Emotional Freedom Techniques

Professional Skills 1

The most well known and researched energy psychology method.

It's a great place to start - or broaden your holistic toolkit.

EFT is Rapid, Gentle, and Effective

EFT is deeply effective at treating a wide variety of conditions including stress, anxiety, panic, trauma, addictions, depression, chronic pain. It can work swiftly, even with trauma and post traumatic stress. It restores emotional regulation without significant adverse effects and less medication,* and is a powerful tool for working with school, business and sports performance issues (some Olympic athletes use EFT!).

The Research Supports EFT

There have been over 200 published studies using meridian tapping approaches, including 99 randomized controlled trials. 99% of published studies have found positive results. Researchers have conducted 3 meta analyses of EFT specifically, and they all showed large effect sizes. EFT is now approved as a “generally safe” therapy by the US Veterans Administration (VA).

EFT is a Holistic Methodology

The latest neuroscience findings show that stress and trauma affects a person's body-mind system. EFT works with the body, emotions, sensory information and cognitions in an integrated manner. It utilizes awareness, mindfulness and the therapeutic relationship, and grows with you as a holistic practitioner working with more and more nuance and artistry.

EFT integrates well with other methodologies

Methodologies EFT complements include Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Psychodynamic therapy, EMDR, Couples & family approaches, Mindfulness, Addiction models, and many more!

* The statement on medication is based on clinical experience.

This Online Training is For...

Therapists, counselors, and clinicians looking for an evidence-based, mind-body approach that can rapidly treat traumatic or stressful memories and experiences with results that last.

Professionals whowant tools that help clients develop a mindful and compassionate perspective as well as shift their experience towards emotional well being

Practitioners who desire a skillset that allows them to work effectively with a wide variety of clinical and performance issues.

Dedicated clinicians seeking a professional level energy psychology training that can integrate with their current framework and skills.

Learn techniques that are usually taught in more advanced EFT courses, from licensed mental health clinicians with over 50 years of combined experience in energy psychology, trauma, addiction, Qigong and more

In a recent survey, 74% our students rated this EFT course as MORE effective than a live 2 day training. The remaining 26% rated it equal to live training.

This course:

Includes live, virtual small group meetings with trained EFT expert facilitators. You will actually be doing online practice sessions with another student, and can even ask for help from your highly trained EFT facilitator in real time. WATCH A BRIEF VIDEO DEMONSTRATION OF HOW IT FEELS TO USE THIS AMAZING TECHNOLOGY
Learn EFT from an integrative framework that spans many areas, from cognitive-based therapy to interpersonal neurobiology to Qigong
Discover how to incorporate EFT with the needs of clinical practice such as treatment planning
Understand how to use EFT from both a palliative care/symptom management approach as well as a trauma informed framework, and when to use each approach.
Includes demonstrations with detailed commentary to help you think like an expert EFT practitioner.

This online training provides 👉 15 credits of CE for psychologists, social workers, counselors and LMFTs.

WHAT WILL THE EFT TRAINING LOOK LIKE?

A 6 week, structured online program that allows you to learn EFT from the comfort of your own home or office, at times that are convenient for you, mixed with weekly LIVE 1 hour virtual small group practice sessions with your own trained EFT facilitator so you can ask questions and practice the skills (just like you do in an on-site workshop). These video sessions let you practice EFT tools with another student.

Each live session has two aspects:

1) Discussions/questions - You will get to ask questions, and there will be discussions of important concepts.

2) Practice - You will pair off with one person in a virtual breakout room. You and your partner will practice different parts of EFT. If you run into issue you can ask for help from your facilitator, or your facilitator may just enter the room and observe. This is just like doing a practice session in a live workshop--even better, because the ratio of students to trainer is 6:1. You will also have access to a closed Facebook group so you can interact with fellow classmates and get your questions answered.

WEEK 1

Module 1 - Introduction and What to Expect
Module 2 - Emotional Freedom Technique Basic Premise
Module 3 - The EFT Basic Recipe
Module 4 - The EFT Basic Recipe Part 2

WEEK 2

Module 5 - How to Select Target Goals
Module 6 - Emotional Freedom Technique Basic Premise
Module 7 - The Structure of Consciousness
Module 8 - The Tearless Trauma Technique

WEEK 3

Module 9 - Tell the Story Technique
Module 10 - Demonstration of Tearless Trauma & Tell the Story with Commentary
Module 11 - Testing the Work

WEEK 4

Module 12 - The Personal Peace Procedure: Treatment Planning that Matters
Module 13 - Research on the Efficacy of EFT
Module 14 - Applying EFT to Different Types of Problems
Module 15 - Scope of Practice and Ethics
Module 16 - Frequently Asked Questions about EFT
Module 17 - Conclusion

WEEK 5

Complete 5th live session. Take the final exam and assessment to earn certificate of completion.
Following the Week 4 Live Session, students will be able to access the final test and evaluation.

MEET YOUR INSTRUCTORS

MICHAEL DEMOLINA, PHD, LPC, DCEP

Michael DeMolina has been ACEP’s Lead EFT trainer since 2010, and integrates his knowledge and passion of energy healing, energy psychology and indigenous healing traditions with trauma-sensitive approached to care. Michael is a Diplomate in Comprehensive Energy Psychology (DCEP) and an ACEP Certified Advanced Practitioner of EFT. He is chairman emeritus of the National Qigong Association and was selected as a “National Expert in Qigong and Tai Chi” by the University of Illinois. A veteran, Michael was trained as an Army Medic, and served in the Behavioral Sciences, eventually achieving credentials as a Master Addiction Counselor, and a Master Trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming.

ROBERT SCHWARZ, PSYD, DCEP

Robert Schwarz has been a licensed psychologist for over 35 years. He is a Diplomate in Comprehensive Energy Psychology (DCEP). Bob has trained therapists internationally on trauma treatment, panic and anxiety, energy psychology. For the last 12 years Bob has been the executive director of the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology. He has organized over 25 conferences on energy psychology trauma treatment, Ericksonian hypnosis, brief therapy, that trained over 18,000 therapists. Bob also designed ACEP’s online programs on The Science of Energy Healing. He has authored 3 books: Tools for Transforming Trauma, PTSD: A Clinician’s Guide and We’re No Fun Anymore: Guiding Couples to a Joy Filled Marriage Through the Power of Play, as well as numerous articles and papers including Energy Psychology as a Polyvagal intervention for trauma (2018) .

Meet Your Facilitators

Kristin Holthuis, MD, DCEP

Costa Rica

Kristin is a holistic family physician dedicated to integrating Energy Psychology (EP) into her practice. As a certified trainer in EFT, TAT, CEP, TTT, and TFT-alg, as well as an instructor of Logosynthesis she is passionate about collaborating with other professionals to bring EP modalities into the healthcare system. She is also a co-founder of the AHEFT, the professional EFT Association for Latin America and Spain.

She has successfully directed projects, introducing EP techniques to National Child Protection Services and the National Institute for Women, focusing on supporting staff and caregivers. These initiatives emphasized self-care, emotional empowerment and professional efficiency.

She is passionate about mentoring others through personalized coaching to confidently and joyfully integrate EP into their practice.

Helen P. Hudson, LMFT, EFT-ACAP, RN, NCC, CPC

Phoenix, AZ

Helen’s background spans personal development and holistic wellness, including psychotherapy, professional and wellness coaching, energy psychology, and healthcare. She believes you are the expert of your own experience and works in partnership with you as an equal.

With over two decades of experience, Helen helps uncover the core issues and limiting beliefs that often underlie emotional or physical challenges. She integrates psychotherapy, coaching, energy psychology, and mind-body approaches to support symptom relief and meaningful resolution.

Helen is also an advanced EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) practitioner and ACEP course facilitator. She offers one-on-one mentoring for professionals working toward EFT certification or looking to strengthen their skills.

Sessions are available via Zoom. She is licensed in Hawaii and Arizona and is also a certified psychotherapist in the UK.

George Limberakis, LCMHC

Salt Lake City, UT

George has been a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor in Salt Lake City, Utah since 2002 utilizing, primarily, mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral therapy. He first learned of EFT in 2012 and attended his first ACEP conference in June of that year to learn more about Energy Psychology. Being very impressed with the quality of the speakers and presentations at the conference and excited about the promise of EP, he overcame a fair amount of skepticism and enrolled in the first level of EFT training. He hasn’t looked back since.

“I’m very pleased with the results I have seen in my patients as a result of adding EFT to my practice. It gives me hope and encouragement as a therapist to witness people move past the energetic blockages that have kept them stuck.”

George is excited to be a part of the EFT training team. He is a Diplomate in Comprehensive Energy Psychology with ACEP.

Phil Mollon, PhD, DCEP

UK Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalyst

Letchworth Garden City, United Kingdom

With his background as a clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst (IPA), and psychotherapist (Tavistock Clinic Qualification), Dr. Mollon has developed an integrated approach that he describes as Psychoanalytic Energy Psychotherapy. Aspects of his work are represented in his book EMDR and the Energy Therapies: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (Karnac, 2005), and in his most recent book, Psychoanalytic Energy Psychotherapy (Karnac 2008). Topics of earlier (non-energy psychological) books have included trauma, shame, and Kohutian self psychology.

Ben Schwarz, MFT, ACAP-EFT

Santa Rosa, CA

Ben's main areas of focus are trauma, loss, anxiety, perfectionism, spiritual emergence, and coaching entrepreneurs and healers to overcome their emotional barriers to success and peak performance. Ben is the co-creator of an Energy Psychology method for ancestral healing, called Ancestral Trauma Release Techniques (ATRT™), and also works with psychedelic somatic therapy modalities and breathwork. He has also been a student of mindfulness meditation and eastern philosophy for more than 30 years. Ben has been working in the mental health field since 1991 in various clinical settings in the San Francisco Bay Area, and has been in private practice for more than 23 years. His graduate degree is in Transpersonal Psychology, and EFT has been his main therapeutic modality since 2007. Ben was a student of Gary Craig's original EFT and did his advanced certification through ACEP under the supervision of Tina Craig.

A few of our many rave reviews:

"I am finding this course very valuable even though I was already using EFT with clients. It presents EFT very clearly and breaks it down in ways that were new to me despite having studied EFT. Although I knew Emotional Freedom Techniques worked, I wasn't getting the results I wanted with clients - now I understand what to do a bit differently for better results."

— Elizabeth K. Handleman, Ph.D., DCEP:, Hingham, Massachusetts.

"The content is challenging and fast paced but broken into manageable learning experiences. It is very beneficial to have unlimited access to the presentations and to have the ability to listen to them as many times as needed. The videos are extremely well done. Using Zoom for Q&A , review, and practice is very beneficial, enhances the learning experience, and is easy to use."

— Renée R Fletcher, MSN, RN, CNS, HTCP, MSI-BC, Nurse Director Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation - Methodist Hospital - San Antonio, Tx.

"This course offers an immersive experience in clinical EFT. The trainers are highly knowledgeable and experienced and deliver the information skillfully. I really benefitted from the practice sessions during the small group setting. I learned so much in this course, and it far exceeded my expectations. I love the results that I'm seeing in my own life and in my work with my clients."

— Jen Johnson, MS, MS, MFA, LPC, CRC, BCC, E-RYT, North Carolina

WHY YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THIS TRAINING

This course has been tailored for mental health professionals, physicians, nurses and other licensed allied health professionals, allowing it to go deeper and faster than many other courses.

You will learn techniques that are usually taught in more advanced courses, from trainers who are licensed mental health clinicians with over 50 years of combined experience AND who are experts in energy psychology, trauma, addiction, Qigong and more.

By the end of Professional Skills 1, you will have the basic tools you need to use EFT with many of your clients’ problems. And, if you want true mastery, Professional Skills 1 serves as the gateway to our full EFT program: EFT PS1, EFT PS2, EFT PS3 and EFT PS 4.

REGULAR PRICE FOR IN-PERSON WORKSHOP (with travel expenses): $1500+

PRICE FOR THIS ONLINE COURSE WITH ACEP: ~~$497~~ Early Bird Rate of $447, or two monthly payments of $250!

💸 What you get for $447 is worth so much more!

🎉 YOUR COURSE ENROLLMENT INCLUDES:

Lifetime access to the online course
Recorded video instruction + demonstrations
Practical application strategies
Printable handouts + study resources
Professional transcripts
Audio files of all instruction so you can listen anywhere
15 Continuing Education Credits
BONUS: Free monthly Zoom call after the course to help you integrate EFT into your practice

Have questions about this course? Check out the FAQs below...

Do you need to know anything about EFT to take this Course? What if you already know some EFT – Is this course helpful?

We’ve offered this course for several years now. You do not need to know anything about EFT to take this course. That said, we’ve had many people who have had varying degrees of EFT training. Virtually all of them have found this course extremely useful for increasing their skill level in EFT and learning how to integrate EFT within clinical practice.

How much time do you have to devote to the course per week?

The minimum is about 2 hours per week to watch the videos at least once and 1 hour per week starting the second week for the small group practice sessions.

Depending on your learning style, where you are in your training as a therapist, and how quickly you want to master the material, you may want to spend more time watching videos more than once. The more you put in to the course the more you get out of it. It is vitally important that you watch the relevant videos BEFORE your practice session.

What happens if I cannot attend a small group session?

It’s very important to attend all of these sessions. If you miss any session, CE rules state that you cannot get CE. More importantly you are not getting the practice that you need. If extenuating circumstances cause you to miss your session you may be able to attend another in the same week. If you miss the one week and can not attend another in the same week, you may request permission to join that week in the next offered course in order to receive CE and your certificate. If you are not granted permission or miss more than one week, you can retake the course at another time at 50% off.

The Website says there are CEs for psychologists. Does this mean that you offer APA approved CE’s for psychologists?

Yes it does!

Does this course give me the tools to actually work with clients?

By the end of the training, the material in this course can give a person who is already trained in working with people the skills to use EFT with clients in a variety of situations such as trauma, anxiety, depression and performance issues. That said there are a few caveats. First, don’t use what you learn in this course with the types of problems that are beyond your scope of practice or training. For instance, if you’ve never worked with dissociative disorders, don’t try to use what you’ve learned here until you know a lot more about dissociative disorders (even though EFT can be very useful for DID clients). Second, the more you absorb the material in this course the more you will be able to apply it to your practice.

So what training do I need to become very skilled in EFT?

This is a very important question. We would strongly advise that you take this course and then follow up with EFT Professional Skills 2. We also strongly advise that you commit to practicing EFT with clients and/or fellow students. EFT can be both powerful and nuanced to effectively work with the most difficult problems. To really achieve mastery, as in any therapeutic style, more training and mentoring is required. This is where our advanced training, mentoring and certification programs of PS3 and PS4 come in. Listen to what Advanced Practitioner Janine Lamberton says. It simply is great training at a reasonable price that will give you a tool that will grows with you no matter how skilled you get.

Does this course integrate EFT within a trauma informed approach?

Yes it does. EFT fits very well into a trauma informed approach. This course is designed so that you can use EFT to keep people within the window of tolerance when working with traumatic events.

Are there demonstrations in the course?

Not only are there demonstrations, there is a demonstration with instant commentary along the way. This one video could be watched many times to learn the subtleties of EFT.

What if I have a question not featured here?

We're here and happy to help. Please contact us at [email protected] with any questions or support requests.

ACEP'S 7-DAY UNCONDITIONAL GUARANTEE

Purchasing this amazing EFT course is 100% risk free.

You have a 7-day unconditional guarantee, so if you're dissatisfied with the course for any reason, contact us within 7 days of purchase and we'll refund 100% of your money.

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Step 1: Choose Your Live Zoom Time and Facilitator Below:

PLEASE NOTE: All times listed are United States Eastern Time (GMT-4:00). There will be six sessions in total, with the first sessions occurring the week of September 14, 2026 and the final sessions occurring the week of October 26, 2026. There will be no class the week of October 12, in observance of Indigenous Peoples' Day.

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