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Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT): A Mind-Body Approach to the Anxiety Spectrum Disorders and Pain

ID: 5053WEB

This How-to Do-IT, neurologically informed workshop focuses on learning self-applied, meridian techniques to treat the anxiety spectrum disorders that includes GAD, Social Anxiety, Phobias, unwanted compulsions and habits, Acute Stress Disorders and Trauma. These disorders overwhelmingly report a somatic component often not addressed in traditional therapies. EFT is a comprehensive cognitive somatic approach that desensitizes 3 areas: unwanted thoughts, emotions and physical reactions. EFT/tapping quickly restores the emotional and physical dysregulation caused by negative experiences. A bonus is these methods also treat pain. Four ways to release pain is included in this workshop. These methods are emerging into both mental health and coaching arena for fast, lasting results. Add these methods to your practice to go beyond talk therapies, to reach those resistant, hard to treat problems. This workshop is fast moving and highly interactive, didactic and experiential.

Fee: $110.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 5.5 Clinical


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Instructor: Robin Bilazarian, LCSW, DCEP, Int'l Cert Master EFT
Date: Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Time: 9:30 am - 3:30 pm ET
Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar

Webinar Objectives

At the conclusion of this webinar, participants will be able to:

  • Analyze the origin and efficacy of the Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) including peer reviewed, published research.
  • Apply desensitization and exposure techniques and tapping to reduce client distress
  • Identify that EFT is a mind-body treatment method that has the capacity to desensitize 3 entwined reactions of thoughts, emotions and physical discomfort
  • Use EFT is tool to counter and treat emotional dysregulation
  • Show 4 way to release pain
  • Apply language variations for maximum benefit in targeting stress, phobias, generalized anxiety disorder, panic, compulsive and unwanted behaviors and traumatic events

    Webinar Outline

    9:30 am Welcome/Introductions
    9:35 am Understand the origin of EFT as it applies to meridians throughout the body
    9:50 am Discuss how stress is experienced physically and mentally in us.

  • Interactive: Have participants point to stress manifestation in their body and note those around them
    10:05 am Learn Emotional Freedom Techniques aka tapping didactic & experiential
  • Group breathing demo
  • Group issue demo
  • Set-up and reminder phrase
  • Wording -active listening to formulate the emotion about the issue
  • Aspects –important to stay on one –clear one part before moving to another
  • Value of SUDS rating of intensity
  • Table metaphor to address deeper work
    11:05 am Live demo drawn from the participants on a current phobia and finding the early trigger of its origin
    11:50 am Working four ways to release pain didactic and experiential
  • Group Demos
  • Live participant demo
    12:30 pm Discuss anxiety spectrum – for common understanding
    12:40 pm Review peer reviewed, published research
  • Adaptations for special populations (Children, couples)
    12:50 pm Movie from the StressProject.org on working with PTSD and trauma
    1:40 pm Teach Mind-Body Sweep, a gentle way to treat the body first for acute stress reactions and trauma
    3:20 pm Conclusion/Q&A

    Target Audience

    Social Workers and Allied Health Professionals

    Content Level

    Beginner - Advanced

    Webinar Completion Requirements

    To earn CE credit, social workers must log in at the scheduled time, attend the entire course and complete an online course evaluation. Certificates of completion will be emailed within 10 business days of course completion.

    System Requirements

    • Operating Systems: Windows XP or higher, MacOS 9 or higher, Android 4.0 or higher
    • Internet Browser: Internet Explorer 9.0 or higher, Google Chrome, Firefox 10.0 or higher
    • Broadband Internet connection: Cable, High-speed DSL & any other medium that is internet accessible.

    About the Instructor

    Robin Bilazarian, LCSW, DCEP, International Certified, Master EFT Trainer, has more than 45 years as a seasoned clinician, author, researcher, and international trainer. Her passion for the past 27 years, is to blend mind-body, somatic therapies into mainstream practice. Her integrative book, Tapping the Mighty Mind-Simple Solutions for Stress, Conflict and Pain (Amazon) incorporates many mind-body techniques with traditional therapies. She is a graduate of UPenn and UNC-Chapel Hill Schools of Social Work with placement at Duke Medical Outpatient Clinic. She works extensively in Mental Health with experience in inpatient, community mental health, private practice and most recently, as an Employee Assistance Counselor for 14 years at a NJ Regional Trauma Hospital and Medical School where she utilized mind-body and traditional therapies.

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