What Is EFT?
Emotional Freedom Techniques — for Healing, Growth and Emotional Freedom
EFT, also known as “tapping,” is a gentle yet powerful way to resolve a range an issues. This includes releasing emotional stress, shifting limiting beliefs and clearing energy blocks — all in a safe and supportive way.
It brings together principles from modern psychology and the ancient wisdom of acupuncture (but without any needles!). By gently tapping on specific points on the face and body while focusing on a challenge, memory or emotion, EFT helps calm the nervous system, ease distress, and support lasting emotional shifts.
When we go through stress, emotional pain, or difficult experiences, our bodies can hold onto that tension — sometimes for years. EFT helps you release what’s been stuck.
You simply tap with your fingertips on key points (like the side of the hand, or under the eye) while tuning into how you are feeling. It’s not about forcing positive thinking. It’s about being honest with yourself — naming what’s really going on — and allowing the body to relax as you do. This process sends calming signals to the brain, especially to the amygdala — the part that reacts to stress and fear. As your system settles, intense emotions can soften, old patterns can begin to shift, and you start to feel safer, more present and more yourself.
EFT meets you exactly where you are, and helps you move gently toward where you want to be.
“Tapping is delightful! Something this simple and this easy can work!”
— Louise Hay (motivational speaker and author)
What Can EFT Help With?
EFT can support you in releasing a wide range of emotional, physical and behavioural challenges, including:
Anxiety, stress and emotional overwhelm
PTSD, past trauma, old wounds and painful memories
Habits or patterns that no longer serve you
Low mood, depression, or a sense of heaviness
Self-doubt, low self-esteem, lack of confidence, fear of judgment
Emotional eating and body image concerns
Phobias
Overthinking, sleeplessness and mental clutter
Anger, guilt, frustration, resentment and emotional reactivity
Physical symptoms with an emotional root
Feeling stuck, lost or unclear on your direction
Repeating relationship patterns
Limiting beliefs and negative inner dialogue
…and much more.
You don’t need to stay stuck. You can feel lighter, calmer and more at peace — inside and out.
EFT for Goals, Growth, and Possibility
EFT isn’t just about healing the past — it is also about creating your future.
So often, what holds us back from reaching our goals or living the life we long for isn’t a lack of skill or desire — it’s inner resistance. That quiet voice of self-doubt. Fear of failure (or success). Deep beliefs like, “I’m not ready,” or “I’m not enough.”
EFT helps uncover and release those blocks — clearing the path so you can move forward with confidence and clarity. It helps you feel more grounded, more connected to your truth and more in the driver’s seat of your own life — no longer run by fear, old patterns or limiting beliefs.
Possibility looks different for everyone. For you, it might be to:
Speak or show up more confidently
Start a new chapter in your work or relationships
Release old habits and step into healthier ones
Pursue a dream that’s been waiting quietly in your heart
Create healthier relationships with others — and with yourself
Live with more purpose, meaning and inner peace
Or simply wake up in the morning with more lightness and joy
EFT can support you in aligning with the life you truly want — and deserve.
“Tapping has helped me break down walls that prevented good sleep and limited my joy. With each session I feel more freedom from lifelong anxiety. It has changed my life”
— Jason Segel (Actor, Producer, and Screenwriter)
Why Use EFT?
EFT begins with honesty. It offers a safe, supportive space to speak openly — about what’s on your mind, what’s been weighing you down, and what your hopes and dreams are. Simply giving your thoughts and feelings a voice can be incredibly freeing.
In everyday life we often avoid our problems, push them down, or get stuck going over them again and again — none of which truly helps us move forward. With EFT, we take a different approach. We gently turn toward what’s going on, with compassion and curiosity. When we acknowledge and accept our feelings, we often find they begin to shift naturally.
EFT is:
Safe and gentle – A calm, kind and non-judgemental approach to healing, emotional freedom and personal growth.
Supported by research – EFT is backed by a growing body of scientific studies. There have been over 300 peer reviewed studies which show the effectiveness of tapping. If you’d like to explore more, EFT Universe is a great place to start. Dr. Peta Stapleton has also published widely on EFT’s clinical effectiveness.
Versatile and wide-reaching – EFT can help with a broad range of issues. Because it works with both mind and body, it helps to support emotional, mental and physical well-being.
Deeply transformational – Like weeding a garden, EFT doesn’t just treat surface symptoms. It gently releases limiting beliefs, stuck emotions, and unresolved wounds at the root — creating space for lasting change, growth and freedom.
Liberating and Empowering – With EFT, you’re putting yourself back in the driver’s seat of your life — no longer steered by fear, anxiety, or old habits and patterns. Instead, you’re gently letting go of what no longer serves you and reconnecting with your own strength, clarity, and choice.
Accessible anywhere – EFT works beautifully online, so you can experience it from the comfort of your own home — wherever you are in the world.
Regulating and rebalancing – EFT calms the nervous system and soothes the body’s stress response, helping you feel more at ease and balanced. Studies have shown that an hour of tapping can reduce the stress hormone, cortisol, by up to 43%!
Suitable for all ages – Gentle and adaptable, EFT works well with both adults and children.
EFT Also Brings Many Unexpected Gifts:
Greater presence and connection – Feel more grounded, centred, and connected — with yourself and with life.
New insights and clarity – Many clients describe “lightbulb” moments and fresh perspectives that bring relief and understanding.
Emotional and physical healing – EFT helps release emotional stress, calm the nervous system, and ease physical symptoms with an emotional root.
Improved sleep, health, and wellbeing – People often report better rest, greater calm, and more energy. EFT has also been linked with lower blood pressure, reduced heart rate, and it has even been shown to positively influence gene expression. Tapping puts the body back into the parasympathetic (relaxation) nervous system response. This allows the immune system, digestive system, reproductive system, and endocrine system to function as they should.
Raising your vibration – As you let go of heavy emotions like fear, guilt, or stress, you naturally open up to lighter, higher states such as peace, joy, love, and possibility.
“I have been tapping for years and have found it to be a pivotal tool in creating the life of my dreams”
— Jack Canfield (coach, motivational speaker and author)
What to Expect in a Session
In our sessions together, we’ll talk through whatever is on your mind or heart, and then gently use tapping to explore and release what’s beneath the surface. You remain fully in control at all times — I simply guide the process and hold the space for whatever you need. We go at your pace. There’s no pressure. No judgement. Just a gentle, powerful process that meets you exactly where you are.
You don’t need to have the right words, or even know exactly what’s wrong. EFT is a flexible, intuitive process, and we’ll explore things together as they arise.
Each session is personalised, supportive, and tailored to you. Whether you arrive with a clear issue, a sense that something needs to shift, or a goal you’d like to move towards, we’ll work together to bring insight, release, and healing.
At the end of each session I offer up to 15 minutes of Support & Integration Time — a gentle, nurturing space just for you. This is your time to reflect, process, and receive any additional support you may need.
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Is EFT Right for Me?
The best way to find out is to book in for a free 20 minute consultation. We can discuss what is on your mind and how EFT may be able to help you and you can ask any questions you may have — with no pressure or obligation.
You are warmly welcome just as you are, I look forward to hearing from you.
“I had never heard of EFT prior to my session with Natalie. I was intrigued but a little sceptical at first, although I soon discovered that I needn’t have been! It was really very liberating and we quickly identified that the physical pain I’d had for decades was centred in my core and had an emotional cause. The tapping felt odd at first but soon felt very natural and soothing. The conversation flowed easily as Natalie went through the various stages of the EFT process using my own words to prompt further questions. We identified one significant long standing issue in particular to work through. I almost wept at one point when my tummy growled loudly as if “speaking” to the decades of discomfort. Towards the end of the session of about an hour my pain lessened significantly and I felt “lighter” and far less burdened. We checked the stomach pain levels at various stages as we worked through the process on a scale of 1 - 10 to check how it was working and it was now down to a 1. Natalie asked if there was any residual pain that hadn’t been addressed. There was still a very small discomfort (emotional and physical) and we went through the “box” scenario which worked well and the pain finally stopped completely! I know there’s still much to work through as I continue to clear things from my past, but EFT has been of real benefit to me so far and my initial scepticism has completely evaporated.
Natalie has a calm, reassuring and thoughtful way of conducting the EFT session, she is very natural to work with.”
Pete Smith, Cambridgeshire UK