What is Energy Psychology?What is Energy Psychology?
Energy Psychology provides simple methods for shifting brain patterns that lead to unwanted thoughts, feelings, and actions. Drawing from ancient healing traditions, it has been called "psychological acupuncture without the needles." The approach combines psychological techniques with tapping on acupuncture points that send signals to the brain that change dysfunctional responses. While still controversial, recent research has been establishing it as one of the most promising clinical innovations on the horizon. Variations include EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), TFT (Thought Field Therapy), and TAT (Tapas Acupuncture Technique), among numerous other formats.

How Does It Work with Anxiety?How Does It Work with Anxiety?
Tapping on acupuncture points (along with related techniques) while an anxiety-evoking memory or thought is brought to mind sends signals to the brain that turn off the anxious response in the moment and rapidly alter the brain chemistry that maintained that response.

What Other Conditions Does It Help?What Other Conditions Does It Help?
Variations of this strategy also appear to shift, for the person’s benefit, the brain’s coding of irrational anger, jealousy, guilt, shame, unremitting grief, compulsive behaviors, phobias, PTSD, depression, addictions, and chronic pain.  International disaster relief teams have been applying it in the aftermath of warfare, ethnic cleansing, tsunamis, and earthquakes.  The method has also been shown to promote peak performance, alter self-defeating behavioral patterns, and help in attaining personal goals.

Who Practices It?Who Practices It?
Both licensed mental health professionals—such as psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers—and life coaches who do not treat mental disorders, have incorporated Energy Psychology into their practices.  They also teach it to their clients for back-home support with emotional self-management and optimizing performance. Energy Psychology also provides potent self-help tools for those not in counseling.

What Does It Do to the Brain?What Does It Do to the Brain?
Energy Psychology works by stimulating energy points on the surface of the skin which, when paired with various psychological procedures, send signals to the brain that may impact stress chemicals such as cortisol and DHEA, deactivate limbic system arousal, and rapidly alter neural pathways.

Has Its Effectiveness Been Established?Has Its Effectiveness Been Established?
Energy Psychology is still a controversial development within the mental health field (the techniques look quite strange, are adopted from foreign cultures, and the claims of a growing number of practitioners seem almost too good to be true), but evidence is mounting that these techniques are significant, powerful tools for both self-help and clinical treatment.