Foster Care Training

Everyone needs to bring a mind-body somatic tool into their practice, to reach areas not accessible by talk therapy alone. Breakthroughs in neuroscience demonstrate that emotional upsets are not just a cognitive experience, but are stored in the body as well. The Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) also known as Tapping are gentle, self-applied, physiologically rebalancing, heavily researched therapies. They usually desensitize and reprocess a specific upset permanently. They also are an easy and quick take-aways for the clients to use at home and in some cases, a better option than potentially addictive benzodiazepines. These methods go beyond talk therapy which has a big advantage in the child welfare world where communication may be complicated by age, development, different languages and difficulty with language in trauma where the Broca area of the brain (the language center) goes offline during trauma. These methods alter the experience of the intertwined thought, emotion and physical discomfort which push poor behaviors. Children and families want to calm down, this is proven with 120 published research projects (see Energypsych.org/research) to calm down.