Welcome
I help those who are plagued by past traumas and old patterns of behaviour? I assist those looking for solutions to anxiety, overwhelming stress, emotional outbursts or depression? We are not always able to conquer these debilitating states by ourselves – and they stop us from reaching our full potential and enjoyment of life. Are you ready to make a change? Most clients feel tangible relief after one appointment.
Hi, I’m Fiona Schipke, a Counsellor and certified Clinical EFT Therapist.
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) has the advantage of accessing core issues, processing and resolving them in a gentle way. The memory remains but the physical reactions and sensations and emotional triggers are ‘deleted’. This technique is great for finding the root cause of stress, anxiousness, PTSD, phobias, weight issues, emotional eating, relationship issues, complicated grief, negative and limiting beliefs and excessive emotions, EFT often works when nothing else does.
I am based in Carbrook, Qld, Australia and work successfully both in-person and online.
You may reach me on 0433 307649 or via my contact form.
How does EFT work?
EFT has roots in the theory that a person’s unresolved negative emotions, memories, feelings and experiences have deep psychological consequences that hinder the body’s natural ability to maintain optimal health.
By focusing on the negative thoughts, feelings or emotions of a memory while tapping on specific points on the body, EFT instructs the body to go from a stress reaction to a state of calm or ‘rest and digest’ state, from the sympathetic to parasympathetic nervous system, substantially lowering the stress hormone cortisol.
Although the memory still exists, thinking of it no longer brings intense emotions or triggers. The client also usually has a cognitive shift and is able to release any fear or negative core belief subconsciously ‘encoded’ at the time of the actual event/trauma. This is now replaced with a healthy, positive and more realistic belief. For example, “I always fail” may become, “I have had some failures, as everyone has, but I have also had a lot of success and I am able to learn from my mistakes”. Or “I never lose weight” may become “I can see now that I was believing what someone told me when I was 10 and I realise that is about them and not about me.”
How can EFT benefit you?
Tapping has been shown to be highly effective in facilitating improvements or changes in the following areas:
- Performance. Sport, public speaking, dance, music, weight loss and career goals, and more.
- Limiting negative core beliefs and fears. These can be discovered and reframed by the client from negative to positive. This is often due to some traumatic event that has caused a limiting negative core belief to be subconsciously made in that moment.
- Stress hormones. Such as cortisol are substantially reduced by tapping.
- Phobias. EFT is especially effective in reducing or eliminating phobias, often in only a few sessions.
- PTSD. Debilitating symptoms may be reduced or eliminated. Eight randomised controlled trials have shown that EFT reduces PTSD symptoms by over 50%. The Veteran’s Stress Project (USA) lists quotes and stories from many veterans, some of whom had been suffering for decades, how EFT reduced or eliminated their PTSD symptoms.
- Physical symptoms. Doctors estimate that a large percentage of pain is emotional and when intense emotion is released ‘only’ the physical component of the pain remains, which is often greatly reduced. Other symptoms of a disease/illness may also be reduced in the same way.
- Emotional control Excessive anger, anxiety, sadness, grief, anxiety and shame may have an impact on the quality of relationships, sleep and behaviour. EFT assists in finding and eliminating the root cause/s of the emotional triggers, allowing the choice of a healthier response.
Clinical EFT Research
Some study results showing the benefits of tapping are:
- Church & Brooks, 2011 – pain may be reduced by up to 68%
- Stapleton et al., 2014; Church et al., 2018 – weight may be reduced by 11-22 lbs per year
- Groesbeck et al, 2018 – Cortisol may be reduced by up to 37%
- Clond, 2015 – Anxiety may be reduced by up to 40%
- Sebastian & Nelms, 2016 – PTSD of veterans may be reduced up to 84%
- Brattberg, 2011; Hodge & Jurgens, 2014 – Autoimmune disease symptoms may be reduced by up to 33%
- Helms & Castel, 2016 – Depression may be reduced by up to 41%
For a comprehensive list of clinical reports, Mechanisms Papers, Review Articles & Meta-analyses, Skeptical and Opposing viewpoints and studies presented at professional conferences please visit https://www.eftuniverse.com/research-studies/eft-research
