Continuing Education for Transforming Trauma & Limiting Beliefs with EFT

This online training provides 14 credits of CE for psychologists, counselors, social workers, marriage and family therapists, and 14 contact hours for nurses.

Prior to registering, please review the CE details, course objectives, agenda, and conflict-of-interest disclosures below.

ACEP is an approved provider for:

Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB):  ACEP, Provider #1048, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period:  2/28/2025-2/28/2028. Social workers completing this course receive 14 general continuing education credits.

American Psychological Association (APA):  ACEP is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. ACEP maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC): ACEP has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7336. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Association of Comprehensive  Energy Psychology is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. 

California: ACEP is an approved CE provider by the APA, which is recognized by the CA Board of Psychology to offer continuing education for psychologists, and by ASWB and NBCC, which are recognized by CBBS to offer CEs for CA-based MFTs, LPCCs, LEPs and/or LCSWs. ACEP is an approved provider for the California Board of Registered Nursing (Provider #14626).

Florida: ACEP is an approved CE provider FL Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy & Mental Health Counseling, Certified Master Social Workers (CE Provider #50-10765). ACEP is an approved provider for Transforming Trauma & Limiting Beliefs with EFT Tapping (FL CE Broker Tracking #20-1331237).

New York:  Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology (ACEP) is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers, #SW-0164 and the State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors, #MHC-0138 and marriage and family therapists, #MFT-0069.

NURSES:   California offers CNE. Please read the following section for details.

STATE SPECIFIC CONTINUING EDUCATION INFORMATION

California: ACEP is an approved CE provider by the APA, which is recognized by the California Board of Psychology to offer CEs for CA-based psychologists, and by the ASWB and NBCC, which are recognized by California Board of Behavioral Sciences to offer CEs for CA-based MFTs, LPCCs, LEPs and/or LCSWs. ACEP is an approved CE provider by the California Board of Registered Nursing (provider #14626). 

Course Objectives:

The Meta-Skill Model for Excellence in Therapy 

1 hour (Homestudy)

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

1. Identify and describe the seven core meta-skills for effective psychotherapy and their clinical applications.

2. Describe at least 3 principles of precision attending and presence to improve alliance, client empowerment, and therapeutic outcomes.

The Meta-Skill Model for Excellence in Trauma Treatment 

1 hour (Homestudy)

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

1. Identify and describe the seven core meta-skills for effective trauma work and their clinical applications.

2. Employ titration and specificity mastery skills to track client micro-signals and adjust interventions within the window of tolerance.

Effective Skills of Working With Belief Changes 

1 hour (Homestudy)

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

1. Explain the relationship between trauma, limiting core beliefs, and maladaptive schemas.

2. Delineate interventions that link traumatic memories to current belief patterns and facilitate the creation of more adaptive self-narratives.

Advanced Skills in EFT & Integration with Meta Skill Model 

1 hour (Live)

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

1. Describe the Tearless Trauma Technique to maintain client safety within the window of tolerance while reducing the overall intensity of a traumatic memory

2. Delineate the steps of the Tell the Story Technique for processing traumatic memories within the window of tolerance.

3. Demonstrate precision in attending to client experience by utilizing specific aspects of trauma (sensory details, emotions, cognitions, somatic responses) and employing practitioner intuition to deepen treatment while avoiding retraumatization.

All 3 Demonstrations with Commentary 

10 hours (6 hours homestudy - 4 hours live)

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

1. Identify how phase-oriented trauma treatment principles (stabilization, processing, integration) were applied across three different client demonstrations, and explain the rationale for shifting between Tearless Trauma and Tell the Story techniques.

2. Demonstrate the ability to recognize and respond to client dysregulation by tracking micro-signals (changes in breathing, posture, tone, affect) and applying titration and containment strategies to maintain work within the window of tolerance.

3. Apply the principles of precision attending by utilizing client language, images, emotions, and somatic cues to construct effective setup phrases and guide tapping sequences tailored to each demonstration.

4. Evaluate the role of therapist presence and regulation in sustaining safety and therapeutic alliance during emotionally charged trauma processing, including examples of practitioner self-regulation through co-tapping and intuitive adjustments.

5. Compare and contrast the unfolding of EFT interventions across Heather, Deb, and Rick’s cases, illustrating how curious non-attachment, utilization, and flexibility allow techniques to adapt uniquely to each client’s trauma narrative

Relevant Financial Disclosures

All of the Faculty and the Facilitators have stated that they have no conflict of interest.

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