FAQ

The initial session is 80 minutes. In subsequent sessions, you can opt for a 55-minute or 80-minute session. Contact me for my current fees.

I offer both in-person sessions (vaccinated individuals only) and online sessions. Due to licensing regulations, I cannot do counseling across state lines---unless there is a waiver in effect due to COVID.  My office is at 1820 Country Club Road in Harrisonburg, VA.

Contact me to schedule an initial appointment. See the Services page to register for a group.

EFT is a simple, effective, efficient, and transformative way of addressing difficult or traumatic events, beliefs, or memories that interfere with daily life or hold you back from reaching your potential. EFT involves tapping or holding specific acupressure points to release tension and fight-flight-freeze response. I guide you in naming thoughts and emotions and physical reactions associated with the situation while you tap.

EFT can be used with individuals or groups.

The shock of difficult or traumatic experiences impacts the body as well as the mind and stays frozen in our muscles and nervous system. While you may intellectually believe one thing about what happened, our bodies, not our minds, control many trauma responses. Brain scans show that during stressful times or traumatic events, activity in the rational, thinking areas of the brain (including the area that controls speech) is reduced and the emotional and survival centers take over. Therefore, words or beliefs alone cannot deal with the resulting emotions, sensations, and behavioral patterns of difficult life events and trauma.

EFT effectively reaches and releases the responses stored in the brain and body allowing emotions, sensations, and thoughts to be freed gently. EFT can work even without “telling the story” of what happened---often a re-traumatizing experience. It works much more quickly than talk therapy alone and feels much less “therapy-ish!”

I have been trained in a variety of approaches. Each session is geared around your needs.

A number of outcome studies published in peer-reviewed journals have demonstrated EFT’s effectiveness and efficiency for a wide range of conditions. Hundreds of case reports of various issues successfully resolved using EFT can be found at eftuniverse.com.