EFT Practitioner Principles and Fundamentals 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: When working with a client on a specific traumatic memory, which EFT approach helps prevent re-traumatization by creating emotional distance?
- The Tell the Story Technique
- The Movie Technique
- The Chasing the Pain Protocol
- The Tearless Trauma Technique (Correct answer)
Correct answer: The Tearless Trauma Technique
The Tearless Trauma Technique asks clients to estimate their distress rather than fully re-experience it, reducing the risk of re-traumatization.
Question 2: In EFT, 'borrowing benefits' refers to which phenomenon?
- A client borrowing tapping techniques from other healing modalities
- A practitioner using their own issues to model tapping for clients
- Observers experiencing relief while watching someone else tap (Correct answer)
- Combining EFT with cognitive behavioral therapy benefits
Correct answer: Observers experiencing relief while watching someone else tap
Borrowing benefits describes the well-documented phenomenon where people tapping along with someone else's session experience relief for their own unrelated issues.
Question 3: A new EFT client has a phobia of dogs. To apply specific event work most effectively, a practitioner should:
- Have the client tap while imagining a dog in the room
- Identify the earliest or most memorable specific dog-related incident (Correct answer)
- Focus on the general fear of dogs across all contexts
- Begin with the most intense dog encounter the client recalls
Correct answer: Identify the earliest or most memorable specific dog-related incident
EFT is most effective when targeting specific events, and resolving the earliest or core memory often collapses the entire issue.
Question 4: Which statement best describes the role of the affirmation in a standard EFT Setup Statement?
- It must be fully believed by the client for tapping to work
- It counteracts psychological reversal by affirming self-acceptance regardless of the problem (Correct answer)
- It programs a new positive belief to replace the negative one
- It must be customized to match the client's spiritual beliefs
Correct answer: It counteracts psychological reversal by affirming self-acceptance regardless of the problem
The affirmation—typically 'I deeply and completely accept myself'—addresses psychological reversal without requiring the client to believe it fully.
Question 5: When a client's emotional intensity shifts to a completely different emotion mid-session (e.g., from fear to anger), an EFT practitioner should:
- Return to the original emotion before addressing the new one
- End the session to avoid emotional overload
- Recognize this as an aspect shift and tap on the new emotion (Correct answer)
- Increase tapping speed to process both emotions simultaneously
Correct answer: Recognize this as an aspect shift and tap on the new emotion
A shift to a new emotion indicates the emergence of a new aspect, which should be addressed with its own Setup Statement and tapping round.
Question 6: The EFT Basic Recipe is considered 'complete' after tapping through the sequence and:
- The client reports a SUDS level of zero
- A second SUDS check is taken and a new Setup Statement is crafted if needed (Correct answer)
- The practitioner performs the 9-Gamut Procedure once
- The client has tapped through all 14 meridian points
Correct answer: A second SUDS check is taken and a new Setup Statement is crafted if needed
After each round, practitioners check the SUDS level and, if the issue persists, craft a new 'Reminder Phrase' and Setup Statement to continue.
Question 7: From an EFT ethics standpoint, what should a certified practitioner do when a client presents with a severe mental health diagnosis?
- Refuse to work with the client entirely
- Use EFT as the sole treatment modality for best results
- Coordinate with or refer to a licensed mental health professional (Correct answer)
- Apply only the most basic tapping techniques to avoid harm
Correct answer: Coordinate with or refer to a licensed mental health professional
Ethical EFT practice requires collaboration with or referral to licensed mental health professionals when clients present with serious psychological conditions.
EFT Practitioner Principles and Fundamentals 3
When working with a client on a specific traumatic memory, which EFT approach helps prevent re-traumatization by creating emotional distance?