| What is TFT?
TFT is a gentle action technique used to treat emotional disturbances.
It is quite different from traditional psychological and behavioural
approaches. The treatment often takes only a few minutes in dealing
with each aspect of a problem and immediate changes can be experienced.
How does TFT work?
TFT involves a person tapping on acupuncture points, in a certain
sequence, as they are mentally attuned to the relevant distressing
emotional state. You can:
- Rapidly resolve long standing traumas
- Constructively assist yourself, your children and family when
emotional problems occur
- Resolve hindrances and phobias such as public speaking, heights,
flying and nail biting
- Rid yourself and your family of addictive urges such as over-eating,
gambling, smoking, drinking and drug abuse
- Resolve long standing traumas in minutes such as sexual and
physical abuse, grief and loss
How effective is TFT?
TFT can be remarkably effective. In a private consultation setting
success is often achieved in one to three sessions. Conventional
therapy usually takes between six and twelve sessions, and sometimes
more.
In the aftermath of the Kosovan crisis TFT was found to be a
most effective therapy achieving a success rate of 98% . Please note that this special edition of the
Journal of Clinical Psychology published in October 2001 with
Dr. Roger Callahan as a guest editor was not a peer reviewed edition
of the journal.
How fast is TFT?
Treatment of each aspect of a problem usually takes only a few
minutes.
How much does it cost?
Clinics, ongoing counselling and professional trainings are
offered at varying rates. Please ask for specific costs. You can
click on consultations or courses for more information.
What is the purpose of the TFT workshop?
The purpose of the TFT Algorithms workshop is to provide the
trainee with the necessary skill to apply TFT in their work on
problems addressed in the training, within the scope of their
practice and current registration or licence, organisational role,
and/or other expertise, and to teach these algorithms to their
clients for their use in the resolution of their problems. The
TFT Algorithm workshop is not intended to provide comprehensive
nor complete training in treating or assisting those with the
problems addressed in the training.
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What other problems will be helped by TFT?
TFT may help with many problems of overwhelming emotions including:
- the emotional pain of grief or loss
- traumatic symptoms related to witnessing or experiencing violence
or serious accidents
- getting over a relationship
- anger, guilt, rage
- anxiety, panic attacks, obsessions
- breaking addictions to nicotine, alcohol and other drugs
- losing and keeping off excess weight
How was Thought Field Therapy developed?
Thought Field Therapy (TFT) is the result of a progressive clinical
psychologist's search for greater efficiency in the provision
of effective assistance to people whose lives are interfered with
by the experience of psychological distress and disturbed emotional
and behavioural states.
The founder of TFT, Dr Roger Callahan was one of the first psychologists
to throw himself into the previous movement which resulted in
a significant leap in psychotherapy effectiveness. That movement
was pioneered by Dr. Albert Ellis, whose dissatisfaction with
the relative inefficiency of classical psychoanalysis, the dominant
paradigm for dealing with emotional disturbance up until the 1950's.
Dr Ellis is known for stating that he has “a gene for efficiency.”
He revolutionised psychotherapy practice when he introduced an
emphasis on the importance of thinking processes and philosophical
orientation in the change process.
This new approach also involved an active-directive approach by
the therapist and the behavioural involvement of the client. Dr
Ellis's approach, originated in 1955, is now known as rational
emotive behaviour therapy (REBT). REBT is the original form of
cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) which was subsequently elaborated
by Dr Aaron T Beck and others.
Dr Roger Callahan became a close associate of Albert Ellis in
the late 1950's and was asked by Dr Ellis to read and comment
on the manuscript of the first text book in cognitive behaviour
therapy (CBT) - Reason and Emotion in Psychotherapy - published
by Albert Ellis in 1962.
Although Roger Callahan saw REBT as being an important step
towards his dream to find the "penicillin of psychotherapy",
he still was not satisfied that he had arrived there. He remained
ever vigilant for anything that could possibly point the way toward
this dream becoming actualised. His search led him to a discovery
by Dr George Goodheart, a chiropractor, known as kinesiology.
Goodheart found in 1964 that the muscles of the body differentially
responded to pressure being applied against resistance in accordance
with internal mental and physical states. This discovery has been
suggested to represent a true "mind-body indicator".
Dr Callahan undertook a one hundred hour training course in
kinesiology in a class mainly comprised of chiropractors. It was
here that Callahan noticed that many chiropractors had developed
various techniques involving tapping on the spine in accordance
with the ancient Chinese healing tradition involving energy meridian
systems.
Intrigued by this Dr Callahan wondered whether the energy meridian
system (that appears to have been discovered by the Chinese at
least 5000 years ago) may hold some correspondence with the disturbed
emotional states that Callahan wanted to better understand.
Accordingly, Dr Callahan started investigating these possibilities
through the application of a rigorous scientific attitude. He
worked on various hunches and hypotheses informed by the ancient
Chinese knowledge of the energy meridian system, tried out a number
of procedures, made observations, and adjusted his hypotheses
according to his observations. In this way he has developed a
system of psychotherapy practice that while initially only having
a 3% success rate in the early 1980s, now delivers successful
interventions at a rate of around 75% and 80%.
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