you already use.
What happens during the live classes?
Sessions include:
- Core teaching
- Clinical demonstrations
- Experiential exercises
- Case analysis
- Discussion of clinical decision-making
- Live Q&A
What are the course dates?
- Session 1: Tuesday, September 15, 2026
- Session 2: Friday, September 18, 2026
- Session 3: Tuesday, September 22, 2026
- Session 4: Friday, September 25, 2026
- Special Session 5: Tuesday, September 29, 2026
All sessions meet from 11 AM–1 PM MT.
How long can I access the course materials?
You’ll have lifetime access to ALL training materials, including videos, transcripts, worksheets, demos, resources and bonuses. You may also download, print or save materials at any time to your professional reference library for personal use. In the interest of privacy, client demo videos are not downloadable.
Are the class sessions live or pre-recorded?
There are five two-hour LIVE sessions, streamed online via Zoom.
Dr. Robert Schwarz will lead all five sessions, combining clinical teaching with live EFT demonstrations, experiential exercises, case analysis, clinical debriefs, and Q&A. Dr. Diane Poole Heller will join Robert for the special fifth session on attachment wounds and relational patterns.
Every session will be recorded and stored in your private course portal for lifetime access. We encourage you to attend live whenever possible to participate in the interactive elements and ask questions directly. Live attendance requirements apply for CE credit.
What if I can’t make it to the live calls—should I still take this course?
We would love to have you join each session live, but we recognize that you may already have prior commitments. If you’re unable to join us, we do record all sessions and training (including the Q&A), so you can still receive all the information and training you need.
Many of our students are unable to attend some or all of the live sessions and still find the recorded training, client demonstrations, additional resources, audio, transcripts, and course bonuses highly valuable and relevant to their learning goals. Additionally, the course materials are yours to download (other than client demos) and keep in your professional reference library, so you can come back and revisit the material at any time.
Are CE credits available for the course?
The LIVE, ONLINE sessions for this course have been approved for a total of 8 CE credit hours, including APA continuing education credit for psychologists.
Eligible licensed professionals seeking CE credit must attend all CE-eligible sessions live. Attendance will be taken during each CE-eligible session to verify eligibility.
After the course, you will receive an activity evaluation link. You must complete the evaluation within 60 days of the final program session, on or before Saturday, November 28, 2026. Once submitted, you can immediately print your certificate or statement of credit.
A Certificate of Completion is also available to all students upon request at no additional charge.
Please note that participants are responsible for confirming their state board’s individual CE requirements. For detailed CE information or to request a Certificate of Completion, please contact our Customer Support Team.
Are there any discounts or scholarships available for this course?
I’m having trouble completing the purchase. How can I get support?
If you have additional questions or need technical support, please contact our Customer Support Team for help.
What is the refund policy for the course?
We’re confident this program will be a valuable investment in your education, professional growth, and clinical practice.
If you enroll in The Trauma Therapist’s Guide to EFT: A Mind-Body Approach to Regulation, Trauma Processing, and Integration and decide to withdraw for any reason, you may cancel your participation within five days of the course start date and request either a full refund or credit toward a future course.
You must submit your request in writing to our Customer Support Team on or before Sunday, September 20, 2026. Refunds will be issued to the original payment method and may take up to four weeks to process.