| A two day workshop on Thought Field Therapy (TFT)
presented by Clinical Psychologist
Christopher Semmens MAppPsych
How you can use Thought Field Therapy (TFT)
to rapidly resolve emotional distress and fulfil your life!
Christopher Semmens MAppPsych
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Christopher Semmens is a Clinical Psychologist who has worked in a private practice setting for twenty years.
He has two practice locations in Perth: 44 Kings Park Road in West Perth and St John of God Medical Rooms in Murdoch.
He is a partner in the multidisciplinary pain management centre, Cambridge Pain Management.
Other areas of clinical focus for Chris are traumatic stress, anxiety disorders and addictive behaviours.
Over many years Chris has sought out professional development opportunities from the leading clinicians in his particular fields of interest.
He has attended numerous international congresses and workshops,
training with most of the prominent exponents of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) including: Ellis; Beck, Tim and Judith; Freeman; Mahoney; Young; Clark; Salkovskis; Foa; Barlow; Seligman; Turk;
Padesky; and the Sobells, Mark and Linda.
Among his professional association memberships are
the Australian Psychological Society and the Australian Pain Society.
He is one of fifteen Australian members of the International ssociation for Cognitive Psychotherapy and is also a member of the
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
Chris has undertaken extensive specialised training in rational emotive behaviour therapy (REBT) and he is one of six Australians on the International Referral List published by the Albert Ellis Institute in New York.
Since 1997 Chris has incorporated one of the new generation of psychological interventions, thought field therapy (TFT), into his treatment armamentarium. He is a foundation and life member of the Association for Thought Field Therapy (ATFT) and is a member of the
Board of Directors of the ATFT Foundation.
In addition to CBT, REBT and TFT Chris has trained in clinical hypnotherapy with the Australian Society of Hypnosis, and he has also completed two years of training in Gestalt Therapy.
Incorporating TFT into his practice has allowed Chris to maintain, over the past six years, the statistic that more than 80% of all of his clients that claim a Health Benefits Fund (HBF) rebate have been seen on 3 occasions or less.
Register now to participate in a workshop in Perth, Brisbane or Melbourne
Workshop Description
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Cognitive Therapy arose from the initial efforts of Dr Albert Ellis to improve his effectiveness as a clinical psychologist. He found himself hampered in his pursuit
of efficiency by the psychoanalysis he practiced that required an average of 100 sessions to achieve change. In 1955 he commenced practicing what is
now known as Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) that greatly improved his outcomes.
In the late 1950’s Dr Roger Callahan, at that time an Associate Professor, was also pursuing the goals of efficiency and effectiveness in therapy. He was
impressed by Ellis’ work, became a close associate, and was asked by Ellis to read the manuscript of Reason and Emotion in Psychotherapy (1962).
Callahan was driven to discover even greater efficiencies in psychotherapy which led him to investigate the Chinese energy meridian system (acupuncture) in a search for clues that could contribute to a more efficient approach to the
resolution of emotional distress and disturbance.
A gentle action technique of tapping on acupuncture points that Callahan called thought field therapy (TFT) arose from these investigations.
This workshop traces the history of psychotherapy, the developments that led to Callahan’s discoveries and elaborations, and the theory that Callahan
constructed about TFT’s mechanisms. Targeted techniques for dealing with a broad range of emotional problems including anxiety, fear, addictive
behaviours, traumatic stress, grief and loss, anger and guilt will be covered in detail.
Ways of incorporating TFT into your current models of working will be considered. The practicalities of dealing with complex and difficult cases and the
nuances of clinical assessment and therapy delivery are important areas to be covered in the workshop.
There will be numerous live demonstrations of the techniques and ample opportunity for supervised practice of the various skills as they are introduced.
Issues of traumatic stress and the psychosomatic process in psychotherapy will receive detailed consideration.
Workshop Programme
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DAY 1
Introduction
What is Thought Field Therapy (TFT)?
Practical demonstration of a bio-energetic circuit
The Chinese energy meridian system
Introduction of participants
What is psychotherapy?
Brief history of psychotherapy
- Freud
- Ellis
- Callahan
The tram track model of negative emotions
Live demonstration of TFT with traumatic stress or grief / loss
Introduction to Dr Roger Callahan (via video)
Second Session
Formal definition of TFT
Levels of training in TFT
The treatment points
Psychological reversal - a major discovery
Live demonstration of TFT - traumatic stress or grief
The architecture of TFT
A TFT treatment protocol
The TFT flowchart
Group practice in 3’s using the protocol and flowchart
TFT theory - thought fields, perturbations etc.
Third Session
Treating addictive urges and behaviours with TFT
Live demonstration
Group practice in pairs
The collarbone breathing exercise (cb2)
Preparation for Voice Technology (VT) demonstration
Traumatic stress
- the (short) history of trauma in psychotherapy
- the epidemiology of traumatic stress
- treating trauma with TFT
Assessment issues
- psychosocial history
- the three questions plus one
- the psychosomatic history questionnaire
Fourth Session
Understanding anxiety
- the discovery of the mechanisms behind panic
- treating anxiety and panic attacks by breaking the experience down to it's component parts and applying TFT
Voice Technology (VT) demonstration by way of telephone hook up to Japan
DAY 2
First Session
Treating family of origin issues
Grief and loss; love pain
The “gap” treatment in TFT
Live demonstration of family of origin issues
Group practice in pairs focussing on family of origin, grief, loss and love pain issues
Self esteem as a damaging notion
The philosophy of self acceptance
Treating issues of self with TFT
Second Session
Heart rate variability (HRV) as a promising objective measure of psychotherapy effectiveness
HRV demonstration - before and after live demonstration of treatment
Depression - what makes for a diagnosis of depression
Treating depression with TFT - isolate the aspects and treat them separately
Complex cases - layered and interwoven thought fields
Third Session
Cure and time - the role of individual energy toxins
The treatment of chronic pain
The psychosomatic process
Introducing the concept of the psychosomatic process to clients and outlining a rationale for dealing with the issues
Live demonstration
Group practice
Fourth Session
The art of delivery for TFT
- introducing TFT to clients
- formulating a treatment approach from the clients presentation and psychosocial history
- what to do if TFT doesn’t work
Case examples of complex cases where TFT can be incorporated into other models of working
Live demonstration
Group practice
Research in TFT
- what it is that comprises “gold standard” research in psychology
- the Journal of Clinical Psychology papers
- the South American studies (14 years; n=29,000; randomised controls; positive brain imaging changes persisting for 12 months)
Workshop Objectives and Benefits
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- The objectives of this workshop are:
- To provide participants with a clear understanding of the context of the discovery and development of thought field therapy (TFT)
- For participants to acquire a knowledge and understanding of the issues of traumatic stress and the psychosomatic process and their relevance to a comprehensive approach to assisting themselves/clients
- For participants to be able to assess themselves or a client presenting for psychotherapy in a way that is likely to lead to the successful implementation of a TFT intervention
- For participants to be able to competently implement a TFT intervention
- To introduce participants to some of the important issues regarding research and TFT
Christopher Semmens
MAppPsych; BSc; BPsych; DipClinHyp
Clinical Psychologist
199 Cambridge Street
Wembley WA 6014 Ph: 08 9381 9400 Fax: 08 9381 9438
VIC - Melbourne
February 27 & 28 2010
September 23 & 24 2010
WA - Fremantle
July 24 & 25 2010
9am to 5pm
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Training in Western Australia is on an 'on demand' basis.
Courses will be run with a minimum of 20 participants
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Indonesia - Bali
April 3 & 4 2010
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TFT Diagnostics Level training
VIC - Melbourne
May 7, 8 & 9 2010
QLD - Sunshine Coast
June 25, 26 & 27 2010
NSW - Sydney
October 1, 2 & 3 2010
Perth
November 12, 13 & 14 2010
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"Excellent and stimulating
two days" - J Elliott |
"I thoroughly enjoyed
the weekend training with Chris on TFT. It was very well delivered
and Chris was great, easy to understand and very approachable"
- J Clift |
"Christopher was an
entertaining and interesting teacher who I immediately felt
comfortable with, allowing me to absorb the material he was
presenting" - C Meredith |
"Well balanced introduction
to TFT protocols including historical evolution and practical
application to numerous clinical applications." Dr Noel
Partridge
Scarborough WA |
"Thank you for providing
me with such an easily approachable and understandable tool
to combat my daily fears"
- E Bowie |
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