New! LIVE Masterclass with Q&A
Beyond Coping
7 Myths of Trauma Therapy—and How EFT Supports Deeper Healing
- Wednesday, August 26, 2026
- 11 AM MT | 1 PM ET
Discover how familiar assumptions about regulation, symptom reduction, and trauma processing may limit therapeutic progress and how Emotional Freedom Techniques can support deeper integration, resilience, and restored agency.
What If “Successful” Trauma Therapy Is Aiming Too Low?
Trauma clinicians have many effective ways to help clients understand their histories, manage distress, 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.
When progress begins to plateau, it’s easy to conclude that trauma is simply difficult to fully heal… that the client needs more time… isn’t ready… or may even be resistant.
But what if part of the problem is the map we are using?
Many ideas that shape trauma treatment are treated as settled truths:
- Regulation means becoming calm.
- Symptom reduction is the primary measure of recovery.
- Insight naturally leads to change.
- Trauma processing must be prolonged, painful, or destabilizing.
- Healing ends when distressing memories no longer feel overwhelming.
These assumptions can quietly narrow the work—keeping treatment focused on managing the effects of trauma rather than helping clients reclaim the lives trauma interrupted.
What if you could help your clients go further—not only reducing distress, but restoring connection, resilience, choice, joy, and meaningful engagement with life?
Trauma healing is not only about reducing symptoms. It is about restoring connection, resilience, choice, joy, and meaningful engagement with life.
In this free live masterclass, Dr. Robert Schwarz will examine seven common myths that can quietly limit trauma treatment—and introduce a more expansive, science-informed framework for helping clients move beyond symptom management toward regulation, integration, resilience, agency, and fuller engagement with life.
You’ll discover how Emotional Freedom Techniques—often called EFT or tapping—can complement the trauma approaches you already use by supporting regulation, engagement, memory integration, belief change, and post-traumatic growth.
Discover what becomes possible when trauma care moves beyond coping.
In This FREE, 90-Minute Live Masterclass, You’ll Learn...
1
Challenge Seven Common Myths About Trauma Recovery
Examine assumptions that continue to shape trauma treatment, including what it means to regulate, process a memory, resolve a symptom, and recover from trauma.
You’ll consider how these beliefs may unintentionally limit what clinicians expect from therapy—and what clients come to believe is possible.
2
Rethink What Regulation Actually Means
Regulation is not simply calming down, suppressing distress, or returning to a neutral state.
Learn to view regulation as the capacity to remain connected to sufficiently resourceful states while engaging difficult thoughts, emotions, sensations, and memories.
This shift can change both how clinicians assess progress and how they decide what to do next.
3
Understand the Two Therapeutic Roles of EFT
EFT can be used as a practical self-regulation tool, but its clinical application can go further.
Dr. Schwarz will explain how EFT may also be used to engage traumatic material, work with the component parts of an experience, and support the conditions needed for deeper therapeutic change.
4
Explore How Memories and Beliefs Can Change
Discover how traumatic experiences can support limiting beliefs, identity conclusions, and expectations about life.
You’ll learn how carefully guided attention to emotions, sensations, meanings, and memories may help facilitate memory reconsolidation and belief transformation, while helping clients remain within their window of tolerance.
5
Explore How Memories and Beliefs Can Change
The work does not end when distress decreases.
Explore how clinicians can recognize and strengthen emerging moments of resilience, agency, connection, and post-traumatic growth—helping clients carry therapeutic gains into their identities, relationships, goals, and everyday lives.
Plus, Bring Your Questions
The training concludes with live Q&A, giving you an opportunity to hear Dr. Schwarz address questions about EFT, trauma treatment, clinical integration, and real-world application.
Can’t join our session live?
Register anyway, and we’ll send you a free, limited-time replay.
PLUS you’ll also get these Special Clinical Bonus Resources!
BONUS #1
Psychological Mechanisms and Active Ingredients of EFT
Explore the proposed clinical processes that may contribute to EFT’s effects, including focused attention, emotional engagement, therapist-guided regulation, cognitive change, and memory reconsolidation.
This article will give you a more substantial framework for understanding what may be happening beneath the visible act of tapping.
BONUS #2
The Levels of Memory Reconsolidation in EFT Therapy
This visual reference offers a practical way to think about the different levels at which therapeutic change may occur during EFT-oriented trauma work.
Use it to deepen your understanding of the relationship between immediate regulation, traumatic memory, belief change, and broader integration.
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Beyond Coping
7 Myths of Trauma Therapy—and How EFT Supports Deeper Healing
August 26, 2026 @ 11 AM MT | 1 PM ET
What Is Emotional Freedom Techniques?
Emotional Freedom Techniques (commonly known as EFT or tapping) is an integrative mind-body approach that combines focused attention on thoughts, emotions, physical sensations, beliefs, or memories with stimulation of specific acupressure points.
In clinical practice, EFT can be used in two broad ways:
- Supporting Regulation
EFT may help clients engage difficult experiences while maintaining greater emotional and physiological stability.
- Facilitating Deeper Therapeutic Work
Clinician-guided EFT can also be applied to traumatic memories, limiting beliefs, emotional avoidance, and patterns that continue to shape present-day experience.
Dr. Schwarz will show how EFT can fit within phase-oriented trauma treatment and complement established approaches, including somatic therapies, resource-oriented psychotherapy, Polyvagal-informed work, ACT, and EMDR-informed concepts.
Who Should Join Us?
New! Free LIVE Masterclass with Q&A
- Therapists, counselors, psychologists, and clinical social workers: You support clients who understand their histories and patterns, yet still experience trauma’s effects in their bodies, relationships, beliefs, or behaviors. Explore what may sustain these patterns and help clients move beyond coping.
- Somatic and body-oriented practitioners: You recognize that trauma is not held in the story alone. Explore how EFT may complement body-based approaches and help clients engage difficult experiences with greater stability.
- Trauma-informed coaches and helping professionals: You support people navigating persistent emotional patterns, protective responses, or relationship challenges. Gain a more nuanced framework for understanding what may be happening beneath the surface.
- EFT-curious clinicians and experienced EFT practitioners: Whether you’re skeptical of simplified tapping claims or already use EFT, you’ll explore a more clinically grounded, trauma-informed framework that emphasizes care, pacing, and therapeutic understanding.
Meet Your Instructors
Dr. Robert Shwarz
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 Shwarz 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 PhD 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 Re-patterning 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. 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.
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