Can EFT work too well for some?

[hirstshafton]

I recently saw someone for treatment of panic disorder who had responded to other approaches such as CBT and NLP techniques, but only for a limited period of time before relapse occurred. I decided to use EFT on the fear of panic attack which resulted in a relaxed feeling and initial acceptance of the problem. Unfortunately, the powerful effect of EFT brought on a fear of loss of control and a subsequent fear of using EFT.
I still believe that EFT is the way forward but am having difficulty persuading the client to use EFt on the reversals, for fear of making the problem worse. Any ideas group?

[Paddy Landau]

Without knowing enough about the specific situation, and going only on what you've written, have you considered that the loss of control is an issue?

I would suspect that the fear of losing control is hiding another, different, fear. Dig below to find what's feeding it.

Can you do the setup without the tapping? (I know it sounds strange.)

Paddy

[hypno-therapist]

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[CornelisBlokland]

Several issues going on here.

It seems that when working with EFT, different layers of emotions are removed one by one, exposing the next one underneath. So a client will go from feeling frustrated about the issue, to angry to sad etc. You have to keep going till it's all gone. There is usually one significant event that causes these different layers of emotions.

Although there is some training to help EFT to find the root of a problem, as it works much better that way, being able to identify the correct issue comes down to exerpience which takes time to gain.

Yes EFT training is far from rigorous but I wonder if there are any shortcuts to gaining the insight to know what is the real issue is and what is not. Some NLP techniques are very useful in this regard and the EFT practitoners that don't have NLP skills are at a disadvantage.

[hirstshafton]

Thanks 'CornelisBlokland' for a rather more constructive reply. I agree that training is often limited, but the point of posting the original message was to bring those limitations to the group and encourage a sharing of experience from those in a better position of knowledge and years. We could all share our successes on this site, but would we really learn quite so much as when we are bold enough to acknowledge our areas of weakness and reveal those publicly.
I thank those who were helpful in agreeing to share that experience.