EFT Certification Requirements Sample Practitioner Evaluation Provided by EFT Master Nancy Gnecco: www.nancygnecco.com Dear Name, Thank you for sharing this with me. It was clear that you had sent the client a chart with the points on it, but it wasn’t clear to me whether or not you had explained EFT to her. I assume that you had, as she didn’t appear to have any questions about the process. If you were going to use her as a case study, you’d want to give us, in writing, her history and presenting problem, which was very apparent in the session. I couldn’t tell if you were working with her on the phone or in person. I always like to make sure that the client has water handy, especially if we are working on the phone together. Since this was, presumably, a “one shot deal”, I very much appreciated your asking P. what her goal was for the session, and that you asked her to pay attention to thoughts, feelings, and memories that might come up for her. Name, you certainly have mastered the concept of utilizing the client’s own words to facilitate going deeper, and you carried this through right to the end when you closed with, “I’m going to say some words at you, and you tell me if there is any intensity.” You went back through her anger, her feeling out of control and all the way to her initial belief that she can’t eliminate all of it, but wants the to be able to move the fluid through her sinuses before it gets infected. For the purposes of demonstration, it was a good idea to take her through the full Basic Recipe first with a simple reminder phrase, “these chronic infections”. You started globally, but were very smooth in your transition both to the Short Cut and to the metaphor of the sinus infections. After the Basic Recipe you went back to her original statement and got into the issue of control. Your response, “Talk to me about control.” was neutral and perfect, leading her to feeling like a “sitting duck” – “helpless”. At that point you read her words back to her and her SUDS had risen to a 9 or 10 with the vision of sitting helplessly with her arms at her side. You did a great job of moving her through the next round, getting more creative with the set up statements and reminder phrases, but still staying with her words. You moved from the simple reminder phrase to multiple phrases. Well done. I do have a suggestion here. Another “doorway” you might want to explore in situations like this is the history of feeling helpless and victimized. For example, “When was the first time you can remember feeling like a sitting duck.”? This pattern of helplessness, and victimization probably started pretty early in her life. However, you didn’t choose that “doorway”, and when you completed the round you asked, appropriately, “Did anything come up while we were doing that?” You also had her check her SUDS level, and questioned how she knew it had dropped from a 9 or 10 to a 6 or 7. She told you that when she thinks about it, it doesn’t have the impact. My guess is that she was probably lower than a 6 or 7. At this point your intuition kicked in, and you said that you had a sense of sadness. You checked that out with her, and it resonated. You moved smoothly again into the beginnings of reframing: “these physical sensations, sadness in my stomach, my body’s giving me messages, I’m grateful (I’m not so sure about that one), I think I’m ready to listen, I’m tired of not feeling well” and you slipped easily into the positive: “I’d like to feel well, I’m paying attention now, I’d like to get along with my body.”