Notes from a tapping practitioner

How to help your clients use mental rehearsal to explore the consequences of different choices so they can make better decisions. Heads-up Episode #18, "Why does having therapy sometimes feel worse than the problem it's supposed to help?" will drop on 28th October 2026. Links You can read the article this is based on here . To find out about my monthly newsletter for tapping practitioners, click h...

Sometimes making the desired change can be uncomfortable for the client and the practitioner. Understandably they may want to move on quickly to escape that discomfort. If the practitioner is tempted to offer 'premature reassurance' this may not be nearly as helpful as it seems. Heads-up Episode #17, "Preemptive Hindsight" will drop on 14th October 2026. Links You can read the article this is base...

On a good day, our clients tell us exactly what is going on with them in a way that makes it easy to tap. More often, our clients give us a mixture of straightforward descriptions of what is going on for them and hints about what might be going on that they might not even have noticed. We can often miss or dismiss these hints and implications as less important than the straightforward descriptions...

A simple step-by-step approach for unpacking a client's problems when they are difficult to access during the session. Heads-up Episode #15, "Explore The Implications" will drop on 9th September 2026. Links You can read the article this is based on here . Three Memories And A Fantasy  is a more advanced version of this approach. For more about 'associated' and 'disassociated' memories, read A Cruc...

When your client brings you a problem that is vague and amorphous, how can you make it tappable?  In this podcast, I describe a simple approach to bringing the problem down to earth enough to be able to tap on it. Heads-up Episode #14, "Tapping For Problems That Aren't There" will drop on 26th August 2026. Links You can read the article this is based on here . To find out about my monthly newslett...

As we grow up, we learn strategies and behaviours that help us survive in our family of origin. Although we become adults and move away from our origins, those strategies continue to dominate our way of being in the world. Heads-up Episode #13, " Make The Abstract Concrete " will drop on 12th August 2026. Links You can read the article this podcast is based on here . To find out about my monthly n...

Being a tapping practitioner is hard, there is so much to do in a session, it's just you and the client.  One of the best ways of developing your skills, and lowering your stress levels, is to get regular mentoring from an experienced practitioner. In this episode, I make the case for the benefits of mentoring and how it can help you develop your skills and professionalism as a tapping practitione...

In the ‘be positive at all costs’ popular culture, experiencing resistance or engaging in self-sabotage is seen as a ‘bad thing’, something to be overcome or eliminated. If you experience resistance or self-sabotage you might feel lacking, defective or even morally defective and, if you are really unlucky, other people will agree with you. I think the conventional ‘wisdom’ that resistance and self...

Have you ever had a client that doesn’t seem to be able to stick to the tapping task at hand? Some clients are diligent and stay focused on the issue they are working with, other clients like to wander, tapping on one issue will lead to the next, and to the next, and to the next … In this episode I explore one way of respectively helping wandering clients stay on track Heads-up Episode #10, "Resis...

This episode is a little different, rather than present a technique this episode is a 'fairy story' exploring the challenges for clients of stepping away from the old safety mechanisms that kept them safe in the past, but now keep them trapped. The castle in the photo, which inspired the analogy, is Beaumaris Castle on Ynys Môn/Anglesey in Wales, about 20 miles away from where I grew up. Heads-up...

In this episode, I will describe a process you can use with your clients to help them become more resourceful with people they find challenging. Heads-up Episode #8, "The Castle And The Cake", a fairy tale about the struggles of change, will drop on 27th May 2026. Links You can read the article this is based on here . To find out about my monthly newsletter for tapping practitioners, click here ....

A central tenet of EFT and other tapping modalities is that most of our emotional problems have a history. We learn unhelpful feelings and limiting beliefs in situations that are then embedded in our memory, and play out in our current lives, long after the original experience is over. One of a tapping practitioner’s jobs is finding and neutralising the memories of where problems start, thus neutr...

In this episode, I explain the use of a simple statement to help your client access information that is not easily available to their conscious minds. This can be useful for clients who are stuck in their thinking minds, or reluctant to connect with their felt experience. Heads-up Episode #6, "Tracking down the right memory with three questions" will drop on 22nd April 2026. Links You can read the...

This technique is for experienced practitioners only. If you are a tapping practitioner, you know that when you are tapping, you are working with feelings. Tapping is a very effective way of moderating stressful and distressing feelings so that we, and our clients,  can become more relaxed and comfortable. All you need is the ability to tap and to tune into the feelings you want to soothe. This so...

Our clients come to us for help with issues of different levels of importance and intensity. For some of our clients, because of their life experiences, many of these issues could be very intense. You might start collecting a list of issues to work with and rate them in order of importance to the client, after all you want to be able to help them on what is important to them. Understandably, some...

You may have noticed how complicated your inner life is. At any moment, there are thoughts, feelings, memories, fantasies, images, physical sensations, etc. floating along in your stream of consciousness. Some of it may be important, some of it, not so much. When we are struggling to handle difficult emotional issues and trying to understand what is happening, the amount of stuff to tap on can be...

A simple approach to working with clients who can’t stop talking. If you are a practitioner, you may be familiar with this situation: a new client comes to their first session, and they start to talk … and talk … and talk … and talk. It’s a river of words. What are you going to do? In this episode, I describe a simple, respectful way to stop clients talking too much. Heads-up Episode #2, "How do y...

Here's what you can expect from the Notes From A Tapping Practitioner podcast. Image courtesy Engin Akyurt from Pixabay , and the intro music, 'The Beat Of Nature', is courtesy of  folk_acoustic from Pixabay